[Plugin] ExtrudeTools - Full Set
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And you are running the very latest release of 2013?
What's inside the ExtrudeTools folder?
You've the extension enabled under preferences?
You have it enabled in the SketchUcation Tools Managers?
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That's weird!
after I checked and unchecked it from the toolbars dialogue and moving around the other toolbars, it finaly appeared but without a frame, so I cannot move it!
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yes, I told you, it is checked/visible everywhere
plugins manager, plugins menu, preferences/extensions, toolbars dialogue
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Double click on it now you can see it and it will come loose.
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@unknownuser said:
Try this: Enable the toolbar in View>Toolbars. Pull all of the toolbars off the top rows. Does the Extrude Tool toolbar show up in the upper left corner? If so, you have now found it and can place it where you need but you really ought to install the current version of SU2013. there was a bug in the first release that caused new toolbars to appear under the existing ones. It was fixed though.
Dave earlier mentioned this...
To me it looks like this is related to the bug Dave flagged.
What happens when you check for update under the Help menu?
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Sometimes giving up helps!
I reverted to the old plugins folder, relaunched SU and every toolbar appeared undocked, including ET!!!
I relaunched it a couple of times and now it seems stable.
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Doesn't installing it from plugin store guarantee that it's the latest version?
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He means the newest version of Sketchup itself, your problem suggests you have an old version.
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sorry, my bad. I thought you were referring to the plugin version all this time, I'm downloading latest sketchup right now. Thanks for bearing with me.
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Easy to miss out.
Glad it works
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Yes. I wrote "...install the current version of SU2013." because I meant the current version of SketchUp.
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HI,
Great set of tools. Thanks.
A two-part question:
About the "edges by face" and "edges by faces" tools. Is it possible to specify which point on the face(s) the edge endpoint aligns with? E.g. can you start the extrusion from the one of the pointed tips of a star-shape instead of the centre of the centre of the face?
About the "edges by faces" tool. Is it possible to specify which endpoints on the starting face align/match-up with which endpoints on the ending face?
I hope these questions make sense. I've attached an image to show what I mean. Shape (A) was produced using the tool. Shape (B) I did manually by choosing which endpoints are matched and then using a curve-stitching tool.
Thanks again.
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The toolbar not load, is it normal in SU 2013?
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The toolbar displays just fine in SU2013 unless you installed the plugin incorrectly or perhaps don't have sufficient privileges set for the Plugins folder. What operating system? (please update your profile), how did you install the plugin? Do you have sufficient privileges?
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I use your excellent Extrude-tool in another thread
(http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=55072)) )I'm afraid that I have to report a small bug.
With the Extrude-by-rails (I didn't test the others).
I have almost always an unexpected result if the [highlight=#ffff00:367zdzqn]profile turns exactly 180°[/highlight:367zdzqn] around Z (didn' test for the other axes). It could be a 'division by (almost) zero' (tangent).
I also used Jim's drawhelix14 plugin
helix-extrude-bug.skp -
If you pick the obvious profiles and rails you get your result.
However, if you pick a 'sweeping rail' as the first profile, then the two 'end' curves as the rails, and the other 'sweeping rail' as the melding profile, then it works... The 'direction' of the form might twist unexpectedly.
Another solution is to rotate the 4 curves [temporarily] by say 1 degree, then it works as I think you had hoped - no 'twisting' etc...
See the screen-grab...
It's not so much trigonometry, more having to decide in which direction the mesh goes, obviously if it's a 50:50 chance with axial alignments it can guess wrong...
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@tig said:
However, if you pick a 'sweeping rail' as the first profile, then the two 'end' curves as the rails, and the other 'sweeping rail' as the melding profile, then it works...
Yes, the result is also logic, but not the one i wanted.
@tig said:
Another solution is to rotate the 4 curves [temporarily] by say 1 degree, then it works as I think you had hoped - no 'twisting' etc...
I can live with it.
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Here's a new future-proofed update.
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=217663#p217663 -
Hi,
I have a problem. I tried to use the extrude edges by rails by face function. But the was one one component form on the profile section. I don't understand why.
Below there is 2 attached jpg files, it is the print screen of the process and the outcome.
Please help me!!!! Thank you
Yhchen
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If you run it with the Ruby Console open are there any error messages ?
Is the geometry very small ?
Try it with the profile face reversed - it should work either way but who knows ?Can you attach a SKP containing the 4 curves and the face so we can look at it...
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