[Plugin] Solid Inspector

Rich5 · 30 May 2012, 13:43

How do you get out of solid inspector? Prob a very dumb question but it seems once on I can't get out and back to SU.

Dave R · 30 May 2012, 13:55

Have you tried picking another tool?

thomthom · 30 May 2012, 13:56

@rich5 said:

How do you get out of solid inspector? Prob a very dumb question but it seems once on I can't get out and back to SU.

Just activate another tool, like Select (Spacebar).

d12dozr · 8 Aug 2012, 04:42

Just curious, why are some errors highlighted red, and some yellow? I haven't been able to figure out a pattern.

thomthom · 8 Aug 2012, 07:48

@d12dozr said:

Just curious, why are some errors highlighted red, and some yellow? I haven't been able to figure out a pattern.

Red is the currently selected error. I think you can press a key (Return maybe=) to make it zoom in. You can also Tab around between errors.

There is lots of room for improvement - but not enough time...

d12dozr · 8 Aug 2012, 12:31

@thomthom said:

Red is the currently selected error. I think you can press a key (Return maybe=) to make it zoom in. You can also Tab around between errors.

Oh cool, I knew about the Tab key, but I never knew about the colors.

Its an excellent tool - thanks again!

thegreek87 · 8 Aug 2012, 18:03

Wish I knew about this plugin sooner, gonna save me a lot of time. Thank you very much

DesertRaven · 10 Aug 2012, 02:51

Hey TomTom, this is an awesome tool!!! thank you so much for sharing this.

A note to the Sketchup Programmers, weather they will read this or not, just have to say it:

Did it never occur to you that something like this should of been in the solid tool kit to begin with?!!

Do you guys ever test what you program? Put a little bit more muscle in to it, please for crying out loud!

Also try and make us some tools that don't leave fractions of tiny lines behind like that buggy follow me tool, fix it already!

Thanks. I just donated $50 to ThomThom. Keep the good work going!

VeniVidiVici · 28 Aug 2012, 23:07

Hi Thomas,

Thank you again for this tool (belive I've said it before) great tool.
I haven't used it in a while, and now I cant seem to get it working.
It seems to load fine but nothing happens?

I've double checked, and it is in the google sketchup 8 plugins folder...

tt_solid_inspector.rb

I also put in the newest TT_Lib2, which is in its own folder in the Plugins directory.

I still cant seem to get anything to work, I have a few objects that arent quite solids, grouped, and it loads
but I see no errors, yet it is not a solid.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

VeniVidiVici · 29 Aug 2012, 03:14

Thomas, your tools are awesome...I got it to work, not sure what it was, guess I just needed a reboot?!
This tool has saved me countless hours of work...I will be contributing in the near future...tks again.

Brett

thomthom · 29 Aug 2012, 07:35

@venividivici said:

I still cant seem to get anything to work, I have a few objects that arent quite solids, grouped, and it loads
but I see no errors, yet it is not a solid.

Any ideas?

I don't have an idea as of yet - you need to be more specific to what "doesn't work". No menus? Tool doesn't activate?
You see errors you say, in the Ruby Console? (If so, please post them - they would be extremely useful)

xiombarg · 4 Sept 2012, 20:41

It's actually cool to see people making donations to valued plugin programmers. I'm working through a prototyping, but as soon as I make any money, I'm committed to donate accordingly.

voljanko · 5 Sept 2012, 06:22

@venividivici said:

I have a few objects that arent quite solids, grouped, and it loads
but I see no errors, yet it is not a solid.

Maybe you have ungroupped items mixed with grouped one.
To detect this you need a SuSolid plugin (free for only solid inspections).
David

Snowy · 5 Sept 2012, 07:44

Thanks a lot! Great plugin

Anton_S · 25 Sept 2012, 03:14

Useful, plus efficient plug.

I've been wondering, what is a rough pseudo code to check whether the group is a solid?

at least two faces per edge?

thomthom · 25 Sept 2012, 07:40

@anton_s said:

Useful, plus efficient plug.

I've been wondering, what is a rough pseudo code to check whether the group is a solid?

at least two faces per edge?

All edges should have exactly 2 faces. Anything else and it's not a solid. No need to check for anything else.

TIG · 25 Sept 2012, 10:22

Although checking for nested objects like groups/images/instances also helps because they stop 'solidness' too...
Normally, to be seen as a 'solid' a group/component should contain only edges/faces and ALL edges must have two faces [no more, no fewer]. Note that there could also be 'Guides' inside a 'solid', because they won't interact with its geometry...

Anton_S · 25 Sept 2012, 22:38

@thomthom said:

All edges should have exactly 2 faces. Anything else and it's not a solid. No need to check for anything else.

Wow, I was close!

@tig said:

Although checking for nested objects like groups/images/instances also helps because they stop 'solidness' too... Guides...

Thanks, good advice! I guess that makes-up a complete defenition of a solid.

MYguel · 27 Sept 2012, 10:33

Hi,
I have the following problem after installing solid inspector. When I start SketchUp I get the error dialog box:

Error Loading File tt_solid_inspector.rb
uninitialized constant TT;;GUI;;ToolWindow

Does anyone encountered the same error previously? I use SketchUp 8 (the free version) from wine under linux, I do not think it could be related, but it is the only thing that is special considering my case.

sincerely,

Myguel

Dave R · 27 Sept 2012, 13:35

Did you also install TT_Lib2 as specified in the original post?