[Plugin] Shape Bender Beta

Ouch · 4 May 2011, 00:22

For shape bender and a few other items, I see that you have already received much and well deserved praise and I want to add to that with a HUGE THANK YOU!!!! You have ended the progression of my gray hair. I’m a real novice with all of this and I needed to make a large, long screw bolt that left miffed and mumbling profanities. Your tutorials are excellent as well. It took me a bit to figure out how to actually add a plug-in but it was nothing compared to the frustrations of trying to make a screw. Again thank you very much.

professor_pine · 21 May 2011, 18:43

I've been trying to bend a logo for about two days now. Your plugin was the answer.

Chris Fullmer · 21 May 2011, 20:00

Oh good, glad it worked! Thanks for watching the tutorials or reading the instructions or something so you could figure out how to use it

charly2008 · 21 May 2011, 22:19

Hi,

I'm probably the last person who has noticed that it also works with vertical curves.

Charly

Chris Fullmer · 22 May 2011, 05:33

I have to admit that I did not purposely design it to work with vertical curves like that, but someone else did point it out and it does seem to work pretty well.

islevegan · 28 May 2011, 00:33

Greetings,

I use Sketchup 8.0.4811 on linux via Wine. It is stable and works well.

I put the .rb and related folder in the plug-ins folder and got an error upon starting Sketchup.

Fyi; Just wanted you to know.

TIG · 28 May 2011, 08:39

@islevegan said:

Greetings,

I use Sketchup 8.0.4811 on linux via Wine. It is stable and works well.

I put the .rb and related folder in the plug-ins folder and got an error upon starting Sketchup.

Fyi; Just wanted you to know.
If you keep the error message your secret we can't help you...
How about I guess ?
The error said something about 'progressbar.rb' ?
Get it free from Smustard.com, put the file into Plugins and retry...
If my guess is wrong tell us the error and we can try to help you...

islevegan · 28 May 2011, 10:04

Apologies. Yes, you are exactly right. I haven't used SketchUp much and not at all in 2+ years. I missed the detail you mentioned.

Now SketchUp starts without error and I see Shape Bender in the Plug-ins listing. Again, I apologize for this and thank you for your gracious response.

Aloha

@tig said:

@islevegan said:

Greetings,

I use Sketchup 8.0.4811 on linux via Wine. It is stable and works well.

I put the .rb and related folder in the plug-ins folder and got an error upon starting Sketchup.

Fyi; Just wanted you to know.
If you keep the error message your secret we can't help you...
How about I guess ?
The error said something about 'progressbar.rb' ?
Get it free from Smustard.com, put the file into Plugins and retry...
If my guess is wrong tell us the error and we can try to help you...

Gaieus · 28 May 2011, 10:15

@islevegan said:

Now SketchUp starts without error and I see Shape Bender in the Plug-ins listing.

unclex · 29 May 2011, 02:00

[Plugin] ExtrudeTools - Zipped Set 20110525 Installed
Shape Can't work...
Need Help !!!
ThanX

Gaieus · 29 May 2011, 07:10

Unclex, that's a completely different plugin.

Did you also install Shape bender? And what about progresbar.rb. Any error messages in the ruby console?

TIG · 29 May 2011, 09:04

@unclex said:

[Plugin] ExtrudeTools - Zipped Set 20110525 Installed
Shape Can't work...
Need Help !!!
ThanX

Are there error messages?
Either at startup or in the Ruby Console when it's run.
If so please post them here.
As Gaieus said... do you have progressbar.rb installed in your Plugins folder [free to download from Smustard.com] ? It's need by this tool to work properly.
I know of no recent changes to the EEby... tools that might cause a clash.
I have both tools working fine on my PC with all previous and current versions...
Please give us as much information as you can to help us help you - your present message is particularly unhelpful...

unclex · 29 May 2011, 11:50

Sorry ， Shape can't work with [VirtualWind]This One，
not ExtrudeTools

Can U fix this？
ThanX

TIG · 29 May 2011, 14:00

vwSketchupExtensions.rb Replace this file in the 'Virtualwind' subfolder... it previously made a missing method - group.definition - BUT it had a basic error in its code - returning the 'group' rather than its actual 'definition', which would break any other tools that also define and use it, in anything but the most simple way - like 'ShapeBender' does !!

It's very bad to overwrite built-in class methods and risky to make new ones, without checking they preexist in your code, especially if there's a basic mistake in yours
The rewritten form ensures that if there's an earlier made method it stands...
It should not change the way 'Virtualwind' itself works, but now allows other scripts to work too...
I don't have 'Virtualwind' so I had never come across it before

Jim · 29 May 2011, 14:07

Hmm, how do we handle this type of issue in a way that is easy to search for and find?

driven · 29 May 2011, 14:17

hi TIG,

I stopped using VW but, from memory it also has a clash with progressbar.rb this won't help that will it?

john

TIG · 29 May 2011, 14:32

@jim said:

Hmm, how do we handle this type of issue in a way that is easy to search for and find?

The 'classic' is group.definition so it's easily found and then fixed with my 'trap code'...
Otherwise I use Baregrep to search for text like class Sketchup:: etc in all my .rb and .rb.txt files in Plugins and/or subfolders to see if there are new or modified built-in class methods etc.
Other greps could be for class Geom::, class Array:: etc depending on the possible type of error...
Unfortunately compiled .rbs are impossible to grep - you can only 'find them' by the half/half/half method of moving Plugins out of the Plugins folder... They can then be disabled but not 'fixed'...

Jim · 29 May 2011, 14:45

Sorry, I meant how to make it easy to find on the forum...

TIG · 29 May 2011, 14:52

@driven said:

hi TIG,
I stopped using VW but, from memory it also has a clash with progressbar.rb this won't help that will it?
john
No it wouldn't...
The vwProgressBar.rb file in the 'Virtualwind' subfolder redefines the ProgressBar class that might be otherwise been loaded earlier from the original progressbar.rb script.
The versions of all of the 'Virtualwind' files in the attached zip now make/use a new class vwProgressBar so it's separated from the original ProgressBar class !
This zip has all of the fixes in it !

TIG · 29 May 2011, 14:53

@jim said:

Sorry, I meant how to make it easy to find on the forum...

We can't find them without downloading, testing, grepping etc...