SketchUpCMS

Ruby scripts that read detector geometries in Detector Description Language (DDL) and build 3D models of the detector in SketchUp.

• website: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/SketchUpCMS

Citation

• Tai Sakuma and Thomas McCauley, "Detector and Event Visualization with SketchUp at the CMS Experiment"
  J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 513 022032, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/513/2/022032

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Quick instructions

As an example, this section describes how to build a 3D model of the CMS detector with the 2017 geometry.

Create a big XML file

First you need to create a big XML file with all CMS detector geometry.

Follow the instructions at https://github.com/SketchUpCMS/ddtoddl_cfg and create the big XML file GeometryExtended2017.xml.

Check out

Check out this repo and the graph therory library GRATR:

git clone git@github.com:SketchUpCMS/SketchUpCMS.git
cd SketchUpCMS
git clone git@github.com:SketchUpCMS/gratr.git

Copy the big XML file to the directory SketchUpCMS. For example, :

scp <username>@<address>:<path>/GeometryExtended2017.xml .

Run

Start SketchUp Pro

Open Ruby Console (Window -> Ruby Console)

Run cms_2017.rb:

load '/<some path>/SketchUpCMS/cms_2017.rb'

After the script ends, you will probaly need to zoom out to find the CMS detector.