[Plugin] SectionCutFace

TIG

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

monispcaumo

Hello!!!

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

TIG

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...

crb900

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

TIG

@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

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.

Ben Ritter

Thank you TIG.

ArCAD-UK

@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

function

poche is finally my friend
thanks tig!

JClements

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

zaibatsu

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

iPO2

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?

Gaieus

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:

iPO2

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.

cgomez73

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?

TIG

@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.

JGA

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

bmike

Is there a way to alter the code so that one could limit the choices for solid fill color? I typically only use 3-4 colors in my models, depending on what I'm doing. I can leave it default, and change later, but it would be nice not to have the long list pop when I do want to switch.

I've looked at the code, see where the materials get called, but do not know enough to enter a list of specific options.

TIG

@bmike said:

Is there a way to alter the code so that one could limit the choices for solid fill color? I typically only use 3-4 colors in my models, depending on what I'm doing. I can leave it default, and change later, but it would be nice not to have the long list pop when I do want to switch.
I've looked at the code, see where the materials get called, but do not know enough to enter a list of specific options.

Find lines #424+:
colours = Sketchup::Color.names.join('|') cedges = colours ###v1.3 colours = "<Default>|<No_Face>|"+colours ###v1.3###v2.5
and change it thus:
colours = ["Red|Orange|Yellow|Green|Blue|Violet|Black|White|Gray|Brown|Pink"] cedges = colours ###v1.3 colours = "<Default>|<No_Face>|"+colours ###v1.3###v2.5
In the first line add whatever colors you want inside the [], inside "", always ensure there is a '|' separator between each of them as shown above - the full list of available colors is here http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/color.html#introduction - note the spelling must be as shown, e.g. 'gray' NOT 'grey' etc...
If you don't want the edges (cedges) to have the same color choices at the faces, then change the second line to be its own [] list.
If you don't want '<Default>' and/or '<No_Face>' options you can either put # in front of the third line to stop it loading completely, OR just remove the unwanted option - always ensure that there is a '|' separator between each of them and the rest of the colors.

Now later on... lines #430+
@@colour = Sketchup::Color.names[7] if not @@colour ### Black @@edge = Sketchup::Color.names[7] if not @@edge ### Black
To set the default color[s] in the dialog either work out which value to put instead of [7], remembering that the 1st item is [0] etc, and the 8th item is [7] - e.g. @@colour = colours[8] if not @@colour in the above example if the two '<>' options are also added to the colors list.
OR simply set it by its 'name' thus:
@@colour = "Black" if not @@colour
[that's always assuming that you have 'Black' in your color list!]

bmike

Thanks TIG!
I'll look at this weekend. Big project to detail and move into LayOut next week for construction documents, so this will be helpful.

Yes, black is always in my model, usually my line color!