[Plugin] ExtrudeTools - Full Set
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@tig said:
@unknownuser said:
Search and ye shall find...
Not withstanding that the Plugins folder path for PC and MACs is given in many posts...
Why didn't you search your computer for 'Plugins' ?
That'd be far more obvious...
When I do that search on my computer I get 36 hits on folders named 'Plugins'!
Of course only one matches 'Sketchup 8'...
AND I have a lot of other apps !
Hi guys, thats precisely what im getting at. Im using vista and when i click on start at the bottom left and type plugins into the search bar, it doesn't find the plugins folder. In fact it doesn't return any results for plugins (should return results for plugins for ArchiCAD, autoCAD, firefox etc, all installed). Which is bizarre as when i search for other items (folders, pictures, files) from time to time i have no problem locating them with a search of the computer. Apologies, im quite amateurish when it comes to this kind of thing, but thanks for the help
Chris -
Perhaps you have some security setting that prevents the folder from showing? I just ran a search on my XP machine's C:\ and it turned up the Plugins folder for SketchUp and a number of other applications in seconds.
Try searching for Materials or Styles. Do those turn up?
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A 'Start' bar's 'Search' will probably start looking in the "User"'s own folder-tree, so it finds things in your Documents, Pictures etc... but it won't find anything useful with 'plugins'; BUT if you open 'My Computer', change to the 'C:' drive and then 'Search' in the top-bar of that window for 'plugins' you'll get hits, because then it's looking through all files/folders on that drive - not limiting itself to your "User" folders...
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I have gone to the OS(C): drive and searched that and i have found all the plugin folders now. Thank you all for the help, its much appreciated.
On another note, the reason i wanted the extrude plugin was to draw up some galvanised steel tube gates for a patent application. I had drawn the gate with the line tool and was having trouble getting the follow me tool to cross other tube sections. I noticed a youtube video with the extrude tool in operation and it looked as though it would solve all my problems. But ive struggled with it. Lets say ive drawn a waffle with just lines and i want to turn the lines into 40mm diameter tube (solid tube is fine for this purpose) is it possible to select the entire waffle and use the extrude tool to turn all the lines into tube, perfecting all the junctions?
Thanks
Chris -
There's nothing that I know of that does what you want
Didier Bur has a "lines to tubes" tool [ http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=88592#p88592 ] that'll make all of the selected edges into tubes.
You can then Intersect them to make edges around their intersections... BUT the trimming of them to each other needs manual labor.
As the innards are unlikely to be seen then that might not be as issue [remember that 'Sufficient is fit.'].
Also if there are several repeated elements then these can be copied across, rather than made individually... -
@tig said:
There's nothing that I know of that does what you want
Didier Bur has a "lines to tubes" tool [ http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=88592#p88592 ] that'll make all of the selected edges into tubes.
You can then Intersect them to make edges around their intersections... BUT the trimming of them to each other needs manual labor.
As the innards are unlikely to be seen then that might not be as issue [remember that 'Sufficient is fit.'].
Also if there are several repeated elements then these can be copied across, rather than made individually...Thanks for that TIG, its done what i needed to do just fine. As you say the corners just need a little tweaking but nothing to serious. Again many thanks for the help, this has saved me quite a few headaches
ChrisPs. Who do the donations go to? The writer of the plugin?
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Hi Anyone can advice..I Am New to this ( ExtrudeTools) Plug-in....After Unzip..they is a TIGtools folder, So i just Over-write the Existing TIGtools in side the Plugins folder right?? any update i need to do??
After Over-Write into the Plug-in folder......No Toolbar icon at all....
do i miss something...Any Pro User can advice?? -
@amasleong said:
Hi Anyone can advice..I Am New to this ( ExtrudeTools) Plug-in....After Unzip..they is a TIGtools folder, So i just Over-write the Existing TIGtools in side the Plugins folder right?? any update i need to do??
After Over-Write into the Plug-in folder......No Toolbar icon at all....
do i miss something...Any Pro User can advice??
IN reverse order...There is no difference between Free and Pro for these tools.
Some other tools share my TIGtools folder to house their various support files...
You should not 'overwrite' that folder, but when given the choice you should 'merge' its contents with the existing contents [overwriting any existing stuff], so that the tools' new files, now within that subfolder are accessible to it.
After a restart of Sketchup this toolset should appear under the correct menu item, as noted in the tools' notes.
Its toolbar might need a one-off activation from the View > Toolbars menu...
Check that the new files AND any files within the subfolder are in the exact relative relationships in the Plugins folder, when compared to the ZIP file itself...
Also check you have FULL security permissions to the 'Plugins' folder itself - select its icon, context-menu and Properties > Security > Edit... and that these settings also apply to any files/subfolders/etc with that folder.
If in doubt try removing any new files that you've just added and get thomthom's Simple Plugins Installer [v8] and use that to install everything from the ZIP archive itself... -
pleaz i need help , I instaled the pluging but it dosent work on sketchup :$
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@hanane90 said:
pleaz i need help , I instaled the pluging but it dosent work on sketchup :$
The most common problem when this plugin set doesn't work is that it hasn't been installed correctly. This has been explained repeatedly in this thread. Please review it. You'll find the help you need.
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I think we should re-release the plugins as RBZ files to encourage people to use the Install Extension feature in SketchUp.
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@TT
I agree, OR at least get them to use your 'Simple Plugins Installer'... -
@tig said:
@TT
I agree, OR at least get them to use your 'Simple Plugins Installer'...I don't think we can get anyone to do anything. Except by making the packages RBZ files - that should make most people not just unzip the files randomly.
I can see another issue, a horde of questions on what to do with RBZ files. But I think that's the lesser evil as incorrect unzipping can cause errors which is harder to recover and detect. We can just reply with a simple link to a step by step thread for installing RBZ files.
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how do i download the zip folder?
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It's in the first post of this thread. Click on it and it should download to your computer.
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thank you
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I can't find the zipfile, is it gone?
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@erjenprins said:
I can't find the zipfile, is it gone?
Really? Look at the first post in the thread?
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I just dont know why will this happen to me and till when will it continue..... whenever i use any of extrude tool my sketchup crashes.. no matter what.. i use simple arc, i use bezier script... i make new files.. i work in older... but it will crash... it will work well will ask for all the options, reverse faces, erase faces etc.. but after tha it will crash
so please please if anybody can help me out -
@imabzeous said:
I just dont know why will this happen to me and till when will it continue..... whenever i use any of extrude tool my sketchup crashes.. no matter what.. i use simple arc, i use bezier script... i make new files.. i work in older... but it will crash... it will work well will ask for all the options, reverse faces, erase faces etc.. but after tha it will crash
so please please if anybody can help me out
What other complex tools do you have loaded when using the EEby... tools?
A few are known to change native-API methods, or have observers which are clumsily made and cause splats with innocent tools; when, like this one, they are adding groups etc...
Is it a 'hang' [white-screen/unresponsive but it will complete given time] or a full 'Bugsplat' crash where Sketchup closes...
Are there any messages in the Ruby Console ?
Try disabling any other tools that you might suspect [temporarily move their .rb files out of the Plugins folder, adding them back [in steps] and restarting Sketchup until you have found the culprit[s]].
There is a list on SCF of 'quarantined' scripts that are known to cause problems [like the old-version of Sketchy Physics etc]. Some recent 'BIM' tools are also known to add observers that can make big trouble even when they are not running, because their observers are always 'watching' and causing issues for others...
A screenshot of any messages and/or the Plugins folder would help fix the issue, which I suspect isn't EEby... but other things interacting with it...
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