[Plugin] Zorro2 (beta)

svadilfari

Hey guys,

I am trying to cut my model, everytime there is a bug and SU crashes down?
Any solutions, advices?

It is quite complicated model with a lot of components and materials, could it be that?

pilou

Without post your model (save as V6) it's impossible to say something

TIG

You answer is in your question.
Zorro isn't magic.
If there are zillions of 'containers' contents to cut it only needs to trip up once for a splat!
Because the process is destructive you are presumably working on a copy of the original SKP and you probably have little use for its 'structure' of groups/instances...
So, in that copy, why not explode all containers in the active model [iterating until there are none in the Outliner - that's an easy way to select them...]
Also erase all hidden layers and their contents etc... and all hidden objects too [if any]/
Also purge the model of unused things... this will speed up what it has to look through when 'cutting'...
Now retry on the slimline group-free version of the SKP.
It should be much quicker and less prone to failure...

qianyi

my schoolmate recommend me this plugin,seems useful ,looking forward!

Ronnie

Would be pretty cool if you could also split at section plane, but without deleting anything, like inserting a 10mm gab or whatever at the intersection of the section plane.

Very useful for cutting a model up for 3d printing.

jolran

You can by right clicking section plane, create groups from slice. But it doesent destroy original group.

Box

Or use tigs slicer.

Ronnie

@jolran said:

You can by right clicking section plane, create groups from slice. But it doesent destroy original group.

Thanks.

Da Man

I'm new to this. where does this plugin? my sketchup 8 only has .rbz plugins

olishea

@da man said:

I'm new to this. where does this plugin? my sketchup 8 only has .rbz plugins

C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp8\Plugins

eroc121

Exactly what I needed! This tool was a life saver for creating quick perspective sections to be rendered into 3dsMax. I was amazed by how quickly it cut through a complex model, too. Thank you, Whaat!

onri999

Hey guys, new to sketchucation. My friend recommended I get Zorro as I have started using 3d rendering software and want to take sections and render them. However, I have been reading through this thread and many others like it because sketchup keeps crashing every time I try to "slice model at section" it says "cuttinggroup#2" at the bottom left hand corner of the window.
I have tried pretty much everything, disabling other plugins, purging unused, exploding all groups and components (outliner is showing just one entry) I have tried opening in su7 and 8 both pro.
I really can't understand why it isn't working, I have seen much more complicated models cut by Zorro2.
I am using a Mac but I don't think that should make a difference.

Please, any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

TIG

Keep what is 'cut' as simple as you can.
You can imaging that the process of cutting geometry and discarding some etc is very complex and prone to fail at every step.
SketchUp can't cope with very tiny geometry.
For example, its in-built accuracy could consider two points that are very very slightly different, as being coincident... and therefore it might not draw a line between them, although in reality a tiny line would be needed to complete an intersected 'cut' - thus it fails.
You can see this issue with the native intersect tool not making a perfect intersected outline it it's through a mesh that has tiny facets so parts of the intersected outline would be very small, and they don't get made. FollowMe will also fail to complete everything, say a very faceted pipe on a very tight radius bend, where some facets would be tiny and get omitted.
You will get tiny geometry from very faceted/triangulated surfaces, leaves, etc; so
If you are cutting very small geometry consider Scaling the whole model up by x100, cutting and then scaling down again. Very tiny geometry can exist but creating it can prove difficult.

onri999

Thank you so much for the very quick reply, I have used the follow me extrude tool for hand railings so i will try either getting rid of them or placing the section plane away from them. Also I thought scaling the project down might have helped so I shall scale back up.
I will let you know how it goes.

Thanks again.

mallikab

I was having bug splat issues with SU Pro 8 as well. My model had quite a few groups and components but wasn't that large. After trying some of the suggestions here, putting the model into SU 7 (just the free version) to use Zorro worked. Then put it back in 8 to use SectionCutFace and V-ray render. Great plug-in (once it worked), thanks!

33Angelo33

@Whaat: Hi there when try to cut using the section plane sketch up just crashes on me so i have no luck using this plugin.

cotty

@33angelo33 said:

@Whaat: Hi there when try to cut using the section plane sketch up just crashes on me so i have no luck using this plugin.

Sharing some more details (image, model, ...) would help us to help you to solve this problem...

jd1001

i cant get it to work

thomthom

@jd1001 said:

i cant get it to work

Can you elaborate? We can't tell what "isn't working" unless you describe it. Installation problems? Usage problems?
What doesn't work, what did you do, what did you expect to happen?
And what OS version, what SketchUp version, and any error messages?
Then we can help.

dukejazz

HI

How to cut multi and nested cuts objects

All you need to do is to expode all groups and componets

It can't cut a group or componets

You can edit inside a group that all you can do with a groups or componets
don't edit outside the boundbox or edit aross a edit lines when cutting

draw zorro aross to make cut
using CTRL to cut nest cuts interier

I hope this helps someone