[Plugin] ExtrudeTools - Full Set

TIG

[Plugin] ExtrudeTools - Zipped Set 20110525 Installed
[Plugin] Shape Bender Beta v0.55 Can't work...
Need Help !!!
ThanX

I [and many others] have both toolsets installed without any interconnected problems
Can you explain the nature of the problem a bit more ?
Are there any error messages [either at startup or when it's run with the Ruby Console open]? if so please post them here, or perhaps more logically in the ShapeBender thread, as that's the broken tool.
Nothing has changed between recent versions of the EEby... tools that I could think might affect ShapeBender in any way. that tool itself has been around for some time...
Please check you have progressbar.rb installed in the Plugins folder [available free from Smustard.com] - this is a frequent cause of tools failing that need it [it's not needed for any of the EEby... tools though!]

TIG

@hebeijianke said:

@tig said:

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I translate All the plugins in ExtrudeTools into chinese
This is the translation file

Thanks
I'll include them with the next update of the toolset.
Meanwhile Chinese locale users can install them into the TIGtools folder and feedback...

Jim

Hi TIG,

Shouldn't there be a Toolbar? I don't see it. I have all the EEb Tools in the Plugins menu, but no Extrusion* in Toolbars.

TIG

There should be a file in ../Plugins/ #extrusionToolbar.rb makes the Toolbar/Sub-Menu.
It starts with a '#' so it loads first - it then checks to see if any of the possible EEby...rb files exist and if so it adds the 'Extrusion Tools' toolbar referenced as ' $extrusionToolbar' and an 'Extrusion Tools' submenu referenced as ' $extrusionToolsSubmenu'. As each of the EEby...rb files loads it checks for these $ references and if they don't exist then there is no toolbar/button and the tool's menu item is added direct to Plugins-menu rather than into a subfolder...
Your screen-shot suggests that #extrusionToolbar.rb is missing as there's no 'Extrusion Tools' submenu ??
Note that the EEby... tools also 'require' deBabelizer.rb ?

Jim

@tig said:

Your screen-shot suggests that #extrusionToolbar.rb is missing as there's no 'Extrusion Tools' submenu ??

Ah, I renamed it without the #. Guess I can't do that.

TIG

@jim said:

@tig said:

Your screen-shot suggests that #extrusionToolbar.rb is missing as there's no 'Extrusion Tools' submenu ??

Ah, I renamed it without the #. Guess I can't do that.
NO! It needs to load before the other tools so they find the toolbar/submenu ready-made...
The existence of the EEby...rb tools are checked by it 'by name' so renaming all of those would also stop the toolbar/submenu getting created...
Its filename doesn't have to start with a #, it just needs to list somewhere before the other tools in alphanumeric order... I use a leading # on the name of for my tools if I want it to load early - like the '#HolePunchTool.rb', as I want its items high up on the context-menu listings...

Jim

And I use C:\Plugins rather than the default so I can share plugins between versions. EEbX isn't portable in that way either.

Thanks.

Jim

I made these mods to make it portable:

starting @ ~ line 50


    eePlugins.each{|plugin|
	path = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), plugin+".rb")
	#if Sketchup.find_support_file(plugin+".rb","Plugins/")
	if File.exists?(path)
	    gotPlugin=true
	    break
	end#if
    }

TIG

Here's an updated set http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=217663#p217663

The tool now makes the Extrusion Tools toolbar/submenu even if the various .rb files are not located in the standard ../Plugins/ folder and are loaded from elsewhere [it now uses File.dirname(__FILE__) rather than the .find_support_file() which is limited to a standard set of folders]. It just requires that all of the files [including those in the ../TIGtools/ submenu] are kept in the same relative locations rather than the previous absolute ../Plugins/ location...

It also includes the latest Chinese lingvo files, thanks to 'hebeijianke'...

TIG

@jim said:

I made these mods to make it portable:

starting @ ~ line 50


>     eePlugins.each{|plugin|
> 	path = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), plugin+".rb")
> 	#if Sketchup.find_support_file(plugin+".rb","Plugins/")
> 	if File.exists?(path)
> 	    gotPlugin=true
> 	    break
> 	end#if
>     }
>

I had just made very similar changes - you posted as I uploaded it - see updated set...

Jim

Frequent updates are another advantage of using a shared Plugins folder!

Thanks again.

TIG

@jim said:

Frequent updates are another advantage of using a shared Plugins folder!
I think I'm done for a while on updating this tool...

unclex

Sorry ， my mistake
the reason is another Plugins
Thanx for ur replied

manson666

I'm new Sketchup user
now learning it
I founded out sketchup plug in is strong tool

thx share

openhatch

If I haven't said this before, awesome tools, thx.

This doesn't play well with SketchyPhysics; this newest version won't extrude edges by rails successfully if SketchyPhysics is installed. So I keep the two installed in different versions of Sketchup.

TIG

@openhatch said:

If I haven't said this before, awesome tools, thx.

This doesn't play well with SketchyPhysics; this newest version won't extrude edges by rails successfully if SketchyPhysics is installed. So I keep the two installed in different versions of Sketchup.

I know about the SketchyPhysics issue - it can also affect other tools... http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=300111#p300111
The fix is relatively simple BUT it means recoding a few lines in one of the SketchyPhysics rubies...
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=300105#p300105

Destors

How i need to make these things, help me please

openhatch

@tig said:

I know about the SketchyPhysics issue - it can also affect other tools...

Okay, I knew you knew; I guess I might have clarified I was wondering if it's an outstanding problem (I hadn't read those posts you link to here). But the fix you link to will do (assuming it works, as I haven't tried it yet), thanks!

A Former User

Thanks guys this is extremely good plugin that i was looking for so long

doraemon79

Wonderful tool....