[Plugin] Shape Bender Beta

TIG

[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

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

Can U fix this？
ThanX

TIG

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

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

driven

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

@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

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

TIG

@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

@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...

unclex

Get it!
U r So Nice~~~~~~~
ThanX
ThanX
THanX

unclex

@unclex said:

Get it!
U r So Nice~~~~~~~
ThanX
ThanX
THanX

2nd Botton @ the virtualwind toolbar , can't work , means it can't not export vws files.

VirtualWind is a software for flow calculating such as wind, modeling by using SU ,then export to VW.

Even have no VW soft, the plugins for SU can working for export.

so....
need help.....

driven

unclex,
you should probably search the VirtualWind thread, as people who downloaded and it might still get notified if you ask there.

I only ever used the plugin and I know VW development was stopped.

good luck

unclex

@driven said:

unclex,
you should probably search the VirtualWind thread, as people who downloaded and it might still get notified if you ask there.

I only ever used the plugin and I know VW development was stopped.

good luck

Yes, VW has been Shut Down.
But Somebody said, it could be purchased by a big company.

and VW is a good flow software.....

Thanx for help, Sorry for help

bobpineo

Hello Chris,
Bob Pineo here, architect from Charlottesville, Va. We met at 3d basecamp in Bolder.
How are you?
any new plugins lately? Love your work.
I'm dabbling with the idea of learning how to write ruby scripts.
Can you recommend a book I might start with?
thanks
BP

Chris Fullmer

Hey Bob, good to see you on the forum here. How are you doing? Nothing new really at the moment. I've got a few that I've started on and never really completed, but they are nothing that asmazing really.

Most people recommend a book called "the pickaxe", I think because it has a pickaxe on the cover:

http://pragprog.com/titles/ruby/programming-ruby

But it is actually called "Programming Ruby (2nd edition): The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide" and you can get it online for free:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

But the online version does make references to page numbers which are lost in the online version. But the online version is searchable, making it inredibly valuable.

Also, my favorite tutorial for learning ruby is by Chris Pine. The tutorial chapters are on the left of the webpage, chapters 0 - 11:
http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/

That one was really nice for a quick intro into ruby. Then beyond that, I've put together a few different tutorials on beginning interfacing SketchUp through ruby - which to me was more confusing that it needed to be. Its really pretty simple once you get the hang of it. I'll have to see if I can find links to my tutorials. They wre posted on this website at one point, but I think they've gone offline

suraj1991

it dont seem to work on my computer i have scetchup pro 8 ?

Gaieus

Hi Suraj,

Are you sure you are doing everything well? Are you bending starting from the red axis? Also, have you installed progressbar.rb (I think it is needed).

TIG

@suraj1991 said:

it dont seem to work on my computer i have scetchup pro 8 ?

If after checking Gaieus's advice...
What is the problem [if any] ?
Does it load without errors.
Is there a menu item?
Are there any error-messages when you use it?
If you try to use it with the Ruby Console open do you get error-messages shown in there ?

If you give us some more information to help us we can help you help yourself...

charly2008

Hi All,

So far the plugin has worked without problems. I like it very much. Today I wanted to try something and the result was as shown in the photos. I do not know what's wrong. The problem is the same in both SKP 7 and 8.

The problem has solved itself after a restart Sketchup

Charly

Untitled5.skp

Chris Fullmer

Hi Charly, you've got the start and ends mixed up. The arrow keys will toggle which end of the shape and path are supposed to be where. I would line them up so that starts are on the "left" (if you are looking straight down on the drawing, with the red axis going out to the right). So try pressing the up and down and left and right arrow keys until you get both "starts" to be to the left and the "ends" to be to the right. Then hit enter.

Chris