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    • MALAISEM Offline
      MALAISE
      last edited by

      Very useful, specially for terrain modelling

      MALAISE

      La Connaissance n'a de valeur que partagée

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      • Didier BurD Offline
        Didier Bur
        last edited by

        Hi,

        @ Mozzie: please open the ruby console and copy-paste this line: Sketchup.active_model.options[0][2]
        Hit enter and post what happens. You should have an integer returned, from 0 to 4. Any other result shows who's the culprit...
        They changed the units options hash between 7.0 and 7.1 👿

        DB

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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
          last edited by

          @didier bur said:

          They changed the units options hash between 7.0 and 7.1 👿

          !!! ?
          What? that has not been documented anywhere - has it?

          Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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          • Didier BurD Offline
            Didier Bur
            last edited by

            Hi,

            v6: length unit is: Sketchup.active_model.options[0][2]
            v7.0 length unit is: Sketchup.active_model.options[0][2]
            v 7.1. length unit is: Sketchup.active_model.options[3][2]

            Am I right ?

            DB

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
              last edited by

              oh, you meant the array index - I thought the hash key had changed:

              ` Sketchup.active_model.options.keys.each {|key| p key; Sketchup.active_model.options[key].each {|k,v| puts "> #{k} - #{v}"} }
              "PageOptions"

              ShowTransition - false
              TransitionTime - 2.0
              "SlideshowOptions"
              LoopSlideshow - true
              SlideTime - 1.0
              "NamedOptions"
              "UnitsOptions"
              LengthPrecision - 0
              LengthFormat - 0
              LengthUnit - 2
              LengthSnapEnabled - false
              LengthSnapLength - 0.0393700787401575
              AnglePrecision - 1
              AngleSnapEnabled - true
              SnapAngle - 15.0
              SuppressUnitsDisplay - false
              ForceInchDisplay - false
              "PrintOptions"
              PrintWidth - 7.0
              PrintHeight - 5.0
              ComputeSizeFromScale - false
              SizeInPrint - 1.0
              SizeInModel - 307.906005859375
              VectorMode - false
              FitToPage - true
              NumberOfPages - 1
              LineWeight - 0.5
              PixelsPerInch - 150.0
              SectionSlice - false
              ModelExtents - false
              PrintQuality - 3
              ScaleAdjustment - 1.0
              QualityAdjustment - 0.5
              ["PageOptions", "SlideshowOptions", "NamedOptions", "UnitsOptions", "PrintOptions"]`

              This is the same in all versions?

              Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
              List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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              • TIGT Offline
                TIG Moderator
                last edited by

                You shouldn't hard-code the units items like that [or any other option for that matter] - because the order can change with each build - instead use model.options["UnitsOptions"]["LengthUnit"] that will work no matter what 🤓

                TIG

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                • Didier BurD Offline
                  Didier Bur
                  last edited by

                  @unknownuser said:

                  use model.options["UnitsOptions"]["LengthUnit"] that will work no matter what

                  ☀ 💭
                  Of course ! I don't know why I didn't though of that before...

                  Bug fixed, new version available, same place.

                  DB

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                  • M Offline
                    mozzie
                    last edited by

                    Thanks for the fix ... it is no longer necessry but result is;

                    Sketchup.active_model.options[0][2]
                    nil

                    for 7.1

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                    • thomthomT Offline
                      thomthom
                      last edited by

                      There are four Cloud threads - can we clean these up please?
                      For instance;
                      Removing the download for the old ones,
                      Replacing [Plugin] with [Obsolete]
                      Add a link to the new version
                      Then finally lock the old ones?

                      When I was looking at the plugin index it was confusing to what was the latest version.

                      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        @unknownuser said:

                        Difficult to keep track of what's new, some topics contain plugins but not the [Plugin] prefix, other topics are posted as questions and then a plugin is added but the first post not renamed with the prefix, etc.

                        Yea - we should do a cleanup of all these - have them reposted fresh and remove any outdated version.

                        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                        • J Offline
                          JGA
                          last edited by

                          Thanks very much for providing this plugin, we've recently invested in a Total Station & this translates the point data reliably. Providing a help file is also a boon.
                          We're also using TIG's contourmaker plugin, which helps when exporting to data to AutoCAD.

                          Regards,
                          JGA

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                          • E Offline
                            Erkki
                            last edited by

                            Hi,

                            How to get Cloud_71.rbs and Cloud_6.rb to work?

                            My intention is to load elevation data of a terrain collected with the help of a GSP-logger to create a terrain model for a village. I noticed that there is a plugin Cloud_71.rbs in the Ruby Library Depot by Didier Bur. I understand that the plugin accepts elevation data, if it is in the CSV-format described in the pdf of the plugin. I downloaded Cloud_71.rbs in the plugin folder of Sketchup 7.1 (Windows XP Pro).

                            For some reason the Cloud_71.rbs didn't show up in the Plugin menu or any other menu either after restart of Sketchup 7.1. The older "Clouds" with extension .rb show up, but unfortunately I wasn't able to get them work with the downloaded sample files, although I browsed all the possible SketchUcation discussion forums and also some others for help.

                            Does anyone know if there is an any easy way to get the Cloud_xx.rb plugins to work? And how to get the Cloud_71.rbs plugin show up and make terrain in Sketchup 7.1 or even in the newer Sketchup 8? I'm convinced that there are ways - I just couldn't find the way.

                            I'd be grateful for your help.

                            Kind regards Erkki Finni

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                            • Didier BurD Offline
                              Didier Bur
                              last edited by

                              Hi,
                              Avoid having more than one version of a plugin installed at the same time, remove older versions of cloud script, this may cause the problem.
                              Hope this helps,

                              DB

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                              • E Offline
                                Erkki
                                last edited by

                                @didier bur said:

                                Hi,
                                Avoid having more than one version of a plugin installed at the same time, remove older versions of cloud script, this may cause the problem.
                                Hope this helps,

                                Hi,

                                Thanks for the hint! I'll try to do this.

                                Regards Erkki Finni

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                                • E Offline
                                  Erkki
                                  last edited by

                                  @didier bur said:

                                  Hi,
                                  Avoid having more than one version of a plugin installed at the same time, remove older versions of cloud script, this may cause the problem.
                                  Hope this helps,

                                  Hi again,

                                  1. I removed the oldest versions of the Cloud_xx.rb plugins and
                                  2. left only Cloud_71.rbs in the Plugin folder of Skecthup 7.1.
                                  3. I started Skecthup
                                  4. As it was opened, the File menu included Points Cloud option
                                  5. After this everything was childsplay - all the test files were
                                    drawn beatifully on the screen. I didn't test the Export-option yet.
                                  6. I repeated the test with Skecthup 8.0.3117 and the result was also good.

                                  This success made me happy and confident to use the plugin for my orginal purpose; to create terrain by using GPS-logger data as input. So many thanks for your help!

                                  Kind regards Erkki Finni

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                                  • S Offline
                                    Sir
                                    last edited by

                                    anyone tried this on a file with about half a billion points?

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                                    • Didier BurD Offline
                                      Didier Bur
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi,
                                      It should import the points quite quickly, but for triangulation: forget it (the delaunay algorithm is slow and SU is lazy when drawing such a bunch of new entities).
                                      Regards,

                                      DB

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                                      • thomthomT Offline
                                        thomthom
                                        last edited by

                                        @didier bur said:

                                        Hi,
                                        It should import the points quite quickly, but for triangulation: forget it (the delaunay algorithm is slow and SU is lazy when drawing such a bunch of new entities).
                                        Regards,

                                        Tried building the geometry with fill_from_mesh ?

                                        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                        • Didier BurD Offline
                                          Didier Bur
                                          last edited by

                                          Yes

                                          DB

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                                          • S Offline
                                            Sir
                                            last edited by

                                            ok great thanks for your quick response

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