I will be creating a new toolbar within the Wall plugin that will be called Medeek Documents. This will be the start of the Scenes/Layout piece of the mdkBIM package. Eventually I will pull this out of the Wall plugin since it will be similar to the Medeek Estimator in that it will eventually work with roofs, floors and foundations and not just wall panels.
The toolbar and its icons will be the following:
The first icon will allow the user to select various assemblies and generate corresponding scenes that can then be utilized within Layout. For example a framer or contractor may want framing details with dimensions for each wall panel.
The second icon will allow one to export DXF documents for floor plans, roof framing plans, wall framing plans etc... This one is going to be a big project.
The third icon will essentially do the same thing as the DXF export function however it will automatically push it out to a PDF document using the built in Ruby Gem (Prawn). Again this will be a big project as well.
The DXF and PDF function are rather low on the todo list for now, but I would like to enable the scene generator as soon as possible and after reviewing the applicable sections of the SketchUp API it shouldn't require more than a few lines of code to pull it off.
The toolbar and its icons will be the following:
The first icon will allow the user to select various assemblies and generate corresponding scenes that can then be utilized within Layout. For example a framer or contractor may want framing details with dimensions for each wall panel.
The second icon will allow one to export DXF documents for floor plans, roof framing plans, wall framing plans etc... This one is going to be a big project.
The third icon will essentially do the same thing as the DXF export function however it will automatically push it out to a PDF document using the built in Ruby Gem (Prawn). Again this will be a big project as well.
The DXF and PDF function are rather low on the todo list for now, but I would like to enable the scene generator as soon as possible and after reviewing the applicable sections of the SketchUp API it shouldn't require more than a few lines of code to pull it off.