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    [Plugin] GhostComp - v1.4a - 31 Oct 18

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    • R Offline
      rachmatrf
      last edited by

      Wow! What a great plugin... 😍 😍 😍 😍

      I can not thank you enough to make this possible on sketchup... Where have I been so far to miss this wonderful plugin. SU Team surely should incorporate this in SU native version. I believe they will put this in the new Trimble Sketchup... Great work Fredo!!! and thanks once again....

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        sellberg
        last edited by

        Thanks for this! I´ve only had a short test/peek/session w this RB. It seems super useful!

        I had one problem, though: I saved the model when in ghost mode and closed the program. When I opened the same model later I couldn´t reset the geometry to the complex form. I just saw the ghost. Have anyone else had similar experiences?

        //KJS
        Running a freeSU8 on a mac.

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        • R Offline
          rv1974
          last edited by

          Fredo,I just wondered would this dirty trick http://72.27.230.245/3ds-max/scripts/renderlayers-0 be possible in SU8?

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            congellous
            last edited by

            This is a copy of my plug ins folder, I've upgraded to the new fredo lib and installed the ghost but nothing shows up in the program
            Have I got some conflict in here, it's a mess !

            __loader.rb
            .DS_Store
            #extrusionToolbar.rb
            AddCtrPnt.rb
            animation.rb
            artisan
            artisan_loader.rb
            attributes.rb
            Autounfold.rb
            bezier.rb
            box.rb
            clf_shape_bender
            clf_shape_bender_loader.rb
            config-thumb.jpg
            contextmenu.rb
            ctsMaker
            curve_maker.rb
            curve_pointer.png
            CURVILOFT_Dir_12
            deBabelizer.rb
            default_pointer.png
            DEFPARAM_Dir
            DOCUMENTATION_Dir
            drawhelix14.rb
            drawmetal_plugins_1_3_4.rb
            dropverts.rb
            Examples
            examples.rb
            examplescripts.rb
            extrudeEdgesByEdges.rb
            extrudeEdgesByFace.rb
            extrudeEdgesByFaces.rb
            extrudeEdgesByLathe.rb
            extrudeEdgesByLoft.rb
            extrudeEdgesByOffset.rb
            extrudeEdgesByRails.rb
            extrudeEdgesByRailsByFace.rb
            extrudeEdgesByRailsToLattice.rb
            extrudeEdgesByVector.rb
            extrudeEdgesByVectorToObject.rb
            faceFlattener019.rb
            fillet.rb
            flattery
            flattery.rb
            Fredo6Trace.txt
            FREDOSCALE
            FREDOSCALE_Dir_22
            FredoScale_Tool.rb
            FredoScale.rb
            generateSoapSkinBubble.rbs
            Geodesic_SketchUp.rb
            GhostComp%201
            Help
            iges_export.rb
            Images
            jointpushpull.rb
            JPP_Dir_20
            LIBFREDO6_Dir_48
            LibFredo6.rb
            LibTraductor.rb
            line_pointer.png
            linetool.rb
            maxwell
            maxwell.rb
            Ocean
            ocean_extension.rb
            proper_animation
            proper_animation_loader.rb
            ROUNDCORNER
            ROUNDCORNER_Dir_23
            RoundCorner.rb
            RubyToPython
            SCF
            selection.rb
            shapes.rb
            SketchyFFD.rb
            skin.rb
            skp_to_dxf.rb
            skp_to_dxf.rbz
            SoapSkinBubble
            generateSoapSkinBubble.rbs
            Help
            Images
            SoapSkinBubbleMenus.rb
            SoapSkinBubbleTools.rb
            stock_maker.rb
            SU_Podium_Browser.rbs
            SU_Podium_V2
            SU_Podium_V2.rbs
            SuSolid
            susolid.rbs
            taper_maker.rb
            TIGtools
            TOS
            TOS_Dir_18
            tt_cleanup.rb
            TT_Lib2
            tt_simple_installer.rb
            tt_solid_inspector.rb
            unfoldtool.png
            unfoldtool.rb
            Utilities
            utilities.rb
            utilities.rbs
            utilitiestools.rb
            vfs.rb
            weld.rb
            ZLoader__FredoScale.rb
            ZLoader__GhostComp.rb
            ZLoader__OnSurface.rb
            ZLoader__RoundCorner.rb

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            • TIGT Offline
              TIG Moderator
              last edited by

              Have you activated its Extension from within Preferences.
              You might also then need to activate its Toolbar...

              TIG

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              • C Offline
                congellous
                last edited by

                There doesn't seem to be an extension in there ?
                It has instal extension which one is the extension ?

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  This ?Capture.PNG

                  TIG

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                  • C Offline
                    congellous
                    last edited by

                    Yeah it's not there

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      In your list there's 'GhostComp%201' what's that ?
                      Looks like an html based name ?
                      There ought to be a folder called 'GHOSTCOMP_Dir_10'
                      containing these files Capture.PNG This suggests you has mis-installed it...

                      TIG

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                      • C Offline
                        congellous
                        last edited by

                        Dunno what that was but removing it sorted it, didn't even need to turn the extension on. Thanks TIG

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                        • P Offline
                          parsleybrain
                          last edited by

                          Hello Fredo, thanks for another great plugin. So I startet to use it and it worked just fine. I've lots of railings in my model, some are just copies of components but I also had to make a bunch of them unique and to tweak them. Finally making even one copy of an component took so long I decided to use your ghostcomp. And it worked - but now Sketchup always chrashes when I try to create a ghost component. Do you have any advice or idea what to do about that? Thanks in advance.

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                          • fredo6F Offline
                            fredo6
                            last edited by

                            @parsleybrain said:

                            Hello Fredo, thanks for another great plugin. So I startet to use it and it worked just fine. I've lots of railings in my model, some are just copies of components but I also had to make a bunch of them unique and to tweak them. Finally making even one copy of an component took so long I decided to use your ghostcomp. And it worked - but now Sketchup always chrashes when I try to create a ghost component. Do you have any advice or idea what to do about that? Thanks in advance.

                            Please make sure you have the most recent versions. For the crash, it may be some conflicting plugins (some versions of Vray and Podium for instance)

                            Fredo

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                            • fredo6F Offline
                              fredo6
                              last edited by

                              NEW RELEASE: GhostComp v1.1a - 27 Nov 13

                              GhostComp 1.1a is a release for future Sketchup compatibility. It is advised to upgrade even if there are no functional changes.

                              See main post of this thread for Download.

                              Fredo

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                                jaceguay
                                last edited by

                                Really useful, many thanks.

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                                • ppoublanP Offline
                                  ppoublan
                                  last edited by

                                  @fredo6 said:

                                  The concept behind GhostComp is to associate a simplified version to a component (called Ghost). Then the script provides an easy way to switch back and forth between the Ghost version and the Real version in the model.

                                  Hi Fredo,
                                  I integrated this concept into the last version of 3D Tree Maker, with a function that could be called by external plugins to switch/and back from full view to proxy view. the good thing is that in proxy view only object information needed to rebuild the object is kept in object dictionary, not all the real edges/faces.
                                  If you think it could be interesting to integrate calls to 3DTreeMaker from your plugin, let me know.
                                  Yours
                                  pascal

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                                  • fredo6F Offline
                                    fredo6
                                    last edited by

                                    Sure. Thanks for thinking about GhostComp

                                    I would need to revisit this plugin, but it is a good idea to integrate custom ghost for certain kind of components.

                                    I'll have a look and advise.

                                    Fredo

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                                    • ppoublanP Offline
                                      ppoublan
                                      last edited by

                                      Things to know before calling :

                                      • those functions contain purge of unused component definitions and unused materials (after drawing a tree or its proxy). So to be called outside of a loop browsing each component definition, and list of definitions to be rebuild if needed after calling.
                                      • it contains start/commit, I do not know results of nesting multiple start/commit, so preferably call outside of start/commit.
                                        Needs v1.10 at least (not implemented in previous versions).

                                      Did not tested, but this should work :

                                      #To switch all trees to proxies
                                      if file_loaded?('3darcstudiotreemain.rb’)
                                      M3darcstudiotree.f3das_changealltoproxies
                                      end

                                      #To switch all proxies to trees
                                      if file_loaded?(‘3darcstudiotreemain.rb’)
                                      M3darcstudiotree.f3das_redrawall
                                      end

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                                      • danchoD Offline
                                        dancho
                                        last edited by

                                        Fredo6 I like your plugin but with SU2014 on windows7 I can't change
                                        from bounding box to wireframe mode, its always bounding box. Any suggestion?

                                        Thanks

                                        Sorry, I found a solution. First must to choose a type than create
                                        ghost and turn it on. Perfect 😆

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                                        • fredo6F Offline
                                          fredo6
                                          last edited by

                                          NEW RELEASE: GhostComp v1.2a - 20 Oct 14

                                          GhostComp 1.2a is required for the support of usernames with non-ascii characters in Sketchup 2014.

                                          See main post of this thread for Download.

                                          Fredo

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                                          • S Offline
                                            salamon
                                            last edited by

                                            Hello is this working for sketchup 2015?

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