[Plugin][$] FredoScale - v3.6a - 01 Apr 24

thundermatch · 28 Mar 2013, 05:06

Thank you for sharing...

thegoodguy · 2 Apr 2013, 18:10

Amazing work! Thanks so much for this brilliant tool.

Vicky21S · 11 Apr 2013, 21:05

I've downloaded, extracted and put all the necessary files into the Plugin folder but for some reason cannot see the FredoScale options in Sketchup even when I restart. I've checked the preferences folder, tools panel and still nothing. Someone please help me with this, I am beyond frustrated.

pbacot · 12 Apr 2013, 04:55

Vicky,

Working backwards, You should get a listing in "Tool palettes" for a toolbar and under the Tools menu, "Fredo Collection >> Fredoscale".
You say you checked in Preferences? Is Fredoscale listed (and checked) in the Extensions window?
You've gone back to the SCF topics for Fredoscale and LibFredo and checked the requirements and specifics of file placement.
You saw the warning on the Fredoscale topic:
"IMPORTANT: Requires to download LibFredo6 3.6 or higher if not already installed."
Everything seems right to you then probably the next thing is to post a screenshot of your plugin folder where it shows all the required files, and see if someone can see something out of place.

willie_0 · 17 Apr 2013, 18:25

Thanks Fredo6 your a rockstar..

cheers,
Willie

fredo6 · 19 Apr 2013, 07:02

FredoScale, and more generally Ruby scripts, have problems to deal with fresh copies of group. Under the hood, these groups share a common definition until they are edited.

So in your case, I would suggest that you

either use Make Unique feature of FredoScale
Just double click of the Group A and B instances to make them unique

Fredo

Taniouska111 · 22 Apr 2013, 15:56

bucksbedrooms · 7 May 2013, 15:55

Bug [pretty sure anyway].
Hi I love this Fredoscale plugin and was going to make a donation but I am getting some buggy results which I hope there is a solution for. Please see attachments.

Some whole components move or don't move instead of scale.

Top drawer irratic scaling

cotty · 11 May 2013, 07:10

I've tried some scaling and everything works as expected. Can you desribe your goal more detailed?

jdkarg1989 · 13 May 2013, 09:55

Hi. I have a question. When I twist an object and conferm my sketchup crashes. What could this be?

fredo6 · 13 May 2013, 14:30

@jdkarg1989 said:

Hi. I have a question. When I twist an object and conferm my sketchup crashes. What could this be?

Are you working on a Group which has been freshly copied?

Fredo

TIG · 13 May 2013, 14:33

Or is the object very tiny ?
Or very large ??

Dave R · 13 May 2013, 20:43

What are the dimensions of the original before bending?

giorgio1979 · 13 May 2013, 20:46

Lovely plugin. Another issue: Sometimes when I do a "radial bending by selection of plane" I get some missing faces on the bending side.
PS: I restarted sketchup, and I cannot reproduce this anymore. Perhaps I set something in Fredolib somewhere during an operation.
See image:

giorgio1979 · 13 May 2013, 20:47

@dave r said:

What are the dimensions of the original before bending?

Very small, 2mm * 5 mm rectangle, extruded to 5mm.
I just tried to reproduce it after a restart but couldn't. Will post back when I have a consistent way to reproduce this. Same dimensions work fine on a clean slate.

Dave R · 13 May 2013, 20:50

Typically SketchUp won't fill in tiny faces such as the ones being generated in your bending operation. For that reason it isn't much of a surprise that it didn't work. Perhaps the second time you tried it you weren't making such tiny faces?

thomthom · 23 May 2013, 08:15

Got a sample model?

Macker · 23 May 2013, 08:15

Whilst I am almost certain this issue has been raised in this thread, I can't go through 27 pages of reading right now.

Does anyone else have sketchup crash completely when using the scale/stretch tool on groups that contain groups? I always use extensive grouping so that I can take my models into 3ds max, and this tool would undoubtedly speed up my workflow - but keeps crashing sketchup.

Also, the snaps don't seem to work properly all of the time?

Anybody else, or am I doing it wrong?

Macker · 23 May 2013, 08:25

Never mind, I found a work-around.

To stop the crashes I have to work within the group I'm trying to scale, and select all of the items within the group (provided there are no other sub-groups, otherwise it will crash).

This then stops the snaps working properly; it wont let me snap (correctly) to things outside of the group that I am working in - so I have to draw a line within the group to create a snap point, then delete it once I am done.

thomthom · 23 May 2013, 08:29

Be interesting to test - to see if it's just on your system. Maybe a plugin conflict...