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    • Dave RD Offline
      Dave R
      last edited by

      Ah ha! The old, "installed it wrong" effect. ๐Ÿ˜‰

      Etaoin Shrdlu

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      • Y Offline
        yuchuan
        last edited by

        3q for shareing!

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        • O Offline
          Ouch
          last edited by

          For shape bender and a few other items, I see that you have already received much and well deserved praise and I want to add to that with a HUGE THANK YOU!!!! You have ended the progression of my gray hair. Iโ€™m a real novice with all of this and I needed to make a large, long screw bolt that left miffed and mumbling profanities. Your tutorials are excellent as well. It took me a bit to figure out how to actually add a plug-in but it was nothing compared to the frustrations of trying to make a screw. Again thank you very much.

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          • P Offline
            professor_pine
            last edited by

            I've been trying to bend a logo for about two days now. Your plugin was the answer.

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            • Chris FullmerC Offline
              Chris Fullmer
              last edited by

              Oh good, glad it worked! Thanks for watching the tutorials or reading the instructions or something so you could figure out how to use it ๐Ÿ˜„

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

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              • charly2008C Offline
                charly2008
                last edited by

                Hi,

                I'm probably the last person who has noticed that it also works with vertical curves.

                Charly


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                He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                • Chris FullmerC Offline
                  Chris Fullmer
                  last edited by

                  I have to admit that I did not purposely design it to work with vertical curves like that, but someone else did point it out and it does seem to work pretty well.

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

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                  • I Offline
                    islevegan
                    last edited by

                    Greetings,

                    I use Sketchup 8.0.4811 on linux via Wine. It is stable and works well.

                    I put the .rb and related folder in the plug-ins folder and got an error upon starting Sketchup.

                    Fyi; Just wanted you to know.

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      @islevegan said:

                      Greetings,

                      I use Sketchup 8.0.4811 on linux via Wine. It is stable and works well.

                      I put the .rb and related folder in the plug-ins folder and got an error upon starting Sketchup.

                      Fyi; Just wanted you to know.
                      If you keep the error message your secret we can't help you... ๐Ÿ˜’
                      How about I guess ?
                      The error said something about 'progressbar.rb' ?
                      Get it free from Smustard.com, put the file into Plugins and retry...
                      If my guess is wrong tell us the error and we can try to help you... ๐Ÿ˜•

                      TIG

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                      • I Offline
                        islevegan
                        last edited by

                        Apologies. Yes, you are exactly right. I haven't used SketchUp much and not at all in 2+ years. I missed the detail you mentioned.

                        Now SketchUp starts without error and I see Shape Bender in the Plug-ins listing. Again, I apologize for this and thank you for your gracious response.

                        Aloha

                        @tig said:

                        @islevegan said:

                        Greetings,

                        I use Sketchup 8.0.4811 on linux via Wine. It is stable and works well.

                        I put the .rb and related folder in the plug-ins folder and got an error upon starting Sketchup.

                        Fyi; Just wanted you to know.
                        If you keep the error message your secret we can't help you... ๐Ÿ˜’
                        How about I guess ?
                        The error said something about 'progressbar.rb' ?
                        Get it free from Smustard.com, put the file into Plugins and retry...
                        If my guess is wrong tell us the error and we can try to help you... ๐Ÿ˜•

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                        • GaieusG Offline
                          Gaieus
                          last edited by

                          @islevegan said:

                          Now SketchUp starts without error and I see Shape Bender in the Plug-ins listing.
                          ๐Ÿ‘

                          Gai...

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                          • U Offline
                            unclex
                            last edited by

                            [Plugin] ExtrudeTools - Zipped Set 20110525 Installed
                            Shape Can't work...
                            Need Help !!!
                            ThanX

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                            • GaieusG Offline
                              Gaieus
                              last edited by

                              Unclex, that's a completely different plugin.

                              Did you also install Shape bender? And what about progresbar.rb. Any error messages in the ruby console?

                              Gai...

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                              • TIGT Offline
                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by

                                @unclex said:

                                [Plugin] ExtrudeTools - Zipped Set 20110525 Installed
                                Shape Can't work...
                                Need Help !!!
                                ThanX

                                Are there error messages?
                                Either at startup or in the Ruby Console when it's run.
                                If so please post them here.
                                As Gaieus said... do you have progressbar.rb installed in your Plugins folder [free to download from Smustard.com] ? It's need by this tool to work properly.
                                I know of no recent changes to the EEby... tools that might cause a clash.
                                I have both tools working fine on my PC with all previous and current versions...
                                Please give us as much information as you can to help us help you - your present message is particularly unhelpful...

                                TIG

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                                • U Offline
                                  unclex
                                  last edited by

                                  Sorry ๏ผŒ Shape can't work with [VirtualWind]This One๏ผŒ
                                  not ExtrudeTools

                                  Can U fix this๏ผŸ
                                  ThanX

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                                  • TIGT Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    vwSketchupExtensions.rb Replace this file in the 'Virtualwind' subfolder... it previously made a missing method - group.definition - BUT it had a basic error in its code - returning the 'group' rather than its actual 'definition', which would break any other tools that also define and use it, in anything but the most simple way - like 'ShapeBender' does !!

                                    It's very bad to overwrite built-in class methods and risky to make new ones, without checking they preexist in your code, especially if there's a basic mistake in yours ๐Ÿ˜’
                                    The rewritten form ensures that if there's an earlier made method it stands...
                                    It should not change the way 'Virtualwind' itself works, but now allows other scripts to work too...
                                    I don't have 'Virtualwind' so I had never come across it before ๐Ÿ˜•

                                    TIG

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                                    • J Offline
                                      Jim
                                      last edited by

                                      Hmm, how do we handle this type of issue in a way that is easy to search for and find?

                                      Hi

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                                      • D Offline
                                        driven
                                        last edited by

                                        hi TIG,

                                        I stopped using VW but, from memory it also has a clash with progressbar.rb this won't help that will it?

                                        john

                                        learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                                        • TIGT Offline
                                          TIG Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          @jim said:

                                          Hmm, how do we handle this type of issue in a way that is easy to search for and find?

                                          The 'classic' is group.definition so it's easily found and then fixed with my 'trap code'...
                                          Otherwise I use Baregrep to search for text like class Sketchup:: etc in all my .rb and .rb.txt files in Plugins and/or subfolders to see if there are new or modified built-in class methods etc.
                                          Other greps could be for class Geom::, class Array:: etc depending on the possible type of error...
                                          Unfortunately compiled .rbs are impossible to grep - you can only 'find them' by the half/half/half method of moving Plugins out of the Plugins folder... They can then be disabled but not 'fixed'... ๐Ÿ˜’

                                          TIG

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                                          • J Offline
                                            Jim
                                            last edited by

                                            Sorry, I meant how to make it easy to find on the forum...

                                            Hi

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