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    • G Offline
      gacevedo
      last edited by

      Hi, just tried your plugin with zorro 2 with podium 2.5 running on sketchup 8, win64. It is a thing of beauty.

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      • S Offline
        sam41145
        last edited by

        Thanks TIG. πŸ’š

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        • P Offline
          pablosyk14
          last edited by

          Very useful plugin. Thanks

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          • D Offline
            dragon999
            last edited by

            Thank you for sharing this ruby

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            • pilgerP Offline
              pilger
              last edited by

              Incredibly usefull plugin.

              I've found a very annoying bug on the new version on Sketchup 8 Pro though. It used to work great with the previous versions.

              It fails to create a new layer and move the group backwards a bit so it appears on the section view. I've tried several combinations of the plugin's preferences and all resulted in the same bug.

              Here's what i got on my ruby console window:

              Error; #<TypeError; reference to deleted Edge>
              C;/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb;361;in `faces'
              C;/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb;361;in `initialize'
              C;/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb;359;in `each'
              C;/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb;359;in `initialize'
              C;/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb;358;in `times'
              C;/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb;358;in `initialize'
              C;/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb;476;in `new'
              C;/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb;476
              C;/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb;361;in `call'
              C;/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SectionCutFace.rb;361
              
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              • TIGT Offline
                TIG Moderator
                last edited by

                Can you try this [make a backup copy first outside of Plugins in case you mess up!]
                Edit the .rb file with Notepad or Notepad++, around line #360 there are these lines

                   if e.class == Sketchup;;Edge and @@edges == "No" ###v2.2
                      e.erase! if not e.faces[0]
                   end #if
                

                change them to read

                   if e.class == Sketchup;;Edge and @@edges == "No" ###v2.2
                      e.erase! if e.valid? and not e.faces[0]
                   end #if
                

                i.e. add in ' e.valid? and'
                The code should be OK as it was but this will make it more foolproof πŸ˜’
                Save it and retry - see if the error repeats - if not let me know and I'll issue an update, if it's still an issue can you post or PM me the SKP with the problem with a brief explanation and I'll try and see what's up... πŸ˜•

                TIG

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  Here's v2.6 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=172583#p172583
                  It now traps for potential rare bugs if it tries to erase an object that's already erased...
                  [as recently raised by 'pilger']...

                  TIG

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                  • GaieusG Offline
                    Gaieus
                    last edited by

                    Thanks TIG. I rarely use sections but when I do, I always use this plugin, too. I haven't encountered the bug you mentioned yet but it's always good to have the latest build of a plugin.
                    πŸ‘

                    Gai...

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      On some very complex forms with many overlapping holes etc there's a lot of 'tidying up' to do... and I suspect that rarely it was trying to erase an edge that it'd just erased milliseconds before, as the edges listings 'iterate'... but stripping out invalid edges is not well done in my old code!

                      Anyway now I've trapped all of the xxx.erase! commands making them xxx.erase! if xxx.valid? - so if it's just erased something and thinks to do it again then it doesn't bother because the .valid? is always false if an object ceases to exist !

                      I appreciate you probably glazed over after a couple of ruby-red texts... but it's a simple fix to a rare glitch... πŸ˜‰

                      TIG

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                      • B Offline
                        Ben Ritter
                        last edited by

                        TIG, thank you again.

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                        • Bob JamesB Offline
                          Bob James
                          last edited by

                          Great plugin, TIG, thank you πŸ‘

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                          • utilerU Offline
                            utiler
                            last edited by

                            Cheers, TIG.... one of my favorites.....! πŸ‘

                            purpose/expression/purpose/....

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                            • pilgerP Offline
                              pilger
                              last edited by

                              Ah, sorry for the lack of response back there TIG. I've been sort of away from modeling for a while.

                              The plugin seems to be working flawlessly now. Perfect. It's one of the plugins i use the most and i had to turn back to an older version i had stored somewhere here when i stumbled upon that problem, so many many thanks for the fix! πŸ‘

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                              • B Offline
                                braknes
                                last edited by

                                Hi

                                I've tried several times to install this plugin. I copied it to the plugin folder, restarted SketchUp, but when I right-click on the section plane there is no option to "Add Section-Cut Face". Any idea what might be wrong?

                                I run SU 8 Pro in OS X
                                Thanks!

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                                • TIGT Offline
                                  TIG Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  Braknes

                                  You must have a selection of just one Section-Plane and nothing else at all selected - for this tool to appear in the context-menu as 'Add Section-Cut Face'.

                                  let's consider a few possibilities...
                                  Have you installed the script in the correct place?
                                  To test this open your Ruby Console and type [or copy&paste] these lines...
                                  Sketchup.find_support_file("SectionCutFace.rb", "Plugins")
                                  If it returns ' nil' then the file not there and therefore it isn't auto-loading.
                                  Where is it then?
                                  Move it into Plugins and restart Sketchup...
                                  However, if it returns the full path to the file it's there and it should be auto-loading and therefore available for you to use, if you have an appropriate selection.
                                  If it's there also check that this .rb file has appropriate permissions to be 'read'.
                                  Assuming it's in the right folder, try reloading it; in the Ruby Console type [or copy&paste]
                                  load "SectionCutFace.rb"
                                  Is should then be available in the context-menu, with a suitable selection...
                                  Still not working?? Let's try circumventing the context-menu and running the code from the Ruby Console directly...
                                  Select one Section-Plane... and then type [or copy&paste]
                                  SectionCut.new()
                                  A dialog will open and on OK a faced-section-cut is made.
                                  IF you haven't properly selected a Section-Plane it will still open the dialog, but then on OK it'll produce some error messages in the Console, because we'll have side-stepped the initial checking for an appropriate selection to process and it'll fail !

                                  TIG

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                                  • B Offline
                                    braknes
                                    last edited by

                                    Thanks TIG! I got it to work.

                                    This is really a great plugin! Thanks for making life easier πŸ˜‰

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                                    • F Offline
                                      figaro
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi Tig,
                                      where would i beable to download the section cut face plugin? im struggling to find it

                                      thanks

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                                      • jolranJ Offline
                                        jolran
                                        last edited by

                                        At the very first post? It's a tradition..

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                                        • K Offline
                                          K-TEE
                                          last edited by

                                          Thanks.

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                                          • A Offline
                                            AlainBo
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi,
                                            It seems SectionCutFace is not able to map faces if cutted parts are in different altitude.

                                            Here is the model, I want to cut the top of the walls but all walls extremities are not at the same level.


                                            http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/6164/testsectioncut.jpg

                                            and here is the result


                                            http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9931/testsectioncut2.jpg

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