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  • T Offline
    TIG Moderator
    last edited by 18 Jan 2010, 11:27

    @thomthom said:

    @whaat said:

    @mikeewilly said:

    Profile Libraries
    I know this may be a touchy subject and I'm not asking for a Library Viewer, but is there a recommended way of documenting what each profile looks like in a library to make it easy for me to find one pseudo-quickly. This is most important when I sitting with a customer trying to quickly sketch out their vision.
    Thanks for the help,
    Mike

    Hi Mike,
    All i can really suggest is to use a long descriptive name for the profile name and make use of the 'favourites' library. Obviously, this will make it much easier to find the profile you are looking for. (Sorry if this isn't the kind of answer you were hoping for...) πŸ˜„

    What's the format the profiles are saved in?
    I was thinking, is it isn't scrambled, then it wouldn't be too hard to write a little snippet that recreates the profiles as faces in SU which then can be printed....

    The data is stored in .plb files in C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 7\Plugins\ProfileBuilder\Libraries\, and it is in the format
    SQ0.25x0.25 0.0 0.0 0.25 0.0 0.25 0.25 0.0 0.25 SQ0.5x0.5 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.5
    ...this above is from the 'built-in' Squares Imperial.plb and is for a 1/4" square, 1/2" square, etc
    It is a line-by-line space separated data set, the first part is the profile's name [for the first one here it's SQ0.25x0.25] and the remainder are paired values that make 2D points, and are used to make the shape, always set off from the first one that's 0,0...
    When you make a custom profile it lists the vertices as 2D points starting at [0,0]...
    Any new profile you make can be saved into any current profile .plb library or Favorites.plb [you can make as many .plb files as you like with ...Create New option] - a new profile's name always has spaces stripped out [so 'My Profile 1' becomes 'MyProfile1'] to avoid confusion in the data structure...
    So it would be relatively easy to read the .plb files, a line at a time and get the profile's name and its points, [converted to 3d by adding a third item to the array as 0], then use those to make a face inside a group and move that group about on the screen to miss any others by their b'boxes and place a text-tag in the center of it giving the .plb_name+profile+name, repeat for all profiles in the .plb - finally take a .png of the screen, named after the .plb etc and repeat for other plb's...
    Over to you thomthom... πŸ˜‰

    TIG

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    • B Offline
      bagatelo
      last edited by 19 Jan 2010, 23:39

      If can be possible to scaleup or scaledown the profiles stored on the library....
      And to create and set layer by profile name...
      And... if the plugin can set material for profile, maybe this data can be stored on profiles.
      this maybe make me smile.

      While the cat's away, the mice will play

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      • B Offline
        bagatelo
        last edited by 23 Jan 2010, 14:51

        Is it possible to access and to use the tools of great Dale Martens for other scripts, enlarging Google Sketchup's API or something like this?

        While the cat's away, the mice will play

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          slugore
          last edited by 16 Mar 2010, 14:17

          I love this plug-in! As soon as I saw the video I had to buy it.
          One question that I think hasn't been answered (and forgive me if it has been) has to do with adding textures to a profile.
          I created a wall profile that was then used to create several walls(Placement Point: Bottom Left). When I try to add a texture that has a definite vertical orientation, it seems to rotate the texture to the horizontal(in direction of extrusion). Exploding the group and then adding the texture seems to work but adds a few extra steps that I would rather not take. Is there something that I am missing? Or is this a Sketchup thing? (Follow me appears to keep the orientation right BTW.)
          Thanks in advance.

          http://slugisdoug.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/pbwallssmall.jpg

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            boofredlay
            last edited by 16 Apr 2010, 04:36

            Thanks again for this one Dale, it saved my butt tonight.

            http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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              gtalarico
              last edited by 30 Nov 2010, 08:04

              Crashed SU 8...
              Has anyone been able to "edit path" on SU 8?

              Cheers

              -Gui

              http://www.gtalarico.com

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              • T Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by 30 Nov 2010, 08:30

                @gtalarico said:

                Crashed SU 8...
                Has anyone been able to "edit path" on SU 8?

                Cheers

                hm... I've used PB in SU8 - but I just realised I haven't edited a path yet - as it just crashed on me when I tried it.

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

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                  gtalarico
                  last edited by 30 Nov 2010, 19:52

                  I guess whaat is aware of it:

                  File Not Found

                  favicon

                  (www.smustard.com)

                  -Gui

                  http://www.gtalarico.com

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                    Whaat
                    last edited by 1 Dec 2010, 18:11

                    @thomthom said:

                    @gtalarico said:

                    Crashed SU 8...
                    Has anyone been able to "edit path" on SU 8?

                    Cheers

                    hm... I've used PB in SU8 - but I just realised I haven't edited a path yet - as it just crashed on me when I tried it.

                    Yes, this bug has been reported awhile ago to the SketchUp team. I need to check with them to see if it will be fixed in the next update.

                    SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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                      thomthom
                      last edited by 1 Dec 2010, 18:25

                      You know what caused it?

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

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                        Dsmelcer1234
                        last edited by 2 Jan 2011, 21:58

                        Any update on the su8 edit path bug?

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                          gtalarico
                          last edited by 20 Jan 2011, 20:32

                          According to someone on Smustard, SU maintenance patch 8.0.4811 for sketchup fixes the bug:
                          http://www.smustard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=70

                          -Gui

                          http://www.gtalarico.com

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                            thomthom
                            last edited by 20 Jan 2011, 20:57

                            Yup! πŸ˜„

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

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                            • MarianM Offline
                              Marian
                              last edited by 21 Jan 2011, 16:03

                              I'm having a problem with Profile builder. I can't access any of the profile libraries even though they're correctly located.


                              pb1.jpg


                              pb2.jpg

                              http://marian87.deviantart.com/

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                                Whaat
                                last edited by 10 Feb 2011, 18:44

                                Hi Marian,

                                Sorry about the wait. Do you have a file in your ProfileBuilder directory called 'profile_libraries.txt'? If so, what is in this file? It might be pointing to another folder.

                                It looks like you have your profile libaries in the right place... Did you have it working in a previous version of SketchUp? Has it ever worked for you?

                                Cheers,
                                Dale

                                SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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                                • MarianM Offline
                                  Marian
                                  last edited by 10 Feb 2011, 20:49

                                  Hi Dale, Thanks for replying.

                                  @whaat said:

                                  Do you have a file in your ProfileBuilder directory called 'profile_libraries.txt'?

                                  No, there's no file like that, there's one called profileBuilder which seems to be a....Cascading Style Sheet Document and that doesn't have any folder address.

                                  @whaat said:

                                  Did you have it working in a previous version of SketchUp? Has it ever worked for you?

                                  No I haven't tried it in SU6 and it never worked since I bought it a few weeks ago.

                                  http://marian87.deviantart.com/

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                                  • T Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by 11 Feb 2011, 09:39

                                    Here's what I have in my folder - it works finePBfolder.PNG

                                    TIG

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                                    • MarianM Offline
                                      Marian
                                      last edited by 11 Feb 2011, 14:31

                                      I have the same things. I don't get it.
                                      Does it have any known conflicts with some plugin?


                                      1.jpg

                                      http://marian87.deviantart.com/

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                                      • T Offline
                                        TIG Moderator
                                        last edited by 11 Feb 2011, 14:52

                                        Can you open the Ruby Console.
                                        Then run ProfileMaker.
                                        Click on the various drop-downs and options and see what errors you get reported...
                                        Post a copy here... πŸ˜•

                                        TIG

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                                        • MarianM Offline
                                          Marian
                                          last edited by 11 Feb 2011, 15:29

                                          This is what I get.

                                          ProfileMaker
                                          Error; #<NameError; (eval);894; uninitialized constant ProfileMaker>
                                          

                                          http://marian87.deviantart.com/

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