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

FenS

I already love your new 'avoid erasing unwanted lines'-script!

(actually i thought it was already possible but i just was not seeing how,
looking forward for your new one!)
Happy Sketchyear to you too

Elibjr

Hi Oscar,

Is it true that your tool only works with version 7 of Sketchup? If so, is there a way I can get it to work with the previous version? I have a slew of plugings I would have to migrate if I can't. And just to make sure I'm doing this right, I put the file in the plugins directory, correct?

Thanks for the script.

narongwit12

Thank you very much for this brilliant rb. Would you mind to share us the brief idea of the mechanism of this plugin? I want to do a union thing, but find it quite hard to do it without any guide.

Best regards
Narongwit

lorca

For those who are saying nothing happens, well, you have to make each object a group/component. I was having the same problems like some of you until i made each object separate from eachother. When you place them together you choose one object then right click to the plugin and choose "cut" and depending of which object you chose you'll get the "negative" or "positive" cut. Although, I think there is a bug when you place an object in a severe angle inside, it tends to cut almost all of the opposite object leaving expose in the air only the hole that the other object traced. I wonder if the creator of this plugin is still working on the new release.

jca

looks great !
tried both OSCoolean.rbs and OSCoolean.rb but neither worked...
I'm using SU6 under MacOS X 10.5 OS.
any working version for mac ?
thanks a lot

apple85

hi,
just out of curiosity how does the OSCoolean differ from the commercial booltools plugin?

pilou

In theory nothing but in practice that is an another story

Gaieus

For the information of te "rest of the World", Oscarlok updated the plugin (see the first post as of October 2010) for SU 8.

He just forgot to add a new post or bump the topic otherwise.

ken

OSCAR

In your Oct release, only three icons are displayed. And the last two, cut and intersect perform the same function.

Thanks for your work with this plugin.

Ken

OscarLok

@unknownuser said:

OSCAR

In your Oct release, only three icons are displayed. And the last two, cut and intersect perform the same function.

Thanks for your work with this plugin.

Ken

Hello Ken,

I am sorry for that! I have changed it to the New OCT version. The previous one is still Sept version.

Thanks Ken

Oscar

shura

Does it work in SU 7.1 as well?

OscarLok

@shura said:

Does it work in SU 7.1 as well?

This is a SU 8 only。Maybe in the next next version。。。。

shura

thanks oscarlok, just collecting reasons to upgrade, you know

mitcorb

I never could get the version for Sketchup7 to work??

mitcorb

Bumping this just in case someone knows a solution to making the older version work in SU7?

pilou

Someone said that disable SketchyPhysics permits to use OSCoolean in V7 (?)

mitcorb

I do not have Sketchyphysics. Must be some other tool. I will try to run it with the console on, capture and post back.

mitcorb

Here's what I get trying to Intersect a simple cylinder group and a cube group which I set overlapping or coincident in the same location :

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method entities' for #<Sketchup::ComponentInstance:0x6775c40>> (eval):573:in get_grocom'
(eval):570:in each' (eval):570:in get_grocom'
(eval):588:in Preset' (eval):713:in Intersect'
(eval):823
(eval):823:in `call'

thomthom

@mitcorb said:

Here's what I get trying to Intersect a simple cylinder group and a cube group which I set overlapping or coincident in the same location :

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method entities' for #<Sketchup::ComponentInstance:0x6775c40>> (eval):573:in get_grocom'
(eval):570:in each' (eval):570:in get_grocom'
(eval):588:in Preset' (eval):713:in Intersect'
(eval):823
(eval):823:in `call'

ComponentInstance doesn't have an entities method - you need to access the definition.
There are some plugins that adds .entities to ComponentInstance and I've seen some other plugins that also made the assuption taht this method existed.

mitcorb

Hi, ThomThom:
Thanks for your quick response.
Unfortunately, you're talking way over my head
I mean, I see what you're writing but I don't know what I'm reading

What means 'grocom' ??