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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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                                            JasonDoggart
                                            last edited by

                                            Thanks so much for this tool! All your hard work is greatly appreciated!

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