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    • Chris FullmerC Offline
      Chris Fullmer
      last edited by

      Hmm, do you have component spray installed? If so, please update. There was a version that was around for a while that caused problems.

      If that does not work, please verify that you have the files in the right places. In the plugins folder you should have a file called clf_shape_bender_loader.rb and a folder called clf_shape_bender. All other shape bender files (another .rb file and a bunch of icons) should go inside the clf_shape_bender folder.

      So I guess verify those two things. If you do have the most current version of component spray instlled (please actually do re-download and install it again) and you do have your file structure set up correctly, then come back and we'll keep trying things.

      Chris

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      • Y Offline
        yna
        last edited by

        im having problems with the plug in. in the video after i click both the curved line and the straight line the red highlight appeared but the green diddnt and when i pressed enter, nothing happened. what did i do wrong? please help me

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        • Chris FullmerC Offline
          Chris Fullmer
          last edited by

          The red and green highlight will not always appear at the same time. So if you get the red highlight, then you're doing pretty good - better than most who have initial problems with the script.

          It could be that the thing you are trying to bend is too complex. Test it with a simple box or something. That should bend instantly. If that works, then you might just need more patience. If the box does not work, and it still hangs on the red/green highlight, then there might be bigger problems. If that is the case, please open the Ruby console (from the Windows menu). Then try running the plugin. It will probably write errors to the ruby console. Please copy and paste ALL of those errors back here. I'll dig through them and see what I can see. Thanks,

          Chris

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          • Y Offline
            yna
            last edited by

            i tried using it with a less complex shape and it did work. thank you. amazing plugin!!

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            • Chris FullmerC Offline
              Chris Fullmer
              last edited by

              Great! Now it should also work with complex groups. It just might take more time. I've run some shapes that took 3 hours to bend (it was a fairly detailed corvette model). So once you know its working, you can start experiemneting with more complex shapes. Kust let it run until its done.

              Thanks for trying the plugin,

              Chris

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              • charly2008C Offline
                charly2008
                last edited by

                Hi Chris,

                i have a Question. How can i control to get a exact Half circle. Please have look at the Image below. Thanks in advance.

                Charly


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                Half Pipe.skp

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                • charly2008C Offline
                  charly2008
                  last edited by

                  Sorry,

                  the problem is solved. There was a difference in the length between the model and the line.

                  Charly


                  Unbenannt.JPG

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                  • T Offline
                    THX-1138
                    last edited by

                    Love this, though it's grovelling over my screw threads. 😄

                    One thing, though. My desktop lost power during the final stage (after pressing 'enter'), and when I restarted Sketchup I chose to recover from the last autosave. Unfortunately, the shape-bending context didn't save gracefully (shape to bend had weird alterations, there were multiple 'start'/'end' markers, etc.) and I had to throw things out and re-load from the last manual save.

                    I don't know if SU provides a mechanism for plugins to be notified when a save is about to happen, but if so I think there's room for some fixes there.

                    How often do you lose power, though..

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                    • Chris FullmerC Offline
                      Chris Fullmer
                      last edited by

                      Hehe, sorry about that. That is the unfortunate nature of plugins. And this one in particular is doing a LOT of stuff behind the scenes. If it gets interupted in the middle of processing, crazy things happen. Normally one can just undo them, but if power is lost simultaneously, that can cause trouble.

                      Hope you were able to get your file up and running again.

                      Chris

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                      • atelierpaarA Offline
                        atelierpaar
                        last edited by

                        Hi Chris,
                        I just came across your shapebender-tool.
                        It works great - so I thought i might try If the things would also work on Reverse - Why this ?
                        Well, I got a historic church here that has curved Walls with curved Windows.
                        In order to renew the Windows frameconstruction, I am planing to take a 3D Laserscan of the exsisting construction, than reconstruct the Windowframing using the point-Cloud. Once that is done, It would be of great help to stretch the curved Geometry onto a Flat plane in order to produce the Frameparts by use of a Lasercutter.

                        Do You think that would be possible?
                        Uli

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                        • charly2008C Offline
                          charly2008
                          last edited by

                          Hi Chris,

                          I was not sure whether I have the latest version, I installed the plugin again (Sketchup 7.1.6087). The file structure is as it should be. The compo_spray I removed, but did not help. Before I had no problem with the plugin as you can see in the post above. Now I get this error message.

                          Charly


                          Unbenannt.JPG

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                          • TIGT Offline
                            TIG Moderator
                            last edited by

                            The error message seems to relate to a missing 'menu' definition, that then can't have an 'item' added to it.
                            Can you type the following in turn into the Ruby Console, and post the results...

                            $submenu
                            then
                            $clf_tools_menu
                            then
                            $clf_youtube_menu

                            This should then tell us what's missing/malfunctioning...

                            TIG

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                            • Chris FullmerC Offline
                              Chris Fullmer
                              last edited by

                              @atelierpaar said:

                              Hi Chris,
                              I just came across your shapebender-tool.
                              It works great - so I thought i might try If the things would also work on Reverse - Why this ?
                              Well, I got a historic church here that has curved Walls with curved Windows.
                              In order to renew the Windows frameconstruction, I am planing to take a 3D Laserscan of the exsisting construction, than reconstruct the Windowframing using the point-Cloud. Once that is done, It would be of great help to stretch the curved Geometry onto a Flat plane in order to produce the Frameparts by use of a Lasercutter.

                              Do You think that would be possible?
                              Uli

                              Hi Uli, that would be interseting, but at this point, the script does not do that. I'm not sure if there is some way you could make it do that with by bending to an arc that is exactly opposite of the original curve. That might be possible. But for now, the script was not built to do that natively. Sorry, but good luck.

                              Chris

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                              • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                Chris Fullmer
                                last edited by

                                @Charly, that is odd. Do what TIG shows there. You might even just try re-downloading and installing it again. Perhaps the file itself got messed up.

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                                • charly2008C Offline
                                  charly2008
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi Chris, hi TIG,

                                  I have only just come home. Here's the result:


                                  Unbenannt.JPG

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                                  • TIGT Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    So it's returning nil because you don't have RickW's Smustard menu added - OK and shouldn't cause aprobelm...
                                    You do have the clf's tools menu loaded - Good.
                                    BUT you don't have clf's youtube menu loading... Strange...
                                    This could be the problem - it loads from clf's component_stringer / camera_recorder / shape_bender / voodoo_importer
                                    Try checking you have those...

                                    Chris ❓

                                    TIG

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                                    • charly2008C Offline
                                      charly2008
                                      last edited by

                                      I'm a little bit confused. That are all the Plugins i have in a PDF-File.

                                      Charly


                                      DirPrintOK Document 8 Seite(n).pdf

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                                      • TIGT Offline
                                        TIG Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        So... Chris's tools fall over because one of them hasn't already loaded 'some other menu' when it thinks it has...
                                        Here's a [possible] simple fix... put it into the correct sub-folder...
                                        clf_shape_bender.rb
                                        Chris can sort it 'properly' later... 😒

                                        TIG

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                                        • charly2008C Offline
                                          charly2008
                                          last edited by

                                          Many thanks TIG. I tried the Shape Bender plugin in SketchUp 8 there it works fine. and now with your update it works again in Sketchup 7.

                                          Charly

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                                          • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                            Chris Fullmer
                                            last edited by

                                            Hey TIG, thanks for looking into it. I am without a computer at home for now, so I'm mostly useless. But what was the problem you found? I was able to load shape bender just fine without having any of my other plugins loaded. Did I mess something up in my overly complicated menu system?

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