Profile Builder released!

utiler

I have been using this plug-in for a couple of weeks now and have to say it is fantastic Its already paid off for me in a recent model I did. I would love to get hold of the Aussie / New Zealand steel sections Andrew was looking at, when will these be available Dale? I cant wait.

Stan

I'm dragging the chain, SEKTA. Dale has asked me to reverse a few of the sections to be consistent with all other libraries but i haven't made the time to do it. I will do so ASAP and let you know...
thanks,

lewiswadsworth

Dale,

This is esoteric but I feel it is partly my responsibility to keep up with running SketchUp with WINE in Linux, since I started that thread that now seems cited by so many other websites about the practice.

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=9687

For some reason, Profile Builder is the only Ruby script that does not work for me in that environment. It's usually a line-ending problem which can be solved by a dos2unix shell command very quickly, but something else seems to be happening here...I used that on every rb file, js file, and plb file associated with Profile Builder. The script loads, but no library names or profile names appear in the Profile Builder window.

I don't expect you or anyone to work on this, since it is such a strange situation for your script, but I thought I would make a note of it here so that the problem would at least by public.

Incidentally, all of your other scripts work just fine after line-ending conversion in the Linux/WINE environment.

--Lewis

xrok1

can anyone confirm my difficulties in double clicking the path for editing?

utiler

Hi all, Just sent through the revised Australian Steel profiles to Dale for checking and uploading to the smustard website. Hopefully they should be there in the next day or so....

Whaat

@utiler said:

Hi all, Just sent through the revised Australian Steel profiles to Dale for checking and uploading to the smustard website. Hopefully they should be there in the next day or so....

Thanks utiler!
The Australian Steel Profiles are now available for download! Get them here

david_h

@unknownuser said:

here's another little glitch i am running into . . .I trace a path for a door casing and it seems to follow the path fine, but then when I finish the command. .there's nothing there!

Not to be "yutz" or anything about this--but I am still having this problem. I pick out a baseboard profile, start drawing around the base of the wall and then about 2 or 3 lines into it. . .zap! it's gone. The tool remains active, it just gives up during the process. I am doing this on a fairly complex model, but the task I am asking it to do is fairly simple. Does that have anything to do with it? Could it be the combnation of Inside and outside corners? on a fresh model . .. say a simple cube, it works fine. I just don't know . . .

xrok1

i don't mean to be rude, (well maybe a little) but there seems to be better customer support for the free scripts than the pay ones. has anyone noticed this?
if profilebuilder & SDS weren't so F!@##$g amazing i'd be terribly pissed!

Whaat

@xrok1 said:

i don't mean to be rude, (well maybe a little) but there seems to be better customer support for the free scripts than the pay ones. has anyone noticed this?
Ouch! Sorry xrok! I thought I had answered your question but then when I reviewed the posts again, I noticed you posted the kitchen.skp file which I don't think I ever tested. (I will check tonight...)

David_H: Are you using SU6? Is it possible for you to try the same file using SU7? I believe this issue is only present in SU6. However, I have not been able to determine the cause or a solution to it yet.

xrok1

Whaat

@xrok1 said:

clicking the text doesn't work for me, try editing the the profile on the left side of the door. most of the time the floor get selected instead. further more if your in edit profile mode and you select something else by accident there doesn't seem to be a way to tell profilebuilder to cancel or forget the operation, which leaves your profile hidden.

try the attached file please, let me know how you make out selecting the profile on the left of the door?

I had no trouble at all double-clicking the text to enter 'path-edit' mode. It was a bit easier then I orbited the view below the floor first but it was not necessary.

If you select something else by accident, just keep hitting 'undo' until the profile member reappears.

Edson

dale,

what about my ages old problem with custom libraries (custom profiles disappear from it when you open PB again)? i sent you a PM on this and opened a topic at the smustard forum too but even so the problem did not seem to call your attention.

jeff hammond

edson,
your problem might stem from a bad podium install. (and i'm guessing you have profilebuilder in your user library?)
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=146352#p146352
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=146640#p146640

seriously, i suggest you follow the steps in those threads and fix the installation..

if you don't want to though, you can at least try to change the permissions on the plugin folder that podium creates.

go:
user/library/application support/google sketchup 7/sketchup

in there, you'll see a folder called 'plugins'... that's the one created by the podium install.. right click that folder and choose 'Get Info'

at the bottom of the info window, you'll see the permissions are set like:

that's saying that you can't write anything in the folder which is where the profile builder library is located.

click the lock at the bottom right, type in your password, then click the '+' sign at bottom left.

you should now see a users&groups list which will have 'Administrators' and any user accounts you have on the system..

select Administrators and the permissions will change to:

click on 'read only' next to 'admin' and change that to 'Read & Write'.

you can now freely add files to the folder (if you're using the mac from an admin account)

i'm not even sure if this is the problem with ProfileBuilder not saving your custom libraries but it's the first thing i thought of.. fwiw, i have PB placed in the standard plugin folder and it works fine.

Whaat

Thanks Jeff,

Let me know if that works for you Edson.

xrok1

thanks Whaat, i actually started doing it through the outliner instead and found that much less finicky.

otherwise the only way it works for me is to single click to highlight the text then double click it ???

Edson

@unknownuser said:

edson,
your problem might stem from a bad podium install. (and i'm guessing you have profilebuilder in your user library?)
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=146352#p146352

jeff and dale,
the method posted above worked fine, thanks. it was probably a permissions problem.

as for the other fix suggested by jeff, it did not work for me even though i did it twice exactly as described. after doing it i had no podium in my plugins menu. so i reverted to the old way in this respect.

regards

xrok1

@unknownuser said:

otherwise the only way it works for me is to single click to highlight the text then double click it ???

hmmm, would it be possible for you to have the text preselected when it appears? i think that would solve the problem

jeff hammond

@edson said:

as for the other fix suggested by jeff, it did not work for me even though i did it twice exactly as described. after doing it i had no podium in my plugins menu. so i reverted to the old way in this respect.

regards

hmm,that's strange because it works on my end.. i only have the evaluation version on my macs but it shouldn't make a difference. (?)

just to be a little more clear on that.. did you remove the actual plugin folder in the user library? (not just the contents).. a fresh install of SU will only have 2 items items in: user/library/application support/google sketchup 7

they are a folder named 'Layout' and one named 'SketchUp' both of which contain autosave, shortcut prefs, old colors, and templates.. the license file will also be placed in there once it's registered. the plugin folder installed with sketchup is in the boot drive's app support.

fwiw, i contacted TBD about 2 weeks ago on this issue and linked him to these threads here.. he responded saying he wasn't the writer of the installer and he'd pass the info along.. i haven't heard back yet.

if they do in fact deem the install locations a mistake (which i truly believe is), it's going to be a little nightmare to get everyone straightened out again.. probably the easiest way to do it would be to have everyone reinstall SU and their rubies.

Edson

@unknownuser said:

just to be a little more clear on that.. did you remove the actual plugin folder in the user library? (not just the contents).. a fresh install of SU will only have 2 items items in: user/library/application support/google sketchup 7

jeff,
what i did was:
moved the 2 podium files from user/library/application support/podium
moved everything except the two aliases from user/library/application support/google sketchup 7/plugins to the normal plugins folder
deleted the folder user/library/application support/google sketchup 7/plugins

is there anything else i should have done?

jeff hammond

@edson said:

jeff,
what i did was:
moved the 2 podium files from user/library/application support/podium
moved everything except the two aliases from user/library/application support/google sketchup 7/plugins to the normal plugins folder
deleted the folder user/library/application support/google sketchup 7/plugins

is there anything else i should have done?

that sounds about right.
when you say you moved the 2 podium files, did you move them into the regular SUplugin folder?

basically, the podium plugin works like many of the others.. there's a loader (podium_load.rb) and the package containing all the scripting, UI, prefs, etc. (Podium.bundle)..

those two files go into the plugin folder in the same way as all the others.. if you ask me, i'd rather just receive the two files with instructions on where to put them instead of what the installer does now with creating new folders and a few aliases scattered around the system..

[and just to make sure you're moving the proper Podium.bundle file into the plugin folder and not one of it's aliases, you can right click on it and it will have an option to 'show package contents'.. if that option isn't available then it's not the right file]

marcday

The best plugin ever!

Simple as that.

Everyone go and buy it! Worth every penny!