Explosion: Apply the exploded view transformation to all selectable objects that have exploded transformation data. Hidden and locked objects will remain unmolested.
I found that hiding objects to avoid the transformation does not seem practical because using Show after Explosion also the original, not transformed, objects will appear.
But locking objects works fine.
Just lock the objects you don’t want to move and run Explosion … then you have to unlock, obviously.
BTW … I think that two more commands, let’s call them ExplosionBySelection and ImplosionBySelection,
would make things much more simple when doing ‘partial’ explosions …
I agree with you that NamedPositions and ExplodedView are similar, and I have nothing against them being merged …IF the features from both the command would survive and we would not lose something along the way.
BTW(2) … another thing that I think ExplodedView is currently missing is the ability to ‘Bake’ the objects in the exploded position.
Definitely a careful merge with NamedPosition could give us a lot of new possibilities, IMO.
Still ran into the same issue - even in wireframe the model seems too heavy to animate the first frame within the first second so the model just appears in the final position.
Well I don’t think not having preselection is the end of the world but it begs two questions:
Can there be a selection filter for current explosion objects (“SelExplosion” or something like that)?
Is anyone at McNeel working on or considering a “Named Selections” panel that would allow users to save selection sets?
No, it’s not. It’s a couple of commits behind. I’ll grab the latest source and recompile on OS X and post that in the Rhino for Mac category (feels kinda weird to be discussing the same plugin with the same codebase in two different Discourse categories; good problem to have though).
UPDATE: I updated the plugin posted in the Rhino for Mac category post. (This is clearly not the right way to keep this updated, but we’ll probably open-source this anyway).
This is not my call. Basically, I just built this on OS X to illustrate a point about cross-platformy-ness. In my opinion, this is an experimental plugin (there some discussion about named positions above, some possible bugs with selection sets, etc). From my perspective, this is not something ready for prime-time. In the end, whomever is going to post this somewhere - Food4Rhino or elsewhere - is going to be “on the hook” to maintain it as a proper plugin (fix bugs, add features, etc). In my opinion, I’d like to see ExplodedViews posted on a public GitHub repo with compiled releases on each platform posted in the “Releases” tab of the repo. It would be a great sample project, if nothing else…though I would hope it becomes “something useful.”
Your probably right, this seems like a good option. I was just thinking of somewhere Rhino users go. It defiantly will have it’s uses and is a great start for cross-platform plug-ins. It is something useful. I don’t need this all the time, but I have done it manually for Make2D, when I need something like this.
Thanks so much for the Exploded Views tool. It made a great little Xmas gift to me. It took me a while to get the gist of it but not I'm catching on and putting it to use. Here is the first actual work application of it that I just finished. I had been using Named Positions but this is much more effective for me when presenting to a client. Even though the pivots get out of place in the middle, at least they end up in the correct spot and the smooth action describes the action of this folding stairs for a day charter catamaran for Waikiki beach. The client will appreciate your work as it shows him the articulation of the individual steps. Forgive my crude tool buttons.
I’m pretty sure it wasn’t one of your posts… if it was, it was most likely a mistake. But I think the post that was removed was just after yours and before mine, which is why it looks that way. It was 5 months after yours too.
I don’t flag posts unless there is some commercial advertising that has little nothing to do with Rhino or has some dodgy links. Generally I also check before flagging and 99% of the time I see the user joined 5 minutes before the post, so it’s pretty obvious. Finally, flagging a post doesn’t delete it, someone from McNeel (not me) has to check it after it’s been flagged and decide what to do…
OK, I’ll relax then. Funny thing is that folding staircase that I used in my post THREE years earlier is what I was working on the morning once more! This project is taking years to get approved and built. 5 years I’ve been plugging away at it and still no telling when or if it will ever get finished. We will probably be on RhinoV9 by the time it is done…
