[Plugin] Zorro2 (beta)

osse · 19 May 2010, 13:30

thank's a lot!!
just found this amazing plugin, i have to make a final presentation for my project and it has to be ready in 2 weeks!
this just saved me 2 days of work!!!
amazing plugin!

evp234 · 27 May 2010, 10:33

can somebody please send me the link download the zorro.2.o plugin for mac?
thankyou vanessa

tsemrud · 28 May 2010, 19:19

This forum came up when I was searching about bug splats related to exploding components. I found a solution to the bug splats I was getting with my own plugin and maybe it will help diagnose the problems people are having on this forum.

Assume the following component structure:

Component_A

Component_AA
Component_AB
Component_AC

I was exploding from the top down with a recursive function, so I would explode Component_A, using ComponentInstance.explode which returns an entities object containing what was the component before I exploded it. I would then loop through that entities object and continue exploding any component instances I found. When I'd try and explode the first child (Component_AA) I would bug splat.
I found that it had to do with an entities observer that I had at the model level (which was my only entities observer). Once I got rid of the observer my code started working fine; no more bug splats!

So maybe Zorro2 or some other plugin on the computer of people who are experiencing bug splats is using an Entities Observer.
Hopefully this helps someone out there and hopefully this was the right place to post this.

pilou · 28 May 2010, 21:28

Maybe you must start a thread about that on the section Developpers' forum

nickdk · 8 Jun 2010, 12:03

I have problems as well, I have managed to cut my model after exploding everything and then making one big group, then it does the slicing but it doesn't delete anything afterwards? it's like it only creates an intersect with model line at the section plane?

pogo_2u · 11 Jun 2010, 21:39

Hi there,
I am trying to download the Zorro2 software, however I am just getting a text edit file. Is it compatible with Macs?

thanks a bunch

pogo_2u · 11 Jun 2010, 21:57

I am a mac user and I am trying to download Zorro2 for a building section. However when I open the download it's giving me a 'text edit' file. Which I can't save in my plug ins folder.
Help please!!
Thanks a bunch

Oxer · 13 Jun 2010, 03:12

@pogo_2u said:

I am a mac user and I am trying to download Zorro2 for a building section. However when I open the download it's giving me a 'text edit' file. Which I can't save in my plug ins folder.
Help please!!
Thanks a bunch

Hello!

I'm mac user too, generally when you download a ruby file (.rb extension) from Safari the program add .txt extension to the file, you must delete the .txt extension to the file and to leave the filename so: Zorro2.rb
Example: *******.rb.txt (delete the last extension .txt) >> ********.rb
Then, place the Zorro2.rb in your plugins folder of SU, perhaps OSX ask you for permissions to copy the file in the plugins folder, enter your user password and OK.

I hope that help you, Bye!

pogo_2u · 15 Jun 2010, 02:53

When I click to download it, it is opening in text edit, so I re-save to my plugins folder with the .rb extension and it isn't showing up. Should I be saving differently? I really can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks for your help so far!

Hello!

I'm mac user too, generally when you download a ruby file (.rb extension) from Safari the program add .txt extension to the file, you must delete the .txt extension to the file and to leave the filename so: Zorro2.rb
Example: *******.rb.txt (delete the last extension .txt) >> ********.rb
Then, place the Zorro2.rb in your plugins folder of SU, perhaps OSX ask you for permissions to copy the file in the plugins folder, enter your user password and OK.

I hope that help you, Bye![/quote]

kwalkerman · 1 Oct 2010, 15:17

Awesome plugin. Works great with the section plane and with the straight zorro tool.

I was getting bugsplats when I used the section plane (on very simple models). De-activated another plugin (openstudio), and now it works fine.

--
Karen

Ph33r1es5 · 18 Oct 2010, 04:01

Kool, this will help me get a good section for my assignment

TIG · 18 Oct 2010, 07:49

@kwalkerman said:

Awesome plugin. Works great with the section plane and with the straight zorro tool.
I was getting bugsplats when I used the section plane (on very simple models). De-activated another plugin (openstudio), and now it works fine.

Karen

Also when using any tool that changes the models entities with instances you need the Outliner to be closed or at least rolled-up - otherwise a known bug in SUp can cause it to crash...

DavidBoulder · 25 Oct 2010, 21:44

TIG, is this working on SU 8? I'm getting crashes on XP without any other plugins installed.

TIG · 25 Oct 2010, 22:02

Works OK for me with the Outliner closed ?

DavidBoulder · 25 Oct 2010, 22:30

No dialogs open (including Outliner). I even tried disabling Dynamic Components, Sandbox Tools, Solar North, and Photo Textures.

I'll try again tomorrow after a fresh restart. By the way, same results on SU7.

Split at section cut seems to work. Just cut tool that crashes.

TIG · 25 Oct 2010, 22:45

Ruby Console Messages ???

DavidBoulder · 26 Oct 2010, 14:34

No ruby console messages before the crash, but I realized that I wasn't using it correctly. When I used the cut tool I was picking points at the edge of a cube, and I thought I had to pick 3 to define a plane, vs. just two. So here is how I made it crash.

draw a rectangle and extrude to a box
select the Zorro tool
click on one of the top edges of the box
next click on the opposing side
now click on the same point as above
and last, click on the bottom edge on the same side of the box

This crashes it for me. I have a screen shot of what it looks like before the click that causes the crash. There doesn't seem to be anything special about where on the edge of the box I draw my cut lines for the crash to occur. When I use to tool as intended, single cut line beyond the geometry, then everything works fine.

By the way, what would be really cool new feature for Zorro for me is to have the "slide model at section" create separate groups out of the trimmed parts vs. throwing them away. Could have the new groups named something like "mygroupname_cut". An extra cool feature would be to create the plane at the cutting edge so the new groups are still solid. This would kind of be the anti-outer shell, allowing you to split a volume into two. Even with SketchUp Pro this would still be a useful tool. Right now I can't draw a section plane and split into two groups. I have to create a big box to use as a cutting volume, vs. a more simple cutting plane.

sir.sanio · 29 Nov 2010, 20:54

@maritozo said:

I'm doing it just as the tutorial says
first "add section cut face"
and the "slice model at section"
but even though my model doesn't have any groups, when it is cutting "group #n (29 or 31 most of the times)" the sketch up crashes
i've got a deadline in college, really need this to work out!
anyone can help?
thanks!

Same problem here! Can anyone help?

Best regards,

Sanio

sir.sanio · 29 Nov 2010, 21:29

@chimbalo said:

After a few hours I figure it out how to fix the bug splat, I have a heavy model, every time that I started using the slice tool my model crashed up, I tryed exploding the model, chainging to newer sketch up, etc etc etc. At the end I took all the model and grouped up whith out the cuting plane, after I slice it, and was the solution for the problem, now it doesn't matter how heavy is the file, the plug in ,work fine. sorry for my bad english, I hope is useful for you.

Thank You, Sir!
That worked for me!!
Best regards,
Sanio

JHearne · 1 Dec 2010, 20:44

Hi there!

I just downloaded your Zorro2 plugin, I don't have a clue how to install it on my computer! Any advice?