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    • Dave RD Offline
      Dave R
      last edited by

      @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.

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      • H Offline
        howardhong
        last edited by

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

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        • Dave RD Offline
          Dave R
          last edited by

          @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"?

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          • H Offline
            howardhong
            last edited by

            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..".

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            • Dave RD Offline
              Dave R
              last edited by

              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?

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              • H Offline
                howardhong
                last edited by

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

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                • Dave RD Offline
                  Dave R
                  last edited by

                  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.

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                  • EdsonE Offline
                    Edson
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                    @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.

                    edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre • brasil
                    http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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                    • B Offline
                      BlueFalcon
                      last edited by

                      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.

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                      • Dave RD Offline
                        Dave R
                        last edited by

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

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                        • EdsonE Offline
                          Edson
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                          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.

                          edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre • brasil
                          http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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                          • Dave RD Offline
                            Dave R
                            last edited by

                            Edson,

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

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                            • TIGT Offline
                              TIG Moderator
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                              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]...

                              TIG

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                              • EdsonE Offline
                                Edson
                                last edited by

                                @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...

                                edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre • brasil
                                http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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                                • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                  Chris Fullmer
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                                  @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]...

                                  Oh my, I missed all of this also TIG. Hopefully its all sorted now. I'll have to make sure to adjust the way shape bender does that if I ever get around to re-writing it.

                                  Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                  All my Plugins I've written

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                                  • B Offline
                                    BlueFalcon
                                    last edited by

                                    Here is a picture of my problem:
                                    http://portablenetworkgraph.deviantart.com/art/shape-bender-202454409

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                                    • GaieusG Offline
                                      Gaieus
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                                      BlueFalcon,

                                      In those pictures I cannot see the axes. Don't forget that ShapeBender works only along the red axis.

                                      Gai...

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                                      • TIGT Offline
                                        TIG Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        Assuming that the straight line is drawn along the red-axis...
                                        How big is the group ?
                                        If bending it would make facets <1mm then it might fail...

                                        TIG

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                                        • B Offline
                                          BlueFalcon
                                          last edited by

                                          I have done the same procces along the red axis with lines all higher than 1 meter, and the same happens.

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                                          • Dave RD Offline
                                            Dave R
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                                            Could you post a screen shot of your Plugins folder as well as the contents of the folder called clf_shape_bender?

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