[Plugin] SmartDrop Beta

[Chris Fullmer]

You mean there is no command visible? You really need to specify what the problem is. For example, you try to run it, and SU crashes. You try to run it, and your entire model disappears. You try to run it and nothing seems to happen. You install it and SU no longer opens. You install it, but can not find how to start the plugin. Please help us understand what the problem is.

If you just can't figure out where to start it, it is in the right click menu when you have components selected.

Good luck,

Chris

[ckho1985]

Sorry Chris as i didnt clarify the matter. What I have done was copied the rb file into the plugin file. However, when I loadup SU. I could not find the smartdrop function, not in the plugin list, nor right click, nor help. I though there was an icon for the smartdrop tool, back in su7 (maybe I am wrong), and it wasnt there. btw, everything else was find, no crash no nothing.

um... I think I should repair my su8 and re-download the rb file.

[Rich O Brien]

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[Niffler]

@solo said:

I agree.

I never knew it existed, and what a great script it is.

Hey Solo,

You said you are for hire, is that right? I've been to your website and...how do you hire a god?!
Niffler

[brookefox]

For me there are some issues.... job does not complete, perhaps owing to component bumping?

Merci, Pilou for your nice image tut, posted earlier.

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[brookefox]

Yes, component bumping appears to have been the problem.

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[pilou]

Use the cool Thomthom RayTracer!
Object must be in a box with an horizontal base : Drop by Bounds
So will work with your example!
careful than an inclined object yet droped don't block next following

by Thomthom

[mlefevre]

I'm trying to drop a solar array onto a surface using this plugin and having some issues. The panels are touching end to end, and when I drop them to the surface, either individually or all together, some of the components will turn up on end and others will lay plat on the surface. Any thoughts?

I'm using SU 8 Pro.

Thanks!

[Mra]

Thanks for the plugin. But it changes the angle of objects?

So if I have a pole, I drop it to the surface but this plugin in makes it no longer vertical. Is there an option to change this?

[pelikan21]

Thanks for plugin. But I have some problem while adding this plugin from extension part of windows. I can't see anything related with smart drop while selecting some component in SketchUp.

[TIG]

Did you use Preferences > Extensions > Install... or the SketchUcation PluginStore dialog's AutoInstall button to install the RBZ version ?
Is the appropriate smartdrop.RB file in your Plugins folder ?
Is it listed in the SketchUcation Plugins Manager ?
If you select one or more component instances that are located above a surface you should get a right-click context-menu item... which then does the 'drop' to any intersection with a surface below the instance[s]...
Remember that the surface front face should be 'up'...

[thomthom]

The current version 1.5 is modifying the SketchUp Ruby API:

class Sketchup;;Group 
        def definition # make it so you can use group.definition 
                return(entities[0].parent) 
        end 
end

Which isn't good - as it overrides the Group.definition method implemented in SU2015.
Also, the method is bugged - it will raise an error is the group is empty. Can we get a new version please that doesn't modify the Ruby API namespace?

[TIG]

I have fixed the issue with the group.definition method...
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=smartdrop

[juju]

thanks for the consistent hard work to the coders

any idea when this is moving out of beta?

[TIG]

@juju said:

thanks for the consistent hard work to the coders
any idea when this is moving out of beta?
I suspect never !
The author seems to no longer support it.
But like so many plugins using beta in their title it could simply be retitled with no coding changes - calling it 'beta' is just the author's way of warning you it might not be 100% reliable - but then some 'full-release' plugins are less reliable that others' beta-releases...

[tt_su]

@tig said:

I have fixed the issue with the group.definition method...

[duanekemp]

I'm trying this with grass proxy groups and nothing I do gets them to fall on any surface in a large quantity. Has anyone found the limits or explanation as to why hundreds and hundreds of proxies won't fall?

[Box]

I can't tell you why but I just tried 500+ and it failed with Smart Drop but worked with Throw to.
But be aware they align to the surface differently.
Throw to on the left stays upright while Smart Drop follows the contour.

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[duanekemp]

I definitely need the smart part of this drop. Is this an issue of it not working with SU 2015?

Or is there an even more significant problem trying to drop components that are overlapping, such as grass proxy groups?

[Krisidious]

there's a plugin to remove overlaps... would that help?