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    • TIGT Offline
      TIG Moderator
      last edited by

      When you say "it won't appear" I assume that you mean you can't see it in the Plugins menu ??? that's because it doesn't appear there 😒
      Like several other tools that rely on a specific 'context' to work, SectionCutFace ONLY appears as a right-click [or whatever you do on a MAC] context-menu item, and then ONLY IF you have just ONE Section-Plane selected - then that is the one that'll get the 'faces'.
      Also remember that lots of tools can appear in menus other than the Plugins one - e.g. File, Draw, Tools, Camera etc!
      As with any Ruby script please read the accompanying posts and guidance notes before using the tool...
      Note: you can simply read any .rb file by opening it in a plain-text editor and its guidance text is almost always at the start of the code...
      🤓

      TIG

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        ArkiX
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        Hi to All and really many thanks to you Tig for your great plugins!

        ....Unfortunately i have the same problem that it happens to PatD:
        Over recent years I use this your most important one (for me... ) plugin but often SketchUp goes in crash; In this moment I am on SU8 and SnowLeopard but it happened to me also with 7, etc.
        I've noticed that it's able to create the new layer, then adding the face but, after an anomalous consumption of the RAM till to use it all (4gb. .sic), he goes in crash repeatedly, even if I close layers and maintain only the walls and little more.
        it is also true that I use it on rather complex and detailed models of architecture (many groups and components and of dimension, from 10mb up…) but...
        What I can say if not ..... please, please HELP TIG!
        Thanks in advance to you and to this great forum and many salutes from Italy

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          pilou
          last edited by

          Why not use this tricky tip ?
          By Bob Pineo ☀
          [flash=480,385:3k3htox2]http://www.youtube.com/v/FfGwVwkR7yE?fs=1&hl[/flash:3k3htox2]

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

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          • TIGT Offline
            TIG Moderator
            last edited by

            That's more or less what it does - but adds faces, materials layer etc automatically... 🤓

            TIG

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              monispcaumo
              last edited by

              Hello!!!

              I need a help. I can´t donwload de plug-ins in my pc when they are rb. what i have to do?

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              • TIGT Offline
                TIG Moderator
                last edited by

                @monispcaumo said:

                Hello!!!

                I need a help. I can´t donwnload de plug-ins in my pc when they are rb. what i have to do?

                With ANY script you use Save_as... 'plugin.rb' to your normal download location.
                Read the notes in the download's page.
                Also read the notes at the start of the script itself - you can open it with Notepad.exe.
                Then put move the file[s] to the appropriate folder - in the case of 'SectionCutFace.rb' it's ../Plugins/.
                Restart Sketchup for the script to be loaded.

                I the case of 'SectionCutFace' it only becomes usable when you have just ONE section-plane selected: then it appears in the right-click context-menu... Read the instructions... 😉

                TIG

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                  crb900
                  last edited by

                  I can't install SectionCutFace plugin, can you help me please?

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                  • TIGT Offline
                    TIG Moderator
                    last edited by

                    @crb900 said:

                    I can't install SectionCutFace plugin, can you help me please?

                    No much help in your post 😒 I suspect you haven't read or understood the instructions...
                    The .rb file goes into your ../Plugins/ folder.
                    Let's assume we've sorted that step...
                    Restart SUp so it loads.
                    Now you want to run the tool...
                    Select a SectionCutPlane that you want to 'face'.
                    Do not include anything else in the selection.
                    Right-click to get the context-menu.
                    IF you have just one SectionCutPlane selected then you will get a context-menu option, near the end of the list = 'Add Section Cut Face'.
                    Pick it and it runs the tool.
                    A dialog then asks you for various settings, like color etc.
                    Click on 'OK' and the faced cut is added to the model, grouped, named, colored and layered etc as desired...

                    TIG

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      Here's v2.5 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=172583#p172583
                      '<No_Face>' option added, so you get just lines without faces.
                      'Lock Cut' option added so you can't accidentally move the group.
                      A class test replaces typename, optimizing speed.

                      TIG

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                      • B Offline
                        Ben Ritter
                        last edited by

                        Thank you TIG.

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                          ArCAD-UK
                          last edited by

                          @tig said:

                          Here's v2.5 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=172583#p172583
                          '<No_Face>' option added, so you get just lines without faces.
                          'Lock Cut' option added so you can't accidentally move the group.
                          A class test replaces typename, optimizing speed.

                          That was quick! Thanks TIG. Still looking forward to the time when S.U. lets you remove that 0.2mm offset 😉

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                            function
                            last edited by

                            poche is finally my friend
                            thanks tig! ☀

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                            • JClementsJ Offline
                              JClements
                              last edited by

                              TIG, 2.5 works fine here. Thank you.

                              POSSIBLE ENHANCEMENT:
                              A way to toggle the visibility of the the SU Section Cuts and the visibility of its SectionCutFace geometry automatically.
                              Advantage would be to eliminate the need for the user of digging into nested sections, turning on and off section plane display, selecting a different section plane, turning on and off its active mode, etc.

                              Scenario: User goes to the Outliner, searches for "CUT.", clicks on a SectionCutFace group, right-clicks for A context menu and has a choice to toggle the visibility. If the SectionCutFace geometry is visible then it is hidden (if it is locked, it is unlocked) and the SU Section Cut associated with it is no longer active and vice versa if the SectionCutFace is not visible. Possibly a warning (or a listing of other SectionCutFaces) if there is more than one SU Section Plane in the active context when activating an SU Section Cut?

                              I guess for something like this to work, there would have to be someway (when the SectionCutFace geometry is created) to associate the internal object number assign to it by SU with that of the SU Section Plane.

                              John

                              John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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                                zaibatsu
                                last edited by

                                thanks!! you just save me a lot of precious time filling the spaces in photoshop!!!

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                                  iPO2
                                  last edited by

                                  I like this plugin because it is stable 😄 had no crashes so far. Only when I tried to render with twilightrender inside SU everything rendered like a whole model without cut. Is there a possibility to render a cut model with filled faces?

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                                  • GaieusG Offline
                                    Gaieus
                                    last edited by

                                    You also need to cut the "rest" of your model away with Zorro 2 (which writes itself into the section plane context menu).

                                    Note however that it will irreversibly modify your model so always only work on a copy or make a backup before.

                                    These are Twilight renders made this way:

                                    https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_zcvsIuYiVbo/S9albKtTOwI/AAAAAAAAEBs/4Ui-2vCOve8/Bazilika_Metszet0000.jpg

                                    https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_zcvsIuYiVbo/S9albxTYWtI/AAAAAAAAEB0/AjFAo3QTj9s/Bazilika_Metszet0001_hatter.jpg

                                    https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_zcvsIuYiVbo/S9alc410jLI/AAAAAAAAEB8/h6NT0b0y_Oo/Bazilika_Metszet2_hatter.jpg

                                    Gai...

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                                      iPO2
                                      last edited by

                                      Thanks a lot,it helped me, now I'll use both plugins 💚 . It is the coolest feature in sketchup to be able to make pictures with section cuts.

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                                        cgomez73
                                        last edited by

                                        I put the file in plugin folder and shows this error:

                                        Error Loading File SectionCutFace.rb
                                        C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb:1: syntax error
                                        <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
                                        ^
                                        C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb:2: syntax error
                                        <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">
                                        ^
                                        C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb:2: syntax error
                                        <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">
                                        ^

                                        what can i do?

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                                        • TIGT Offline
                                          TIG Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          @cgomez73 said:

                                          I put the file in plugin folder and shows this error:

                                          Error Loading File SectionCutFace.rb
                                          C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb:1: syntax error
                                          <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
                                          ^
                                          C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb:2: syntax error
                                          <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">
                                          ^
                                          C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb:2: syntax error
                                          <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">

                                          what can i do?

                                          That is NOT the real file!
                                          Somewhere along the line you have saved the linking html code and not the .rb file itself 😕
                                          None of that quoted text appears in the real script's file.
                                          Have you successfully Ruby scripts before ?
                                          You should be able to click on the link OR right-click context-menu 'Save_as' and then give it a path/name.
                                          I'll PM'd you a zipped version. Download that zip file - hopefully it won't corrupt. Extract the .rb file from the zip and put the .rb file into the Plugins folder, replacing the corrupted version you have at the moment! Restart Sketchup to see if it works.

                                          TIG

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                                          • J Offline
                                            JGA
                                            last edited by

                                            Thanks with continuing to develop this plugin -- it comes in very handy when needed.

                                            Regards,
                                            JGA

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