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    • Dave RD Offline
      Dave R
      last edited by

      I have to believe it's an install error or a conflicting plugin. It worked for me with no problems.

      Have you tried removing all non-native plugins from the directory other than Shape Bender and Progressbar.rb?


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      • TIGT Offline
        TIG Moderator
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        OK!! now we have these errors it's clear that you haven't installed the tool properly when they were extracted from the zipped set.
        When you install it you need its main file clf_shape_bender_loader.rb file in the Plugins folder.
        You also need a subfolder within Plugins named 'clf_shape_bender', containing these files: Capture.PNG You will also need progressbar.rb in Plugins - that is available from http://www.Smustard.com

        TIG

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        • Dave RD Offline
          Dave R
          last edited by

          No! Progressbar.rb should be in the Plugins directory.

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            gr8fzy1
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            @tig said:

            OK!! now we have these errors it's clear that you haven't installed the tool properly when they were extracted from the zipped set.
            When you install it you need its main file clf_shape_bender_loader.rb file in the Plugins folder.
            You also need a subfolder within Plugins named 'clf_shape_bender', containing these files: [attachment=1:gu9q4ffr]<!-- ia1 -->Capture.PNG<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:gu9q4ffr] You will also need progressbar.rb in Plugins - that is available from http://www.Smustard.com

            The first time I ran it, it SAID that I needed the progressbar.rb, so I already downloaded that and installed it.

            Well, after a little trial and error with the shape bender subfolder (I had put the loader.rb in there as well, so the shape bender wouldn't load. ^////^) I tried it out and it WORKED!

            [attachment=0:gu9q4ffr]<!-- ia0 -->Shape Bender 4.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:gu9q4ffr]

            Thank you for the help everyone! And you too TIG, for the clues on PURGING. I had some files that were almost 6MB that purged down to only 900K.


            YAY!

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            • G Offline
              gr8fzy1
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              @dave r said:

              No! Progressbar.rb should be in the Plugins directory.

              I know, I already fixed that.

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              • J Offline
                jorge2011
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                is possible for the next version add the feature to adapt to surfaces?

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                • S Offline
                  silviac918
                  last edited by

                  Hey,

                  It's a very powerful tool. However, I tried to do a vertical 3D text along a curve wall. It always stop at the message " 1% End @? (1 of 5) Searching for objects to explode. Do you know what the problem is? really hope this could work. Thanks.

                  Silvia

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                  • TIGT Offline
                    TIG Moderator
                    last edited by

                    It's probably not 'stopped', but just taking ages to complete.
                    Can you rotate the parts onto the red/X-axis ?
                    It might speed things up...

                    TIG

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                    • Chris FullmerC Offline
                      Chris Fullmer
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                      Though that 1%END@? looks suspicious. Can you upload the model?

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                        Xorthan
                        last edited by

                        Hi there.
                        I started using SketchUp on my Mac.
                        I downloaded ShapeBender, as well as ProgressBar, and put both in my Plugins folder.
                        I restarted SketchUp, and don't find a ProgressBar like in your video... is that because I'm using a Mac? Is there someone here who has an idea what I'm doing wrong?

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                        • GaieusG Offline
                          Gaieus
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                          Progressbar is just a plugin which is use by other plugins (like ShapeBender for instance). You will have to activate SB (I think) under SketchUp > Preferences > Extensions then restart SU and find it toolbar button where they are on the Mac (on Windows, they are under the View menu but I know Mac is different here)

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                            Xorthan
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                            @gaieus said:

                            Progressbar is just a plugin which is use by other plugins (like ShapeBender for instance). You will have to activate SB (I think) under SketchUp > Preferences > Extensions then restart SU and find it toolbar button where they are on the Mac (on Windows, they are under the View menu but I know Mac is different here)

                            Thanks for the reply; I went to SketchUp > Preferences > Extensions, and didn't see anything about ShapeBender there, the only extension that wasn't checked was Ruby Script Examples, which I checked, but I still don't have a status bar or he bender button from the video...

                            Any other ideas?

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                            • GaieusG Offline
                              Gaieus
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                              Hm. It should be there - unless Chris programmed it differently for Mac (which I doubt)

                              extensions.png
                              Have you unpackedthe content of that zip file? Simply copying it to your Plugins folder will not install the plugin. See some instructions/guidelines below
                              http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=35746

                              Gai...

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                              • Dave RD Offline
                                Dave R
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                                The Shape Bender extension swill show on Mac in Preferences>Extensions as it does on a windows machine. It sounds to me as if you didn't unpack the Shape Bender file or didn't unpack it correctly.

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                                  Xorthan
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                                  @dave r said:

                                  The Shape Bender extension swill show on Mac in Preferences>Extensions as it does on a windows machine. It sounds to me as if you didn't unpack the Shape Bender file or didn't unpack it correctly.

                                  Okay, maybe I didn't see Shape Bender in the Extensions list before... I see it now. And it's checked. I also have the Progress Bar downloaded, and progressbar.rb is in my plugins folder. I still don't have a progress bar in SketchUp...

                                  I tried moving progressbar.rb to the plugins > utilities, just to see what would happen, but when I opened up SketchUp is gave me a warning, so I moved to back to plugins, and got no warning, but also no icon that looks anything like the video. ??

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                                  • GaieusG Offline
                                    Gaieus
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                                    You will only see a small progress bar running at the bottom of your window when ShapeBender is working - that1s all it's needed for so there is no menu item or button for it, it is just a background plugin in this case. Have you looked at your toolbars to see if the ShapeBender icon is there?

                                    Gai...

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                                      Xorthan
                                      last edited by

                                      @gaieus said:

                                      You will only see a small progress bar running at the bottom of your window when ShapeBender is working - that1s all it's needed for so there is no menu item or button for it, it is just a background plugin in this case. Have you looked at your toolbars to see if the ShapeBender icon is there?

                                      I have looked at my toolbars - I don't see it available there. On the video, it looked like a button was hit between selecting the straight line and selecting the guiding line. Maybe I was mistaken. So if there's no button, how do I get the thing to work then?

                                      Thanks for your help.

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                                      • Dave RD Offline
                                        Dave R
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                                        http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6074/6133268684_fc6e66d8b5_z.jpg

                                        If you aren't seeing Shape Bender under View>Tool Palettes, I would guess you still haven't installed it correctly. Why don't you post a screen shot of Finder showing the plugins folder and its contents? Otherwise we're going to play this guessing game until you've got it installed correctly and working. And I can assure you, the plugin does work on Mac if it is installed correctly.

                                        By the way, there's no toolbar button press between selecting the straight line and the curve. You select the component/group you want to bend and then choose the tool.

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                                        • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                          Chris Fullmer
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                                          Hi Mark, there is no button or menu item for progressbar. Please stop looking for it.

                                          You might need to go to View > Toolbars > Shape Bender to turn on the shapebender toolbar. It is a small single icon, easy to not see if you have a big monitor. Or if you have toolbars that are "loose" (not docked into the window) then they can stack on top of each other, so maybe its under another toolbar.

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                                          • TIGT Offline
                                            TIG Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            Have you activated 'Shape Bender' from Window > Preferences > Extensions.
                                            If not then try that... and then the menu/toolbar become available.
                                            If it's not listed as an Extension then it is NOT been installed properly ❗

                                            TIG

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