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    • Dave RD Offline
      Dave R
      last edited by

      The most likely problem is that you haven't set up full read and write permissions for the Plugins folder. Do that and try to install again.

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      • plot-parisP Offline
        plot-paris
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        Hey Thomthom,

        I am using Cleanup every day (or every other minute pretty much). Even got a shortcut assigned that I use as naturally as a wet dog shakes itself dry - its become a reflex!

        However, sometimes this reflex rips apart my models, especially when having used plugins like Curviloft prior to it or pretty much every time I import a .3ds file...

        One such model is this shiny new Bialetti Espresso Maker (just finished modelling it πŸ˜„ ).
        Bialetti_EspressoMaker.skp

        When I run Cleanup over it, it gets destroyed. Even when I scale it up 100x...

        Is there any way to change the cleanup settings to avoid this?

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        • massimoM Offline
          massimo Moderator
          last edited by

          Well it works fine for me, without scaling anything, with these settings:
          Cattura_01.JPG
          Cattura.JPG

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          • E Offline
            edfishbone
            last edited by

            Hi

            Thanks in advance. Just installed cleanup. Looks great!
            I have the TT Lib2 2.7.1 but the installer is calling for 2.8 which i cannot seem to find. The download link does not work.

            best


            screenshot

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            • plot-parisP Offline
              plot-paris
              last edited by

              Hey Massimo,

              it was the "Ignore Normals" setting. I had this one ticked. Now its working for me too.
              Thanks for the help!

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              • massimoM Offline
                massimo Moderator
                last edited by

                πŸ‘

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                • W Offline
                  watkins
                  last edited by

                  When using Fredo6's plugin checker it suggests that I do not have the most recent version of cleanup, even though I have installed it. The checker appears to be calling for an earlier version. What's up doc!


                  Error message.jpg

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    @unknownuser said:

                    HELP!
                    I have never posted before and I'm sorry to interrupt a conversation but I am having trouble installing the cleanup plugin. I keep getting an error message saying that google was not able to install the plugin for an unknown reason. I use V.8. and I am currently using a pro trial.

                    As Dave mentions - this is some bug with SketchUp where some users doesn't have proper access to their plugins folder. I'm not a Mac guy, so I don't know the exact steps to correct the folder permissions. :s

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

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                    • thomthomT Offline
                      thomthom
                      last edited by

                      @plot-paris said:

                      Hey Thomthom,
                      When I run Cleanup over it, it gets destroyed. Even when I scale it up 100x...

                      When you scale up groups/components you scale only the instance - the definitions are still small. You'd have to "Scale Definitions" for the scaling trick to work.

                      @plot-paris said:

                      Hey Massimo,
                      it was the "Ignore Normals" setting. I had this one ticked. Now its working for me too.
                      Thanks for the help!

                      That's odd though, the normals of your model appeared to be correctly oriented and in any case it shouldn't break. But that's probably due to the very small size of the faces.

                      @massimo said:

                      Well it works fine for me, without scaling anything, with these settings:

                      You have a very old version of CleanUp. I'd recommend you update.

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

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
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                        @unknownuser said:

                        Are you sure you installed TT_Lib2 correctly?

                        What is returned if you open the Ruby Console (under Window menu) and type in TT::Lib::VERSION ?

                        Also - when you say the link doesn't work - exactly what happens? Error m

                        Are you sure you installed TT_Lib2 correctly?

                        What is returned if you open the Ruby Console (under Window menu) and type in TT::Lib::VERSION ?

                        Also - when you say the link doesn't work - exactly what happens? Error messages?

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

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          @watkins said:

                          When using Fredo6's plugin checker it suggests that I do not have the most recent version of cleanup, even though I have installed it. The checker appears to be calling for an earlier version. What's up doc!

                          I don't know. Maybe fredo's checker only uses the first digit of the version number? Extracting the digit 1 from 10? I don't really know.

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

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            @edfishbone said:

                            Thanks in advance. Just installed cleanup. Looks great!
                            I have the TT Lib2 2.7.1 but the installer is calling for 2.8 which i cannot seem to find. The download link does not work.

                            Yes, since it says "Not Installed" it means you do not have TT_Lib2 installed. Had it been out of date it would have said "Outdated".

                            I'm going to make a guess that you have placed the RBZ in the plugins folder directly. Note that RBZ files are not the same as RB files. RBZ files must be installed via the "Install Extension" function in SketchUp. (Window > Preferences > Extensions > Install Extension)

                            For more info on how to install plugins or extensions: http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2012/01/installing-plugins-for-google-sketchup/

                            To make it even easier, have a look at SketchUcations plugin manager that will download and install plugins hosted on this site for you: http://sketchucation.com/resources/plugin-store-download

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

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                            • massimoM Offline
                              massimo Moderator
                              last edited by

                              @massimo said:

                              Well it works fine for me, without scaling anything, with these settings:

                              @thomthom said:

                              You have a very old version of CleanUp. I'd recommend you update.

                              Yes I know, thanks. πŸ˜„
                              I'll do.

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                                edfishbone
                                last edited by

                                @thomthom said:

                                @edfishbone said:

                                Thanks in advance. Just installed cleanup. Looks great!
                                I have the TT Lib2 2.7.1 but the installer is calling for 2.8 which i cannot seem to find. The download link does not work.

                                Yes, since it says "Not Installed" it means you do not have TT_Lib2 installed. Had it been out of date it would have said "Outdated".

                                I'm going to make a guess that you have placed the RBZ in the plugins folder directly. Note that RBZ files are not the same as RB files. RBZ files must be installed via the "Install Extension" function in SketchUp. (Window > Preferences > Extensions > Install Extension)

                                For more info on how to install plugins or extensions: http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2012/01/installing-plugins-for-google-sketchup/

                                To make it even easier, have a look at SketchUcations plugin manager that will download and install plugins hosted on this site for you: http://sketchucation.com/resources/plugin-store-download

                                Thanks for the reply. I started again and used your simple installer, then the clean.rbz, and finally the TT_Lib2 file and it worked! I had originally used the plugin manager/store but somehow messed it up.

                                Cheers!

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  SCF's plugin store didn't install it correctly?

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

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                                  • TIGT Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    If you use the Plugin Store to auto-install the plugin without the Lib already installed it won't load.
                                    If you use the Plugins Manager to Disable the plugin and immediately try to Load/Enable it again you will get an error message telling you what file[s] is missing...

                                    If you restart SketchUp without having installed the Lib then you'll also get error messages about missing files...

                                    If the plugin is not loaded because of this missing file[s] and you then auto-install the Lib... then the plugin will still not be loaded in that session, UNLESS after that you Disable it and immediately Load/Enable it again, when it will find the Lib and successfully work: much the same as restarting SketchUp would have worked.

                                    All of this is just as if you had downloaded the plugin and Lib RBZ file and manually installed them in the wrong order, using the Preferences > Extensions > Load... button.

                                    If a tool's notes say that it requires a Lib, or another supporting file, it is a wise move to first install that... and then install the tool so it can find the required file a sit is loaded.
                                    Most tools check for their support files as they initially 'load' AND NOT as they are 'run' - indeed some of them can't even bootstrap unless their helpers are present... πŸ˜•

                                    TIG

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                                    • Y Offline
                                      yildirimyazgan
                                      last edited by

                                      Hello, I tried to use this plugin to clean my model which is a geometry constructed from triangle modules, i wanted the final model to have clean coplanar surfaces. But it didnt worked properly: the possible reason might be because of the surfaces that remaines from the modules; they dont dissapear after the explosion Thus the script sees them as a "corner defining" edge.

                                      The model explains the problem better.(i cleaned the example model manually to show what i want to achieve.)

                                      Do you have any suggestions ? how can i get clean model ?

                                      script problem with modular grouped objects.skp

                                      cs.jpg

                                      final model will be around 3000000 of these triangle modules so to do it manually is not rational

                                      Thank you

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                                      • TIGT Offline
                                        TIG Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        Presumably there are many internal partition.floor faces showing where the horizontal divisions show...
                                        You need to use a tool like 'SolidSolver', which tries to remove these and make the geometry a manifold...
                                        Really you are NOT trying to 'CleanUp' the SKP: rather, you are trying to make it into a 'Solid' - which is a different issue...

                                        TIG

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                                        • thomthomT Offline
                                          thomthom
                                          last edited by

                                          @yildirimyazgan said:

                                          they dont dissapear after the explosion Thus the script sees them as a "corner defining" edge.

                                          Where are these extruded triangles groups/components originally? Which you exploded?
                                          If that is the case - they would be solids and I'd recommend you use Solid Tools to merge them all. That should take care of the internal faces which prevents the edges from being cleaned up.

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

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                                          • C Offline
                                            crizilla
                                            last edited by

                                            thanks for this. However that would be awesome if you added a "merge vertices" feature. Whenever I import into maya, I have to merge all the vertices. I get tons of overlapping. Shouldn't be that difficult, right? You did it for faces πŸ˜„

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