Skalp has been designed and built as an easy to use yet powerful Live Section Tool. It represents the key missing features needed to realize a long standing dream: Create your stunning plans and elevations inside SketchUp.
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The Skalp development Team has its roots in architecture and 3D software, but that doesn't mean Skalp is for architects or Pro users only. SketchUp is being used in so many disciplines nowadays. Which is why we intended Skalp to be as 'generic' as possible. This means we do not want to change or disrupt your specific workflow.
We feel Skalp should just try to respect whatever and however you're doing in SketchUp and simply boost your ability to create superb drawings.
as an early buyer who complained about the lack of tutorials and guides it is only fair that I come here to say that the Skalp people have been posting very instructive short videos and in large number, covering many aspects of the plugin. at this rate, they will surely cover all of it.
besides, the latest user guide is superb in that it covers in detail all the features and tells us things that are not (yet?) in the videos.
skalp is a hugely useful plugin and is worth every cent you pay for it.
Edson wrote:as an early buyer who complained about the lack of tutorials and guides it is only fair that I come here to say that the Skalp people have been posting very instructive short videos and in large number, covering many aspects of the plugin. at this rate, they will surely cover all of it.
besides, the latest user guide is superb in that it covers in detail all the features and tells us things that are not (yet?) in the videos.
skalp is a hugely useful plugin and is worth every cent you pay for it.
Thank you Edson. We appreciate this comment very hard. More videos tutorials will follow daily until we cover every aspect of Skalp.
We continue to work hard to make Skalp even beter. We just made a breakthrough in sectioning non-solids in SketchUp! Watch out to the upcoming betas...
We develop Skalp full-time with 2 people. It's our goal to make it the best section plugin there is.
a lengthy tutorial on the advanced use you describe from page 25 of the user guide would be very appreciated. everyone using Skalp professionally would thank you for that.
Edson wrote:you are welcome and deserving of this praise.
a lengthy tutorial on the advanced use you describe from page 25 of the user guide would be very appreciated. everyone using Skalp professionally would thank you for that.
best regards.
Edson,
It's my own favorite way of working which we use must of the time in our architectural office. Special for you I will make my next Video Tutorial on this advanced way of working.
On special request a Video Tutorial about Skalp Pattern Layers (color by layer).
Skalp Pattern Layers uses an undocumented feature of Color by Layer in combination with the hidden line render mode to create an architectural section with everything white in the model except the section.
Edson wrote:very good! I know this was explained in the user guide but seeing you do it completes the information.
if I may suggest another topic for a video, how about one on how to save skalp settings to a sketchup template?
regards.
Edson,
After you setup a full Skalp model you can delete all entities, except the section planes and save it in a standard sketchup template.
The Skalp Team.
so the template will have a couple of section planes that section nothing? like ghost section planes? how does one deal with those section planes in a new model?
Edson wrote:very good! I know this was explained in the user guide but seeing you do it completes the information.
if I may suggest another topic for a video, how about one on how to save skalp settings to a sketchup template?
regards.
Edson,
After you setup a full Skalp model you can delete all entities, except the section planes and save it in a standard sketchup template.
The Skalp Team.
so the template will have a couple of section planes that section nothing? like ghost section planes? how does one deal with those section planes in a new model?
Edson,
From the moment you model something and the section plane intersect with the new model it will section the model. You can easy activate the different sections from the dialog box even if they don't section elements.
Skalp wrote:On special request a Video Tutorial about Skalp Pattern Layers (color by layer).
Skalp Pattern Layers uses an undocumented feature of Color by Layer in combination with the hidden line render mode to create an architectural section with everything white in the model except the section.
I see in your video that you add a bunch of layers. I guess you can get to high numbers of layers if you have a lot of different section patterns?
Maybe you could make your plugin work with Layers Panel, to automatically put all those layers in a layer group, and automatically collapse it so that they don't take much space in the dialog. You can use LP's API for that : viewtopic.php?f=180&t=57777
Skalp wrote:On special request a Video Tutorial about Skalp Pattern Layers (color by layer).
Skalp Pattern Layers uses an undocumented feature of Color by Layer in combination with the hidden line render mode to create an architectural section with everything white in the model except the section.
I see in your video that you add a bunch of layers. I guess you can get to high numbers of layers if you have a lot of different section patterns?
Maybe you could make your plugin work with Layers Panel, to automatically put all those layers in a layer group, and automatically collapse it so that they don't take much space in the dialog. You can use LP's API for that : viewtopic.php?f=180&t=57777
I just realised I haven't added the "collapse_group" method, yet. I'll add it in the next version. And I broke "nest_into" like an idiot by renaming some methods in v1.2.0. So the below code is designed to run on version higher than v1.2.0, sorry about that. You can do something like this in SU2014 (Skalp only works in 2014, right?):
begin #In a rescue block so that it will silently not run if Layers Panel is not installed if Gem::Version.new(JBB_LayersPanel.version.to_s)> Gem::Version.new('1.2.0') groupID = JBB_LayersPanel.add_group("Skalp") skalp_layers.each{|layer| layerID = JBB_LayersPanel.get_layerID(layer) JBB_LayersPanel.nest_into(layerID, groupID) } JBB_LayersPanel.collapse_group(groupID) end#if rescue end
Skalp wrote:On special request a Video Tutorial about Skalp Pattern Layers (color by layer).
Skalp Pattern Layers uses an undocumented feature of Color by Layer in combination with the hidden line render mode to create an architectural section with everything white in the model except the section.
I see in your video that you add a bunch of layers. I guess you can get to high numbers of layers if you have a lot of different section patterns?
Maybe you could make your plugin work with Layers Panel, to automatically put all those layers in a layer group, and automatically collapse it so that they don't take much space in the dialog. You can use LP's API for that : viewtopic.php?f=180&t=57777
after realising how this method works I immediately thought of creating a group for the Skalp layers in LP. if this can be made automatically so much the better.
Wow, this plugin looks excellentI do have a quick question about how Skalp works in layout, though, before I think about buying it.
For Skalp to be really useful for me, I would need it's sections to be recognized by the inference engine in Layout, so I could pull dimensions from the section cuts. I have been assuming that the Skalp sections don't work like that in Layout, but I didn't really start investigating this until yesterday and I couldn't find an answer on the website.
Could someone explain how these sections could be used in Layout, other than for just visualization?
otb designworks wrote:Wow, this plugin looks excellentI do have a quick question about how Skalp works in layout, though, before I think about buying it.
For Skalp to be really useful for me, I would need it's sections to be recognized by the inference engine in Layout, so I could pull dimensions from the section cuts. I have been assuming that the Skalp sections don't work like that in Layout, but I didn't really start investigating this until yesterday and I couldn't find an answer on the website.
Could someone explain how these sections could be used in Layout, other than for just visualization?
Thanks!
Chuck,
The Skalp section is standard SketchUp geometry. Using the inference engine in Layout is no problem at all. I made a little video to illustrate.
