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    • M Offline
      mmyoung
      last edited by

      Hi everyone,
      Was away from the office for a while and didn't check SCF.
      One of my friends had the same deal occur on his machine, with PointTool not loading. I've no idea why this worked, as "=begin" and "=end" work everywhere else. A small mystery. Maybe it only happens in New Mexico... it wouldn't be the first time.

      Michael Young
      Albuquerque
      OSX; SketchUp, Vectorworks, and Wings3D
      (which play nicely together)

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      • EdsonE Offline
        Edson
        last edited by

        to tell you the truth, i have a small problem with this tool: it does not load at startup. i always have to go to View>Toolbars to open it.

        edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre β€’ brasil
        http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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        • M Offline
          mmyoung
          last edited by

          Yes, that is what was happening for me.
          When I changed it as shown, it loads. Does this edited version work for you?

          Michael Young
          Albuquerque
          OSX; SketchUp, Vectorworks, and Wings3D
          (which play nicely together)

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            mmyoung
            last edited by

            Also, check out the construction point tool TIG wrote:
            Plugins forum > subject: "Reports coordinates of a cpoint"

            You can place a construction point at a specified (RED, GRN, BLU) location,

            or if you select a group of construction points (a point cloud, for example, that you might be using for DTM), it will report the location of each according to the model precision set in Window > Model Info.

            Very nice. It runs from the Ruby Console.

            Michael Young
            Albuquerque
            OSX; SketchUp, Vectorworks, and Wings3D
            (which play nicely together)

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            • EdsonE Offline
              Edson
              last edited by

              @mmyoung said:

              Yes, that is what was happening for me.
              When I changed it as shown, it loads. Does this edited version work for you?

              michael,

              i am always wary of making any changes to ruby scripts. i know nothing about it so all the times i tried to make changes to a script i ended up doing something wrong or forgetting some important thing. could you please post the changed script here so that i could try it?

              edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre β€’ brasil
              http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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                TIG Moderator
                last edited by

                @edson said:

                @mmyoung said:

                Yes, that is what was happening for me.
                When I changed it as shown, it loads. Does this edited version work for you?

                michael,

                i am always wary of making any changes to ruby scripts. i know nothing about it so all the times i tried to make changes to a script i ended up doing something wrong or forgetting some important thing. could you please post the changed script here so that i could try it?

                Here's a version that might be Mac friendly...
                Extract the .rb file and the subfolder+png-file into the Plugins folder...

                TIG

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                • EdsonE Offline
                  Edson
                  last edited by

                  sorry, tig. it did not work. thanks.
                  pointool_error.png

                  edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre β€’ brasil
                  http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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                  • TIGT Online
                    TIG Moderator
                    last edited by

                    I now see the problem... here's a fix for that error ???Extract the .rb file and the subfolder+png-file into the Plugins folder...
                    Ruby on Mac is less forgiving about parenthesizing arguments - it takes dothis(aaa,bbb) or dothis aaa,bbb, but while on a PC dothis (aaa),bbb will work it kills a Mac ! Then I made it dothis((aaa),bbb) and it works however...

                    TIG

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                    • EdsonE Offline
                      Edson
                      last edited by

                      still not working.pointool_error2.png

                      edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre β€’ brasil
                      http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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                        wind-borne
                        last edited by

                        @edson said:

                        to tell you the truth, i have a small problem with this tool: it does not load at startup. i always have to go to View>Toolbars to open it.

                        If the original tool itself works why not give it
                        (a) a keyboard shortcut
                        or
                        (b) put it in the customizable toolbar?

                        Either of these bypass the need for the Point Tool toolbar.


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                        • EdsonE Offline
                          Edson
                          last edited by

                          @wind-borne said:

                          If the original tool itself works why not give it
                          (a) a keyboard shortcut
                          or
                          (b) put it in the customizable toolbar?

                          Either of these bypass the need for the Point Tool toolbar.

                          by all means, why not? thanks.

                          edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre β€’ brasil
                          http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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                          • TIGT Online
                            TIG Moderator
                            last edited by

                            Edson

                            That report is from the old version - the new one does not have those lines of code in it !
                            Can you check that you don't have a duplicate loading from another Plugins folder ?
                            Read the path in the error message and ensure that that file is this new one...
                            I know there has been some Mac folder confusion in the past...

                            TIG

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                            • EdsonE Offline
                              Edson
                              last edited by

                              tig,

                              you were right. i must have done something wrong before. no error messages this time. however, the problem remains the same: the toolbar is not loaded automatically when i start sketchup, as most do.

                              edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre β€’ brasil
                              http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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                              • TIGT Online
                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by

                                Try this adjusted versionPointTool.rb

                                TIG

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                                • EdsonE Offline
                                  Edson
                                  last edited by

                                  the tool works fine, no error messages, but it does not load when i open sketchup.

                                  edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre β€’ brasil
                                  http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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                                  • TIGT Online
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    THIS should load the toolbar - IF it were open the last time you closed SUp, if it doesn't open the toolbar then close SUp, reopen SUp and the toolbar should still be active ?PointTool.rb

                                    TIG

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                                    • EdsonE Offline
                                      Edson
                                      last edited by

                                      IT WORKS!!! πŸ‘ πŸ‘

                                      edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre β€’ brasil
                                      http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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                                      • TIGT Online
                                        TIG Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        πŸ˜„ πŸ˜„ 😍

                                        TIG

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                                          johnwmcc
                                          last edited by

                                          Just downloaded PointTool_1.2, using SU 2016 on iMac El Capitan, with autoinstall from the SketchUcation plugin store.

                                          Works fine as installed automatically, but puts Draw Points on the Extensions menu (formerly Plugins). I wanted to put it on the Draw menu, so changed one line in this part (sorry, don't have line numbers in my Text Editor)

                                          ` unless file_loaded?(FILE)
                                          file_loaded(FILE)
                                          $submenu ? (organizer = $submenu) : (organizer = UI.menu("Plugins"))
                                          organizer.add_item("Draw points"){ pointtool }

                                          p=Sketchup.find_support_file("Plugins")
                                          cmd = UI::Command.new("Draw points"){ pointtool }
                                          cmd.large_icon = cmd.small_icon = File.join(p, "PointTool", "PointTool.png")
                                          cmd.tooltip = cmd.status_bar_text = "Draw some points"
                                          UI::Toolbar.new("Point Tool").add_item cmd
                                          

                                          end`

                                          I changed just part of this line from:

                                          $submenu ? (organizer = $submenu) : (organizer = UI.menu("Plugins"))

                                          to

                                          $submenu ? (organizer = $submenu) : (organizer = UI.menu("Draw"))

                                          but now the plugin errors on loading. And still errors if I change the line back to have "Plugins" as in the original.

                                          Any thoughts on why this is happening, and how I could get it to load in the Draw menu?

                                          Of course I can (and shortly will) add a shortcut (probably Shift P) but I don't understand why this simple change stops the plugin working. I was using the built in Mac TextEdit.app which I assumed did what it says on the tin, like Notepad on Windows - or is it more like WordPad, and adding non-text characters to the file when saved?

                                          John McC

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                                            johnwmcc
                                            last edited by

                                            Ah. It seems that the problem lay in the TextEdit app - when I found and installed Brackets instead, and made the same edit, it does what I expected.

                                            Ah well, it takes a while for a decades-long Windows user to get used to a new iMac...!

                                            John McC

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