8 messages in com.googlegroups.sketchupissuesRe: To calculate the volume of a shape| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| treefrog | 17 Apr 2008 08:10 | |
| SketchUp Guide Jody | 17 Apr 2008 11:13 | |
| Bob Eback | 17 Apr 2008 13:12 | |
| treefrog | 17 Apr 2008 23:08 | |
| treefrog | 17 Apr 2008 23:10 | |
| treefrog | 19 Apr 2008 08:18 | |
| Gully Foyle | 19 Apr 2008 08:55 | |
| treefrog | 20 Apr 2008 05:48 |
| Subject: | Re: To calculate the volume of a shape |
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| From: | treefrog (tree...@btinternet.com) |
| Date: | 04/19/2008 08:18:16 AM |
| List: | com.googlegroups.sketchupissues |
Hi Jody
I've uploaded the SU file to
http://groups.google.com/group/SketchUp/web/Vat.skp.
I've found the Ruby script that will enable the volume to be
calculated, but I think I need to fill my line drawing to make it a
"solid" model for it to work. Is this possible in SU?
On Apr 17, 7:14 pm, "SketchUp Guide Jody" <sketchup-guide- jo....@google.com> wrote:
Hi treefrog,
Because SketchUp is a surface modeler and doesn't build geometry based on
volume we don't automatically calculate volume. A problem that makes this
imperfect is that curves in SketchUp are simply a number of line segments
and therefore a cylinder or curved surface will give an inaccurate value for
the volume. That being said, there is a user created Ruby script that can
calculate volume to some degree which you'll find
here,http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/em_geo_page.htm. Please be
aware that we (Google) don't support 3rd party Ruby scripts and you may need
to contact the creator or ask the community if you have any questions or
issues with this script.
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:11 AM, treefrog <tree...@btinternet.com> wrote:
I have drawn a shape in SU and would like to calculate its volume in litres. Is this possible? I have uploaded the file to http://groups.google.com/group/SketchUp/web/Vat+dimensions.tif
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