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    • B Offline
      Bertier
      last edited by

      working but :

      CoG Report File:
      'F:\neo batitrad\Bar & Ka/console_CofG_Report.csv'
      Cannot be written - it's probably already open.
      Close it and try making the Report again...
      Exiting.
      nil

      and it's not open, cause it's not written yet !

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      • TIGT Offline
        TIG Moderator
        last edited by

        @bertier said:

        working but :
        CoG Report File:
        'F:\neo batitrad\Bar & Ka/console_CofG_Report.csv'
        Cannot be written - it's probably already open.
        Close it and try making the Report again...
        Exiting.
        nil
        and it's not open, cause it's not written yet !

        Try renaming the folder 'Bar & Ka' to 'Bar_Ka' - The '&' in the file_path might be the culprit ?
        Also is your model SKP really called 'console.skp' ?
        Try the version 1.2 which has more error messages, that might report what is really up...
        http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=278046#p278046

        TIG

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        • TIGT Offline
          TIG Moderator
          last edited by

          Here's v1.2 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=278046#p278046
          with some extra error reporting to try and trap Bertier's reported cryptic error messages...

          TIG

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          • B Offline
            Bertier
            last edited by

            thank you TIG

            I'll try this tonite, got to get the kids at their grand parents now.

            where are you from ?

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            • Rich O BrienR Offline
              Rich O Brien Moderator
              last edited by

              It's a secret but there's a clue in his profile 😉

              Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp 📖

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              • pilouP Offline
                pilou
                last edited by

                If accents are forbidden, that is very annoyous for French Windows System 😲
                Because there is an accent for the principal Desk and for some of path! !!! 😮
                C:\Documents and Settings\Propriétaire\Bureau

                PS I have not the use of this plug, but it's by curiosity 😄

                Of course now I obtain nothing 😄
                except this 😄 (i have saved my object with Cof as Untitled.skp
                curious is the "/" and ""

                cofgreporter
                No such file or directory - C;\Documents and Settings\Propriétaire\Bureau/Untitled_CofG_Report.csv
                CoG Report File;
                'C;\Documents and Settings\Propriétaire\Bureau/Untitled_CofG_Report.csv'
                Cannot be written - it's probably already open.
                Close it and try making the Report again...
                Exiting.
                nil
                

                Edit: That works when I use a path without accent for save my file! 😎 👍
                cvs.png

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

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  The Unicode paradox is an annoying bit of Sketchup's Ruby - some of the 'File' functions don't work properly if there are accented characters etc in path_names etc... Sorry!
                  At least we know the cause of the problem...
                  The \ / is also from the same methods when you get the filepath on a PC it has \ separators [/ on MAC], when you join on the new file_name it's always with the as the ;joining; separator / - but it still works OK... 😒

                  TIG

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                  • B Offline
                    Bertier
                    last edited by

                    there is no accent in my path ....

                    cofgreporter
                    undefined method `definition' for #Sketchup::Group:0xe005344
                    CoG Report File:
                    'F:\neo batitrad\Bar_Ka/console_CofG_Report.csv'
                    Cannot be written - it's probably already open.
                    Close it and try making the Report again...
                    Exiting.
                    nil

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                    • pilouP Offline
                      pilou
                      last edited by

                      Have you save your file SKp in the samme path?

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

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                      • TIGT Offline
                        TIG Moderator
                        last edited by

                        Bertier
                        Did you install v1.2
                        Although it might still fail you should get more error messages... 😕

                        TIG

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                        • TIGT Offline
                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by

                          Heres's v1.3 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=278046#p278046
                          It corrects the glitch that a few users might get with 'group.definition' - OK if you have some of my other tools installed but not this one alone - now sorted...
                          Please try and report back... 😕

                          TIG

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                          • B Offline
                            Bertier
                            last edited by

                            hooray !

                            it's working :

                            cofgreporter
                            CofG Report written to
                            'F:\neo batitrad\Bar_Ka/console_CofG_Report.csv'
                            nil

                            nice.

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                            • B Offline
                              Bertier
                              last edited by

                              for some reason, using CoG makes SU "not responding"....

                              any clues ?

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                              • TIGT Offline
                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by

                                @bertier said:

                                for some reason, using CoG makes SU "not responding"....
                                any clues ?

                                There's a lot of intensive stuff needed to 'integrate' possibly hundreds of slices through the selected object and find their common centroids...
                                You should get a 'count-down' 'nnn of mmm' report in the VCB and then a '...processing ......' ?
                                It will finish eventually...

                                TIG

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                                • K Offline
                                  ksjoern
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi, this is a very interesting plugin. I'm going to try it.
                                  Two things struck me.
                                  Knips 2011-09-23 um 09.23.18.png

                                  1st The rounding of numbers (but this is something I can work with ... )
                                  2nd Hollow objects (pipes, etc.) are calculated as full volumes.

                                  Knips 2011-09-23 um 10.09.14.png

                                  Can this be repaired with the hollow objects? That would be great.

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                                  • TIGT Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    You can edit the number of dp's in the code - in the lines around the first half of the 300s...
                                    I'm unsure about your comment - objects that are individual 'solids' are reported correctly - even when there are hollows. However, if you combine objects into a group it will by its nature cease to be a true manifold solid as there are internal 'partitions' - therefore sometimes the volume calculations can be awry. You should take the CofG of the parts and then make a combined CofG - this is also important if the parts have different densities...
                                    Can you supply an example where manifold solid objects are returning incorrect values.Capture.PNG
                                    This one returns proper results even if the two groups are nested into one, as the 'slices' needed to calculate the CoG are maintained - but it is not always possible...

                                    TIG

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                                    • K Offline
                                      KK279 Newcomers
                                      last edited by

                                      I installed this plug in today but it does not appear on any of the SketcUp 2023 menus. How do I get a report?

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                                      • TIGT Offline
                                        TIG Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        Read the first post in this thread...

                                        @unknownuser said:

                                        Usage:
                                        Use this after adding some CofG's [i.e. 'Center of Gravity' tags]
                                        Type 'cofgreporter' in the Ruby Console.
                                        If the Model SKP is new and has not yet been saved you will get an error.
                                        If there are no CofG's to Report you will get an error.
                                        If the destination CofG Report cannot be written -
                                        e.g. it's already open in Excel - you will get an error.
                                        Otherwise a CofG Report is written into the Model's folder.
                                        It is named to match the Model -
                                        e.g. 'MyModel.skp' and 'MyModel_CofG_Report.csv'
                                        A '.csv' file can be opened in Excel etc.
                                        Link the .csv into a pre-formated .xls file with additional 'sums' etc, so
                                        that it auto-updates.
                                        It is sorted alphanumerically and reports
                                        'ID' 'Weight' 'Volume' - the final two are in the units used in the CofG's.
                                        The 'ID' is the CofG name-tag based on the original Instance's name, but
                                        remember that you might have adjusted this in the dialogs during the making
                                        of the CofG's - i.e. it is as displayed in the CofG's text-tag, not
                                        necessarily the Instance's name.

                                        TIG

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