Bugsplat! tube along path
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Hi folk. I am drawing a heating system and began having trouble with the tube along path plugin when I try to convert the lines to tubes. My computer isn't the latest tech but I wasn't having trouble with the plugin before this model. Any ideas?
thomas heating.skp -
Try PipeAlongPath.rb instead it's a bit newer and trapped for small facets...
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TIG has identified why you get the Splat. It's because of small faces in the bends of those two tubes at the bottom. I got it to work with Tube Along Path by scaling the model up by a factor of 100 and attached it. You might want to rework those bends anyway. They look to me to be a little tight for 1 in. dia. pipe.
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Hello Thomas
*I think the tool does not work because you change the group! Smash your groups and it works(I'm just a newbie)*
Je pense que l'outil ne fonctionne pas car vous changez de groupe! Eclatez vos groupes et ça fonctionne
(Je ne suis qu'un newbie)
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Hi Bard, the existing groups don't hurt anything. I didn't have any problem with them. After finishing up the two pipes, I did hide the lines at the ends so the seam between groups isn't apparent.
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Sketchup can't make a facet that is less than ~1mm for its sides [I think it's actually 0.01 sq" in area]. It it tries in code it just doesn't make them - or often worse it 'splats'...
But PipeAlongPath.rb has a trap for this very issue...
If an arc in the path has a radius that is less than 200mm/8" AND it is also less than or equal to the pipes' outer radius this puts us in the probable 'disaster area'... so you get a message suggesting you scale-up, make-pipes and then scale-down to avoid the possible splat, and it stops before Armageddon ! The number of segments also has an affect, but the default of 12 seems a good median for the test...
Very small facets can exist in a SKP - so the scaling up then down work just fine - but it's just that Sketchup/OpenGL have trouble making very small [and very large!] faces and can die trying
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thanks all...i kinda assumed it was the small facets. This is the first time I used "tap" to make fittings like 90 bends w/ 1/2" radius pipe.
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I am assuming a component is omitted from being resized with the rest of the model without being opened for editing which means separate resizing or exploding of the component?
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Huh?
Components that were loaded from external files won't get resized with the model if you use the Tape Measure tool to do that. In your model, though, only the spirovent component is loaded from an external file but it isn't involved in the extrusion and ends up in the right place when the model is resized back to the proper dimensions.
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thanks Dave
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