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    • N Offline
      NewOne
      last edited by

      @whaat said:

      @unknownuser said:

      1. A request. When performing a Cut - it is sometimes desirable to KEEP the geometry that is acting as the edge for the cut. eg Trimming Steel Beams 1 and 2 with Wall 1.
        Sometimes I'd like to keep Wall 1 after the operation.
        Could this be built in - eg with an option dialog ??? Would be very handy.

      I anticipated this request and tried hard to get this to work for this version but it was too buggy. My idea was that you could hold down the CNTL modifier key while selecting if you want to keep the cutting geometry. Hopefully, I can get it to work for the next version. There is a fairly easy workaround though:

      1. Select the 'cutting' group and press CNTL+C to copy. You can actually select the group by hovering your mouse over the cutting group while you have the 'Difference' tool active.
      2. Perform the cut with BoolTools
      3. Choose 'paste-in-place' to get the cutting group back. (a shortcut-key would come in handy here...)

      Hope this helps!

      Can you make that just the intersection to be deleted when cutting? Just the part of steel beam/or wall that is common to be deleted ?In AutoCAD the substracted object is deleted. It lets behind a gap in the other one. This tool can be better 😄

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      • C Offline
        Coronel
        last edited by

        Great tutorial, thanks
        drillsB&D.jpg

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        • B Offline
          blah238
          last edited by

          Does this work in SketchUp 8?

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          • GaieusG Offline
            Gaieus
            last edited by

            @blah238 said:

            Does this work in SketchUp 8?

            Yes, although for SU 8 Pro, with the introduction of Solid tools, it has become sort of obsolete.
            Yet for those with SU Free, it is still cheaper than buying Pro of course.

            Gai...

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              tfdesign
              last edited by

              If you can get it to work that is. I couldn't get mine to work. 😞

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                This plugin or SU8?

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

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                • GaieusG Offline
                  Gaieus
                  last edited by

                  Or the solid tools?

                  Gai...

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                    Whaat
                    last edited by

                    BoolTools relies on the model.raytest method which is buggy in SU8. Therefore, I would not recommend using it with SU8 until that bug is fixed.

                    SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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                      tfdesign
                      last edited by

                      @thomthom said:

                      This plugin or SU8?

                      The former.

                      My book "Let's SketchUp!" Download from here

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                        FelixPQ
                        last edited by

                        Hi,
                        I just got your tool and though it work fine for most of the tests I've done, there seem to be a problem with subtraction when my second group is made of compound curves (see file below), the face of the first group remains untouched. I made it work by first doing an intersect and subtracting again and still I have to remove one face that remain but at east I get what I want. I have a similar problem with a tube that I try to "cut" at an angle, the inner cylinder is there (x-ray) but a face hides it, again I have to do it in a few steps to get the result I want.

                        Maybe this will help you resolve this kind of problem with a later revision.

                        Thanks for a still great tool, the alternative is far worst.
                        Felix


                        Sample

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          @felixpq said:

                          Maybe this will help you resolve this kind of problem with a later revision.

                          I see you have notied in your profile that you have SU8 - have you tried your model with SU's own Solid Tools?

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

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                            FelixPQ
                            last edited by

                            Hi,

                            no I don't have SU8 pro, just the free version and I have SU7 as well. Is it relevant?

                            I forgot to mention that the same object (curve one) without the raise tip works perfectly, sorry.

                            %(#0040FF)[I think the problem was on my part or some incompatibility with other tools I used to create the shape I wanted to remove.

                            I tried another way, a simple (follow me)on a curve path with the raise tip again and this time it worked perfectly like one would expect. Maybe you will want to know the tools I use in the first trial if you need to know. Thanks again. I didn't find a solution for the tube though.]

                            Thanks,
                            Felix

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                            • GaieusG Offline
                              Gaieus
                              last edited by

                              Felix,

                              On one hand there is definitely some scale issue with your model. SU does not feel comfortable with extremely tiny faces (whose edges are about 1/16" or so).

                              On the other hand, even though I scaled up your model, I still had some issues I got the "best" results at 100X (or 1000x?) scale.

                              Gai...

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                              • bagateloB Offline
                                bagatelo
                                last edited by

                                Who cares about BoolTools if we have Sketchup8 and SolidTolls?
                                Booltools are good plugin. I never denied this.
                                Maybe I am mistaken, but if today we have "SolidTools" and "BoolTools", perhaps this is because me.

                                http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=14217

                                While the cat's away, the mice will play

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                                • GaieusG Offline
                                  Gaieus
                                  last edited by

                                  Well, the price of a SU Pro license and that of Bool Tools are still different. True that for Pro users, it may be obsolete now but some free users may still find it useful (and it was surely a great tool when there were no Solid Tools in SU!)

                                  Gai...

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                                    voman0100
                                    last edited by

                                    🎉 Oop, somebody help me, when I tried to work with Booltool in SU7, it worked normally but in SU8 (the taskbar of booltool in SU8 has shown on the screen but all are grey (disable), and I can't do anything with that) :< thanks u very much.

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                                      boostabeats
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi All,

                                      Just hoping someone may help.

                                      I've purchased and downloaded BoolTools and copied booltools.rbs and the BoolTools Folder to my plugins folder.

                                      Upon starting sketchup I get this load error...
                                      Error Loading File /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/Plugins/booltools
                                      no such file to load -- /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/Plugins/booltools

                                      I've attached a pic of the plugin path.

                                      Thank you kindly!


                                      Plugins Path.png

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                                        Whaat
                                        last edited by

                                        @boostabeats said:

                                        Hi All,

                                        Just hoping someone may help.

                                        I've purchased and downloaded BoolTools and copied booltools.rbs and the BoolTools Folder to my plugins folder.

                                        Upon starting sketchup I get this load error...
                                        Error Loading File /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/Plugins/booltools
                                        no such file to load -- /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/Plugins/booltools

                                        I've attached a pic of the plugin path.

                                        Thank you kindly!

                                        Hello,

                                        Your installation looks good. Do you have the toolbar icons located within the BoolTools folder?

                                        SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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                                        • TIGT Offline
                                          TIG Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          Is this 'Plugins' folder in the 'root' [Macinstosh HD] Library path ?
                                          If NOT it should be.
                                          If it is [or any other scripts are] in your 'User' Library path - they should NOT be moved...
                                          😲

                                          TIG

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                                            boostabeats
                                            last edited by

                                            Thanks for the replies Whaat & TIG, I appreciate it!

                                            I do have the 3 toolbar gifs in the BoolTools folder, and the path is in the main library, MBP SSD is my boot drive.

                                            I have installed BoolTools on a PC to check, and it works perfectly, I just can't get it to work on my Mac.

                                            I thought it may be because the extension is missing in the file sketchup is trying to load??? As I can't find a 'booltools' file, only 'booltools.rbs'??? I really know nothing about Ruby scripts sorry!

                                            More info too I should have included... I'm on OSX 10.6.8 on a mid 2009 (Intel) Mac Book Pro. Hope this helps close in on the problem.

                                            Cheers again!

                                            edit... I've just realised that booltools plugin does actually seem to be working, (the tool bar was hidden behind another), I assumed it wasn't working at all after the load error.
                                            So, the plugin appears to be fully functioning but I still get the load error every time Sketchup launches?

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