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    • CadFatherC Offline
      CadFather
      last edited by

      fantastic plugin Jim, thanks

      just reporting on some issues:

      doesn't like curves, domes etc
      no cutting on some faces in this shape

      prot.png

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        Petruscaleus
        last edited by

        CadFather, as the name of the function "Divide Rectangles" implies, it only works with rectangles ^^
        In your simple case case it would be only one line for each L-shaped polygon to divide them in two rectangles on which Divison can be applied.
        As for arcs, domes and spheres - it works fine for me scratches his head
        What exactly did you try?

        Jim, you already have a reply to your PM; works fine now!
        A new bug report/feature request: Right now you can only taper the extrusion up to 99%, if you enter 100 no tapering is done at all. Would it be possible to allow a taper of 100%, resulting in a single endpoint (top of the pyramid) instead of a small face at 99%? Optically this is no big matter, but it would save 3 vertices, 4 lines and one face which could matter in a big model including a few hundred extrusions.

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        • S Offline
          sepo
          last edited by

          Really nice plugin Jim. Thanks....


          deco.jpg

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          • P Offline
            PRSS
            last edited by

            Hello everybody!

            I just installed this Protrude ruby. I do get the dialog. But when I select a face and aplly
            "divide" nothing happens. When I press "protrude" also nothing happens. I am using SU 6 Free.

            I downloaded the older version of ruby without the option of this "divide" from Crai Library.
            This works fine. But not the new one from SketchUP Plugins download. I did delete the previous
            ruby and the previous folder before copying the new ruby. Nothing works.

            Help will be greatly appreciated.

            Thanks in advance
            With best regards
            PRSS

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            • P Offline
              PRSS
              last edited by

              Sorry!!

              The 'progressbar.rb" was not there in my plugins folder.
              It is working fine now after I copied it.

              With best regards
              PRSS

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              • J Offline
                Jim
                last edited by

                PRSS, would you open the Ruby Console and try running the plugin? Then copy and paste the output, and PM or email it to me. Also, Mac or PC?

                Thank you.

                @sepo said:

                Really nice plugin Jim. Thanks....

                I'm glad you like it. It's sort of fun to play with.

                @cadfather said:

                doesn't like curves, domes etc. no cutting on some faces in this shape

                Yes, faces need to be rectangles. I plan on making it divide almost any face in the future. And since domes and curves are made of polygons that are not rectangles, they can be offset and protruded but not divided.

                @petruscaleus said:

                Right now you can only taper the extrusion up to 99%,

                This was a design decision - designed to make things easy on me! I use the scale function to scale the new protruded face, and so I don't think it can eliminate the top face altogether. I would need to rewrite that part of the plugin, so maybe in the future.

                @prss said:

                The 'progressbar.rb" was not there in my plugins folder.

                And you need ProgressBar.rb from smustard.com.

                I have a number of ideas for the plugin. If you open the ui.html file, you can see some of them (commented out.)

                Anyone on a Mac able to use this?

                Hi

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                • J Offline
                  Jim
                  last edited by

                  Also, here's a few examples of things I did while testing this plugin:

                  http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?uname=jim.foltz&isOwner=true&tags=greeble#

                  Error 404 (Not Found)!!1

                  favicon

                  (sketchup.google.com)

                  Hi

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                  • CadFatherC Offline
                    CadFather
                    last edited by

                    @petruscaleus said:

                    CadFather, as the name of the function "Divide Rectangles" implies, it only works with rectangles ^^

                    👊 😆

                    got it now Jim - an update to divide any face would make it into a supertool
                    not that it isn't already! 😄

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                    • P Offline
                      PRSS
                      last edited by

                      Thank you Jim, it is now working fine. Thanks again for the wonderful things you give
                      to SU lovers.

                      With best regards
                      PRSS

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                      • K Offline
                        kwistenbiebel
                        last edited by

                        I needed to reinstall the Protrude ruby from Jims blog site.
                        Unfortunately the 'divide rectangle' function is not present anymore.
                        Don't know why that is, but would someone be so kind to upload the version of this plugin that includes the divide function here?

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                        • J Offline
                          Jim
                          last edited by

                          @kwistenbiebel said:

                          I needed to reinstall the Protrude ruby from Jims blog site.
                          Unfortunately the 'divide rectangle' function is not present anymore.
                          Don't know why that is, but would someone be so kind to upload the version of this plugin that includes the divide function here?

                          Huh? It's still there, or at least is on my version which is the same as the most recent release. Have a screenshot?

                          Hi

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                          • K Offline
                            kwistenbiebel
                            last edited by

                            Funny 😄

                            Here is the screenshot. As you can see, no divide rectangles option there:


                            protrude.jpg

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                            • K Offline
                              kwistenbiebel
                              last edited by

                              Problem solved: There was a problem with overwriting a former protrude version.
                              Sorry for the confusion, the plugin now works just as it should.

                              Thanks again,Jim, for this plugin. It is a gem!

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                              • olisheaO Offline
                                olishea
                                last edited by

                                Hi there.

                                I installed both the protrude.rb and progressbar.rb but when i select a face and then divide, nothing happens.

                                no warnings or errors, the model just stays the same.

                                I have attached a picture of where I placed the rb file. I also copied the protrude folder into my plugins (not sure if this is where it should be!!)


                                Picture 2.png

                                oli

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                                • pilouP Offline
                                  pilou
                                  last edited by

                                  Zorro + Protrude = super fun result in a second! 😎 👍 ☀


                                  protube.jpg

                                  Frenchy Pilou
                                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                  My Little site :)

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                                  • pilouP Offline
                                    pilou
                                    last edited by

                                    😉prot.jpg

                                    Frenchy Pilou
                                    Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                    My Little site :)

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                                    • J Offline
                                      Jim
                                      last edited by

                                      @olishea said:

                                      Hi there.

                                      I installed both the protrude.rb and progressbar.rb but when i select a face and then divide, nothing happens.

                                      no warnings or errors, the model just stays the same.

                                      I have attached a picture of where I placed the rb file. I also copied the protrude folder into my plugins (not sure if this is where it should be!!)

                                      Hi olishea, welcome to the forums.

                                      I do believe this is a Mac problem, and I may be able to find a fix when there is more time. I don't have a Mac to test and it's hard to debug without one.

                                      Hi

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                                      • olisheaO Offline
                                        olishea
                                        last edited by

                                        thanks jim im keen to give it a go!!

                                        oli

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                                        • broomstickB Offline
                                          broomstick
                                          last edited by

                                          Hoping a working mac version is on the way. This is one nifty little plugin!!

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                                          • B Offline
                                            bugmcw
                                            last edited by

                                            any news on mac-ready version!? i wanna play with it!!!

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