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    • TIGT Offline
      TIG Moderator
      last edited by

      Well if it did work every time you erased something you'd get the messagebox...
      The EntitesObserver is known to be buggy... if we did get it to work and erased an entity within it it'd probably crash anyway - so my snippet probably wasn't the best idea πŸ˜’
      How about using a selectionObserver...onBulkChange() - you select the things and then erase them and the selection changes... and then looking at model.entities if no [1] and [0] meets test erase it ...
      http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/selectionobserver.html

      TIG

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      • liquid98L Offline
        liquid98
        last edited by

        I updated the booleanhelper plugin! Please see the first post of this topic.

        Things that flourish fall into decay. This is not-Tao, And what is not-Tao soon ends ~ Lao tse

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        • D Offline
          driven
          last edited by

          hi,

          I believe I just exposed a bug, doing another testhttp://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=38858&p=354541#p354541

          when I have 'auto paint tool' Mac preference set, your twee tekst and LEEEEEG message boxes pop up every time I select or delete something even though I wasn't using your tool.

          appears to be "Sketchup::SelectionObserver" related.

          I'd rather use this then that, but I'd like the option of both...

          cheers

          john

          learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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          • liquid98L Offline
            liquid98
            last edited by

            Hi John,

            Just download and install latest version -see first post of this topic.

            Good luck!

            Things that flourish fall into decay. This is not-Tao, And what is not-Tao soon ends ~ Lao tse

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              driven
              last edited by

              cheers,
              I'll let you know if I have any issues,,,

              john

              learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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              • C Offline
                CT4
                last edited by

                Thank you Thank you Thank you. I model small parts for RC aircraft and run into so many problems when I try and lathe them or intersect them. This fixes all of the problems.

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                • liquid98L Offline
                  liquid98
                  last edited by

                  It's always nice to hear that my script helped you out! Apparently it works also on a Mac; never tested it πŸŽ‰ πŸŽ‰

                  Things that flourish fall into decay. This is not-Tao, And what is not-Tao soon ends ~ Lao tse

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                  • cottyC Offline
                    cotty
                    last edited by

                    Thank you for this helpful plugin!

                    my SketchUp gallery

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                    • S Offline
                      sboup
                      last edited by

                      @liquid98 said:

                      This is my modest contribution to the community:

                      Booleanhelper

                      The Boooleanhelper plug-in lets you quickly scale up and down your model.
                      This is especially useful for those people who use Sketchup for 3d printing.
                      Performing boolean operations or lathe operations on small models (mm size) is problematic in Sketchup, because Sketchup doesn't handle small faces very well.
                      By scaling up the model these problems disappear. After all operations are done
                      you can scale down your model to its original dimensions.
                      Also useful to close small holes in your model.

                      Your opinions and suggestions are welcome!

                      Features:

                      • Visual feedback on scale-factor.
                      • Scale down at once.
                      • It is possible to save your work, and scale down later. (feedback not yet provided)
                      • Auto zoom extents.

                      Installation:
                      Open the zipfile and copy booleanhelper.rb and the folder called Booleanhelper into the SU plugins directory.

                      Have fun!!

                      If you have problems with unsolicited messageboxes, please download the latest version below:

                      Wonderfull. Thanks β˜€

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                      • A Offline
                        Aggertroll
                        last edited by

                        I love this script - does exactly what it is supposed to (on my Mac) and lets me design small parts for 3D print in a larger scale. Very helpful - thanks!

                        I have one small comment/request: I am using Fredo6's "!Additional.Pluginfolders" plugin to sync my plugins via dropbox across my different machines - great help by the way. I noticed that the icon in the toolbar will not show for the Boolean helper if that plugin resides in my plugin folder on dropbox; it must be looking for the icon in the standard plugin folder. Is there a way to fix that? As in "Get the image from the folder Booleanhelper in the same folder that this script is in" - if that makes sense?

                        There are of course simple ways to fix this - install Booleanhelper on all machines - but the fix would remove a glitch when using a custom plugin folder. Thank you for your efforts!

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                          driven
                          last edited by

                          @aggertroll said:

                          There are of course simple ways to fix this...

                          change line 296 in a plain text editor, and re-save...

                                  plugins = Sketchup.find_support_file("Plugins")
                          

                          to

                                plugins = File.dirname(__FILE__)
                          

                          john

                          learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                            Aggertroll
                            last edited by

                            John: Thanks a bunch. Works!

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                              Boff
                              last edited by

                              Hi, I don't know if this plugin is still being worked on but I'm unable to scale down a model after saving it.

                              The message I get is "Scale up your model first, and then use the 'Scale down at once' button"

                              Using SU2016 if that makes a difference.

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