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    • S Offline
      sceyefeye
      last edited by

      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

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        Whaat
        last edited by

        @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!

        SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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          lapeno82
          last edited by

          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!

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            Ben Ritter
            last edited by

            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?

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              jim_tim
              last edited by

              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

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              • TIGT Offline
                TIG Moderator
                last edited by

                Make sure the Outliner is closed. Making scripted changes to groups/instances with the Outliner open can give a BugSplat...

                TIG

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                  AcesHigh
                  last edited by

                  @tig said:

                  Make sure the Outliner is closed. Making scripted changes to groups/instances with the Outliner open can give a BugSplat...

                  what is the outliner? 😳

                  Ive had bug splats even after exploding all components and groups into faces.

                  basically it were lots of window panes, around a building of circular size. The roof of the building was inclined, so I needed to cut all the windows so they would fit against the inclined roof.

                  Some of the windows would cut nice. But then, a FEW OF THEM, for no aparent reason, would give bug splats, even if I moved them, copied them and tried to cut somewhere else, if I rotated them, etc.

                  I ended up cutting them using tools on surface... but needless to say, it took a much longer time. Zorro was the perfect tool for the job, if there were no bug splats. 😐

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                    pilou
                    last edited by

                    @unknownuser said:

                    what is the outliner?

                    Menu Window/ Outliner = Arborescence system of the objects 😄

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

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                      AcesHigh
                      last edited by

                      @unknownuser said:

                      @unknownuser said:

                      what is the outliner?

                      Menu Window/ Outliner = Arborescence system of the objects 😄

                      well, certainly I dont need to close it, since i NEVER opened it! 😆

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                        jim_tim
                        last edited by

                        Thanks for the replies, but i'm afraid the outliner is not the problem. I only opened the outliner in the first place because i was getting bug splats. I used the outliner as a quick way to get rid of things i thought might be slowing the model down or causing bug splats. I'd be grateful if anybody could try to resolve the problem in the model i attached earlier in the thread. I think zorro2 could be an amazing tool but i just keep getting bug splats constantly 👎

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                          dylan
                          last edited by

                          Are you getting the bugsplat just with Zorro2 or with other rubies also?

                          http://dmdarchitecture.co.uk/

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                            rv1974
                            last edited by

                            Dale I noticed I always have to reverse section cut before "slice model at section".
                            May be alternatively you could "inverse" this tool?

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                              putnik
                              last edited by

                              Whaat, I've got 2 files. The first one is the original, its geometry is a result of a simple Follow Me. The second one is a derivative of the first, with some bits manually cut out. The latter Bug Splats almost every time I try to Zorro it up. The former lets me slice it any which way I want, every time. I'm on WinXP SP3, SU7. Do you mind checking it out? TIA


                              both SKPs are in the archive

                              http://keshas.info

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                                putnik
                                last edited by

                                I take it it's unresolvable?

                                http://keshas.info

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                                  pilou
                                  last edited by

                                  For me "Bugsplats" arrives also 😮
                                  But maybe it's not a good idea to make a zorro2 on surfaces?

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

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                                    Whaat
                                    last edited by

                                    @putnik said:

                                    I take it it's unresolvable?

                                    I really don't know what the problem is. Zorro sometimes just causes random bugsplats. I see no reason that it would work for the first file but not for the second. Ruby plugins are more prone to bugsplats than using straight SketchUp for various reasons. I believe that SketchUp has its own internal entity observers that are probably the culprit.

                                    SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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                                      putnik
                                      last edited by

                                      Whaat, I see. Thanks for looking into it. I've remodelled the shape slightly using different path, deleted the middle bits, and now it doesn't bugsplat as often. Go figure 😕

                                      Pilou, you mean as opposed to cutting groups & components? Maybe. I'll try, but I would have thought slicing groups would be a more complex task than modifying faces directly

                                      http://keshas.info

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                                        seanseansesan
                                        last edited by

                                        Thanks a lot fotr this amazing plugin , but how d you install?

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                                        • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                          Chris Fullmer
                                          last edited by

                                          Download it from the first post in this topic. Save it to C:\Program Files\Google\SketchUp7\Plugins folder. (thats an approximate guess of the exact path, and it might be different on your computer. But just put it in your "Plugins" folder inside your SketchUp installation folder).

                                          Then it will be installed in SketchUp the next time you run SketchUp.

                                          And welcome to the forum!

                                          Chris

                                          Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                          All my Plugins I've written

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                                            drewskiey
                                            last edited by

                                            I am a novice to this topic and a mac user, so please bare with me... 😉
                                            I saved the file "thumbs.db" (not ".rb"?) into the plugins folder and nothing happened.
                                            I then changed the file to "thumbs.rb" and when i opened SU I received the error "Invalid char `\021' in expression".
                                            what should i change?

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