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    • Chris FullmerC Offline
      Chris Fullmer
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      Please upload the model. Thanks,

      Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
      All my Plugins I've written

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        stillhouse
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        @chris fullmer said:

        Please upload the model. Thanks,

        Sadly I'm not sure how to do that.

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          dylan
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          @stillhouse said:

          Sadly I'm not sure how to do that.


          Screen shot 2010-08-06 at 09.48.18.jpg

          http://dmdarchitecture.co.uk/

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            Chris Fullmer
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            Well, it worked for. So that is good news! It means you have it set up correctly. There are a good dozen stnadard problems accidentaly run into when trying to set up the bending process.

            So now we can rule out anything with the model.

            Now open the "Ruby Console" from the Window menu. Then try to run shape bender again. Copy any errors it gives you in the console and paste them here to this thread. hopefully one of us here will be able to see pretty quickly what the problem is from those errors. Thanks for being patient!

            Chris

            Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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              stillhouse
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              Ok here it is.

              /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/clf_shape_bender.rb:223:in onLButtonUp' /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/clf_shape_bender.rb:176:in onMouseMove'
              /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/clf_shape_bender.rb:168

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              • Chris FullmerC Offline
                Chris Fullmer
                last edited by

                There must have been more at the top. Try opening the console, then try to run shapebender, and make sure you get the errors at the very top.

                Thanks,

                Chris

                Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                All my Plugins I've written

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                  stillhouse
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                  sorry about this....

                  Error: #<TypeError: no implicit conversion from nil to integer>
                  /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/clf_shape_bender.rb:168:in set_cursor' /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/clf_shape_bender.rb:168:in onSetCursor'
                  /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/clf_shape_bender.rb:168

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                  • Chris FullmerC Offline
                    Chris Fullmer
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                    Great, thanks for posting it all. I removed the extra lines and left the important bits.

                    That is saying (in a round about way) that the cursor icon image files are not in the correct location. You should have a single clf_shape_bender_loader.rb file in the main plugins folder. Then all other files should put inside the clf_shape_bender folder.

                    Winzip sometimes will ignore the folder structure inside the zip file. If you unzip directly into the plugins folder, it will put all files where they should go. But if you just drag them into the plugins folder, there is a good chance it will remove the folder structure. My guess is that is what happened here. So you might just try reinstalling.

                    Let me know how it goes,

                    Chris

                    Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                    All my Plugins I've written

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                      stillhouse
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                      Attached is a pic of my plugins folder. I'm not sure what you meant about folders what needs to go in what?
                      Thanks,
                      BW


                      image.jpg

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                        Chris Fullmer
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                        Hmm, where did you get that copy of shape bender? You're missing a lot of important files. Please go re-download it from the forum here. It should be a zip file attached to the first post of the shape bender thread.

                        http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=18210

                        Chris

                        Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                        All my Plugins I've written

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                          stillhouse
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                          @stillhouse said:

                          Attached is a pic of my plugins folder. I'm not sure what you meant about folders what needs to go in what?
                          Thanks,
                          BW

                          I fixed it!
                          Thanks everyone I really needed this script.
                          Sincerly,
                          Brendan

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                            stillhouse
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                            I realized I didn't know which image you wanted so here is my attempt to make shape bender work
                            I use the arrow and select the cone then go under plugins and select shape bender, it asks me to select the line on the red axis, and I try but it won't let me select it and thats where is get stuck? Could I be lacking some other script that I need to make shape bender work?(I thought I had installed the prerequisite script)
                            Any thoughts?
                            Sincerely,
                            Brendan

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                              stillhouse
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                              @unknownuser said:

                              @stillhouse said:

                              Sadly I'm not sure how to do that.

                              Thanks,
                              I'm trying to add a bent cone at the top that starts at the diameter of the top circle and bends to the right of the image reducing to a 6" circle at a 10 degree downward slope. sorry I'm not explaining this well. Its a 18" frustum the base is the diameter of the circle at the top of the image and the top diameter is 6". It is bent 100 degrees to the right.

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                              • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                Chris Fullmer
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                                Great, glad you got it working now. Sorry it took so long,

                                Chris

                                Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                All my Plugins I've written

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                                  sasrabirawa
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                                  Hi Chris
                                  I just try this Shape Bender Plugins. Sometimes it works but sometimes doesn't. I try to bend the shape into a curved line but the result usually something different (see the attachment)
                                  And there's another one, in my computer, shape bender shows the pre result in green color before hitting the ENTER key, but in another computer it doesn't show anything

                                  What's wrong with the plugin..?


                                  stairs.jpg

                                  Just an ordinary Sketchup user

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                                    pbacot
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                                    sasra Please attach the SketchUp file. In the example picture I don't see a straight line. You need (1) a shape, (2) a straight line, and (3) the curved path, all set up in relation to the axes as in all the examples. I can't tell by the picture.

                                    MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                                      sasrabirawa
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                                      @pbacot said:

                                      sasra Please attach the SketchUp file. In the example picture I don't see a straight line. You need (1) a shape, (2) a straight line, and (3) the curved path, all set up in relation to the axes as in all the examples. I can't tell by the picture.

                                      here's the skp file (in 2017 ver)
                                      the sraight line is actually under the shape


                                      shape test.skp

                                      Just an ordinary Sketchup user

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