[Plugin] FredoTools - v4.5c - 24 Jun 24

halroach

Hi Fredo,

very nice plugin!
I've been thinking of a similar plugin, which you could incorporate into this one:

For planning and adjusting areas of a house (to suit program requirements) - it would be nice to have the option to save a selection of faces, and see how the areas update as you change them in sketchup.
You have the "areas report" window on ALL THE TIME. You select the faces and components you want once - which gives you the areas. After that you can continue editing the model and the numbers change as you drag lines and change areas - kind of like a set of "entity infos" open all the time for a specific set of pre selected faces. If it cannot be updated "live" you could have an update button (with a keyboard shortcut of course) that would update the info in the box + the different tags.

see attached mockup image (numbers are just gibberish for illustration)

you could have selection sets in pre selected colors for interiors, exteriors etc... kind of like the areas by material, but rather by custom selection.
you could have sub-totals for faces that were marked together.
selecting a face or faces in the list will mark them in the model
I noticed that if I use the standard tool for marking the area of a face in a scaled component, it will show the same area for the component in each of it's differently scaled instances (which makes sense). By what I've noticed, your plugin knows how to over come that, right?

![live or manually updated "areas report" for pre selected faces](/uploads/imported_attachments/Rgwk_preselectedfaceareas.jpg "live or manually updated "areas report" for pre selected faces")

fredo6

@unknownuser said:

For planning and adjusting areas of a house (to suit program requirements) - it would be nice to have the option to save a selection of faces, and see how the areas update as you change them in sketchup.
You have the "areas report" window on ALL THE TIME. You select the faces and components you want once - which gives you the areas. After that you can continue editing the model and the numbers change as you drag lines and change areas - kind of like a set of "entity infos" open all the time for a specific set of pre selected faces. If it cannot be updated "live" you could have an update button (with a keyboard shortcut of course) that would update the info in the box + the different tags.

This is possible, but this requires a slightly different design, especially because you need this information to be persistent across Sketchup sessions. I may give it a try whenever I have time, either as an extension of the plugin or as a new plugin.

@unknownuser said:

I noticed that if I use the standard tool for marking the area of a face in a scaled component, it will show the same area for the component in each of it's differently scaled instances (which makes sense). By what I've noticed, your plugin knows how to over come that, right?

Yes, the plugin counts the real areas within each component, taking into account the scaling factor and shear factor.

Fredo

halroach

@unknownuser said:

This is possible, but this requires a slightly different design, especially because you need this information to be persistent across Sketchup sessions. I may give it a try whenever I have time, either as an extension of the plugin or as a new plugin.Fredo

That would be really cool Fredo!
I'd be glad to contribute with the conceptual design whenever you get around to it. I may have some further ideas as to how this tool could be useful, more effective and easy to use.

fredo6

@unknownuser said:

That would be really cool Fredo!
I'd be glad to contribute with the conceptual design whenever you get around to it. I may have some further ideas as to how this tool could be useful, more effective and easy to use.

Your comments are welcome. I am not really user of the tool, and it's good to hear from users who have practice and requirement about areas in Sketchup.

Fredo

DesignerPro

Tried the new curveloft tool set. This is all the errors it generates when I open SketchUp.

Now WHAT?

Error Loading File bootstrap_Curviloft.rb
uninitialized constant Curviloft::T6Error Loading File CurviloftAlgo.rb
uninitialized constant Curviloft::T6Error Loading File CurviloftCurveMover.rb
uninitialized constant Curviloft::T6Error Loading File CurviloftPalette.rb
uninitialized constant Curviloft::T6Error Loading File CurviloftTool.rb
uninitialized constant Curviloft::T6Error Loading File FredoTools.rb
uninitialized constant FredoTools::T6Error Loading File FredoTools__ConstructFaceNormal.rb
undefined method register_plug' for FredoTools:ModuleError Loading File FredoTools__CountFacesBySides.rb undefined method register_plug' for FredoTools:ModuleError Loading File FredoTools__CurviShear.rb
undefined method register_plug' for FredoTools:ModuleError Loading File FredoTools__MarkVertices.rb undefined method register_plug' for FredoTools:ModuleError Loading File FredoTools__RemoveLonelyVertices.rb
undefined method register_plug' for FredoTools:ModuleError Loading File FredoTools__ReportLabelArea.rb undefined method register_plug' for FredoTools:ModuleError Loading File FredoTools__RevertCurve.rb
undefined method register_plug' for FredoTools:ModuleError Loading File __loader.rb undefined method effective_load' for nil:NilClass

fredo6

@DesignerPro

This seems to be a problem of installation, probably coming from an erroneous unzip operation.
The right footprint is indicated in the first post:

file LibFredo6.rb
Folder LIBFREDO6_Dir_43
Folder FREDOTOOLS_Dir_10

Fredo

niks

thank you very much fredo

hebeijianke

thanks fredo
chinese language

FredoTools_CN.lang

guanjin

What a powerful tool, too practical, easy language conversion, love you Fredo6

JClements

"Show Box Lines" setting for Area Labeler.

What does this mean?

fredo6

@jclements said:

"Show Box Lines" setting for Area Labeler.

What does this mean?

When you mouse over or select components, it shows the box of each subcomponents (instead of just showing the faces).

Fredo

Oxer

Thanks Fredo!!
Spanish Language
FredoTools_ES.lang

fredo6

@oxer said:

Thanks Fredo!!
Spanish Language
[attachment=0:7r7026d2]FredoTools_ES.lang[/attachment:7r7026d2]

Oxer,

Thanks very much.
I just realized that I did not make the Help of VCB and shortcuts translatable. So I'll make it in a next release. This means that there will be some additional strings to translate.

Thanks again

Fredo

Oxer

There isn't problem Fredo, i'll translate it and thanks again for these incredible tools.

Oxer

I'm testing the FredoTools plugin and i have found some problems:

The arrows keys don't work on Mac.
When you use the first time "Remove Lonely Vertices" and you select "Remove" then if you push the icon "Launch FredoTools plugins from a list" the window of the list don't appears.
For the moment the rest of the features works fine on Mac.

notareal

Nice update!

schnydix

Thanks Fredo Nice Work
Need Help Can not Save my new german translation ??
and in 000_AdditionalPluginFolders i got the message:

2ERRORS The Following plugins had errors and may not be fully loaded
Plugin: LMapExt.so
Folder:C/ProgramFiles(x86)Google/GoogleSketchup8/Plugins
ERROR: (eval):1: uninitialized constant
AdditionalPluginFolder6;;LMap
(I Have Not createt an extra Plugin Folder)
and
Plugin: win 32api.so
ERRER: 127
Init_win32api
C/ProgramFiles(x86)Google/GoogleSketchup8/Plugin/win 32api.so

Thanks for help

SU8 on win7

fredo6

@schnydix said:

Thanks Fredo Nice Work
Need Help Can not Save my new german translation ??
and in 000_AdditionalPluginFolders i got the message:

2ERRORS The Following plugins had errors and may not be fully loaded
Plugin: LMapExt.so
Folder:C/ProgramFiles(x86)Google/GoogleSketchup8/Plugins
ERROR: (eval):1: uninitialized constant
AdditionalPluginFolder6;;LMap
(I Have Not createt an extra Plugin Folder)
and
Plugin: win 32api.so
ERRER: 127
Init_win32api
C/ProgramFiles(x86)Google/GoogleSketchup8/Plugin/win 32api.so

Thanks for help

SU8 on win7

This does not seem related to my scripts.
Maybe some users could tell what is this LmapExt.so file

Fredo

Rich O Brien

It's associated with LightUp and it should be in the Tools folder

maddesign

I downloaded last FredoTools 1.1 and LibFredo 44, all tools works good except ThruPaint. When i paint by texture(not by colour!) ScetchUp8 crushes! What is a reson of it?

LibFredo6Trace_8_1335077869616.txt