[Plugin] Flattery papercraft tools

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@subsonic mike said:

I need help to.
I do all that it says in the readme but it doesn't appear on sketchup
Please help!

Did you activate its Extension under Preferences

Subsonic Mike

No, how?

mitcorb

In Sketchup: top line menu: Window>Preferences>Extensions Check box on plugin name.

mozzie

Did you copy the unzipped files?

Subsonic Mike

No, I extracted them to my downloads folder then copyed them to the SketchUp plugins folder

TIG

@subsonic mike said:

No, I extracted them to my downloads folder then copied them to the SketchUp plugins folder

Did you keep some of the files in any subfolders etc as they were zipped ?

Subsonic Mike

Once extracted I moved the entire extracted folder to its location

TIG

@subsonic mike said:

Once extracted I moved the entire extracted folder to its location

NO ?
I suspect you need to move the contents of that folder into Plugins...
In the Plugins folder there should be one file called flattery.rb and a folder called flattery containing loads of other files.
If you unzipped a file called flattery.zip into a folder called flattery then it's one level too deep....

Subsonic Mike

I think its best I start again
just one thing, is it usual to get an error when you try to extract it directly to the plugins folder?

thomthom

@subsonic mike said:

just one thing, is it usual to get an error when you try to extract it directly to the plugins folder?

No.
Exactly what error do you get?
(Error messages are very useful in debugging a problem, so please include them when posting.)

Subsonic Mike

OK I extracted the files for the 11th time to get the error but this time it extracted fine!
BUT the files dont show up when I look in the plugins folder. So I open 7 zip to extract them again but 7 zip shows them in the plugins folder.
WHAT'S HAPPENING TO MY COMPUTER!

TIG

@subsonic mike said:

OK I extracted the files for the 11th time to get the error but this time it extracted fine!
BUT the files dont show up when I look in the plugins folder. So I open 7 zip to extract them again but 7 zip shows them in the plugins folder.
WHAT'S HAPPENING TO MY COMPUTER!

I think you have a Compatibility Files issue with Vista - it tucked them away in a Compatibility folder to protect you!
Look in the top bar of the Plugins folder window are there any weird folders or icons there...
Vista can be a pain when it decides that you shouldn't add files to some folders...

Subsonic Mike

I cant seem to see any weird folders icons.

TIG

Ensure that you don't have any flattery folder or file in your Plugins folder - if you do move them out...
Download the zip file to say your desktop.
Extract it to a folder with the name of the zip file.
Open the folder and select the file and folder in it.
Copy.
Open the Plugins folder and Paste.
You should now have the correct file+folder installed.
Restart Sketchup and 'flattery' might need activating from the Preferences > Extensions section.
Its toolbar is activated off View > Toolbars...

Subsonic Mike

IT WORKS!
Thank you so much guys for helping me get it working! Thank you!

TIG

Hoooooooooray!

Gaiv

hi everybody, i study architecture and i really love this plugin, it's very very cool because it's help me a lot to makes paper craft ... thank you conceptor but i just have a little problem, i don't understand how to use the " index Edges" function and it's very important for me because i have a very complex modeling to do and it's impossible without this function... someone can help me?

TIG

As explained on the tools web-page

@unknownuser said:

When your model is fully constructed, and you are about to unfold it, select the entire thing and press the Index Edges button. This marks all of the edges in your model so that later, when your model is unfolded, Flattery will know what used to be connected. This is critical for the Reunite Edges tool, and helpful for the Add Tabs tool.

So do it at the start and thenunfold...

Gaiv

it's what i do, but there is nothing when the volume is complete i select all the model and i press the index Edges button but nothing appear =s
maybe it's a bug?

TIG

I think you misunderstand.
The Index tool 'marks' all edges so that the tool knows which edges were common before unfolding and for tabbing etc. It doesn't add any 'text' at all ???

However, here's a way... once you have unfolded/tabbed the form as desired, then you select all of the flattened edges [faces , un-indexed edges etc are ignored so you don't need to be too careful]... now run this snippet of code in the Ruby Console - copy/paste it

m=Sketchup.active_model;es=m.active_entities;ss=m.selection;ss.to_a.each{|e|next if e.class!=Sketchup;;Edge;id=e.get_attribute("Unfold","edge_id",nil);next if !id;  pt=e.start.position.offset(e.line[1],e.length/2);es.add_text(id.to_s,pt,[0,0,0])}

Text representing the edges' id code will be added centrally to the pairs edges that share each code... 1, 2, 3 etc