PointTool for Mac

mmyoung

This may have been covered, but I couldn't find another reference, so I apologize if this is (yawn) old news:

I was never able to get Matt666's PointTool.rb to work on my Mac. I opened it in a text editor and removed the "=begin" and "=end" lines at the beginning and placed a "#" at the beginning of each comment.

Now it runs on Mac. Fantastically useful tool for terrain modeling, glad to have this.

rickgraham

Can you point me to where this plug in is? I'd love to try it out!

Thanks!

Rick

Edson

michael,

i have had no problems with the point tool. i use snow leopard but cannot recall any problems before upgrading either.

mmyoung

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.

Edson

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.

mmyoung

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

mmyoung

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.

Edson

@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?

TIG

@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...

Edson

sorry, tig. it did not work. thanks.

TIG

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...

Edson

still not working.

wind-borne

@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.

SketchUp Preferences.png

Edson

@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.

TIG

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...

Edson

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.

TIG

Try this adjusted versionPointTool.rb

Edson

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

TIG

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

Edson

IT WORKS!!!