WIP -- 'Protrude' ruby from Jim Foltz

CadFather · 28 Nov 2008, 16:11

fantastic plugin Jim, thanks

just reporting on some issues:

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

Petruscaleus · 29 Nov 2008, 14:51

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.

sepo · 29 Nov 2008, 16:32

Really nice plugin Jim. Thanks....

PRSS · 29 Nov 2008, 16:34

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

PRSS · 29 Nov 2008, 16:47

Sorry!!

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

With best regards
PRSS

Jim · 29 Nov 2008, 17:07

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?

Jim · 29 Nov 2008, 17:15

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

(sketchup.google.com)

CadFather · 29 Nov 2008, 18:08

@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!

PRSS · 30 Nov 2008, 08:02

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

With best regards
PRSS

kwistenbiebel · 1 Jan 2009, 17:01

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?

Jim · 1 Jan 2009, 17:28

@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?

kwistenbiebel · 1 Jan 2009, 18:02

Funny

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

kwistenbiebel · 1 Jan 2009, 18:12

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!

olishea · 12 Jan 2009, 11:52

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!!)

pilou · 12 Jan 2009, 13:18

Zorro + Protrude = super fun result in a second!

pilou · 12 Jan 2009, 23:00

Jim · 13 Jan 2009, 02:03

@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.

olishea · 14 Jan 2009, 11:08

thanks jim im keen to give it a go!!

broomstick · 28 Feb 2009, 12:28

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

bugmcw · 10 Mar 2009, 00:58

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