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    • M Offline
      mysterd429
      last edited by

      I think that the crash is not related to your plugin. See my post in the other thread. I've submitted a bug report to Google.

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      • J Offline
        Jim
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        I believe Intrinsic Alchemy is a graphics library/game engine used by SketchUp - it shows up in my debugger whenever I run SketchUp.

        Hi

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          Marc_Vierboom
          last edited by

          LS,

          I have installed (and working) the Sketchup 8 Dutch version. I have pasted the plugin ( Dxf_In_v2.2.rb ) to the directory: C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins
          Unfortunately I have no additonal dxf or dwg import line in my pull down menu File - Import (not even in the bottom of the list)

          Any idea what's up?
          Screendump from file - import

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            Bep
            last edited by

            @marc_vierboom said:

            LS,

            I have installed (and working) the Sketchup 8 Dutch version. I have pasted the plugin ( Dxf_In_v2.2.rb ) to the directory: C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins
            Unfortunately I have no additonal dxf or dwg import line in my pull down menu File - Import (not even in the bottom of the list)

            Any idea what's up?
            [attachment=1:3bngwx91]<!-- ia1 -->Screendump.jpg<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:3bngwx91]

            Hallo Marc,

            Look here [attachment=0:3bngwx91]<!-- ia0 -->dxf import.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:3bngwx91]


            dxf import.jpg

            "History is written by the winners"

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            • J Offline
              Jim
              last edited by

              The file has Mac line endings - DxfIn (as well as my own .dxf importer) is not handling them correctly.

              You'll need to convert them file to use Unix or DOS line endings in the meantime.

              Hi

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                Bárbara Lopes
                last edited by

                Hi, I placed the plugin into the SketchUp Plugins folder, but it does not show on the file menu. I closed and re-opened my sketch up and nothing appeared yet. Please, can anybody help me? Tnks

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                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  @bárbara lopes said:

                  Hi, I placed the plugin into the SketchUp Plugins folder, but it does not show on the file menu. I closed and re-opened my sketch up and nothing appeared yet. Please, can anybody help me? Tnks
                  Are you looking in the correct menu ? UI.menu("File").add_item("Import DXF") 😕

                  TIG

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                    freeWilly
                    last edited by

                    I installed the plugin on my Mac.
                    I see it in the file menu, and can start an import.
                    But after a certain time it aborts an I get an error window "<error> or empty File".
                    I have tried different DXF-Files.

                    What do I do wrong?

                    Rolf

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                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      Can you post one of the files so some other users can test and report back, it's almost impossible to say from your info so far...

                      TIG

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                        freeWilly
                        last edited by

                        I took the file posted on page one of this thread (ALBA.zip), because I wanted to be sure that it's not a problem of my data.
                        It starts to count up in the status line until 5 and aborts then.

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                        • TIGT Offline
                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by

                          I'm on PC.
                          I've just [re]tried Alba.dxf.
                          Used 'centimeters' as the units - did you ?
                          It works; but did take a while to complete ['whiting-out' in the process... BUT still processing away nevertheless] AND also it does appear ~66.6m from the origin [but's that's where it is stupidly located in the DXF!].
                          Comparing the result from the equivalent Pro DXF import... it is missing a few of small lines around a lip and it takes 100x longer! BUT it works and the result is readily usable/fixupable...

                          TIG

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                            freeWilly
                            last edited by

                            yes, I tried various options (including centimeter). And it run for quite a while, but with all tries it finally aborted.
                            I have SketchUp 8.0.11751 for Mac (Intel).

                            Rolf

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                              TIG Moderator
                              last edited by

                              Strange - as I say the PC version is slow but works eventually...
                              Are there any MAC users out there who have this working OK ?

                              TIG

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                                freeWilly
                                last edited by

                                is there a kind of a debug mode?
                                To see when, what, why?

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                                • TIGT Offline
                                  TIG Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  Running it with the Ruby Console open is the best there is - there's not coded-in debugging that I can see...

                                  TIG

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                                    shrubman
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                                    @freewilly said:

                                    I installed the plugin on my Mac.
                                    I see it in the file menu, and can start an import.
                                    But after a certain time it aborts an I get an error window "<error> or empty File".
                                    I have tried different DXF-Files.

                                    What do I do wrong?

                                    Rolf

                                    I'm having the same problem. No matter what I do to prepare the file in illustrator, the import dxf dialog in sketchup gives me that error window and quits the import.

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                                      Chrisn2011
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                                      This may be too late for you but I had used earlier versions of this on an iMac and found that there were sometimes problems which seem to relate to how the file is saved, some operating systems use carriage return -linefeed to denote the end of a line others just used one. I made a mod which allowed it to work on the iMac (see my post of Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:29 am), it may be worth trying it on the new version
                                      I edited the files using Textedit on the mac, just be careful that it doesn't add a .txt extension

                                      To help I have listed the suggested change below

                                      Find the following bit of code in the.rb file

                                      #get all block names, save them along with their location
                                      begin
                                      	aFile=File.open(chosen_file, "r")
                                      rescue
                                      	result=UI.messagebox "<Error> The DriveName\\Path\\FileName.dxf may not\nbe standard ASCII characters. If so, place the Dxf file\nin a ASCII named folder before accessing that file.", MB_OK
                                      end
                                      aFile.each_line do |line|						
                                      	count=count +1
                                      	if count==odd_number					#strip dxf tags thanks to TIG
                                      		odd_number=odd_number + 2
                                      		line=line.strip
                                      	end
                                      
                                      	last_line=this_line							#save last line data
                                      	this_line=line
                                      

                                      and insert the line
                                      line=line.chomp+"\n"
                                      after
                                      aFile.each_line do |line|
                                      it should ensure that all the data read in is terminated in a way that ruby scripts accept, and it shouldn't affect the way they run under windows either.

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                                        ltorresgdcllc
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                                        Thank you!!!

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                                          ANewBeat
                                          last edited by

                                          @shrubman said:

                                          @freewilly said:

                                          I installed the plugin on my Mac.
                                          I see it in the file menu, and can start an import.
                                          But after a certain time it aborts an I get an error window "<error> or empty File".
                                          I have tried different DXF-Files.

                                          What do I do wrong?

                                          Rolf

                                          I'm having the same problem. No matter what I do to prepare the file in illustrator, the import dxf dialog in sketchup gives me that error window and quits the import.

                                          Same here: "<Error> or Empty File"
                                          Mac OS X 10.6.8
                                          Sketchup 8.0.16845

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                                            Dave R
                                            last edited by

                                            Did you read the next post? Maybe it will help since it seems to answer the question.

                                            The best option would be to use the Pro version of SketchUp. 😒

                                            Etaoin Shrdlu

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