Materials Reappearing
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You didn't happen to do anything with making it a Dynamic Component? I remember DC's have an odd way of handling materials.
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Gai, yes they are always the same materials.
Jim, I have done nothing with DC's.
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In another file I imported a jpeg as an image (not a material) and then later deleted it. Then I purged as normal, saved and closed. When I opened the file that image was reloaded as a material. I never exploded the image, just used it as a reference then deleted it.
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Couldn't be as simple as opening the backup file?-) For myself, been their done that
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I've also thought about that but to tell the truth, I didn't dare to mention it to Eric.
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Nope, if I open the backup I get the same thing.
What is odd is that I uploaded a file and Gai is not getting the extra materials, only me. So something on my end is going loco.I ran CCleaner and Defragler then restarted. Still not working right.
And again, it is happening on all the files I have tried, not just the one I uploaded here. -
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@unknownuser said:
Nope, if I open the backup I get the same thing.
What is odd is that I uploaded a file and Gai is not getting the extra materials, only me. So something on my end is going loco.I ran CCleaner and Defragler then restarted. Still not working right.
And again, it is happening on all the files I have tried, not just the one I uploaded here.What is you temporarily disable all plugins? (Rename the plugins folder might work?)
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And screw up all my toolbars.... last resort maybe
I am thinking a reinstall will do the trick.
I have to finish working on a few models first so I don't think I will do that for a few days.Grrr, this is odd.
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@thomthom said:
What is you temporarily disable all plugins?
@unknownuser said:
And screw up all my toolbars....
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@unknownuser said:
And screw up all my toolbars
You can fix your toolbars by un-maximizing SU. Then drag the edges of the window out so its as big as fully expanded window, then re-maximize it. You might have to fix your toolbars, but it should then stay good when you load new plugins in the future.
This is all in theory. I've seen it work on my machine, and others tried it and it worked for them, but i'd feel bad if it didn't work for you. But I'd love to know the results if you do test it.
Chris
PS I'm also going to play with the file and see if I see anythin (not likely).
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yeah, I quicly found that I see nothing.
What happens if you download the model from here and open it?
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@chris fullmer said:
What happens if you download the model from here and open it?
Same thing. I have 8 non-used un-purged materials.
You know that sound you hear when the hair on the back of your neck starts to stand on end...
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About this time we called Ghostbusters?
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My bets on a plugin adding the materials each time you open the model...
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What would happen, Eric, if you renamed the file before opening it again?
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Boo,
I don't think the SU materials (not on a SU machine right now) have those numbers in their names. Are you using (or recently added) a rendering plugin? I could imagine those messing around with materials as they have their own parameters to add. Don't they use some kind of "xdata" to store just things like that?
Anssi
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Hi,
May not be related, but I've found (although I can't find) a hidden section cut artifact in one drawing that always appears if I try to zoom in to edit, either component (which are on separate layers) and sometimes from particular point of view editing or not.
On one occasion I managed to reveal the actual cut plane by drawing a cylinder up from origin and recognised the cut as a transitional view between two scenes in a recent, but completely unrelated drawing. I've been trying to replicate for a screen capture, but can't... yet.
I have established it's only in this drawing, the components are fine if I put them in a new drawing. so I could just delete this one completely
except, if it could be toggled it might be a handy editing tool... maybeI don't know where else to post this???
john
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John, that is a common occurrence called clipping plane.
Read about troubleshooting here:
http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=36261&topic=9042
And it would be best next time to start a new thread instead@gaieus said:
What would happen, Eric, if you renamed the file before opening it again?
Nice thought but that did not work.
@anssi said:
Boo,
I don't think the SU materials (not on a SU machine right now) have those numbers in their names. Are you using (or recently added) a rendering plugin? I could imagine those messing around with materials as they have their own parameters to add. Don't they use some kind of "xdata" to store just things like that?
Anssi
Good thinking but I have had that set of colors for quite a while and they have always had the numbers next to them. They are named exactly the same in SU6 as well.
The most recent rendering plugin I installed was Vray and that was months ago, this problem just started. And like I mentioned before I have not added any new plugins that correlate with the problem's time frame. I did remove the last few plugins I installed just to see and it still had no effect.And this is not localized to just this file, it seems to be happening on any file I purge materials in SU7.
For example, if I purge 3 green materials in one file, save then re-open I get 3 green materials back. If I purge 10 brick materials in another file, save then re-open I get 10 brick materials again. -
Well snot, I just did a test with a file I created back in 08 and did not get this problem.
It may be that while I had a session of SU7 open it was corrupting files as I opened them???I will have to do some more investigation...
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