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      metageek
      last edited by

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 I did try the (possibly outdated) advice to run dos2unix on the *.rb files of the plugin, but that doesn't help--in fact, it causes SU to report a BugSplat after I press OK on the Load Errors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

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        thomthom
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        Did you install TT_Lib2? Linked under Requirements.

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

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          drawkcab
          last edited by

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

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            metageek
            last edited by

            @thomthom said:

            Did you install TT_Lib2? Linked under Requirements.

            Yup, did that.

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              thegoodguy
              last edited by

              Brilliant! Thank you so much for this excellent plugin πŸ˜„

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                Obryan
                last edited by

                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

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                  thomthom
                  last edited by

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

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

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                    Ralphxyz
                    last edited by

                    What is Solid Inspector telling me?

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

                    http://gettheworkdone.net/images/sketchup/SolidTools1.png

                    What do I do to fix the problems?

                    What specifically do the colors represent?

                    Thanks,
                    Ralph

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                    • thomthomT Offline
                      thomthom
                      last edited by

                      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.

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

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                        olishea
                        last edited by

                        Excellent plugin thomthom. Thank you and all the best.

                        oli

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                          jgb
                          last edited by

                          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.


                          jgb

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                            joepotato
                            last edited by

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

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                              rbedoya
                              last edited by

                              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?

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                                Gaieus
                                last edited by

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

                                Gai...

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                                  rbedoya
                                  last edited by

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

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                                    rbedoya
                                    last edited by

                                    Here is the library i have installed and the plugin

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

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                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      @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.

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

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                                        driven
                                        last edited by

                                        @rbedoya said:

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

                                        what might be the problem?

                                        is that a copy, or are there two versions?
                                        on my mac it's **tt_solid_inspector.rb**,
                                        if so does your TT_Lib2 also a copy i.e. TT_Lib2-1
                                        if it is, SU won't find it...

                                        john

                                        learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                                          Jim
                                          last edited by

                                          Rather than implement this as a Tool, I wonder if it makes sense to apply a material to the offending edges and set the style to color by material. That way, I could exit the tool and explore the model at my leisure.

                                          Hi

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                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            @jim said:

                                            Rather than implement this as a Tool, I wonder if it makes sense to apply a material to the offending edges and set the style to color by material. That way, I could exit the tool and explore the model at my leisure.

                                            Could be added as an option. I'd still want to have an non-modifying inspection method.
                                            I had originally planned to try to implement methods to fix various errors - but .. you know Time and all that. πŸ˜•

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

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