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    • pilouP Offline
      pilou
      last edited by

      Have you transformed each curves in "Group?"
      Menu Edit / Group
      Then select the 2 groups
      Then call the plug β˜€

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

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        cupko
        last edited by

        Thanks for help β˜€. Make group isn't possible from right-clik menu, but this works perefectly! Great plugin .

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        • TIGT Offline
          TIG Moderator
          last edited by

          All right-click context-menu items are also available at the end of the Edit Menu...

          TIG

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          • L Offline
            linco
            last edited by

            @tig said:

            Get the latest zip from the first post in this thread...
            Extract everything into a temporary folder - keeping all sub-folders and contents intact.
            Move ALL of the the files/sub-folder(with their files) into the v8 ../Plugins/ folder.
            Overwriting when prompted to do so.
            Check everything that is now in the ../Plugins/TIGtools/ folder... AND if there's a file with the exact same name in the main ../Plugins/ folder remove it from the ../Plugins/ folder - it should be in the sub-folder!

            Now everything should work fine.

            Run the tools with the Ruby Console open to see if there are error messages.
            If you still get errors - if you have SketchyPhysics installed in v8 temporarily remove its .rb files to disable it and see what happens.

            If it's still not working post the error messages here... πŸ˜’

            Sorry -- I'm a Newbie and this is my first attempt to install a Ruby Plugin. Followed the instructions and I can add the Toolbar, however, it is missing the icons. If you roll your mouse over it, the little squares will light up but there are no icons on it to tell what you are using! So, what did I do wrong?

            Also, I assume the Lingvo files are Help files? How do I access them?

            Lin
            SketchUp Pro 8
            Windows7


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            • TIGT Offline
              TIG Moderator
              last edited by

              I suspect that you have made a similar mistake to the one you've quoted.
              I suggest that you remove all of the files that you have just put into the ../Plugins/ folder; to see a list of these read the contents of the zip file and its subfolders. Files that should be in the ../Plugins/TIGtools/ subfolder should never be put into the main folder...

              Now... extract the contents of that zip file into a temporary folder somewhere - e.g. ../Desktop/ExtrusionTools/ keeping all of the files that are already in a subfolder in those subfolders - the main subfolder is called 'TIGtools'.
              Now move all of these extracted files and subfolders keeping the files within them [i.e. /TIGtools/] into the ../Plugins/ folder.

              Now it should work with a restart...

              You will find that many complex tools have a subfolder with support files in it.
              Often there will be one or two .rb files to go into ../Plugins/ that kick off the tool, and the rest of the files are in a subfolder or perhaps even subfolders within a subfolder!
              In the case of the ExtrusionTools, because they are a compilation over time, there are several tools with .rb tool-files and a 'loader' .rb file in ../Plugins/. The 'deBabelizer.rb' tool is required to do language translations: the .lingvo files are the translations it uses [and these must be inside ../Plugins/TIGtools/]. The .png files inside the TIGtools folder are the image-files used for the toolbar button-icons [that's why I 'know' they are not in the right folder - otherwise you wouldn't have this problem!!] πŸ˜’

              Please let me know how you fare and if you need any more help please post here...Capture.PNGCapture1.PNG

              TIG

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              • L Offline
                linco
                last edited by

                Finally -- problem solved! Followed your directions and it still wasn't quite right - then I noticed that my Unarchive was putting everything into one big folder without your TIGtools subfolder. Used a different program to Unzip and now it all works!

                thanks!

                Lin

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  @linco said:

                  Finally -- problem solved! Followed your directions and it still wasn't quite right - then I noticed that my Unarchive was putting everything into one big folder without your TIGtools subfolder. Used a different program to Unzip and now it all works!

                  thanks!

                  Lin

                  Aha! ALWAYS ensure the files stay inside their subfolders when you install ANY Plugin.; clearly there needs to be a .rb or .rbs file to use those BUT also note that some support files [like Fredo's LIBs all stay inside their supplied folder.

                  TIG

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                    Wildchild
                    last edited by

                    TIG, I know this might sound silly πŸ˜’ , but what's the difference between curviloft and the extrude tools? For what I know they're pretty similar aren't they? can you (or anyone else) point out some cases where is best to use one insted of the other? thanks

                    Eternity is very long, especially towards the end. Woody Allen

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      Fredo's tools are quite a lot newer than mine.
                      Some of the tools are very similar, like EEbyRails and EEbyLoft - BUT there are several in the Extrusion toolset that are NOT - like 'EEby.. Lathe, Vector, Lattice, Face etc...
                      I have both toolsets and I use mine more, simply because I am used to it...
                      Fredo's do have a prettier UI and there are extra options to dynamically adjust the mesh etc, and they can work better in some circumstances - like with lofting closed-loop profiles, they might make complex messes a little faster too...
                      So use what you find works best for you in each instance... πŸ˜„

                      TIG

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                        wibeon
                        last edited by

                        Hi,

                        The plugin doesn't appears in tools menu. I put .rb in the plugin folder but it doesn't work.

                        Can somebody help me ?

                        Thanks

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                        • TIGT Offline
                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by

                          @wibeon said:

                          Hi,
                          The plugin doesn't appears in tools menu. I put .rb in the plugin folder but it doesn't work.
                          Can somebody help me ?
                          Thanks
                          You should have several .rb files in the ../Plugins/ folder and several extra files in the ../Plugins/TIGtools/ subfolder ??
                          This is a screen-grab of what the contents of the zip file look like. Capture.PNG The new files/subfolder+files should be replicated exactly as this after you've extracted everything...
                          When you restart Sketchup there should be a drop-down submenu early in the 'Plugins' menu [Note that it's NOT in the 'Tools' menu πŸ˜’ - reread the tools' instructions] - this submenu is called 'Extrusion Tools...' and it has nine items each relating to a different tool; to activate the equivalent toolbar you must use View > Toolbars > 'Extrusion Tools'...

                          TIG

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                          • TIGT Offline
                            TIG Moderator
                            last edited by

                            Here's a new version http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=217663#p217663
                            It has an additional tool ExtrudeEdgesByVectorToObject... see here for more details of the new tool... http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=331059#p331059

                            TIG

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                            • jeff hammondJ Offline
                              jeff hammond
                              last edited by

                              oh nice! that's a great addition.

                              [it also shows hints of a sweet trim tool plugin - sort of like solid booleans without the solids part.. in rhino, it works like: select cutting object(s) then pick the parts of the intersecting geometry you'd like to delete.. in eeVO, it automatically picks the side to delete on the opposite side of the cutting object of where the vector extrusion started.. in this hypothetical trim tool, you would be able to pick which side to delete... i dunno, just ideas in case you get bored one day πŸ˜„)

                              dotdotdot

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                                prismcnd
                                last edited by

                                just wanted to say thank you for your amazing efforts.

                                β€œWhatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” -W.Clement Stone (American best selling Author and Founder of Combined Insurance Co (now a part of Aon Corp.), 1902-2002)

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                                  costa
                                  last edited by

                                  you are really great!!! fantastic work, thank you

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                                  • TIGT Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    Here's an updated set http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=217663#p217663
                                    A new tool ' ExtrudeEdgesByOffset' has been added.
                                    Its details are found here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=331303#p331303

                                    TIG

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                                      d12dozr
                                      last edited by

                                      Wow, TIG, a tool a day? πŸ˜„ Thank you for these!

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                                      • TIGT Offline
                                        TIG Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        Here's an updated set http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=217663#p217663
                                        The 'Extrude Edges By Vector To Object' tool has been improved considerably:-
                                        A new algorithm has been added for the intersecting with objects: now walls extend to soffits with additional apex vertices and so on so it extrudes fully to the faces/edges.
                                        'Ghost' extrusions now show intersections as red dots.
                                        The original selection is kept, unless the is group exploded.

                                        Some ES lingvos updated by Defisto [thanks].

                                        TIG

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                                        • TIGT Offline
                                          TIG Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          Here's another update http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=217663#p217663
                                          The 'Extrude Edges By Vector To Object' tool has additional traps added for rare glitches when a faced edge-selection was used.

                                          TIG

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                                          • TIGT Offline
                                            TIG Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            Here's yet another update http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=217663#p217663
                                            The 'Extrude Edges By Vector To Object' tool has had a glitch fixed with 'undo' if you'd reversed faces etc...

                                            TIG

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