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      chalky
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      problem solved ๐Ÿ˜„

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        TIG Moderator
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        @chalky said:

        problem solved ๐Ÿ˜„
        How? WE would like to know ๐Ÿ˜•

        TIG

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          artsnot
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          I am new to this forum and seem to be experiencing a Sketchup crash every time I try to use section cut face. I am using Sketchup Pro 8 on a MacBook Pro i7 2.0 GHz with 8 MB RAM. I am not sure what the problem is. Has anyone else experience this?

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            TIG Moderator
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            What MAC OS are you using ?
            OSX ?

            TIG

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              bmike
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              @artsnot said:

              I am new to this forum and seem to be experiencing a Sketchup crash every time I try to use section cut face. I am using Sketchup Pro 8 on a MacBook Pro i7 2.0 GHz with 8 MB RAM. I am not sure what the problem is. Has anyone else experience this?

              Running fine on mine:


              Screen Shot 2012-04-05 at 1.55.06 PM.png

              mike beganyi design + consulting llc

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                artsnot
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                I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8.

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                  TIG Moderator
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                  SUFractal has reported a clash/crash with SectionCutFace [and some other scripts] if BIMtools is installed - we suspect that new tool might be inadvertently messing with native class/methods used correctly by other scripts, OR it has faulty observers that are messing with things like group creation...
                  Do any of you experiencing problems have BIMtools installed ?
                  If so, try disabling it and retry/report back...

                  TIG

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                    artsnot
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                    How does one do that? Sorry, I am totally new and have no idea what that means. I appreciate your help.

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                      TIG Moderator
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                      Well... first have you [recently] installed BIMtools?
                      If not don't worry.
                      BUT if you did, then find the file you installed in Plugins - look inside the original 'zip' file to see what these were. There should be 'bim-tools.rb' and its folder of other files that it uses.
                      So disabling 'bim-tools.rb' in Plugins will stop it auto-loading.
                      You can either move that file out of the Plugins folder temporarily so Sketchup doesn't then find it when starting, so it is not auto-loaded; OR you could leave it where it is and rename it 'bim-tools.rb!' - only file-types '.rb' and '.rbs' are auto-loaded.

                      If you restart and try SectionCutFace now does it work...
                      If so we have the culprit...

                      If you want to restore a disabled tool later on, then either move its file[s] back into Plugins, or if you have adopted the other approach, rename the file[s] back as 'xxx.rb' etc...

                      TIG

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                        artsnot
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                        I don't recall having installed anything like that and a spotlight search reveals no files with such name. I've checked my SU folder as well and there doesn't seem to be any such script. Thoughts?

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                          TIG Moderator
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                          Post a detailed screenshot of your Plugins folder showing what is installed.
                          Also post the full path to the folder...

                          TIG

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                            SUFractal
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                            @tig said:

                            Well... first have you [recently] installed BIMtools?
                            If not don't worry.
                            BUT if you did, then find the file you installed in Plugins - look inside the original 'zip' file to see what these were. There should be 'bim-tools.rb' and its folder of other files that it uses.
                            So disabling 'bim-tools.rb' in Plugins will stop it auto-loading.
                            You can either move that file out of the Plugins folder temporarily so Sketchup doesn't then find it when starting, so it is not auto-loaded; OR you could leave it where it is and rename it 'bim-tools.rb!' - only file-types '.rb' and '.rbs' are auto-loaded.

                            If you restart and try SectionCutFace now does it work...
                            If so we have the culprit...

                            If you want to restore a disabled tool later on, then either move its file[s] back into Plugins, or if you have adopted the other approach, rename the file[s] back as 'xxx.rb' etc...

                            Folks ... the correct name of the troublesome script is 'SketchUpBIM'.

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                              artsnot
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                              Here you go.


                              Screen shot 2012-04-05 at 2.57.29 PM.jpg

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                                artsnot
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                                Could my problem have to do with using Podium for Sketchup? When I try using Zorro to cut my model it also crashes immediately.

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                                  TIG Moderator
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                                  You have very few scripts auto-loading from Plugins...
                                  You could try disabling both Zorro and Podium temporarily - add a ! onto the end of the file extension to prevent it auto-loading on a restart of Sketchup.
                                  Later on you can remove it back to .rb/.rbs as appropriate, so it enabled again.
                                  It's strange that you and a few more now and again have issues as it's been around for ages without problems...

                                  Open Window > Ruby Console when running the SectionCutFace and see if there are any error messages when it fails.

                                  Also in the Console type $LOAD_PATH [exactly as here] and there should be a list of the folders Plugins [for 'your' scripts] and Tools [for Google's scripts]; are there any other folders listed there that contain .rb/.rbs files ?

                                  Can you post the SKP that has the issue so we can text it.

                                  Can you also ZIP the actual script [.rb] and PM it to me so I can check it hasn't somehow become corrupted during your install... by ZIPping it it'll preserve its contents best...

                                  TIG

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                                    danylight
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                                    why is sketchup closing when I use the section cut face ?? does anyone experience the same issue ? I used to work with this great plugin, I reinstalled sketchup ( same version as before, 8.0.3161 ) and now it doesn't work anymore...

                                    I work with OS X 10.6

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                                      TIG Moderator
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                                      No known issues like this ๐Ÿ˜•

                                      Have you tried disabling recently installed scripts to see if they are messing with some base class/methods used by this tool - e.g. some scripts have malfunctioning observers, or even ill-advisedly mess with Sketchup 'group.copy' methods etc and can cause such issues...
                                      โ“

                                      TIG

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                                        humbertoanastasia
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                                        Hi. First of all, thank you! I've always used this plugin, and it's just wonderful!
                                        Since last update, though, everytime i try to use it my SketchUp crashes.
                                        I don't know what to do...
                                        Any suggestions?

                                        Thanks!

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                                          TIG Moderator
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                                          @humbertoanastasia said:

                                          Hi. First of all, thank you! I've always used this plugin, and it's just wonderful!
                                          Since last update, though, everytime i try to use it my SketchUp crashes.
                                          I don't know what to do...
                                          Any suggestions?

                                          Thanks!
                                          See the post just before yours http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=401294#p401294
                                          You must have installed something making rogue changes to base-classes/methods...

                                          TIG

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                                            mwm5053
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                                            I like this plugin great job TIG I have a small question. When applying section cut face it fills in faces where no faces should be, still can't figure what I'm doing wrong


                                            6 story high rise.skp

                                            2011 iMac
                                            SU 2015 Pro, 2017 Make
                                            V2 Twilight
                                            macOS Sierra 10.12.5

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