DC Components

ken

OK, wanted to know how to make DC components. Downloaded the sample fence component. Every time I use the scale tool to make the fence longer I get the attached error and Sketchup shuts down.

Anyone else having problem with DC components?

Thanks for your reply

Ken

Found the problem I had changed one of the attributes. However, I see this as strange, that a bad formula would shut down Sketchup. In the number of pickets, I change the formula, how I am not sure, leaving off the “floor” part of the formula.

Guess DC components are very sensitive.

Going forward.

Ken

Found the problem I had changed one of the attributes. However, I see this as strange, that a bad forumala would s

ken

OK, not sure what I did. However, I have been trying to learn how to make DC components.

Sketchup was shutting down every time I tried to scale the Google fence DC component, and I thought because I had some how changed the formula in the picket section this was causing the problem. However I now see that was not the case.

I went to purge all components in the model. Sketchup flashed an on screen error message and shut down. The message was to fast these old eyes, so I don’t know what the error was.

So I started Sketchup again and while I was working I was using a components directory call rigging, and when I wanted to go to another component directory I notice that all of my components directories, even the directory called rigging had been erases on the hard drive. The component directory was empty.

Note, using Vista, which I do not trust. I have back up on back up.

However, I could still get the recent component directory open, and pick a rigging components. Now, where are they being stored?

Sketchup was now stopping when I did any scaling on any rigging component. So I did a repair install.

But still having the problem of Sketchup shutting down. Can’t seem to be able to get rid of the recent directory of rigging components. They don’t show up in the Sketchup 7 directory. Found out that Ver 7 was using Ver 6’s rigging component directory. Renamed the directory and it stopped showing up in recent used section.

So now, everytime I purge Sang, Sketchup stops.

Also, I don’t remember that the component directory had to get online to Google to down load the basic set of components. As I remember, once they were downloaded, they stayed on your computer. Not now, I have to down load again and again the basic components from Google.

I pass this along, because if you don’t have your components backed up, they may disappear.

If I can’t get this resolved soon I will need to go back to Ver 6 to finish this project.

Any help would be appreciated.

Ken