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bonzai3d 2.1

What’s new in bonzai3d v2.1


Dimension unit display

Dimension styles have been enhanced with a new option: Include Units. When this option is off, the unit strings of the currently active working units are omitted from the displayed linear value. For example, 10’-0” will be displayed as 10-0 and 100mm will be shown as 100. When the option is on, which is the default, dimension values are displayed with units.

 

 

 

NURBS by Lofting tool

New options have been added to the N-Loft tool. For Loose Lofting, the degree of the lofted surface may now be specified in both the Length (U) and Depth (V) direction. Length (U) is the direction of the source curves, while Depth (V) is the direction of the loft, determined by the order in which the source curves are selected. Additionally for Loose Lofting, the user may specify that the loft surface should be closed in depth. When the new Closed in Depth (V) check box is selected, the loft will be extended back to the first input curve and closed smoothly.


For Tight Lofting, the Depth (V) degree may now be specified. In this mode, the Length (U) degree is always determined by the degree of the input sources.

 

For both Loose and Tight Lofting, the Depth (V) degree specified is a maximum. If too few input curves are selected (less than degree+1), the degree will be reduced.

Sources for NURBS by Lofting

 

Result with Closed in Depth (V) selected

 

 

 

 

 

 

Match View tool

A new option, Angle Only has been added to increase the flexibility of the view matching process. This is useful when the proportions of the shape in the photograph are not exactly known. After a 3d model point has been matched with a 2d screen point, the screen point may be tagged as Angle Only by turning this new option on. The option is only available, if the 3d point is connected with another 3d point along a straight segment. This is indicated on the screen, if a red line is drawn between them. Once a point is tagged as Angle Only the 2d line on the screen indicating this connection is drawn in green, instead of red. The view matching process will not attempt to place the 3d point exactly on top of the 2d point, but simply align the 3d line with the 2d line. Note, that it is necessary to mark at least two points with the Angle Only option off.

 

In the simple example shown, the cube will be matched to fit the main volume of the house. The proportions of the cube are intentionally created different from those of the house.

  1. Two points along the vertical direction of the cube are located in the image. Note that a red line is drawn between them. These two points will be matched exactly. This guarantee, that the cube will match the height of the house, but may not match the width and length.

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  2. Additional points are located in the image. They connect to the first two points and are all tagged as Angle Only. The lines connecting those points to the first two are drawn in green, indicating that we are only interested in the direction but not the exact placement of the points.

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  3. The view matching is executed. Notice, that the vertical dimension is matched exactly, whereas the width and length are not.

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  4. With a few additional modeling steps, the cube is reshaped in width and depth to match the proportions of the house. The top face was split by inserting a segment, which was moved vertically until the desired roof slope was achieved.

 

 

Snap to ghosted objects

A new Snap To Ghosted option has been added to the Object Snaps Options palette. When on, snapping is performed on all ghosted objects (ghosted by attribute or objects on ghosted layers), if the ghosted objects are also visible. Ghosted visibility is set in the respective rendering options. By default this option is off.

 

SketchUp 7.0 import

The sketchup importer can now import files created with SkecthUp 7.

 

On Windows, this new SKP importer will require an additional library from Microsoft. Please download this specific version of Microsoft’s vcredist_x86.exe from near the bottom of this page:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=766a6af7-ec73-40ff-b072-9112bab119c2&displaylang=en

 

Run it to install, and follow the on-screen prompts. (Note that a Reboot may be required after this installation is complete.)