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    • W Offline
      watkins
      last edited by

      Dear All,

      Having read through all the posts, and noted all the different examples and advice on how best to use this plugin, it seems to me that now would be the time to collect the body of knowledge encompassed by the many posts into a succinct User/Readme document (preferably a .pdf document). Anyone feel like doing this? I would, but I'm much too lazy, and I think TIG is probably too busy.

      Kind regards,
      Bob

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      • mitcorbM Offline
        mitcorb
        last edited by

        TIG:
        As I understand, the melding profile is optional. I don't see the switch/option to disallow this in 2.1, or is there one?
        I do have the toolbar icon loaded.

        I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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        • TIGT Offline
          TIG Moderator
          last edited by

          @mitcorb said:

          TIG:
          As I understand, the melding profile is optional. I don't see the switch/option to disallow this in 2.1, or is there one?
          I do have the toolbar icon loaded.

          In this Tool both Rail-2 AND the Melding-Profile are 'optional' BUT you must still pick four things...

          1. Pick the Profile
          2. Pick Rail-1 [can be any Curve except the Profile]
          3. Pick Rail-2 [can be any Curve except the Profile] OR you can re-pick Rail-1 which will then be 'repeated' at the other end of the Profile as Rail-2
          4. Pick Melding-Profile [can be any Curve except the Rails] OR you can re-pick the Profile which will then be 'repeated' at the other end of the Rails as the Melding-Profile
            ☀

          TIG

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          • mitcorbM Offline
            mitcorb
            last edited by

            That clears it up for me.
            Thank you, TIG

            I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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            • D Offline
              driven
              last edited by

              @junpei said:

              it doesn't work well...why??? on OSX 10.5.8 SU version 6

              Easiest way to get that to happen is to click out of sequence. or by re-using the same profiles, there's lots of tips to avoid that in previous posts, any by me were done on 10.5.8 with SU7 (may make a difference, but I haven't seen any reports on that front)

              keep trying, it's well worth it.

              john

              learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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              • TIGT Offline
                TIG Moderator
                last edited by

                @driven said:

                @junpei said:

                it doesn't work well...why??? on OSX 10.5.8 SU version 6

                Easiest way to get that to happen is to click out of sequence. or by re-using the same profiles, there's lots of tips to avoid that in previous posts, any by me were done on 10.5.8 with SU7 (may make a difference, but I haven't seen any reports on that front)

                keep trying, it's well worth it.

                john

                There's an update due out shortly that should fix this... 😒

                TIG

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                • boofredlayB Offline
                  boofredlay
                  last edited by

                  The more I use this tool the happier I become 😄


                  BCT001.jpg

                  http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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                  • utilerU Offline
                    utiler
                    last edited by

                    A ply chair in the making, Boo?

                    purpose/expression/purpose/....

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                    • C Offline
                      cmoreink
                      last edited by

                      It looks like a great tool, only if it worked for me... so here is the problem: I downloaded, unzipped, installed, it shows in "plugins" and "view""toolbar" and I also have a nice icon. I draw one curve, a second and a third, I click on icon EEbR (I just downloaded v2.1) and the msg. at the bottom displays to click on profile curve, I do, askes to click on 1st rail, I do, askes to click on 2nd rail, I do and finally it askes to click on melding profile (profile curve), I do. Then it ask few questions like do I want reverse 1st rail, do I want reverse faces and etc. . Once it's done IT DOES NOTHING it only shows some crosses on my profile curve. So I read the whole topic and msgs over and oaver again, reinstalled it, I even downloaded TIGs example on page 6 (seems like the same problem as "dicoy88" pg. 6) and it would not work... anyone know why?
                      thanks
                      Oh, and I have a SU v6

                      my portfolio

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                      • pilouP Offline
                        pilou
                        last edited by

                        Try it with another version of SU!
                        Rename your SU folder first for have no overwrite of your curent version!

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

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                        • TIGT Offline
                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by

                          @cmoreink said:

                          It looks like a great tool, only if it worked for me... so here is the problem: I downloaded, unzipped, installed, it shows in "plugins" and "view""toolbar" and I also have a nice icon. I draw one curve, a second and a third, I click on icon EEbR (I just downloaded v2.1) and the msg. at the bottom displays to click on profile curve, I do, askes to click on 1st rail, I do, askes to click on 2nd rail, I do and finally it askes to click on melding profile (profile curve), I do. Then it ask few questions like do I want reverse 1st rail, do I want reverse faces and etc. . Once it's done IT DOES NOTHING it only shows some crosses on my profile curve. So I read the whole topic and msgs over and oaver again, reinstalled it, I even downloaded TIGs example on page 6 (seems like the same problem as "dicoy88" pg. 6) and it would not work... anyone know why?
                          thanks
                          Oh, and I have a SU v6

                          An update is due out shortly, so this might resolve it...
                          I'm still unsure why this is happening to a small handful of users - I can't reproduce it at my end - can you PM me an example problem SKP with the curves etc and perhaps so text added to them to show the order of picking the [1/2/3/4] ?

                          TIG

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                          • mitcorbM Offline
                            mitcorb
                            last edited by

                            Could this condition be related to another author's plugin that somehow preconditions the session? Or is this just farfetched?

                            I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                            • TIGT Offline
                              TIG Moderator
                              last edited by

                              @mitcorb said:

                              Could this condition be related to another author's plugin that somehow preconditions the session? Or is this just farfetched?

                              Thanks for the idea, but I don't think it's a clash - EEbyRails has no 'global variables' etc...

                              TIG

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                              • thomthomT Offline
                                thomthom
                                last edited by

                                Could it be some plugin modifying one of the base classes..?

                                Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                • C Offline
                                  cmoreink
                                  last edited by

                                  I'll be waiting for a new updated version, till then I'll work on trying to figure out what is the problem.

                                  my portfolio

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                                  • L Offline
                                    layyhkl
                                    last edited by

                                    thank

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                                    • J Offline
                                      Jim
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi TIG, FYI.

                                      extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;161; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
                                      extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;164; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
                                      extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;172; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
                                      extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;210; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
                                      extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;220; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
                                      extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;230; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
                                      extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;243; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
                                      extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;245; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
                                      extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;626; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
                                      extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;628; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
                                      extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;663; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
                                      extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;669; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
                                      extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;689; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
                                      extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;708; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
                                      extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;710; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
                                      extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;736; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
                                      

                                      Hi

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                                      • TIGT Offline
                                        TIG Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        @jim said:

                                        Hi TIG, FYI.

                                        extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;161; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
                                        > etc
                                        

                                        Thanks
                                        It's already fixed in new versions... out soon
                                        x=db"text"
                                        becomes
                                        x=(db("text"))
                                        etc...

                                        TIG

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                                        • TIGT Offline
                                          TIG Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          Here's v2.2 with various minor glitch fixes and a new combined Toolbar with other Extrusion Tools...
                                          http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=201286#p201286

                                          TIG

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                                          • D Offline
                                            driven
                                            last edited by

                                            hi TIG,

                                            thanks again,

                                            EEbyR and EEbyV don't work out of the plugins menu, but do from toolbar buttons

                                            EEbyR's toobar image is blank once EEbyV is loaded, but both work

                                            EEbyV looks really useful, but what is 'extrude by sweep' mentioned in the ruby text?

                                            john
                                            EDIT just combined the the 3 Tig folder's and I have all three working icon/buttons, but still no functionality from plugin folder, so can I just comment them out of there.

                                            learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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