[Plugin] Shape Bender Beta
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is possible for the next version add the feature to adapt to surfaces?
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Hey,
It's a very powerful tool. However, I tried to do a vertical 3D text along a curve wall. It always stop at the message " 1% End @? (1 of 5) Searching for objects to explode. Do you know what the problem is? really hope this could work. Thanks.
Silvia
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It's probably not 'stopped', but just taking ages to complete.
Can you rotate the parts onto the red/X-axis ?
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Though that 1%END@? looks suspicious. Can you upload the model?
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Hi there.
I started using SketchUp on my Mac.
I downloaded ShapeBender, as well as ProgressBar, and put both in my Plugins folder.
I restarted SketchUp, and don't find a ProgressBar like in your video... is that because I'm using a Mac? Is there someone here who has an idea what I'm doing wrong? -
Progressbar is just a plugin which is use by other plugins (like ShapeBender for instance). You will have to activate SB (I think) under SketchUp > Preferences > Extensions then restart SU and find it toolbar button where they are on the Mac (on Windows, they are under the View menu but I know Mac is different here)
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@gaieus said:
Progressbar is just a plugin which is use by other plugins (like ShapeBender for instance). You will have to activate SB (I think) under SketchUp > Preferences > Extensions then restart SU and find it toolbar button where they are on the Mac (on Windows, they are under the View menu but I know Mac is different here)
Thanks for the reply; I went to SketchUp > Preferences > Extensions, and didn't see anything about ShapeBender there, the only extension that wasn't checked was Ruby Script Examples, which I checked, but I still don't have a status bar or he bender button from the video...
Any other ideas?
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Hm. It should be there - unless Chris programmed it differently for Mac (which I doubt)
Have you unpackedthe content of that zip file? Simply copying it to your Plugins folder will not install the plugin. See some instructions/guidelines below
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The Shape Bender extension swill show on Mac in Preferences>Extensions as it does on a windows machine. It sounds to me as if you didn't unpack the Shape Bender file or didn't unpack it correctly.
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@dave r said:
The Shape Bender extension swill show on Mac in Preferences>Extensions as it does on a windows machine. It sounds to me as if you didn't unpack the Shape Bender file or didn't unpack it correctly.
Okay, maybe I didn't see Shape Bender in the Extensions list before... I see it now. And it's checked. I also have the Progress Bar downloaded, and progressbar.rb is in my plugins folder. I still don't have a progress bar in SketchUp...
I tried moving progressbar.rb to the plugins > utilities, just to see what would happen, but when I opened up SketchUp is gave me a warning, so I moved to back to plugins, and got no warning, but also no icon that looks anything like the video. ??
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You will only see a small progress bar running at the bottom of your window when ShapeBender is working - that1s all it's needed for so there is no menu item or button for it, it is just a background plugin in this case. Have you looked at your toolbars to see if the ShapeBender icon is there?
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@gaieus said:
You will only see a small progress bar running at the bottom of your window when ShapeBender is working - that1s all it's needed for so there is no menu item or button for it, it is just a background plugin in this case. Have you looked at your toolbars to see if the ShapeBender icon is there?
I have looked at my toolbars - I don't see it available there. On the video, it looked like a button was hit between selecting the straight line and selecting the guiding line. Maybe I was mistaken. So if there's no button, how do I get the thing to work then?
Thanks for your help.
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If you aren't seeing Shape Bender under View>Tool Palettes, I would guess you still haven't installed it correctly. Why don't you post a screen shot of Finder showing the plugins folder and its contents? Otherwise we're going to play this guessing game until you've got it installed correctly and working. And I can assure you, the plugin does work on Mac if it is installed correctly.
By the way, there's no toolbar button press between selecting the straight line and the curve. You select the component/group you want to bend and then choose the tool.
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Hi Mark, there is no button or menu item for progressbar. Please stop looking for it.
You might need to go to View > Toolbars > Shape Bender to turn on the shapebender toolbar. It is a small single icon, easy to not see if you have a big monitor. Or if you have toolbars that are "loose" (not docked into the window) then they can stack on top of each other, so maybe its under another toolbar.
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Have you activated 'Shape Bender' from Window > Preferences > Extensions.
If not then try that... and then the menu/toolbar become available.
If it's not listed as an Extension then it is NOT been installed properly
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@dave r said:
If you aren't seeing Shape Bender under View>Tool Palettes, I would guess you still haven't installed it correctly. Why don't you post a screen shot of Finder showing the plugins folder and its contents? Otherwise we're going to play this guessing game until you've got it installed correctly and working. And I can assure you, the plugin does work on Mac if it is installed correctly.
By the way, there's no toolbar button press between selecting the straight line and the curve. You select the component/group you want to bend and then choose the tool.
Okay, I am now seeing Shape Bender under View > Tool Palettes, and can see the Tool Bar. I can also select it from Plugins > Chris Fulmer Tools. I have it selected in my preferences extensions.
So it looks like it should be working now, and I'm following the instructions from the video: I click on my group or component (I've tried both), then click on the Tool Bar. After that, I should be able to select my straight line, right? Left clicking doesn't do anything. Right clicking brings up a menu that does have anything to do with Shape Bender.
Argh.
How do I include screen shots? I clicked on Img - what do I stick between the brackets?
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First make sure that you align the whole thing (group, straight line and curve) in a way that the straight line is parallel to the red axis. This is an often overlooked condition (and Chris has been keeping this plugin in Beta version for ages now)
Anyway, you can attach any images or many other file types under the text area you are posting (there is an "Upload attachment" tab). the [img] tab is for including/embedding images hosted elsewhere.
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@xorthan said:
So it looks like it should be working now, and I'm following the instructions from the video: I click on my group or component (I've tried both), then click on the Tool Bar. After that, I should be able to select my straight line, right? Left clicking doesn't do anything. Right clicking brings up a menu that does have anything to do with Shape Bender.
Argh.
How do I include screen shots? I clicked on Img - what do I stick between the brackets?
Please go back to the original post and watch the videos that Chris did. This plugin is not that difficult to use.
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When you try it please have Window > Ruby Console open and post any errors that appear there - it might still not be fully installed ??
These messages might help us spot what is missing/broken...
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