[Plugin] Shape Bender Beta

TIG

I solved that little problem: there was something at the tip of the straight line that prevented SB from recognizing it as a line. Fine.
HOWEVER, having gone through the steps, as soon as I hit enter SU crashes every time. and I am not trying any complex operation, just to bend a simple box.

The line on the red axis must be a single axial line with nothing touching it - as just have discovered.
What size are these things, if they are very small [or enormously gigantic] SUp/OpenGL can't cope.
I think the Entity info says ~382 cm ? Which I would expect to be absolutely fine, BUT have you tried scaling x10 ?
I'm on PC and have no problems with a similar sized thing ~1m high/3m long...

Edson

@dave r said:

Edson,

Have you successfully run SB before? Have you tried closing and restarting SketchUp/opening the model after fixing your line problem?

dave,
I had never tried it before. yes, i tried restarting SU several times. it keeps crashing.

TIG,
I tried SB on a clean 7.1 install, that is, with no other plugins than the ones that ship with SU. it worked fine which leads me to believe thet either there is a conflict with some of the 200+ plugins I have installed on SU8 or some incompatibity with SU8 for mac itself. but my successful attempt with 7.1 was not without hitches: see what happened to one of the ends of the box that was bent.

Dave R

I suppose there could be a conflict. I imagine you know what to do to sort it out so I won't go into that.

That end isn't bent. the edge/s is/are just softened. Unsoften them and it'll look right. The plugin frequently does that. I don't know if there's a script fix but it isn't that hard to rectify manually.

TIG

If you run it with the Ruby Console open are there any error messages at all ?

Edson

@dave r said:

I suppose there could be a conflict. I imagine you know what to do to sort it out so I won't go into that.

That end isn't bent. the edge/s is/are just softened. Unsoften them and it'll look right. The plugin frequently does that. I don't know if there's a script fix but it isn't that hard to rectify manually.

how does one do that? I selected the geometry and ran the slider from one side to the other but nothing happened.

Edson

@tig said:

If you run it with the Ruby Console open are there any error messages at all ?

no messages at all (see below). the odd thing is that the problem occurs only when the group is exactly above the straight line. if I move the group ahead the problem does not occur.

group to be bent exactly above the straight line
group no longer aligned with the straight line

Dave R

@edson said:

@dave r said:

I suppose there could be a conflict. I imagine you know what to do to sort it out so I won't go into that.

That end isn't bent. the edge/s is/are just softened. Unsoften them and it'll look right. The plugin frequently does that. I don't know if there's a script fix but it isn't that hard to rectify manually.

how does one do that? I selected the geometry and ran the slider from one side to the other but nothing happened.

I select the softened edges (View>Hidden Geometry) and then set the slider to 20 where it normally is by default. In the lower of your screen shots, there's a softened edge at the bottom to take care of.

howardhong

i have same problem
i guess its about the default setting values of edge

Dave R

@howardhong said:

i have same problem
i guess its about the default setting values of edge

What do you mean by "default setting values of edge"?

howardhong

dave, i said "i guess..".
when im using erase tool, i saw a sudden pop up window in the center of screen.
i didnt give any attension, and closed that window.
after that happened, i got same problem.

so i said "i guess..".

Dave R

The only possible edge setting would have to do with Smooth/Soften but it won't open when you are using the Eraser tool. What did the pop up box say?

howardhong

i cant remember it exactly,
theres three scrool down menu and one of it said "sketchup model" or somewhat...

Dave R

I guess, if I were you, I would wait until it shows up again and note what it says. Then report back. If you can make a screen shot showing it, that would be very useful.

Edson

@dave r said:

I select the softened edges (View>Hidden Geometry) and then set the slider to 20 where it normally is by default. In the lower of your screen shots, there's a softened edge at the bottom to take care of.

dave,

I followed your advice and it worked. thanks. never had this problem before.

BlueFalcon

I selected my group and clicked the shape bender icon, i click on the straight line than the curved line, and it gives an error telling me to select the group before clicking the shape bender icon

wath is the problem? i did everything like you did in the video and it wont work

also, how can i make those really soft curved lines?

I'am not new to sketchup or somthing, but i never had problems using plugins.

Dave R

It would be a big help if you either post the SKP file or at least a screen shot.

Edson

just to let you know that the crashing SU8 when running Shape Bender was due to the fact that I was running an outdated version of HOlePunchTool (1.6). as soon as I updated it the crashes stopped.

Dave R

Edson,

Glad that is sorted out. Now you can bend and punch.

TIG

Edson

v1.7 of HolePunch was done around late January and it was to fix a reported conflict with the unusual way ShapeBender made groups, "It appears that the way ShapeBender copies/adds component-instances/definitions and also uses 'make_unique' etc fell foul of the HolePunch definitions-observers: a definition could occasionally get two of the same HolePunch observers added which really messed everything up big time!"
See http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=302853#p302853 [and presumably Solid Tools was doing something similar ?]

All fixed now anyway [btw v2.0 is the current version]...

Edson

@tig said:

Edson

v1.7 of HolePunch was done around late January and it was to fix a reported conflict with the unusual way ShapeBender made groups, "It appears that the way ShapeBender copies/adds component-instances/definitions and also uses 'make_unique' etc fell foul of the HolePunch definitions-observers: a definition could occasionally get two of the same HolePunch observers added which really messed everything up big time!"
See http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=302853#p302853 [and presumably Solid Tools was doing something similar ?]

All fixed now anyway [btw v2.0 is the current version]...

I am sorry I missed that. as I said somewhere else, it is quite hard to follow all the threads about the plugins one has installed. in my case, I have 315 items in my plugins folder...