[Plugin] 2D Tools

mitcorb

TIG:
I copy/pasted as you instructed, with no apparent reaction in the console at each step. Then I drew two overlapping 2d rectangles, applied 2d faces to each. Then I tried to activate the 2d hatching tool and got the "cancelled" statement.

EDIT: The attachment hopefully shows the console open and the inputs. If not, I will do a jpg.

2dhatchinguploadfile.skp

TIG

No Console in the image. Please try again...
I tried your Model and it Hatches OK for me... so must be something in your setup...

When you pasted the line UI.openpanel... what happened ? Did it open a file browser ?
If it did then if you selected something and hit OK what did it then say in the Console ?
Can you try typing UI.openpanel in the Console - you should get the last file browser you had opened again...

Most confusing...

EDIT: The Console appeared on the second image...
You don't seem to have typed the last of the lines I asked you to -
UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)

Please DO NOT try to run the 2D Hatching Tool ! I'm trying to check your setup BEFORE we start looking at other things... Firstly we need to check that the UI.openpanel is working OK...

mitcorb

TIG:
No file browser opened. I will try again.
(I am not fluent with image capturing and posting, so I had to try again. The process is so opaque, that is, you gotta trust that the results will be favorable.)

EDIT: see attachment.
I typed the statement into the line input box. I thought there was a required space before the parentheses. That is why I got the warning.
But in each case I got the word "nil".

EDIT2: for your info, I verified that the hatching file has all of the jpg content.

JClements

My preference would be to have the text sensitive to the current Z-plane.

Perhaps you could allow its present behavior through Alt-clicking the toolbar icon? ... Or the user could use your other text script.

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Tried the updated extend tool. When I tried it on an arc and when I could get it to work, the arc was extended through and beyond a target edge. Using with line segments, it couldn't detect the line to extend when trying to select it. Many times I'd get an hour glass and have to shut down SU 7.1.

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A combination of the line, tab input, and radius tools makes producing pipe and elbow centerlines easy.
I suppose Pipe-Along-Pipe could be implimented into the toolbar and apply it to a centerline using a method similar to that used for your 2D Line Style tool
easy centerlines.png

TIG

@mitcorb said:

TIG:
No file browser opened. I will try again.
(I am not fluent with image capturing and posting, so I had to try again. The process is so opaque, that is, you gotta trust that the results will be favorable.)

EDIT: see attachment.
I typed the statement into the line input box. I thought there was a required space before the parentheses. That is why I got the warning.
But in each case I got the word "nil".

EDIT2: for your info, I verified that the hatching file has all of the jpg content.

No <space> before the ( ). BUT it's failing anyway.
What happens if you copy/paste just the text UI.openpanel into the Console - still no open_panel ?

Seems your Sketchup isn't opening a file_open_dialog like it should ???

JClements

I am not sure if the file is corrupted or if there is a bug in Ruby. It was made by cutting and pasting geometry from antoher file which had a half dozen imported DWG files.

Any elevation readings taken for geometry below z=0 are wrong (using either the 2d Set Z-Plane tool or Robin Hill's, Height.rb). What should be -26' shows as -25', what should be -9.5' shows as -9.0'

Stranger still, is that Robin's script adds in two dashes for a negative value. It has never done that before.
If I create a new file with new geometry then both Robin's script and 2d Set Z-Plane tool work correctly.

Any guess as to what is going on?

Elevation Bug.skp

height.rb

TIG

I think the bug is in Sketchup and the use of 'Engineering' units [always feet].
If you change to 'Decimal' units [feet] it works fine.
Any other units format also works properly too...
It's as if with Engineering Feet it does a 'round' to an integer and does a double negative to boot !
There's nothing wrong with the SKP file itself - indeed it's the same in any new SKP that's set to have Engineering Feet as its units and -ve Z values taken from the point are reported wrongly as a length/length.to_s.
The Tools are blameless too...

Bug report for v7.1 ?

watkins

It would be nice to see a few examples of how people are using 2D Tools in their own work.

Regards,
Bob

mitcorb

TIG:
UI.openpanel called up the folder My Documents after typing into the console.
When I cancelled the call, the nil showed on the second line of the following insert. Then I typed in the other arguments- carefully- and you can see what returned.
(This is Sketchup 6free, last update, XPHomeSP3)

UI.openpanel
nil
folder="C:/Program Files/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching/"
C:/Program Files/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching/
file1=Dir[folder+"*.jpg"].last
C:/Program Files/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching/PATT__SOLID.jpg
UI.openpanel(Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
(eval):149: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
Error: #<SyntaxError: (eval):149: compile error
(eval):149: unterminated string meets end of file
(eval):149: syntax error
UI.openpanel(Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
^>
(eval):149

Thanks,
mitcorb

EDIT: I see I left out a " before Choose HATCHING. When I inserted each argument with corrected punctuation, I got "nil" at the end.

DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ

Hello TIG.
I tried 2dtool and found the following errors.
The lines do not extend to circles and arcs
The arches, extend one end. the other end is not extended.
The line of destiny, color cyan, turns off in areas where it is intersected by another line

[flash=425,344:x5dl6kqm]http://www.youtube.com/v/mI37VX17nqk[/flash:x5dl6kqm]

JClements

Hi TIG:

Thank you for looking at the file. I did further test and similar things happened with 7.0 and 6.0.
I opened previous revision levels (backups) of the file and when I changed the units to Engineering, the error popped up. I thinking it could be a rounding error, but not so sure now.

I will send the file to SU folks.

mitcorb

TIG:
Here are the results on the double slash input:
(eval):149
folder="C:\Program Files\Google\Google Sketchup 6\Plugins\2Dtools\Hatching\"
C:\Program Files\Google\Google Sketchup 6\Plugins\2Dtools\Hatching
UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
Error: #<NameError: (eval):149: undefined local variable or method `file1' for main:Object>
(eval):149
---I had to insert a " in front of the word Choose, because I got a syntax error comment, and noticed that you may have copy/pasted my mistake in your new instructions.---

Second results: since first did not work:
folder="C:/Program Files/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching/"
C:/Program Files/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching/
UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
Error: #<NameError: (eval):149: undefined local variable or method `file1' for main:Object>
(eval):149
---Again corrected for the missing "---

Lemme know,
mitcorb

TIG

mitcorb
Another slant... Copy/Paste these 3 lines of red text into the Ruby Console and see what happens...
folder="C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Google Sketchup 6\\Plugins\\2Dtools\\Hatching\\" file1="*.jpg" UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
If nothing works then change them to these 3 and try again:
folder="C:/Program Files/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching/" file1="*.jpg" UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
I think it's something to do with SUp v Ruby syntax changed in the updates of Versions... We will sort this

TIG

@jclements said:

Hi TIG:

Thank you for looking at the file. I did further test and similar things happened with 7.0 and 6.0.
I opened previous revision levels (backups) of the file and when I changed the units to Engineering, the error popped up. I thinking it could be a rounding error, but not so sure now.

I will send the file to SU folks.

It's not the file as it happens with all models with -ve Z in Engineering Units... Seems as far back as v6 ! It's not the tools, as you can reproduce the effect by trying to get set the -ve Z to_s in the Console and you'll get a rounded -- version !!!

TIG

We have both messed up... I copied the text from yours - hence the missing "...
You failed to set file1= - you only pasted line 1 and 3 - you missed line 2 !

Please try again with the " and all three lines.
One defines the folder, two the file and three is the UI.openpanel command...

mitcorb

OK, TIG:
I am at a different machine right now.
I will retry in about 3-4 hours at the one with the problem.

Interesting! I loaded 2dtools at my office on SU6pro. Still cannot get hatching to proceed. Is there something I might be doing wrong? Or is there possibly some other plugin or extension interrupting this one?

Oh well, let's get the issue resolved at the first location.

mitcorb

honoluludesktop

Hi TIG, On my system, I am still having problems with flashing shadows under SU's pull down menus while 2DFreehand is the active selection. SU hangs if I try to close SU while this command is active, but if I change the selection, I am able to exit SU. The problem persist even I removed every other plugin, except SU.rb, and 2D#.rb.

I do not have this problem at home, so its not the ruby that is at fault. Any ideas, anyone, as to where on my system I can look for a solution? I have tried disabling WinXP's menu shadow, and unchecking SU's OpenGL preferences with no effect.

mitcorb

Ok, TIG:
I am at the machine on which I first had the problem.

The double backslash method pulled up the HATCHING folder this time, with contents. But see the results:

folder="C:\Program Files\Google\Google Sketchup 6\Plugins\2Dtools\Hatching\"
C:\Program Files\Google\Google Sketchup 6\Plugins\2Dtools\Hatching
file1="*.jpg"
*.jpg
UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
nil
-----I did not change anything in the console display.

I will now run the second set with the forward slashes just to be thorough:

folder="C:/Program Files/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching/"
C:/Program Files/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching/
file1="*.jpg"
*.jpg
UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
nil
---- and running it in this form did NOT call up the HATCHING folder, or anything else.

TIG

@mitcorb said:

Ok, TIG:
I am at the machine on which I first had the problem.
The double backslash method pulled up the HATCHING folder this time, with contents. But see the results:

folder="C:\Program Files\Google\Google Sketchup 6\Plugins\2Dtools\Hatching\"
C:\Program Files\Google\Google Sketchup 6\Plugins\2Dtools\Hatching
file1="*.jpg"
*.jpg
UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
nil
-----I did not change anything in the console display.
I will now run the second set with the forward slashes just to be thorough:

folder="C:/Program Files/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching/"
C:/Program Files/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching/
file1="*.jpg"
*.jpg
UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
nil
---- and running it in this form did NOT call up the HATCHING folder, or anything else.

We will find what's up...
Do I understand that the \ method worked ? If not then please try these 3 lines [they have the end \ or / removed from the folder path...]
folder="C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Google Sketchup 6\\Plugins\\2Dtools\\Hatching" file1="*.jpg" UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
and this alternative...
folder="C:/Program Files\/Google/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/2Dtools/Hatching" file1="*.jpg" UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)

We will prevail !

When you get the folder open what do you get if you select afile and then press OK, then do it another time and press Cancel...

mitcorb

Hi, TIG:
Here are the contents of the console using the double backslash input, and selection of ANGLE PATTERN. The Hatching folder comes up with the patterns displayed in list form rather than thumbnail form, in this case.

folder="C:\Program Files\Google\Google Sketchup 6\Plugins\2Dtools\Hatching\"
C:\Program Files\Google\Google Sketchup 6\Plugins\2Dtools\Hatching
file1="*.jpg"
*.jpg
UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 6\Plugins\2DTools\Hatching\PATT_ANGLE.jpg

----HERE IS THE SAME CALL UP, EXCEPT CANCEL THE SELECTION:

folder="C:\Program Files\Google\Google Sketchup 6\Plugins\2Dtools\Hatching\"
C:\Program Files\Google\Google Sketchup 6\Plugins\2Dtools\Hatching
file1="*.jpg"
*.jpg
UI.openpanel("Choose HATCHING...",folder,file1)
nil
When I cancelled, the window closed, no other activity, and the "nil" was displayed.
Since this was successful, do you still want me to run the second suggestion and the alternative?

[Plugin] 2D Tools

TIG: UI.openpanel called up the folder My Documents after typing into the console. When I cancelled the call, the nil showed on the second line of the following insert. Then I typed in the other arguments- carefully- and you can see what returned. (This is Sketchup 6free, last update, XPHomeSP3)

The double backslash method pulled up the HATCHING folder this time, with contents. But see the results:

I will now run the second set with the forward slashes just to be thorough:

Ok, TIG: I am at the machine on which I first had the problem. The double backslash method pulled up the HATCHING folder this time, with contents. But see the results:

TIG:
UI.openpanel called up the folder My Documents after typing into the console.
When I cancelled the call, the nil showed on the second line of the following insert. Then I typed in the other arguments- carefully- and you can see what returned.
(This is Sketchup 6free, last update, XPHomeSP3)

Ok, TIG:
I am at the machine on which I first had the problem.
The double backslash method pulled up the HATCHING folder this time, with contents. But see the results: