[Plugin] Zorro2 (beta)

bellwells · 12 Feb 2009, 01:38

Hi Chris, I tried that but...no luck. I zorro sliced a cube, activated the section cut tool, selected "Slice Model at Section" and erased said section cut, but nothing. I'll keep fiddling around.

Edit: When I erase the section cut the model goes back to being "whole". The section cut always stays normal to the model surface not the Zorro cut.

bellwells · 13 Feb 2009, 18:59

The Slice Section feature does not work for me. I've even deleted and reinstalled.....no worky. Am I the only one with this problem?

Chris Fullmer · 13 Feb 2009, 19:24

Have you tried removing all other plugins except the new zorro?

Chris

bellwells · 13 Feb 2009, 20:14

I hadn't thought to do this, but this didn't work either. Funny, I've never had any problems whatsoever installing and using plugins. I'm obviously doing something wrong.

I've invoked the slice-model option with the section cut plane inside and outside the model. I've tried grouping.....I've tried it with both drinking beer and not drinking beer....I've tried everything. Argggg...

Chris Fullmer · 13 Feb 2009, 20:41

So the option to slice the model (or whatever its called) does show up though, right? Try opening the ruby console and the running the slice. See if any error messages come up in the ruby console. If they do, post them here. BTW, what version of SU are you using this on?

Chris

Burkhard · 13 Feb 2009, 20:55

[quote="bellwells"].. I zorro sliced a cube, activated the section cut tool, selected "Slice Model at Section" and erased said section cut, but nothing. quote]

Try the simple way...leave Zorro and use just the Sketchup sectionplane. Select the plane after the end position and run the script. For me it has nothing to do with zorro

Chris Fullmer · 13 Feb 2009, 21:16

Ahh, I second what burkhaard says. I don't start zorro first or anything. just make a section plane, then right click on it to find the slice option.

Chris

Burkhard · 13 Feb 2009, 21:37

...and it works also with some beers

bellwells · 13 Feb 2009, 23:40

Oh, I see. I was thinking you could "zorro" the model in any plane desired and then R-click "slice section" to achieve a section cut normal to that plane.

Apparently this script does NOT work with my beer.

Edit: I changed beer and everything is working fine....Thanks.

AcesHigh · 16 Feb 2009, 16:30

@aceshigh said:

@whaat said:

@aceshigh said:

I dont know what is happening but Zorro 2 is constantly failing to make any cuts here.

in fact, sometimes it ABSOLUTELY refuses to cut anything... even simple models, be them grouped or completely exploded. It starts creating the line, but I click the other end of the line but the line doesnt goes away... it like if I was not clicking.

Open the Ruby Console Window and tell me what error message you are getting. Thanks

Error: #<ArgumentError: Points are not planar>
C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/Zorro2.rb:273:in add_face' C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/Zorro2.rb:273:in cut_geometry'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/Zorro2.rb:107:in `onLButtonUp'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/Zorro2.rb:273

dont any of you guys know whats causing this?

Whaat · 16 Feb 2009, 16:43

@unknownuser said:

dont any of you guys know whats causing this?

I have a theory. Can you post the SKP file please?

AcesHigh · 17 Feb 2009, 03:11

here it is

hivecity.skp

AcesHigh · 20 Feb 2009, 00:58

hey Whaat, any thought on the matter? Thanks

Whaat · 20 Feb 2009, 02:53

@aceshigh said:

hey Whaat, any thought on the matter? Thanks

Yes, your scene scale is too big. I won't get into the details, but the plugin will fail if you are using a huge scene scale. Your scene is about 10km across!

AcesHigh · 20 Feb 2009, 05:17

@whaat said:

@aceshigh said:

hey Whaat, any thought on the matter? Thanks

Yes, your scene scale is too big. I won't get into the details, but the plugin will fail if you are using a huge scene scale. Your scene is about 10km across!

yup, it was supposed to be a sci-fi city.

well, so you suggest that I scale down it. Haha, I cant even begin to understand whats the difference, to the PLUGIN, on the scale of the scene. Thanks for the help!

free agent · 23 Feb 2009, 12:53

hey thanx for this, really speeds up the process of making a roof with hard modeled roof tiles the only suggestion i could make is that it explodes and groups everything it cuts through (at least in the case of similar components), because at present it is making separate unique components out of the indidual components it cuts through, increaseing the amount of components intances dramatically, and slowing down the drawing.

i then have to go in select all similar components, invert selection, group those, explode this groups contents and purge unused components, to get my component instances from 400 back to 1.

any thoughts

blugarero · 2 Mar 2009, 03:54

AWESOME PLUGIN. Especially when used with section cut plane...

Before I would have to explode all geometry and create a plane... then intersect with model, then erase everything I didn't need. On complex models this would take too long so I gave up. Now it took a minute at most on that same model.

Thank you!

saurio · 3 Mar 2009, 05:45

Thanks Gracias Merçi Obrigado Dankeschön Grazie Efaristó

jim_tim · 4 Mar 2009, 12:35

Hi, I'm trying to do a section through a simple box just to test but every time I right click, then slice section plane it results in a bug splat. The model could not be more simple so I'm confused as to why it isn't working. Do I need to download another ruby?? I'm currently using SU7 pro

Whaat · 4 Mar 2009, 16:22

@jim_tim said:

Hi, I'm trying to do a section through a simple box just to test but every time I right click, then slice section plane it results in a bug splat. The model could not be more simple so I'm confused as to why it isn't working. Do I need to download another ruby?? I'm currently using SU7 pro

Please post the model. Thanks.