[Plugin] Zorro2 (beta)

putnik

Whaat, I've got 2 files. The first one is the original, its geometry is a result of a simple Follow Me. The second one is a derivative of the first, with some bits manually cut out. The latter Bug Splats almost every time I try to Zorro it up. The former lets me slice it any which way I want, every time. I'm on WinXP SP3, SU7. Do you mind checking it out? TIA

both SKPs are in the archive

putnik

I take it it's unresolvable?

pilou

For me "Bugsplats" arrives also
But maybe it's not a good idea to make a zorro2 on surfaces?

Whaat

@putnik said:

I take it it's unresolvable?

I really don't know what the problem is. Zorro sometimes just causes random bugsplats. I see no reason that it would work for the first file but not for the second. Ruby plugins are more prone to bugsplats than using straight SketchUp for various reasons. I believe that SketchUp has its own internal entity observers that are probably the culprit.

putnik

Whaat, I see. Thanks for looking into it. I've remodelled the shape slightly using different path, deleted the middle bits, and now it doesn't bugsplat as often. Go figure

Pilou, you mean as opposed to cutting groups & components? Maybe. I'll try, but I would have thought slicing groups would be a more complex task than modifying faces directly

seanseansesan

Thanks a lot fotr this amazing plugin , but how d you install?

Chris Fullmer

Download it from the first post in this topic. Save it to C:\Program Files\Google\SketchUp7\Plugins folder. (thats an approximate guess of the exact path, and it might be different on your computer. But just put it in your "Plugins" folder inside your SketchUp installation folder).

Then it will be installed in SketchUp the next time you run SketchUp.

And welcome to the forum!

Chris

drewskiey

I am a novice to this topic and a mac user, so please bare with me...
I saved the file "thumbs.db" (not ".rb"?) into the plugins folder and nothing happened.
I then changed the file to "thumbs.rb" and when i opened SU I received the error "Invalid char `\021' in expression".
what should i change?

Chris Fullmer

Hi drew, delete that thumbs.rb file. Thats not the right one. I'm not quite sure where you got the thumbs file from.

In the first post of this topic there is a file called zorro.rb. That is the file you want to copy to your plugins folder. So delete the thumbs.db and put the zorro.rb file into plugins, and then start SketchUp and you should be good to go,

Chris

emibgc

tanx a lot man...

phmeier

is it too late to coment ? hope not lol !! Well im donwloading that and i really think this is fantastic ..

I enjoy doing this kind of work :

And with this plugin i think i have some new things to try ,,,

hetneo2

was wondering if some one could direct me to a location where i can get the zorro2 plugin from, cos all the forum links are blocked from my end

Gaieus

It's attached to the very first post in this topic (go back to page 1 in the topic). If you have permission problems accessing the attachment, it's probably a browser cookie issue and please, follow the steps I sent you answering your email.

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!