[Plugin] 2D Tools

TIG · 11 Oct 2009, 09:06

@arc said:

@tig said:

Here's v3.4 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=185760#p185760
2D Text, it's not on my set z-plane.

2D Text was not made to be fixed onto the Z-plane because so many asked for more flexibility in placing it - 2D Text has uses beyond pure 2D drawing - like the 2D Fillet Tool. However, it does snap to the horizontal/face...

If there is enough 'reverse pressure' to get it to snap all 2D Text to the Z-plane I'll change it - it's no big deal - much of the code is in there, it's just 'disabled'...

If you really must have it snap to the Z-plane then I can easily do you a personalized version that does so...

TIG · 11 Oct 2009, 09:08

@gaieus said:

@tig said:

...If you really must have it snap to the Z-plane then I can easily do you a personalized version that does so...

That's quite a generous offer, TIG!

Not so generous... most of the code is already in there but disabled/unused... I just need to 'free' it...

mitcorb · 11 Oct 2009, 13:55

TIG:
I copy/pasted as you instructed, with no apparent reaction in the console at each step. Then I drew two overlapping 2d rectangles, applied 2d faces to each. Then I tried to activate the 2d hatching tool and got the "cancelled" statement.

EDIT: The attachment hopefully shows the console open and the inputs. If not, I will do a jpg.

2dhatchinguploadfile.skp

TIG · 11 Oct 2009, 14:10

No Console in the image. Please try again...
I tried your Model and it Hatches OK for me... so must be something in your setup...

When you pasted the line UI.openpanel... what happened ? Did it open a file browser ?
If it did then if you selected something and hit OK what did it then say in the Console ?
Can you try typing UI.openpanel in the Console - you should get the last file browser you had opened again...

Most confusing...

EDIT: The Console appeared on the second image...
You don't seem to have typed the last of the lines I asked you to -
UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)

Please DO NOT try to run the 2D Hatching Tool ! I'm trying to check your setup BEFORE we start looking at other things... Firstly we need to check that the UI.openpanel is working OK...

mitcorb · 11 Oct 2009, 14:21

TIG:
No file browser opened. I will try again.
(I am not fluent with image capturing and posting, so I had to try again. The process is so opaque, that is, you gotta trust that the results will be favorable.)

EDIT: see attachment.
I typed the statement into the line input box. I thought there was a required space before the parentheses. That is why I got the warning.
But in each case I got the word "nil".

EDIT2: for your info, I verified that the hatching file has all of the jpg content.

JClements · 11 Oct 2009, 14:53

My preference would be to have the text sensitive to the current Z-plane.

Perhaps you could allow its present behavior through Alt-clicking the toolbar icon? ... Or the user could use your other text script.

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Tried the updated extend tool. When I tried it on an arc and when I could get it to work, the arc was extended through and beyond a target edge. Using with line segments, it couldn't detect the line to extend when trying to select it. Many times I'd get an hour glass and have to shut down SU 7.1.

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A combination of the line, tab input, and radius tools makes producing pipe and elbow centerlines easy.
I suppose Pipe-Along-Pipe could be implimented into the toolbar and apply it to a centerline using a method similar to that used for your 2D Line Style tool

TIG · 11 Oct 2009, 16:38

@mitcorb said:

TIG:
No file browser opened. I will try again.
(I am not fluent with image capturing and posting, so I had to try again. The process is so opaque, that is, you gotta trust that the results will be favorable.)

EDIT: see attachment.
I typed the statement into the line input box. I thought there was a required space before the parentheses. That is why I got the warning.
But in each case I got the word "nil".

EDIT2: for your info, I verified that the hatching file has all of the jpg content.

No <space> before the ( ). BUT it's failing anyway.
What happens if you copy/paste just the text UI.openpanel into the Console - still no open_panel ?

Seems your Sketchup isn't opening a file_open_dialog like it should ???

JClements · 12 Oct 2009, 01:53

I am not sure if the file is corrupted or if there is a bug in Ruby. It was made by cutting and pasting geometry from antoher file which had a half dozen imported DWG files.

Any elevation readings taken for geometry below z=0 are wrong (using either the 2d Set Z-Plane tool or Robin Hill's, Height.rb). What should be -26' shows as -25', what should be -9.5' shows as -9.0'

Stranger still, is that Robin's script adds in two dashes for a negative value. It has never done that before.
If I create a new file with new geometry then both Robin's script and 2d Set Z-Plane tool work correctly.

Any guess as to what is going on?

Elevation Bug.skp

height.rb

TIG · 12 Oct 2009, 09:00

I think the bug is in Sketchup and the use of 'Engineering' units [always feet].
If you change to 'Decimal' units [feet] it works fine.
Any other units format also works properly too...
It's as if with Engineering Feet it does a 'round' to an integer and does a double negative to boot !
There's nothing wrong with the SKP file itself - indeed it's the same in any new SKP that's set to have Engineering Feet as its units and -ve Z values taken from the point are reported wrongly as a length/length.to_s.
The Tools are blameless too...

Bug report for v7.1 ?

watkins · 12 Oct 2009, 11:05

It would be nice to see a few examples of how people are using 2D Tools in their own work.

Regards,
Bob

mitcorb · 12 Oct 2009, 11:34

TIG:
UI.openpanel called up the folder My Documents after typing into the console.
When I cancelled the call, the nil showed on the second line of the following insert. Then I typed in the other arguments- carefully- and you can see what returned.
(This is Sketchup 6free, last update, XPHomeSP3)

UI.openpanel
nil
folder="C:/Program Files/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching/"
C:/Program Files/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching/
file1=Dir[folder+"*.jpg"].last
C:/Program Files/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching/PATT__SOLID.jpg
UI.openpanel(Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
(eval):149: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
Error: #<SyntaxError: (eval):149: compile error
(eval):149: unterminated string meets end of file
(eval):149: syntax error
UI.openpanel(Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
^>
(eval):149

Thanks,
mitcorb

EDIT: I see I left out a " before Choose HATCHING. When I inserted each argument with corrected punctuation, I got "nil" at the end.

DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ · 12 Oct 2009, 13:34

Hello TIG.
I tried 2dtool and found the following errors.
The lines do not extend to circles and arcs
The arches, extend one end. the other end is not extended.
The line of destiny, color cyan, turns off in areas where it is intersected by another line

[flash=425,344:x5dl6kqm]http://www.youtube.com/v/mI37VX17nqk[/flash:x5dl6kqm]

JClements · 12 Oct 2009, 13:43

Hi TIG:

Thank you for looking at the file. I did further test and similar things happened with 7.0 and 6.0.
I opened previous revision levels (backups) of the file and when I changed the units to Engineering, the error popped up. I thinking it could be a rounding error, but not so sure now.

I will send the file to SU folks.

mitcorb · 12 Oct 2009, 18:25

TIG:
Here are the results on the double slash input:
(eval):149
folder="C:\Program Files\Google\Google Sketchup 6\Plugins\2Dtools\Hatching\"
C:\Program Files\Google\Google Sketchup 6\Plugins\2Dtools\Hatching
UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
Error: #<NameError: (eval):149: undefined local variable or method `file1' for main:Object>
(eval):149
---I had to insert a " in front of the word Choose, because I got a syntax error comment, and noticed that you may have copy/pasted my mistake in your new instructions.---

Second results: since first did not work:
folder="C:/Program Files/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching/"
C:/Program Files/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching/
UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
Error: #<NameError: (eval):149: undefined local variable or method `file1' for main:Object>
(eval):149
---Again corrected for the missing "---

Lemme know,
mitcorb

TIG · 12 Oct 2009, 18:46

mitcorb
Another slant... Copy/Paste these 3 lines of red text into the Ruby Console and see what happens...
folder="C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Google Sketchup 6\\Plugins\\2Dtools\\Hatching\\" file1="*.jpg" UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
If nothing works then change them to these 3 and try again:
folder="C:/Program Files/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching/" file1="*.jpg" UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
I think it's something to do with SUp v Ruby syntax changed in the updates of Versions... We will sort this

TIG · 12 Oct 2009, 18:51

@jclements said:

Hi TIG:

Thank you for looking at the file. I did further test and similar things happened with 7.0 and 6.0.
I opened previous revision levels (backups) of the file and when I changed the units to Engineering, the error popped up. I thinking it could be a rounding error, but not so sure now.

I will send the file to SU folks.

It's not the file as it happens with all models with -ve Z in Engineering Units... Seems as far back as v6 ! It's not the tools, as you can reproduce the effect by trying to get set the -ve Z to_s in the Console and you'll get a rounded -- version !!!

TIG · 12 Oct 2009, 18:51

We have both messed up... I copied the text from yours - hence the missing "...
You failed to set file1= - you only pasted line 1 and 3 - you missed line 2 !

Please try again with the " and all three lines.
One defines the folder, two the file and three is the UI.openpanel command...

mitcorb · 12 Oct 2009, 20:26

OK, TIG:
I am at a different machine right now.
I will retry in about 3-4 hours at the one with the problem.

Interesting! I loaded 2dtools at my office on SU6pro. Still cannot get hatching to proceed. Is there something I might be doing wrong? Or is there possibly some other plugin or extension interrupting this one?

Oh well, let's get the issue resolved at the first location.

mitcorb

honoluludesktop · 12 Oct 2009, 21:32

Hi TIG, On my system, I am still having problems with flashing shadows under SU's pull down menus while 2DFreehand is the active selection. SU hangs if I try to close SU while this command is active, but if I change the selection, I am able to exit SU. The problem persist even I removed every other plugin, except SU.rb, and 2D#.rb.

I do not have this problem at home, so its not the ruby that is at fault. Any ideas, anyone, as to where on my system I can look for a solution? I have tried disabling WinXP's menu shadow, and unchecking SU's OpenGL preferences with no effect.

mitcorb · 13 Oct 2009, 01:23

Ok, TIG:
I am at the machine on which I first had the problem.

The double backslash method pulled up the HATCHING folder this time, with contents. But see the results:

folder="C:\Program Files\Google\Google Sketchup 6\Plugins\2Dtools\Hatching\"
C:\Program Files\Google\Google Sketchup 6\Plugins\2Dtools\Hatching
file1="*.jpg"
*.jpg
UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
nil
-----I did not change anything in the console display.

I will now run the second set with the forward slashes just to be thorough:

folder="C:/Program Files/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching/"
C:/Program Files/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching/
file1="*.jpg"
*.jpg
UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
nil
---- and running it in this form did NOT call up the HATCHING folder, or anything else.

[Plugin] 2D Tools

TIG: UI.openpanel called up the folder My Documents after typing into the console. When I cancelled the call, the nil showed on the second line of the following insert. Then I typed in the other arguments- carefully- and you can see what returned. (This is Sketchup 6free, last update, XPHomeSP3)

The double backslash method pulled up the HATCHING folder this time, with contents. But see the results:

I will now run the second set with the forward slashes just to be thorough:

TIG:
UI.openpanel called up the folder My Documents after typing into the console.
When I cancelled the call, the nil showed on the second line of the following insert. Then I typed in the other arguments- carefully- and you can see what returned.
(This is Sketchup 6free, last update, XPHomeSP3)