[Plugin] FredoSection - v1.5c - 30 Jan 26

fredo6

Raster materials often look blurry in Layout (especially when you zoom). However, when you print the document on paper at the correct paperscale, you get a readable pattern visually.

Anyway, to help progressing, I would suggest you post a few images of you vector patterns (e.g. four different types of sheet goods, three types of solid wood, plaster/gypsum and stone countertops).

sayerdesign

Here's a group of them that were on the https://www.cadblocksdwg.com/hatch-patterns-download.html website that TIG shared previously. If this group were avaiable, that would be great so far as I'm cencerned.

fredo6

Getting these patterns as Vector is technically feasible, at least by me in FredoSection.

However, if you use them in a real model, that would represent a lot of lines (and a longer time to decoarte cut faces). Keep in mind that in FredoSection, a Vector pattern is just drawing edges in the model. Already with simple hatches, you have a lot of geometry created.

As suggested, could you try with these patterns in Raster (most of them are in the standard materials, under 'Patterns') and check they print correctly when the proper paperscale is set in Sketchup scenes and corresponding Layout viewports.

slbaumgartner

I just got these errors reported in the Ruby Console when I opened a new model on my Mac (SketchUp 2026, macOS 26.2). Looks like a bug in handling MDI on the Mac:

<NameError: uninitialized constant F6_FredoSection::FredoSection>
/users/steve/library/application support/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_fredosection/bootstrap_fredosection.rbe:579:in `switch_model'
/users/steve/library/application support/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_fredosection/bootstrap_fredosection.rbe:459:in `model_changed'
/users/steve/library/application support/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_fredosection/bootstrap_fredosection.rbe:391:in `onActivateModel'

fredo6

NEW RELEASE: FredoSectiont v1.5b - 26 Jan 26

Requirements

LibFredo6: v15.8a or above
Sketchup version: SU2026 and above

FredoSection 1.5b is a maintenance release including:

Bug fixing for Mac

Home Page of FredoSection for information and Download.

Main post of this FredoConnect thread.

slbaumgartner

And another error popping up in the Ruby Console on my Mac:

#<NoMethodError: undefined method dialog_close_all' for #<F6_FredoSection::Common:0x00000001738b4f10>> /users/steve/library/application support/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_fredosection/bootstrap_fredosection.rbe:587:in close_model'
/users/steve/library/application support/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_fredosection/bootstrap_fredosection.rbe:472:in model_changed' /users/steve/library/application support/sketchup 2026/sketchup/plugins/fredo6_fredosection/bootstrap_fredosection.rbe:390:in onOpenModel'

fredo6

NEW RELEASE: FredoSectiont v1.5c - 30 Jan 26

Requirements

LibFredo6: v15.8a or above
Sketchup version: SU2026 and above

FredoSection 1.5b is a maintenance release including:

Another bug fixing for Mac

Home Page of FredoSection for information and Download.

Main post of this FredoConnect thread.

slbaumgartner

@fredo6 I installed the recent second version of 1.5b. When I quit SketchUp on my Mac, a whole flock of messages appear in the Ruby Console. Unfortunately, they flash past so quickly that it is not possible to read them, but the little I am able to spot seems to say they are coming from either libFredo6 or FredoSection. Are these (could they be) logged in a file somewhere so that they can be examined?

TonedF

Can you make it work in 'Hidden Line Mode' or 'Shaded using all the same' or 'Shaded mode' please?

fredo6

@TonedF said in [Plugin] FredoSection - v1.5c - 30 Jan 26:

Can you make it work in 'Hidden Line Mode' or 'Shaded using all the same' or 'Shaded mode' please?

Can you clarify the 'Can you make it work'. I am not sure I understand how this relates to FredoSection. Thanks.