[Plugin] Zorro2 (beta)

talkingglue

HI all,

I have been having quite alot of difficulty getting access to the Zorro plug-in on this site. I have successfully registered and logged in but i keep on getting messages saying i do not have permissions to view the files in the post. If anyone could help i would be over the moon with gratitude and content!

Muchos gracias,
Ronan

Mac OSX 10.6/Safari 4/2.2Ghz/2GB RAM

Gaieus

Hi Ronan,

Have a look at this announcement and if you seem to have login issues, delete your cookies from your browser.
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=19797

Ah yeah - and welcome to SCF.

plot-paris

I have got a file, where Zorro crashes constantly.
I created the geometry in a bigger file and tried to slice it. it crashed. I copied the geometry to a new SU file. it crashed again.

in the end I had to redraw the whole thing in a new file. and everything worked fine.

any idea why that is?
I attached the file for you to experiment...
crooked.skp

chimbalo

thanks the program is really good, shame that I have the same problem, I can not make a slice cut (bug splat) when the model is a litle bit heavy, anyways thanks and keep on.

Whaat

I can't say for sure why users are getting crashes. I am not sure if it is something I can fix or if it is a SketchUp bug. My only suggestion is to save before you use the plugin. Also, try to work with simpler scenes (save components to a separate SKP files and work with them)

chimbalo

After a few hours I figure it out how to fix the bug splat, I have a heavy model, every time that I started using the slice tool my model crashed up, I tryed exploding the model, chainging to newer sketch up, etc etc etc. At the end I took all the model and grouped up whith out the cuting plane, after I slice it, and was the solution for the problem, now it doesn't matter how heavy is the file, the plug in ,work fine. sorry for my bad english, I hope is useful for you.

Gaieus

Well, definitely useful and I hope I will remember next time I try to use it on a similarly complex model.

Thanks for the heads-up!

KU ARCH STUDENT

This as got to be one of the best plugs I've come across. Awesome job with this one....

yoshiko sasabe

@whaat said:

I guess I created a small bug just before I released the plugin that I did not release was there. i will post a fixed version later today. Sorry! I will also try to create a tutorial later today if I have time. For those of you who do not want to wait, just change line 266 to read:

Sketchup.active_model.start_operation("Zorro")

I belive this will fix the problem but I don't have time to fully test right now.

Jim57

Chimbalo—

I had the same experience as you. SU crashed when I tried to place the section plane inside the component and slice. I had to place the section plane from OUTSIDE the component and then it works like a charm.

Thanks for figuring that one out, and thanks for the Ruby!!

Best,

Jim

chango70

Whaat will there be more development on this plugin?

Whaat

@chango70 said:

Whaat will there be more development on this plugin?

Probably not, at least not for a very long time.

okramme

Best plugin for sketchup that I have seen!! Thanks

Whaat

@okramme said:

Best plugin for sketchup that I have seen!! Thanks

Wow...thanks! You need to spend some more time around here to see what else is available. You might be shocked!

mling87

Thank you SO much for this plugin! Being able to quickly create and render section perspectives is an architecture student's dream!

JPMays

Just discovered this plugin through the Maxwell Render forum, but have been having similar issues as others: bug splats every time, even after exploding and removing a lot of the geometry. Anybody found a work-around for this? My model was rather complex, groups inside of components inside of components inside of components, but I've reduced significantly. Even copying geometry and pasting into new file does nothing.

Whaat

@jpmays said:

Just discovered this plugin through the Maxwell Render forum, but have been having similar issues as others: bug splats every time, even after exploding and removing a lot of the geometry. Anybody found a work-around for this? My model was rather complex, groups inside of components inside of components inside of components, but I've reduced significantly. Even copying geometry and pasting into new file does nothing.

I think one suggestion was to make sure your section cut is not inside a group or component.

JPMays

I've exploded the entire model (a copy of the original). There are now no groups or components. Same result.

EDIT: The weird thing is that when I tell it to slice using the section, at the bottom it says "Cutting Group #2...", but there are no groups listed if I go into my Model Options. It gets stuck there and then crashes.

tmok

i wanna try some
thanks

taydiggs

you will all love me for this one.

In order to CUT a section within a model, YOU DO NOT need to section plane and explode and delete etc!

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO is put it in PARALLEL projection and set the camera where you need the section to be.

Voila, section (obviously doesnt work for perspectives, but for elevations of architectural drawings this is an amazingly fast and easy fix.