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    [Plugin] Perpendicular Face Tools (UPDATED 26-03-09)

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    • Chris FullmerC Offline
      Chris Fullmer
      last edited by

      Is this new to 7.1? Or was it like this before? It might just be me not coding it correctly. Try using a decmial instead of fraction for now. I think that should work. I'll look into when I get a a chance.

      And if it is a 7.1 thing, that is very interesting. I know that CadFather found some issue with units. And units and decimals and fractions are all connected.

      Chris

      Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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        kwistenbiebel
        last edited by

        Hi there,
        Just wanted to drop in to say thank you to Chris.
        This is a wonderful tool. 👍
        I use it to position mesh lights perpendicular to the camera line (for rendering).

        The video in the first post is great. I especially like the sound of your wife doing the dishes while you recorded it. 😄

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        • M Offline
          mervin
          last edited by

          I found a bug. Nothing happened when I use "perpendicular circle" tool to place a circle whose radius is smaller enough, for example 10mm. Because of nothing happened, I did it many times, then it crash. Is there any way to fix this??

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          • C Offline
            choppir
            last edited by

            amazing! thanks!

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            • V Offline
              Vicspa
              last edited by

              Another great tool, Thanks Chris,...keep'em coming. 👍

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              • Chris FullmerC Offline
                Chris Fullmer
                last edited by

                Thanks again for all the great comments. Devloping these scripts is a lot of fun, but it is sure helpful when there is also people letting you know they appreciate the work and time that has been put into these scripts - THANKS!

                Chris

                Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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                • S Offline
                  skkor9y
                  last edited by

                  BIG Thanx...

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                  • A Offline
                    AcesHigh
                    last edited by

                    Chris, does it only works with FACES?? Why not with 3d objects too?

                    I then tried to create SINGLE faces, and make them into a component, so I would place them with your plugin and then replace ONE component with a more complex 3D object... but it also didnt accept using the component... the face must be exploded 😞

                    Cant you change that?

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                    • Chris FullmerC Offline
                      Chris Fullmer
                      last edited by

                      I don't have time right now to fix it how you would like, but as a work around, you could also install my components to faces plugin. That will apply your component to all selected faces, which would probably do what your looking for, for now.

                      Chris

                      Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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                        AcesHigh
                        last edited by

                        Thanks for the suggestion... in fact, I already had your two plugins installed, I guess I just hadnt used them yet! 😄

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                        • B Offline
                          Ben Ritter
                          last edited by

                          Hi Chris,

                          I installed v1.2 and the script doesn't show up anywhere, not under the Plugins pull-down, or your separate sub-list under Plugins.

                          I'd appreciate your help.

                          Thank you. Ben

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                          • Chris FullmerC Offline
                            Chris Fullmer
                            last edited by

                            Hi Ben, sounds like it is not getting put in the correct place somehow. There should be a single file called clf_perpendicular_face_tools_loader.rb in the main plugins folder. And a folder called clf_perpendicular_face_tools that has all the other files it in (clf_perpendicular_face_tools.rb, circle_xx.png(2), square_xx.png(2), and star_xx.png(2)). So make sure everything is in the right spot and let me know if that helps. If not, we'll keep trying,

                            Chris

                            Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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                              Ben Ritter
                              last edited by

                              Chris,

                              My folders are configured just as you say and no-go. I even deleted all the files and reinstalled the zip file.

                              I'm puzzled too, because on another computer it works just fine. ❓

                              I appreciate your help and love your script (on the other computer 😉 )

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                              • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                Chris Fullmer
                                last edited by

                                OK, one last thing to try before we dive into deep troublshoot mode.

                                This is one of the few scripts that I wrote where I toyed around with the idea of disabling it by default. So just go try to enable it in the preferences menu - Window > Prefences > Extensions and make sure it is turned on. If that does not do it, then I'll PM you a new tweaked script that will output errors for me to look at.

                                Chris

                                Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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                                  Ben Ritter
                                  last edited by

                                  Chris, well there it is.

                                  Thank you. I forgot to check the preferences all the while thinking there we one place like that to check. I'll have to remember that for future problems.

                                  Ben

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                                    taurus195
                                    last edited by

                                    Amazing plug-in! I've been looking for something like this for quite some time. It really is a time saver, thank you.

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                                      snowflake
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi Chris, I've had some trouble with your tool.
                                      Using a millimeter template i was not able to get under 25,4mm radius for the circle tool
                                      for your information, here is the code from the console.
                                      Error: #<TypeError: reference to deleted Entity> (eval):895:inget_attribute'
                                      (eval):895:in onActivePathChanged' C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/clf_perpendicular_face_tools/clf_perpendicular_face_tools.rb:396 Error: #<ArgumentError: Not enough edges - at least 3 required> C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/clf_perpendicular_face_tools/clf_perpendicular_face_tools.rb:396:in add_face'
                                      C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/clf_perpendicular_face_tools/clf_perpendicular_face_tools.rb:396:in make_face' C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/clf_perpendicular_face_tools/clf_perpendicular_face_tools.rb:306:in onUserText'
                                      (eval):895
                                      Error: #<ArgumentError: Not enough edges - at least 3 required>
                                      C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/clf_perpendicular_face_tools/clf_perpendicular_face_tools.rb:396:in add_face' C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/clf_perpendicular_face_tools/clf_perpendicular_face_tools.rb:396:in make_face'
                                      C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/clf_perpendicular_face_tools/clf_perpendicular_face_tools.rb:306:in onUserText' C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/clf_perpendicular_face_tools/clf_perpendicular_face_tools.rb:396
                                      Not sure what it means, but when i draw a circle (even bellow 25mm) on the ground plane and then use the star tool there is no problem. It works.

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                                      • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                        Chris Fullmer
                                        last edited by

                                        hmm, interesting. I'll set up to a mm template and try it to se if I get the same error.

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

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                                        • charly2008C Offline
                                          charly2008
                                          last edited by

                                          Dear Chris,

                                          I used your tool extensively in the beta test of fredos Curviloft. It's a great combination. but at times appears a little error. Some objects are rotated to 180 degrees. At two or three objects, this is not a problem to turn the objects by hand.

                                          Charly


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                                          He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                                          • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                            Chris Fullmer
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi Charly, I never did quite get some of that stuff worked out. When I wrote this I knew very little about vectors/ But, I was aware of the possibility of it adding unwanted rotation to faces. So I built in the ability to rotate a face immediatly after placing it by using the up arrow key.

                                            So if a face is rotated wrong, hit the up arrow key to rotate it 90 degrees. Hope that helps,

                                            Chris

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

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