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    [Plugin] Boolean--OSCoolean (Dec 2013) for SU 8 up free ver

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      AdrianTP
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      FYI I was so desperate for proper booleans that I bought BoolTools. It was a waste of $10. It cannot properly handle complex curved faces during boolean operations; a subtraction of a square component from a round component fails to produce the same clean result as the native tools (broken edges, random missing lines -- the result of a boolean subtraction between two solids is not a solid, which to me is a deal-breaker). Very unhappy that I wasted $10 on a tool that is less helpful than Intersect Faces combined with lots of tedious manual line-drawing. I thus again look forward to OSCoolean being updated for SU 2014 with great anticipation.

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        pilou
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        You can see also VisuHole by Fredo6 who make a sort of boolean operation from a plan(s) to a volume(s)! 😉

        Frenchy Pilou
        Is beautiful that please without concept!
        My Little site :)

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          TIG Moderator
          last edited by

          Also remember that there is an absolute 'smallness' limit in SketchUp.
          Its built-in tolerance is ~1/1000": so if you do any operations [either by the native tools - like FollowMe or Solids - OR when using any plugin tools doing similar processes], which result in edges at or below that size, then those edges are not created - because SketchUp considers their two end points as being coincident.
          With an edge missing any connected faces also fail to materialize, so then you get holes and stray lines in the result.
          So if you are working on objects that might result in small a facets etc [e.g. they are of a small size with curved parts, or include the intersections of very complex triangulated meshes], then the well know workaround is to Scale up your object[s] x10 or even more: then do the operations - these should then give a good solid result, and finally you Scale back down to the original size.
          Tiny geometry can exist after the re-Scale, but SketchUp cannot create it initially.

          TIG

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            AdrianTP
            last edited by

            @tig said:

            Also remember that there is an absolute 'smallness' limit in SketchUp.
            Its built-in tolerance is ~1/1000": so if you do any operations [either by the native tools - like FollowMe or Solids - OR when using any plugin tools doing similar processes], which result in edges at or below that size, then those edges are not created - because SketchUp considers their two end points as being coincident.
            With an edge missing any connected faces also fail to materialize, so then you get holes and stray lines in the result.
            So if you are working on objects that might result in small a facets etc [e.g. they are of a small size with curved parts, or include the intersections of very complex triangulated meshes], then the well know workaround is to Scale up your object[s] x10 or even more: then do the operations - these should then give a good solid result, and finally you Scale back down to the original size.
            Tiny geometry can exist after the re-Scale, but SketchUp cannot create it initially.

            I was modelling this ship at "real" scale (it's about 200 metres long), so none of the edges should have ended up being small enough to cause problems with the lower limit in SketchUp, but scaling it up 5x did help later on when I was making a separate copy of the main model for 3D printing (using Outer Shell and BoolTools and Intersect Faces to merge all the components and Groups into a single solid). I still ran into plenty of issues (How can two objects which are solid before merging not still be solid after merging? Why was both Outer Shell and BoolTools allowing internal geometry to exist when merging two particular groups?) but I'm getting through it. I'll post the finished result (4 files - the original model, the solid command module, the solid accommodation module, and the solid main hull) once I'm done fiddling with getting the whole thing to become and stay solid.

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              TIG Moderator
              last edited by

              Even large objects can still contain some small triangulated facets.
              These can in turn 'intersect' during boolean operations to make potentially very very tiny facets.
              If these would have very short edges, then they'll still fail to form ad cause 'holes' etc, and non-solids result...

              TIG

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                nongcc
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                😄 😄 😄 😄 😄

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                  leo11
                  last edited by

                  Hi, can this plugin suit Sketchup 2015? I installed it, but it doesn't work ! 😲 I liked it so much when it used to work, back in SU 8... Can you do something ?

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                    acxone
                    last edited by

                    Hi,
                    Is this plugin compatible with SU2015 now?

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      @acxone said:

                      Hi,
                      Is this plugin compatible with SU2015 now?
                      No.
                      It works with <= v2013 only...

                      TIG

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                        NutsandBoltz
                        last edited by

                        This thread's probably dead, but in case it's not, I could really use a good boolean plugin right now, and OSCoolean still isn't compatible with the current version of Sketchup. Anyone have an idea of an alternative plugin?

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                          gudio83
                          last edited by

                          Yes will be great if the author update the plugin to SU2016. I am looking for alternative in the same time, but no results. This plugin its a missing tool in Sketchup!

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                            pilou
                            last edited by

                            you have for moment the alternative to use the Viz Plugin trying period! 😉

                            Frenchy Pilou
                            Is beautiful that please without concept!
                            My Little site :)

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                              tmt0009
                              last edited by

                              Any update on this plugin? I'm using SketchUp Make because I can't justify getting a Pro license in my own mind yet. This would definitely help.

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                                fluid
                                last edited by

                                We just released Bool extension, featuring interactive boolean operations and hierarchical constructive solid geometry (CSG). You can try if here.

                                [flash:3mbvlufg]https://www.youtube.com/v/nU9s4WQKI90[/flash:3mbvlufg]

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                                  Pixero
                                  last edited by

                                  Wow!

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                                    concord264
                                    last edited by

                                    It does not work for me!! why?
                                    I have make 2017!!

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                                    • TIGT Offline
                                      TIG Moderator
                                      last edited by

                                      It's a very old script.
                                      It's not supported by its author.
                                      It's unlikely to work with newer SketchUp versions...

                                      Search - there are several similar but newer tools now available.

                                      TIG

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                                        Nearlyman
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                                        many thanks for this plugin. Regrettably, even though the install was “confirmed” according to the response I was unable to locate this extension even after restarting my win 10 PC. Importantly, I installed from download file: access to ‘extension warehouse’ failed due to a message statement “there is a script error on this page” with entries involving 1’s and 0’s among other meaningless dialogue. Where should this plug in appear? I am installing on the 2013 version of Sketchup Make.
                                        reply if possible please to : bowderynman@gmail.com,

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                                          Dave R
                                          last edited by

                                          @nearlyman said:

                                          I installed from download file: access to ‘extension warehouse’ failed due to a message statement “there is a script error on this page”...

                                          I am installing on the 2013 version of Sketchup Make.

                                          The Extension Warehouse hasn't supported SketchUp 2013 for a number of years.

                                          As TIG wrote in the post immediately before yours, this extension hasn't been supported. There are other options available, though.

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