What's new in Modelur 0.4.5 Pre-Beta 4
Nov 30, 2015
- Announcement: Please note that this is the last public release in Modelur Pre-Beta series. If you would like to be one of the first to test the upcoming Modelur Beta - which will be available to invited users only - please make sure to reserve your seat by filling out the invitation request form at http://bit.ly/beta-request.
- Enhancement: Modelur updated for SketchUp 2016.
- Enhancement: Better user interface experience when Modelur is not valid anymore.
- Bugfix: Proper initialization of Building's parameters when parametric maps are used.
- Bugfix: No more errors when Building's are dragged out of parametric maps using Modelur move tool.
- Bugfix: Repaired Google Earth export.
- Bugfix: Properly calculated values for Buildings when saved model is opened.
- Bugfix: Updating of secondary control values when Building is scaled only in horizontal direction.
- Bugfix: Manual editing of buildings when terraces are made on all sides of the building.
New in Modelur 0.4.4 Pre-Beta 4 (Nov 30, 2015)
- Enhancement: Improved handling of empty Buildings (when user erases all faces inside Sketchup Group that represents Modelur Building).
- Enhancement: Added explicit selection of visible Parametric maps - to select Parametric map, which is shown in 3D viewport, just click on its name in Modelur UI.
- Enhancement: Improved proximity check, which now skips Buildings that are hidden.
- Bugfix: Fixed initialization of Modelur if there are some incomplete Land Uses in .skp model.
- Bugfix: Proper calculation of Building's built-up area when it is modified manually.
- Bugfix: Improved handling of manually modified Buildings.
- Bugfix: Cleanup of coplanar faces inside Modelur Building.
- Bugfix: fileutils.rb renamed to modelur_fileutils.rb so that it doesn't clash with the one that comes with SketchUp.
New in Modelur 0.4.3 Pre-Beta 4 (Nov 30, 2015)
- Enhancement: Buildings will now be created properly even when faces they are created from are not completely horizontal.
- Enhancement: Vertical edges of Buildings with coplanar walls are now automatically erased.
- Enhancement: Rounded Building walls are now smoothed if they their plane angle is below specified angle threshold (20° by default).
- Enhancement: Modelur user interface is properly refreshed when Building is selected before Modelur is initialized.
- Enhancement: Improved Buildings proximity check when Modelur Move Tool is used.
- Enhancement: Improved Urban Control Values .csv export.
- Bugfix: When Buildings are created, they are now properly marked if they are not inside parametric maps.
- Bugfix: Using proper parameter values when rotated Buildings are created on parametric maps.
- Bugfix: Fixed storing of user preferences, a glitch which appeared in v0.4.2.
- Bugfix: Heads-up display of Building control values is refreshed even if Modelur user interface is hidden.
- Bugfix: After Building parameter is changed and confirmed with Enter, no new Buildings are created.
- Bugfix: Refreshing of landuse control values in Modelur user interface.
- Bugfix: Copying Buildings via Value Control Box works properly if Building proximity check is engaged during the process.
- Bugfix: Improved Heads-Up Display of Urban Control Values.
New in Modelur 0.4.2 Pre-Beta 4 (Nov 30, 2015)
- Enhancement: Some of Modelur buttons and menu items disabled if Modelur is not inizialized.
- Enhancement: All new Buildings are now renamed to Modelur Building upon creation.
- Enhancement: Added Building's name when exporting (Buildings) Urban Control Values to .csv.
- Enhancement: Copy Buildings command, which caused some confusion among Modelur users, moved from Modelur Toolbar to Modelur Plugins/Extensions menu entry.
- Enhancement: No changes in parametric map material when opening skp model.
- Enhancement: Parametric map material hidden when all maps are deactivated.
- Enhancement: Added Modelur options description, which is visible in Status bar.
- Enhancement: Improved checking of distances between Modelur Buildings.
- Enhancement: Proximity check now works in real-time as Buildings heights are being changed.
- Enhancement: Improved Building warnings when they are outside parametric maps.
- Bugfix: No more javascript errors on SketchUp versions 2013 and below when .skp model with Parametric maps is loaded prior to Modelur intialization.
- Bugfix: Restoring of Modelur Buildings, which were created by duplicating existing Buildings.
- Bugfix: Modelur HeadsUp display now works properly if it is deleted when .skp model is loaded prior to Modelur initialization.
- Bugfix: Proper reset of Building to default values (if needed) when undo is called after Scale Tool was used.
- Bugfix: No more distorted SketchUp Entities when creating Modelur Building from Faces that touch other Entities.
New in Modelur 0.4.1 Pre-Beta 4 (Nov 30, 2015)
- Enhancement: If Modelur UI doesn't show up properly, you can now reset Modelur settings by clicking on Extensions (Plugins prior to SU 2015) > Modelur > Restore default settings in SketchUp's menu.
- Enhancement: Sum of Land Use and Whole Plot values is now calculated only for visible buildings. This way you can now e.g. create different development alternatives and put them on separate layers. Hiding the layer will take all buildings on that layer out of the urban control values calculation for both Land Uses and the Whole Plot.
- Enhancement: Parametric Maps are saved into SketchUp .skp model.
- Enhancement: Optimized performance of Modelur Move Tool.
- Enhancement: Improved creation of new Modelur Buildings. Buildings with selected default floor plan are now created even if some other, non-Face SketchUp objects are selected. They are also properly created when the Face they are made of intersects with some other Face in the Model.
- Bugfix: Bounding Box is now properly shown when Buildings are modified manually.
- Bugfix: Improved Undo/Redo mechanism, which is now better integrated into SketchUp.
- Bugfix: Updating of Building's Built-up Area when ScaleTool is used and "Keep Built-up Area when scaling manually" in turned on.
- Bugfix: Color distance bug with gray images and land uses.
New in Modelur 0.4.0 Pre-Beta 4 (Nov 30, 2015)
- Enhancement: Added Parametric Maps functionality. To update Modelur Buildings to parameters from Parametric Maps in real-time, use the provided Modelur Move Tool (blue cross arrow in Modelur Toolbar). At the moment .png, .jpg or .gif file formats are supported by Parametric Maps.
- Enhancement: Calculation of building control values displayed inside Modelur UI.
- Enhancement: When creating new building with no faces selected, all Parameters are set to default.
- Enhancement: UI design changes
- Bugfix: Undo works when parameter of Whole Plot or Land Use is changed in the Modelur UI.
- Bugfix: Updating of Urban Control Values when Modelur Buildings are deleted and some other locked entities are selected.
- Bugfix: Updating of Urban Control Values when Modelur Buildings are deleted and deletion is then undone.
- Bugfix: Creating of Buildings with convex floor plan and default Built Area.
- Bugfix: Updating of Buildings when Scale Tool is used together with keep Built-up Area when scaling manually option turned on.
- Bugfix: Importing Google Earth Terrain is not crashing anymore if Modelur is running.
New in Modelur 0.3.6 Pre-Beta 3 (Nov 30, 2015)
- Update for SketchUp 2014.
New in Modelur 0.3.5 Pre-Beta 3 (Nov 30, 2015)
- Enhancement: Length units are now recalculated and written to defaults when user switches between metric and feet.
- Enhancement: If .skp model is loaded, only length units preference is loaded from it, while all other preferences (eg. language) are loaded as specified by the user. Of course, user can still switch length units.
- Enhancement: Huge performance improvement on large models when duplicating Modelur Buildings using Value Control Box mechanism.
- Enhancement: Modelur better mimics behavior of SketchUp when using its native Value Control Box mechanism.
- Enhancement: Buildings are not warned anymore when they are touching each other, as we consider them as one building structure.
- Enhancement: Buildings now react to Scale Tool when their height is changed via Value Control Box, too. For example, you can now use Scale Tool to start raising Building and the type in *5 + Enter which will raise the Building five times.
- Enhancement: More intuitive handling of overloaded parameters, when they are set back to default values.
- Bugfix: HeadsUp Display showing Building and Whole Plot values is now loaded properly (as defined by user preferences) when .skp model is opened.
- Bugfix: Fixed Modelur Building copy/paste mechanism.
- Bugfix: Proximity check (warnings when buildings are too close together) is now engaged automatically when Modelur is started if set so by preference.
- Bugfix: Fixed undo mechanism when Modelur building is deleted.
- Bugfix: Fixed updating of manually modified Modelur Building when user moves its corner. Please note that you need to select all vertically aligned edges (whole corner) to use this functionality!
- Bugfix: Overloaded Building parameters are now updated properly when default (Whole Plot) parameters change.
- Bugfix: Fixed updating of terraces and loggias when Building floors are added or removed.
- Bugfix: Fixed restoring of manually modified Modelur Buildings to default values.
- Bugfix: Fixed duplicating Building mechanism when default land use is not the same as it was in the previous model.
- Bugfix: Fixed refreshing of terraces and loggias when buildings are stretched in horizontal plane.
- Bugfix: Fixed Building Bounding Box size when buildings are scaled in horizontal plane plane and they are set to keep built area.
- Bugfix: Buildings are now properly duplicated when using Rotate Tool and Value Control Box mechanism to create several instances of selected Building.
- Bugfix: Building terraces and loggias are now properly marked (according to preference) when .skp model is opened.
- Bugfix: Fixed storing of selected Land Uses in both, Land Use requirements and Urban control - Land Use panels when they are not present in preferences.
New in Modelur 0.3.4 Pre-Beta 3 (Nov 30, 2015)
- Enhancement: Modelur remembers changes on the user interface layout.
- Enhancement: When Modelur is run for the first time, it loads in the language of SketchUp if translation exists.
- Enhancement: Options 'Calculate sum values of selected Buildings', 'Optimize Building for Google Earth', 'Toggle Built-up Area visibility', 'Toggle terraces and loggias' moved from Sketchup Plugins menu to the user interface
- Enhancement: Modelur initialization message is now in the same window as Modelur's user interface itself.
- Bugfix: Bounging box is now properly refreshed when user changes number of storeys or height of the Building if it is selected and Scale tool activated.
- Bugfix: Loggias are now properly defined when user modifies Building manually.
New in Modelur 0.3.3 Pre-Beta 3 (Nov 30, 2015)
- Enhancement: User interface is updated with Urban Control Indicators while Modelur Buildings are being manually edited.
- Enhancement: Improved optimization and preparation of 3D model for Google Earth export.
- Bugfix: Neighbour Buildings, which were too close to selected one are now unmarked when the Building is far enough.
- Bugfix: Fixed initialization of .skp models which contain one-storey Modelur Buildings.