[Plugin] FredoTools::ReportLabelArea - v3.2a - 05 Feb 20

castaway · 20 Mar 2012, 12:19

NEW RELEASE: ReportLabelArea 2.0a - 19 Dec 11

ReportLabelArea is a rework of the previous ReportArea standalone plugin. It provides:

More visual features for Reporting and Browsing for Areas

Creation, update and Edition of labels with Areas

Area formatting (choice of unit and decimals) for all functions

There are two videos to give an idea of the main features of the plugin

ReportLabelArea is now published as part of the FredoTools suite of Plugins

See main post of this thread for more information.

Fredo

Is there any way to automatically update existing labels if the area has changed? I could not find a way to do so, but perhaps I am missing something

Thanks for such an amazing plugin btw.

fredo6 · 20 Mar 2012, 21:16

@castaway said:

Is there any way to automatically update existing labels if the area has changed? I could not find a way to do so, but perhaps I am missing something

Thanks for such an amazing plugin btw.

I thought about it and there is a way. I hesitated because it obliges to store some information as attribute of faces and use an observer (notably not very stable in Sketchup). This latter issue made me hesitate as the plugin could have bad side-effects even if you do not use it at all.

One possibility is that I introduce a "refresh" option to update all labels. Maybe I'll do it in a next release.

Thanks for the suggestion

Fredo

castaway · 21 Mar 2012, 08:09

@unknownuser said:

One possibility is that I introduce a "refresh" option to update all labels. Maybe I'll do it in a next release.

Thanks for the suggestion

You are most welcome. A refresh button but be ideal in my opinion.
I never expected the labels to be updated automatically anyway since that would probably have a negative impact on performance (just wild gessing).

creaform · 18 Sept 2012, 19:19

Once again we thank you Fredo,
for what you bring to the community of SketchUp that is unique.
From France

caronte01 · 20 Dec 2012, 15:38

Hi Fredo,

I downloaded this tool as part of Fredo6 tools pack. Makes Sketchup one of the most useful tools for architectural design. I constantly use it to report areas and update area schedules of projects. I now use sketchup as a 2d tool more and more. Bye autocad!!!

Thanks a lot!!!

fredo6 · 20 Dec 2012, 20:06

@caronte01 said:

Hi Fredo,

I downloaded this tool as part of Fredo6 tools pack. Makes Sketchup one of the most useful tools for architectural design. I constantly use it to report areas and update area schedules of projects. I now use sketchup as a 2d tool more and more. Bye autocad!!!

Thanks a lot!!!

Thanks for the comment. If you think there is additional functionality that could be useful, do not hesitate. This is not an area where I am myself familiar.

Fredo

vapross · 8 Jan 2013, 18:48

Hello, guys.
Finally I've a first post.
Fredo, thanks a lot for your tooling! It really helps!
My question is on exReportArea principle, that I'd like to turn to my needs. I used ReportArea (now ReportLabelArea) for the interior design. It works great. And I just checked this new one.
I'm not a Ruby pro, and maybe you should send me to the Ruby forum section. Now I'd like use SU as a mass-modeling tool, and it seems to me there's no simple plugin to do it (if there is one, please, post a link!). Revit or ArchiCAD methods sometimes are a bit clumsy in mass-modeling. And the cost isn't nice for a such simple task.
What I'd like to get a data structure in csv from SU model is as follows:

group
-- name
-- material area (e.g. 3 mats = 3 area values)
-- layer
-- volume
-- etc

The data structure appears to be an hierarchical one, because I'd like to get the parameters of each group/component from my model. Materials and naming are the core of the way of information mgmt I use within SU.
Almost the same for a Component. Actually if I get a long unformatted list of data, I could sort it in Excel.
Now I have no idea which code pattern to use -could you guide here? Any advices, links? I bought last week a brand-new book by Alex Schreyer, but it didn't help me.
Thanks in advance!

brookefox · 24 Feb 2013, 20:25

Just a note of thanks, Fredo, for a typically powerful multifaceted, super-documented and pleasing to behold tool-set. If I could master your tools alone, I would consider that quite a worthwhile accomplishment.

fredo6 · 24 Feb 2013, 20:51

@brookefox said:

Just a note of thanks, Fredo, for a typically powerful multifaceted, super-documented and pleasing to behold tool-set. If I could master your tools alone, I would consider that quite a worthwhile accomplishment.

Thanks very much for the encouraging appreciation. This one came from a user request some time ago. It's a little bit complex because there are many options and situations where only the user can decide (like selecting a face, a surface or a component). So I have to leave the options open and provide some documentation.

Fredo

JQL · 2 May 2013, 13:24

Hello everyone,

I was trying to generate my first report on areas from a project I have and I came across this question.

Is it possible to report the area of a face minus the hole cutting component's areas attached to the face?

The entity info window reports them but I didn't find a way to do that on this tool.

Thank you fredo for all the unbelieveable tools... box stretching... perfect!

hking · 1 Jun 2015, 12:43

Report on Areas:
trying to "Export CSV" I get the error code: "Error in generation of CSV file: //filename.csv
please help
Helmut Karger

fredo6 · 9 Jul 2015, 14:37

NEW RELEASE: ReportLabelArea 2.1a - 09 Jul 15

ReportLabelArea 2.1a fixes a problem related to glued components on faces. Now, for glued components in Cut opening mode, the contact area of theopening is deducted from the area of the face.

See main post of this thread for more information.

Fredo

JQL · 20 Jul 2015, 11:39

This update is fantastic Fredo. This issue with glued components was the only thing keeping me from using it! Thank you very much!

ak-sam · 30 Sept 2015, 22:26

HI Fredo,
Great tool concept! - this really improves things for those of us who create Site Plans in Sketchup.

But I'm having trouble using the Label Areas function.

I have selected a number of faces, and the areas are being reported when I hover over each one, as well as the total area of all faces. However, the area labels (text tags?) are not appearing when I click "Label Areas".
I checked layer visibility. Is there something else I can try?

If you can sort this out for me I will give you a nice big donation

Thanks!

fredo6 · 1 Oct 2015, 08:01

You need to:

Click and drag to place the label
or double-click to have the label appears without lead line

Fredo

noitac · 28 Oct 2015, 08:00

Dear Fredo,

your tools are fantastic, as you probably know. They are like the knifes from Switzerland.

One small question:
Trying to export an CSV file, I get a message: "Error in generation of CSV file".
Any idea ?

Best
Carotis

rricki · 2 Feb 2017, 15:06

Hello,
i would be really happy to use this pludin in SU 2017 - but was not working
Error Loading File Fredo6_FredoTools.rb
Error: #<LoadError: cannot load such file -- Fredo6_!LibFredo6.rb>
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2017/Tools/RubyStdLib/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in require' C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2017/Tools/RubyStdLib/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in require'
C:/Users/Richie/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_FredoTools.rb:25:in `<top (required)>'

either i was trying SU 2013 - plugin was installed, but Report on Area (which i need) was not working ((
so i tried it on SU8 ...but there i couldnt even find the way how to instal plugin (!!)

oh i am just poor unhappy user

rricki · 2 Feb 2017, 15:30

naah ... it works ! in SU2017 ..
but why did not developer wrote for fredoTools plugin the necessity to install also FredLib where the error window show-up ???

thank you for these plugins

fredo6 · 16 Oct 2019, 22:19

NEW RELEASE: ReportLabelArea 3.0a - 16 Oct 19

ReportLabelArea 3.0a introduces a new view and report, called Outliner, based on a hierarchical tree of groups and components in the selection or the whole model. This also work for the export to Excel.