[Plugin][$] FredoScale - v3.6a - 01 Apr 24
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Amazing work! Thanks so much for this brilliant tool.
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I've downloaded, extracted and put all the necessary files into the Plugin folder but for some reason cannot see the FredoScale options in Sketchup even when I restart. I've checked the preferences folder, tools panel and still nothing. Someone please help me with this, I am beyond frustrated.
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Vicky,
- Working backwards, You should get a listing in "Tool palettes" for a toolbar and under the Tools menu, "Fredo Collection >> Fredoscale".
- You say you checked in Preferences? Is Fredoscale listed (and checked) in the Extensions window?
- You've gone back to the SCF topics for Fredoscale and LibFredo and checked the requirements and specifics of file placement.
- You saw the warning on the Fredoscale topic:
"IMPORTANT: Requires to download LibFredo6 3.6 or higher if not already installed." - Everything seems right to you then probably the next thing is to post a screenshot of your plugin folder where it shows all the required files, and see if someone can see something out of place.
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Thanks Fredo6 your a rockstar..
cheers,
Willie -
FredoScale, and more generally Ruby scripts, have problems to deal with fresh copies of group. Under the hood, these groups share a common definition until they are edited.
So in your case, I would suggest that you
- either use Make Unique feature of FredoScale
- Just double click of the Group A and B instances to make them unique
Fredo
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Bug [pretty sure anyway].
Hi I love this Fredoscale plugin and was going to make a donation but I am getting some buggy results which I hope there is a solution for. Please see attachments.
Some whole components move or don't move instead of scale.
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I've tried some scaling and everything works as expected. Can you desribe your goal more detailed?
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Hi. I have a question. When I twist an object and conferm my sketchup crashes. What could this be?
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@jdkarg1989 said:
Hi. I have a question. When I twist an object and conferm my sketchup crashes. What could this be?
Are you working on a Group which has been freshly copied?
Fredo
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Or is the object very tiny ?
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What are the dimensions of the original before bending?
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Lovely plugin.
Another issue: Sometimes when I do a "radial bending by selection of plane" I get some missing faces on the bending side.
PS: I restarted sketchup, and I cannot reproduce this anymore. Perhaps I set something in Fredolib somewhere during an operation.
See image:
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@dave r said:
What are the dimensions of the original before bending?
Very small, 2mm * 5 mm rectangle, extruded to 5mm.
I just tried to reproduce it after a restart but couldn't. Will post back when I have a consistent way to reproduce this. Same dimensions work fine on a clean slate. -
Typically SketchUp won't fill in tiny faces such as the ones being generated in your bending operation. For that reason it isn't much of a surprise that it didn't work. Perhaps the second time you tried it you weren't making such tiny faces?
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Got a sample model?
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Whilst I am almost certain this issue has been raised in this thread, I can't go through 27 pages of reading right now.
Does anyone else have sketchup crash completely when using the scale/stretch tool on groups that contain groups? I always use extensive grouping so that I can take my models into 3ds max, and this tool would undoubtedly speed up my workflow - but keeps crashing sketchup.
Also, the snaps don't seem to work properly all of the time?
Anybody else, or am I doing it wrong?
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Never mind, I found a work-around.
To stop the crashes I have to work within the group I'm trying to scale, and select all of the items within the group (provided there are no other sub-groups, otherwise it will crash).
This then stops the snaps working properly; it wont let me snap (correctly) to things outside of the group that I am working in - so I have to draw a line within the group to create a snap point, then delete it once I am done.
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Be interesting to test - to see if it's just on your system. Maybe a plugin conflict...
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@macker said:
Does anyone else have sketchup crash completely when using the scale/stretch tool on groups that contain groups? I always use extensive grouping so that I can take my models into 3ds max, and this tool would undoubtedly speed up my workflow - but keeps crashing sketchup.
This may be related to the big issues of "freshly copied groups".
In your case, was one of the group a copy of another one (you should see "2 instances" in the Entity Info Window.
If this is the case, then FredoScale needs some evolutions. I have done it on Curvizard.
As a workaround for complex hirearchy of groups and components, try to perform a Make Unique before (Make Unique is also part of FredoScale).
Fredo
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