[Plugin] Solid Inspector

apassemard

Hello All

I downloaded the Solid Inspector plugin on my Mac and it wasn't loading.. After some looking around I realized that I had put the plugin here:
/Applications/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp.app/Contents/Plugins

Where it should have been put here:
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/plugins/

Now it's working fine.

Hopefully that help some of the Mac users out there who are having issues..

Antony

JBERGMAN

This tool works great if you are trying to fix it yourself... I found this other plugin in the ruby library depot that not only identifies the problems, but corrects them too!

http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=793

worked for me first try...

Jim

@jbergman said:

This tool works great if you are trying to fix it yourself... I found this other plugin in the ruby library depot that not only identifies the problems, but corrects them too!

http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=793

worked for me first try...

A more recent 'Fix Solid' is available right here on this forum:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=48557
EDIT: by TIG
And there is the updated similar tool 'SolidSolver' http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=359994#p359994

metageek

@myguel said:

Hi,
I confirm the problem comes from the wine install somehow. I install the plugin on a mac the same way as with the linux and it works perfectly.
I will ask for some help in the wine community.

Did you get anywhere? I'm getting similar trouble running it in SU8 under Crossover (the commercialized Wine). On startup, I get a dialog titled "Load Errors", saying:

Error Loading File tt_solid_inspector.rb
uninitialized constant TT::System

When I press OK, the entire SU viewport goes black. I did try the (possibly outdated) advice to run dos2unix on the *.rb files of the plugin, but that doesn't help--in fact, it causes SU to report a BugSplat after I press OK on the Load Errors dialog.

thomthom

Did you install TT_Lib2? Linked under Requirements.

drawkcab

Many thanks for this. New user breaking in and this worked beautifully. 2" whisker on vertex of 75 ft. tower found instantly - love it.

metageek

@thomthom said:

Did you install TT_Lib2? Linked under Requirements.

Yup, did that.

thegoodguy

Brilliant! Thank you so much for this excellent plugin

Obryan

Hi ,

I have a mac osx 10.6.8 running Snow Leopard. I have Dropped the downloaded Solid Inspector ruby scripts into HD/Library/Application Support/Google Sketchup 8/Plugins

When I restart sketchup 8 I get This message:

Error Loading File tt_solid_inspector.rb
no such file to load -- TT_Lib2/core.rb

Can somebody tell me how to install Solid Inspector into my Mac?

Thank you,
Sean

thomthom

Go back to the first post and follow the link to the required TT_Lib2 - under the "Requirement" header, right above the Download button.

Ralphxyz

What is Solid Inspector telling me?

Sorry I am new to SketchUp but really having problems with making Solids.

What do I do to fix the problems?

What specifically do the colors represent?

Thanks,
Ralph

thomthom

The red colour is just indicating the current issue - you can cycle through the different issues using tab. The camera should zoom to the problem area.

The highlighed areas either means there is a hole or internal faces. You need to correct these before the object can be considered a solid.

olishea

Excellent plugin thomthom. Thank you and all the best.

jgb

You can zoom INTO the object and see the problems defined in red or orange. It really does not matter which you tackle first. Put your cursor on one item and deselect the group/comp. Then select again and edit. The cursor is on the problem. 99% all you have to do is delete it.

You can also change to XRAY view (Wireframe will not show problem faces) In XRAY you can move the cursor right onto the problem from outside the object, then edit it.

Sometimes you may have a circle that seems to be well outside the object. SI found a line fragment within the groups bounding box but totally outside the object. Pan and zoom such that the circle is seen against BLANK background, ie open sky or ground. Place the cursor in the circle, then deselect and edit again. Make a sweeping right to left selection to catch the offender and delete.

Note: You cannot edit the object while SI is active. You cannot activate SI while in edit mode.

There is also a companion pluggin, Solid Solver that "fixes" these kinds of errors, BUT, it can also destroy (undoable, almost always) an object that has a lot of problems.

I once had an object that started with about 600 lines and ended up with about 30 when Solver finally got done, so it is a good idea to SAVE before trying to Solve a complex mess.

I also have had objects that were deemed by Solver as "Can NEVER be made solid" fixed with just a few missing lines added.

joepotato

This plugin saved me from countless hours of trial and error in correcting issues with my model. Thank you!!!

rbedoya

Hi Thom,

I installed the Solid Inspector into my mac, in the plugins, but when i launch SU i get the following

Error Loading File tt_solid_inspector-1.rb
no such file to load -- TT_Lib2/core.rb

what might be the problem?

Gaieus

Please, re-read (or at least read once) the installation instructions and download/install that library this plugin is dependent on.

rbedoya

I have installed the library required and i get that error.

rbedoya

Here is the library i have installed and the plugin

TT_Lib2%20-%202.7.1.rbz
tt_solid_inspector-1.rb

thomthom

@rbedoya said:

Here is the library i have installed and the plugin

TT_Lib2%20-%202.7.1.rbz
tt_solid_inspector-1.rb

Placing the RBZ file in the plugins folder doesn't work. It's a package that must be installed. Note there's a big difference between RB and RBZ files.

Follow the installation instructions linked in the red box near the Download button.