[Plugin][$] JointPushPull Interactive - v4.9a - 02 Apr 25

fredo6 · 2 Mar 2018, 12:55

NEW RELEASE: JointPushPull Interactive v4.3f - 02 Mar 18

JointPushPull Interactive 4.3f fixes a major bug introduced in v4.3e. Thanks for upgrading and sorry for inconvenience[/b].

JointPushPull 4.3f requires LibFredo6 8.1c or above

See plugin home page of JointPushPull for Download of JointPushPull.

Main Post of the JointPushPull thread on this forum

Fredo

boofredlay · 2 Mar 2018, 14:15

I tried a few times to install 4.3f and get this error each time.
I have LibFredo6 8.1c installed.

HornOxx · 2 Mar 2018, 14:43

... if interested and not yet known or seen so far, TheSketchUpEssentials has recently posted a pretty good and worth seeing video about this tool with the mysterious title "8 SECRET FUNCTIONS of the SketchUp Joint Push Pull Extension" on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOl9qQXwwbw&t=210s

fredo6 · 2 Mar 2018, 14:55

@boofredlay said:

I tried a few times to install 4.3f and get this error each time.
I have LibFredo6 8.1c installed.

Very strange! How do you install it

from the Sketchup RBZ installer
from the Sketchucation PluginStore?

Fredo

boofredlay · 2 Mar 2018, 15:13

@fredo6 said:

Very strange! How do you install it

from the Sketchup RBZ installer

from the Sketchucation PluginStore?

Fredo

I downloaded it from here:
https://sketchucation.com/plugin/715-jointpushpull

I try installing through the Extension Manager

Click image to see the gif.

TIG · 2 Mar 2018, 15:31

FYI
I have successfully installed this version's using the PluginStore's downloaded RBZ, using the native Extension Manager's red-button, in both v2017 & v2018, on both PC & MAC.
I have also successfully installed it using the SketchUcation ExtensionStore³ dialog's 'AutoInstall' red-button, again in both of those SketchUp versions and OSs.

I also pre-installed the latest LibFredo6 in those 4 permutations...

boofredlay · 2 Mar 2018, 16:10

Hm, odd.
I have not had this issue before. I installed each update you have put up the past week as well.

I get the same error trying to install in 2017 through the Extension Manager also. Must be something on my end although I don't know what. Restarting my computer did not solve it.

I have never tried the installing through the Sketchucation PluginStore.

boofredlay · 2 Mar 2018, 17:11

-Solved-

Well this is even more strange. It was definitely an issue on my end.

I went to try it again just now, after about a half hour of trying it last time, and the extension was not in the folder I saved it in. It was just gone. I am assuming it is an issue with our server profile here at work as we have seen files disappear before. I also assume on my previous attempts to install this plugin that the server was showing the file but it was not actually there. Not sure.

Anyway, I downloaded a fresh .rbz and it installed just fine.

Sorry for the uproar.

fredo6 · 2 Mar 2018, 17:15

@boofredlay said:

I went to try it again just now, after about a half hour of trying it last time, and the extension was not in the folder I saved it in. It was just gone. I am assuming it is an issue with our server profile here at work as we have seen files disappear before.

Good for you.
It's anyway good to know this case, as it may happen to someone else, including when try to open a skp file.

Fredo

SnakeDog · 8 Mar 2018, 04:39

Thanks for creating these awesome tools! i just tried the JPP "project on a plane" trick on some topo i created and I'm getting a Ruby Error. it says "Error in generation of the geometry" and "Not enough points - at least 3 required". Any Idea what is going on?
-thanks

fredo6 · 8 Mar 2018, 07:48

@snakedog said:

Thanks for creating these awesome tools! i just tried the JPP "project on a plane" trick on some topo i created and I'm getting a Ruby Error. it says "Error in generation of the geometry" and "Not enough points - at least 3 required". Any Idea what is going on?
-thanks

I would need to get the model, and also have the full text of the error message.

Fredo

thelorax4 · 19 Jun 2018, 21:19

I used to use this tool extensively to create curbs from complicated terrain, and it worked almost perfectly. The new version, however, with all it's options, no longer has a tool for extruding in z axis, which baffles me. Does anyone know if there's a variable that can be changed in settings to fix this, or know of another tool to achieve the same effect?

Thanks

fredo6 · 20 Jun 2018, 10:07

@thelorax4 said:

The new version, however, with all it's options, no longer has a tool for extruding in z axis, which baffles me. Does anyone know if there's a variable that can be changed in settings to fix this, or know of another tool to achieve the same effect?

Could you show a sample of model to illustrate your problem.

Fredo

jwhida · 15 Aug 2018, 01:47

Hi FREDO,

This plugin is sooo good. Thankyou. Donation on its way.
There is one quirk that i dont understand and makes the plugin unuseful when dealing with 'group copies'

If editing a group of which copies have been made, all group copies are also affected. I'd expect this behaviour only for components not groups.
The behaviour id expect is that if i joint push pull a face of a group, that only that group is modified, not every other instance.

Have I overlooked some setting to turn this behaviour off ?

Cheers
John

fredo6 · 15 Aug 2018, 07:06

@jwhida said:

There is one quirk that i dont understand and makes the plugin unuseful when dealing with 'group copies'

If editing a group of which copies have been made, all group copies are also affected. I'd expect this behaviour only for components not groups.

I'll probably have to fix this general issue, not just for JPP, which comes from a side effect of Sketchup (freshly copied groups behave as components until they are edited, for optimization).

In the meantime, I would suggest that you go inside the group to do the Joint Push Pull, as you would do for the native Push Pull. The capability to operate across boundaries of group and components is just a convenience.

Fredo

jwhida · 9 Sept 2018, 05:53

Ok that makes sense, i was aware of that optimisation of the group definition.
I'll happily edit from within the group for now, but definitely look forward to an option to treat group copies as individual groups when using joint push pull when you get time to implement it.
Thanks

Einstein · 12 Sept 2018, 11:39

Hi!

I caught a bug. Here it is:

I extruded several connected faces with JPP and choose the option which removes source faces, leaving only extrusion. I confirmed the extrusion and then did UNDO. Unfortunately undoing can't be done in one go. Instead, it's "broken" into small steps and it brings back my source geometry edge by edge so I have to press UNDO many times.

It happens with every sub-tool of JPP.

I'm using SU17 with newest JPP and newest LibFredo.

Dave R · 12 Sept 2018, 11:53

You would make it easier to sort out if you share the SKP file that exhibits this behavior. I just tried it and found Undo still works in a single step.

Einstein · 12 Sept 2018, 13:46

It's OK when I use THICKEN option. But UNDO breaks when using PUSH-PULL option (source faces get erased).

Here's my file:

JPP undo bug.skp

fredo6 · 12 Sept 2018, 15:44

@einstein said:

Hi!

I caught a bug. Here it is:

I extruded several connected faces with JPP and choose the option which removes source faces, leaving only extrusion. I confirmed the extrusion and then did UNDO. Unfortunately undoing can't be done in one go. Instead, it's "broken" into small steps and it brings back my source geometry edge by edge so I have to press UNDO many times.

It happens with every sub-tool of JPP.

I'm using SU17 with newest JPP and newest LibFredo.

There could be an error. Could you open the Ruby console while doing the JPP operation.

Also, does it happen with any shape or model, or specifically for one?

Fredo