[Plugin] Shape Bender Beta
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Nebin, please ignore Rich he's being 'funny'
BUT you are being too cryptic... post what?
You are posting messages here, we are reading them.
You can post files and images, which you attach to them using the buttons below the typing-pane.
You can sens Private Messages to other users by clicking the PM button below their name or making a message in your own user-control-panel...
If you want to email someone [or send them something in the mail] then ask them for their details via a PM; they are unlikely to publish it to the world in the forums. -
When I load Sketchup 8 i get an error message telling me that I need parametric.rb. Where can I get that file?
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@convta98 said:
When I load Sketchup 8 i get an error message telling me that I need parametric.rb. Where can I get that file?
IF you follow the advice in the main tool's download page... you'd know it's at http://www.Smustard.com - 'progressbar.rb'.
http://www.smustard.com/script/ProgressBar
I think 'parametric.rb' isn't needed by this specific tool - but that's readily available from the main Sketchup plugins page... http://sketchup.google.com/intl/zh-CN/download/rubyscripts.html
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As far as I can tell, Shape Bender doesn't need parametric.rb but you should probably have it anyway because other plugins do use it. Get it here.
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Yes, is there anyone out there that can help me with the plugin Shape Bender by Chris Fullmer ? I believe I loaded it correctly but maybe not I'm getting an load error message , when I go into sketchup. When I downloaded the file I unziped it, I copied the file and pasted it into the plugins folder, restarted windows and when it came back on and i started sketchup with this Load Error ( Error Loading File clf_shape_bender_loader.rb no such file to load -- progressbar.rb ) . Can anyone help me? I tried this twice w/no luck I would like to get this to work. Thank you john
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@jspro said:
I believe I loaded it correctly but maybe not I'm getting an load error message , when I go into sketchup. When I downloaded the file I unziped it, I copied the file and pasted it into the plugins folder, restarted windows and when it came back on and i started sketchup with this Load Error ( Error Loading File clf_shape_bender_loader.rb no such file to load -- progressbar.rb ) .
You also need to install progressbar.rb for here: http://www.smustard.com/script/ProgressBar
(The installation instructions clearly say this)
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Well, I found a remedy .. kind of.
I commented out all the lines updating the progress bar with a comment character, #
. . . . #pb.update(i) . . .there are 7 of them.Unfortunately, I had to do that with clf_color_by_slope, clf_color_by_z and clf_greeble_2
My system doesn't seem to like the progress bar. Even after downloading a fresh copy from smustard
yesterday.If I find out why (it's a mystery), I'll post it.
Again, it's a great Plug-in. ... hope this helps anyone w/ the same problem.
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Hasn't that nil error been repeated a few times along in this thread? Might be worth adding a note in the first post about it. No one is going to find it dug into n-number of pages.
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I agree it's not the best .... just a trouble shooting remedy.
I'll try your approach.
TIG has suggested a few things also ... (my post on one of the other plug-ins)
Appreciate your input.
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Plugin looks great . . . but, i'm getting this feedback :
it seems to lock-up at 7% or 20%
any suggestions ?
I posted a temporary trouble shooting remedy, just after this post.
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=18210&start=1020#p422479
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Grate one ! THNX
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Hi all,
Using the plugin with dynamic component it crashes.
Has anyone successfully bent a DC?Otherwise, it works fine.
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Since the Component [DC] is copied to make the bent version it may well conflict with a DC as there is generally only one instance of each variant.
You can copy the DC off to one side and explode it down to its raw geometry and then make a group of that, and then bend that group - it will have lost all of it's DC-ness, so those issues should be avoided...
It's a good idea to do complex operations, like bending, on an object located in a relatively empty SKP, and recombine things into a combo-model afterwards - so exploding the DC in these circumstances seems quite possible.
You can't expect a DC to retain its DC-ness/properties after bending it, as all of its axes etc will be messed up, even if it were to make it through the processing... -
grab TIG's "undc" script and run that before doing the bend.
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@gullfo said:
grab TIG's "undc" script and run that before doing the bend.
I'd forgotten I made that
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=382224#p382224 -
it was awesome plugin tools
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@tig said:
I'd forgotten I made that
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=382224#p382224it's one of my most important tools now
- i can use a huge number of DC in my models then "un-DC" them and ship the model out without worrying that my DC will be distributed... -
It's not even a 'tool'... just a 'code snippet'...
Glad it was useful
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