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      Sawduster
      last edited by

      Hey, I like those. You can even use the dado tool to make tenons quite quickly. Thanks.

      May all your dimensions be the sum of their total.

      Jerry

      http://www.sawdustersplace.com

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        akigrimm
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        I've tried to translate this simple component. A simple component to draw carcasses with. Maybe you could use it. And you can use it in a report ...

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          ken
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          Joel

          Well thank you for the great plugin. I know those who cannot write these plugins never seem to be satisfied. So could this plugin be made to work on groups as well as components?

          Again thanks

          Ken

          Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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            brandy20
            last edited by

            Joel you did a very nice set of tools. I like them!

            Any chance to have the same in the metric version for the european guys? 😎

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              jhoutman
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              One could in principal make them work on groups rather than components, although, the way I work a "board" (ie piece of wood) is a component. Hence, I work on components.

              On Metric. It would be simple to make a metric version. Anyone could do it. One could load in the *.rb's and where ever you see .inch on a variable then change that to .mm. You could change a default .75inch to 19mm for examples. The .inch appears in two ways in these scripts 1) as an extension for declared variables (depth.inch change to depth.mm) or 2) as default values for the input box. Make them whatever you want.

              Thanks for the feed back.
              Joel

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                Jim
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                @jhoutman said:

                On Metric. It would be simple to make a metric version.

                It would be simple to make a version that used the user's default units, too. Just use .to_l to convert the dialog values to Sketchup::Lengths.

                Hi

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                  brandy20
                  last edited by

                  @jhoutman said:

                  One could in principal make them work on groups rather than components, although, the way I work a "board" (ie piece of wood) is a component. Hence, I work on components.

                  On Metric. It would be simple to make a metric version. Anyone could do it. One could load in the *.rb's and where ever you see .inch on a variable then change that to .mm. You could change a default .75inch to 19mm for examples. The .inch appears in two ways in these scripts 1) as an extension for declared variables (depth.inch change to depth.mm) or 2) as default values for the input box. Make them whatever you want.

                  Thanks for the feed back.

                  Joel

                  Well, I can see what you mean now. Thanks.

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                    RalphB
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                    OK, I'm a newbie but I cannot get your plugin to be recognized by Sketchup 7. I placed the file into the Plugins folder like I did with cutlist, re-started Sketchup, and yet nothing appears in the list I get when I click on Plugins.

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                      Dave R
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                      @ralphb said:

                      OK, I'm a newbie but I cannot get your plugin to be recognized by Sketchup 7. I placed the file into the Plugins folder like I did with cutlist, re-started Sketchup, and yet nothing appears in the list I get when I click on Plugins.

                      Ralph, this plugin doesn't appear in the Plugins menu. It appears as several entries in the Draw menu.

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                        RalphB
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                        Yep, that's officially a "Duhh" I did find it, thanks. It would be nice if the description of a tool such as this told one where it would appear once installed.....

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                          Dave R
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                          Ralph, if you open the file in NotePad or another text editor, you can read where it will show up. It's typically in the last few lines of the script.

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                            heaker89
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                            hi im use skechtup 8 and can't see where this plugin menu

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                              Dave R
                              last edited by

                              See this link: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=17076&p=452505#p138227

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                                tashnag
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                                Hello All,

                                I got the Plug in and am having a problem with the dado tool. For some reason it works properly from some sides, and not from other sides.

                                I may have a hard time describing it will but here it goes.

                                I have a 3/4 (RED AXIS) x 25 (GREEN AXIS) x 27 3/4 (BLUE AXIS)

                                When I select the FROM edge as the 27 3/4 high edge that's furthest from the Red Green and Blue, the TO edge behind the 27 3/4 high edge on the same plane on the red but still away from the blue and green, the dado window pops up, I enter 1" in the TO distance, TO edge, Width 3/4, Depth 1/4 and it works just great.

                                When I select the FROM and TO to be the opposite edges it does something really funky.

                                It doesn't get set in an inch from the outside edge like I want it to (I'm assuming how it should work, as it works on the opposite side) but it makes a rabbet 1 3/4" wide. If I try a dado again after that, it works properly again.

                                its just from certain edges, it doesn't inset the Dado, but makes a rabbet that uses the TO distance, and the Width to determine the width of the rabbet.

                                please help me find out whats wrong.

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                                  tashnag
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                                  I found the updated version, and the draw dado now works properly, but the create board wont do anything at all. Any ideas?

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                                    Dave R
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                                    Maybe the author will chime in but I expect he'll want to know if you're getting any errors in the Ruby console when you try to run it or when you start SketchUp.

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                                      tashnag
                                      last edited by

                                      No errors, with the new version, I can go to the draw menu, select create board, enter the info, and click ok, then nothing... Same if I try to save default. Looks like resize board is having the same issue of not doing anything.

                                      Thanks

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