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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      The disappearing faces seems to be related to some rouge faces with area of 0 - or close to. Some very very thing faces which throws off the calculations. I'll see if I can find time this week to find a way to deal with them.

      The co-planar faces that where not merged: I could not test these as the model you sent appear to be somewhat different that the once you posted screens off. Doesn't seem to include the faces.

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

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
        last edited by

        SketchUp considers all the edges in these troublesome faces to be all parallel to each other. I might be able to use that as a way to detect potentially troublesome faces.

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

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        • J Offline
          JPMays
          last edited by

          Oops, I must have saved over the model that was having the problems. Sorry.

          Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            Well, at least I managed to reproduce the most critical. Disappearing geometry is much worse than some bits that remain.

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

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            • J Offline
              JPMays
              last edited by

              Ok, I sent you a cleaned up version of the file, with reduced geometry (I deleted a lot to reduce file size). Still getting the same problem.

              I want to merge these two faces:

              http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/5557/14488237.jpg

              But when I select them, then go here:

              http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/4679/91470050.jpg

              I get nothing. But if I delete one edge, they become a single face, so you know they are co-planar:

              http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/4448/29294919.jpg

              Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                That's because one of them got a material applied to its backside. Tick the Ignore Materials checkbox and it'll merge them.

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

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                • J Offline
                  JPMays
                  last edited by

                  I had thought something like that might be the issue, and so I selected everything and applied a uniform material. I even did Reverse Faces to make sure everything was the same. I also used cleanup to set everything to Level 0, but still couldn't get them to merge.

                  Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    But you get them to merge when you tick Ignore Material, right?

                    Btw, I think I've trapped the case where faces disappear. Will post an update later this week.

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

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                    • J Offline
                      JPMays
                      last edited by

                      Aha, yes it worked! Thanks Thom.

                      Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

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                      • N Offline
                        nosehair
                        last edited by

                        thank you!it's very useful!

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                        • F Offline
                          firebert85
                          last edited by

                          i loaded this plugin into sketchup 8 and its not working, gives me an error message at startup and the plug in cant be found.

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                          • TIGT Offline
                            TIG Moderator
                            last edited by

                            @unknownuser said:

                            i loaded this plugin into sketchup 8 and its not working, gives me an error message at startup and the plug in cant be found.
                            We are not psychics - please post the error message. So far it suggests you have not installed things properly. Can you confirm what files were put in what folders, and the TT_Lib you installed etc...

                            TIG

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                            • utilerU Offline
                              utiler
                              last edited by

                              @tig said:

                              We are not psychics - please post the error message. So far it suggests you have not installed things properly. Can you confirm what files were put in what folders, and the TT_Lib you installed etc...

                              You sound like I feel, TIG! Bloody big weeks' work and you still get asked silly questions..... 😮

                              purpose/expression/purpose/....

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                                firebert85
                                last edited by

                                @tig said:

                                @unknownuser said:

                                i loaded this plugin into sketchup 8 and its not working, gives me an error message at startup and the plug in cant be found.
                                We are not psychics - please post the error message. So far it suggests you have not installed things properly. Can you confirm what files were put in what folders, and the TT_Lib you installed etc...

                                jesus you make it sound like its rocket science.

                                Error Loading File tt_cleanup.rb
                                no such file to load -- TT_Lib2/core.rb

                                its the one file posted on the board, and its in the google sketchup 8 plugin folder.

                                like every other plugin ive downloaded from this website.

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                                • GaieusG Offline
                                  Gaieus
                                  last edited by

                                  It seems that TIG was right and you did nt install TT_Lib (another required plugin) as suggested in the plugin post. Please, make sure that is also installed and restart SU.

                                  Gai...

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                                  • TIGT Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    The error message tells you/us what is missing...
                                    Many of the more complicated scripts have 'Libraries' of additional functions, that they sometimes share with other tools written by the same author. Many of thomthom's tools use his 'TT_Libs'...
                                    It was explained that you need this addition stuff and clearly linked in the thread from where you got the main .rb file...
                                    http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=193587#p193587 Capture.PNG

                                    TIG

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                                    • R Offline
                                      risoto1978
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi,

                                      I tried to install the cleanup ruby file on my mac. But then starting sketchup I got this error message: "no such file to load -- TT_Lib2/core.rb" but this one was not part of the download.

                                      somebody can help?

                                      Thanks
                                      risoto

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                                      • GaieusG Offline
                                        Gaieus
                                        last edited by

                                        Hi Christian (and welcome),

                                        Please, go back to the first post and follow the link to that TT_Libray (and additional plugin package) you also need for this (and some other) plugin(s) to work.

                                        Gai...

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                                        • TIGT Offline
                                          TIG Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          Christian
                                          Follow Gaieus's advice and mine in the post just before yours 😕 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=316703#p316703 that shows the link... 😒

                                          TIG

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                                          • R Offline
                                            risoto1978
                                            last edited by

                                            Thanks for the hint. Reading makes things easier. Now it works.

                                            cheers
                                            risoto

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