From SU6 to SU7
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Hi!
I am working on the french version of SU6. I would like to load a plugin called extrude edges by edges but this one requires SU7. Can i download SU7 in order to get thius plug in, knowing that SU7 is only in english for the moment, without any problems to keep the various plugins already installed as well of course as the works done in SU 6 ?
In such case, should I delete SU6 before installing SU7 or should I just load SU7 over to SU 6. Is there maybe another way to update the french SU6 I have to the english SU7 ?
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You can install SU 7 while still keeping SU 6 without any problems even regardless of the language versions. You can even run both at the same time, there won't be any problem with that - the only problem you can experience is when double clicking on an skp file to open because (as far as I remember) it will open in the version you used last.
All SU 6 files will work flawlessly in SU 7 but you have to "Save as... > SU 6 version" in SU 7 if you later want to open it in 6.
Any plugins you are running under SU 6 will work like before and you can even simply copy most of them into SU 7 plugins folder and they will work there, too (of course some, like the ones you need to install with a windows installer - like some renderers - may behave differently).
So just go ahead and install SU 7
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Hi !
Super !Many thanks to you. will go ahead then !
Hane a nice day
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@Gaieus:
I did not know that Extrude Edges by Edges required SU7.
Please don't tell my copy of it.
Even though I have 7, and tend to load new plugins in both, I mostly use 6(because of Pro at the office), and EEbyE seems to do just fine. -
I didn't know it either
(in fact, I don't even have that plugin at the moment
)But still, I do think it's worth having SU 7 installed even though for certain reasons some people tend to stick to older versions as their "default" modelling tool.
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Extrude Edges by Edges works fine on SU6
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Yes this is right , sorry for wrong info! I had clicked on a tuto abt EEBE and got the message I needed to have SU7.. By the plug in works ok on SU6. By the way, this is a fantastic plug in. I use it now to desing the upper part of a shoe but meet some small problems.
I draw the sole flat, make a group of it, another group with a bspline to give the curv of the side and click on EEBE. All works just fine.
If you try you should get something looking like a boat.
Now the sole has to be bent, spesially high heel shoes with two different radialbendings and there comes the problem. Many faces disappear.
Looks like it works better when bending the sole before using EEBE but still some faces can be missing.
Do you think it is better to EEBE before or after bending, do you think this can be due to too many numbers of segments in the radiabending perhaps also ? Do you have any tips to avoid this kind of problems? thank you -
mirami:
The disappearing faces may have something to do with the scale of the model. Small size models with microfacets are a known limitation in Sketchup. The workaround is to scale up by some factor like (10), perform the operations, and then scale down by (0.1).
There is a native tool to "repair tiny triangles" in a right click menu after selecting the perimeter edges. If it does not show up, there is also top line menu Tools>Utilities>Create face. This could end up being a lot of "knitting", as I call it.(It may be better for you to direct your questions in the other thread "on designing a shoe".)
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