OT-Animated CAD and html continued

Try this, done with the free web exporter for Sketchup.

Brian

Worked for me in IE 7

It did a little time for the images to load (10 seconds). I have DSL as well

I think there is a way to put all of your images in one file so they load quicker. I have limited web knowledge but IIRC I read about that before. Maybe someone else has heard about it or knows more.

Larry C

Looks OK other than the large number of files which are downloaded. Drawing1.jpg through Drawing34.jpg totaled 7.24 megabytes!

An animated GIF is actually several images stored in one GIF file. FWIW, what you are using is not an animated GIF but rather a Javascript routine which scrolls through cached JPG images. (Your mouse movements scroll through caches images via Javascript.)

Try this: (Only 375k bytes - vector info stored as XML in HTML page) (Requires an eDrawings plug-in download - automatic on IE.)

Greg G.

If you're really feeling froggy with 3D, Look here:

and here:

All Free! FWIW,

Greg G.

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:47:15 -0800 (PST), the infamous GarageWoodworks scrawled the following:

DSL here, reasonably slow. That's an interesting angle you used, too. I want to reach out and catch it from falling as I rotate it to the side view. Har! So, did SketchUp output that anim for you? Cool. I really must start using it.

Dat's some oogly maple, Brian. ;)

Oh, one last thing. I didn't hear any flutes.

P.S: The reason it works better in MS Internet Exploder is because you designed it in MS Page Affront. Simple!

-- It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:29:31 -0600, the infamous Swingman scrawled the following:

Ditto here. And I think he did use SketchUp. (I peered into his page's PHP and CSS code.)

-- It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca

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Used Sketch up to generate the code and substituted the sketchup JPG's with my TurboCad JPGs.

I used sketchup to generate the code and substituted the sketchup files with my own TCAD JPG's.

I know. Cherry looks nicer. Either I cant figure out how to get it to render correctly or its just crappy at wood rendering.

Good one! :^)

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I'll check that out. Thanks!

Yeah. I goofed with the post. I actually have an animated gif also that is 200kb. I like the user interactivity of the JavaScript.

I looked into that. I would prefer something that didn't require visitors to download a plugin. Most people are sketchy about doing that sort of thing and will just leave.

Thanks. I'm going to try and compress each image more. They are JPG's. I think I can get the files much smaller.

Karl,

I used Sketchup to generate the code then I substitued the Sketchup files with TurboCad JPG's. I havent learned how to use Sketchup yet and feel more comfortable with TCAD.

OK. I was using Firefox the first time I tried and it didnt work. 'Then' I noticed what you wrote about IE .

That is very cool!! Unfortunately I think most will not download the plugin and will leave the page (I could be wrong here).

Thanks again!

Loaded very fast on my DSL and it worked fine in Firefox using Linux OS!

I've been using TurboCAD for about 10 years and it's almost second nature to me now. I've tried to use Sketchup at least a dozen times over the past year or so, but I always hit something that irks me to no end and I keep going back to TurboCAD.

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IMHO SketchUp is very clunky to use.

Worked fine in IE 8, Safari 4, Google Chrome 3.0, and Firefox 3.5. Worked in Opera 10 but the image noticeably flickered with a different background showing with each image update. I am running WinXP.

Thanks Jim. I reduced the file size of the individual frames so it loads faster.

Looks much smoother in all the browsers. My version of Opera just autoupdated to 10.10 and while it still has an annoying flicker when the image updates, it happens infrequently. It was strange, first I saw it with each update, but after a screen refresh I don't see it much, if at all.