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      rob-m
      last edited by

      Thanks TIG. if progressbar.rb is not installed there is normally an error when the shape bender is started. the issue I had was putting everything in the TOOLS folder, not the PLUGINS folder.
      Dropped the clf_shape_bender folder and progressbar.rb into the plugins folder, retarted SU8 and all works fine now. Many thanks

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      • Dave RD Offline
        Dave R
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        @rob-m said:

        the issue I had was putting everything in the TOOLS folder, not the PLUGINS folder.

        You should never put anything into the Tools folder.

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          rob-m
          last edited by

          So I'm learning. Many of the plugins I have picked up had instructions for placing in the tools folder. I will remedy that on my end.

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            @rob-m said:

            So I'm learning. Many of the plugins I have picked up had instructions for placing in the tools folder. I will remedy that on my end.

            Do you remember which ones? If they are located here on the forum we can see if we can correct that.

            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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              rv1974
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              Chris bending along 2-segment curve results are wrong. It wont keep the parallels.
              Could you tweak the code please?


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              • Dave RD Offline
                Dave R
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                @rob-m said:

                So I'm learning. Many of the plugins I have picked up had instructions for placing in the tools folder. I will remedy that on my end.

                I've never seen a plugin with instructions to put it into the Tools folder. I'd also be interested to know which ones those are. There are plugins that will appear in the tools menu but that's entirely different.

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                  rob-m
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                  I actually don't recall which ones, sorry. Not from this site, I found them elsewhere before I found SketchUcation. Everything I need seems to be here or referenced here. Strangely though, all other plugins I had in the Tools folder seemed to work.
                  Thanks for the help.
                  My goal was to take a 3d wall carving and wrap it around a post for cutting on a 4 axis cnc router. This should work very well. thanks for this great plugin!

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                    carammilla
                    last edited by

                    nice

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                    • pbacotP Offline
                      pbacot
                      last edited by

                      Hello,

                      Thanks for the great plugin work! This is one I've never tried before so I thought I would, since it is often mentioned here. Is it supposed to work on Macs?

                      In this test I wish to make the rectangular bar bend in the shape of the curve shown. Are there any further tips on how to make it look more like the arc shape?

                      Thanks, Peter

                      Screen shot 2012-06-02 at 2.07.11 PM.png
                      AutoSave_shape bender test.skp

                      MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                      • Dave RD Offline
                        Dave R
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                        Peter,

                        I got it to go but only after I deleted your funny shape, purged unused stuff from the file, saved it and reopened it. Notice I also moved the line relative to the component. The distance between the line and the component will be used at the distance between the new component and the arc. I expect there distance you had in your set up was a bit too much for Shape bender to create the properly bent shape from the straight version.


                        AutoSave_shape bender test.skp

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                        • pbacotP Offline
                          pbacot
                          last edited by

                          Dave,

                          Thanks for the help! I didn't pick that up about the distance. I didn't find anything to purge but the object created by the plugin.

                          Peter

                          MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                          • Dave RD Offline
                            Dave R
                            last edited by

                            You can play the distance thing to your advantage so it the curve is the centerline of the bent shape, you'll put the straight line on the centerline of the unbent form.

                            I found 13 unused materials also.

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                            • pbacotP Offline
                              pbacot
                              last edited by

                              Thanks. Yeah, I forgot to look at the materials!

                              MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                                sags
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                                thank you for the shape bender sir.. 👍

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                                  huntress_ss
                                  last edited by

                                  Hey Chris,
                                  I've tried ading this plug-in to my sketch-up but it's not working. Show's up with error load with "Error Loading File clf_shape_bender_loader.rb
                                  no such file to load -- progressbar.rb"

                                  Any suggestions on how to get this working?

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                                  • GaieusG Offline
                                    Gaieus
                                    last edited by

                                    Please, read the instructions carefully. Chris clearly wrote that you (also) need to install progresbar.rb.

                                    Gai...

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                                      mwm5053
                                      last edited by

                                      Not sure if this has been covered but getting error when using Shape bender with a slew of plugins in plugin folder when all are removed but
                                      Shape Bender it works fine screen shot on ruby console
                                      Thanks in advance.


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                                      SU 2015 Pro, 2017 Make
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                                      • TIGT Offline
                                        TIG Moderator
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                                        This is an odd error... it relates to a variable that should be set to a number by one of the tool's methods in line #676, clearly it's failing to do that hence the 'nil' error message when its used for a '/' divide calculation...
                                        @offset = **@y_total** / 6
                                        This is set around line #641, as either
                                        @y_total = @line_y - @ymin
                                        or
                                        @y_total = @ymax - @ymin
                                        So it seems the get_max_y method is failing somehow.
                                        That is turn is called from the get_geom_ents method; which is in turn called in line #249 when the user has picked the required objects to trigger the 'bending'...

                                        This suggests that if there's no error in the script [used without issue by thousands?] then perhaps another script is making an 'unwrapped' call of its method[s] with similar names and thereby causing the issue - unlike the usual rogue scripts which redefine how Sketchup treats Groups etc, which is far more awkward...
                                        A 'fix' could be to do a find/replace on all of the code in the script [using Notepad osa], so that all of the get_max_y become say get_max_y_CLF and get_geom_ents become get_geom_ents_CLF - then any clash with other scripts might be averted...

                                        TIG

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                                        • thomthomT Offline
                                          thomthom
                                          last edited by

                                          Hasn't that error been described and explained earlier in this thread? Think it comes up pretty often. Might be a bug in the code itself. Might be worth adding it to the first post (when we work out what it was again.)
                                          Wasn't there something about the orientation of the geometry?

                                          Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                            cris_santiago
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                                            hell yeah 👊
                                            !!!

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