[Plugin] Zorro2 (beta)

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.

jim_tim · 5 Mar 2009, 15:23

Hi, I think I worked out why it wasnt working. I had a 3ds component (toilet- high poly) in the box shape. Although the section plane wasn't through the component I don't think sketchup could cope with both the component and the procedure of taking a section. Is this normal for the ruby to make sketchup crash when using components? I guess in future projects I'll just take the section first then add components afterwards.

Thanks

Jim

sceyefeye · 11 Mar 2009, 09:06

hi there all, bit of a lurker on the forum

But I have to shout major kudos to whaat! You have just saved me mucha mulah! I was thinking about selling my car or something to purchase IRenderXT just to be able to render cut-away views eg 3d plans. As someone said earlier, too much hassel to creat cut sections and then delete what I don't need to take things into Kerkythea. Now hey it is simple as, well I don't think it gets much simpler

One thing though, I can get the section cut through model part working - the major bonus for me. But I literally only get a zoro entry in the tools drop down. According to your screen shots there seem to be some submenus and such, but none of that here. XP SP3 SketchUP 7 free. (Since discovering DoubleCAD I no longer need the pro file exports to go to CAD)

Anyway, a million thanks for something this useful and powerful

Whaat · 11 Mar 2009, 14:22

@sceyefeye said:

According to your screen shots there seem to be some submenus and such, but none of that here.
I'm confused. I don't think I have posted any screenshots of the menu. There should only be one menu item in the Tools menu. Glad you like the plugin!

lapeno82 · 30 Mar 2009, 17:58

OMG It really works!!!! (with my 3billion entities with components in components in components etc.) and really really fast aswell!!! I'm so happy! You sir are a genius!

Ben Ritter · 31 Mar 2009, 13:04

I'm having similar problems as Jim_Tim.

I explode everything, and get a bug splat and SU shutdown when trying to slice at a section. Should this work? Any tricks to know?

jim_tim · 2 Apr 2009, 13:40

Hi. As previously mentioned I have had trouble with bug splats when using Zorro2. I have experimented with various simple models and as I suggested on a previous post (at least on my system) sketchup has problems when using Zorro and dealing with components. A friend and fellow student has also had similar problems with his models and shared his models with me to see if our different systems made any difference. I have attached one of the models that he created and we have both tried to take section slices always resulting with 'bug splats'. I also tried to remove every component in the outliner to see if that would work but had no joy.

If anybody could work out why this is happening in this model I would be extremely grateful. Hopefully a diagnosis would account for the problems i've been having with other models.

Thank you.

finished_build_sections.skp