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    • M Offline
      MYguel
      last edited by

      Hi,
      I confirm the problem comes from the wine install somehow. I install the plugin on a mac the same way as with the linux and it works perfectly.
      I will ask for some help in the wine community.

      Thanks for your answers so far.

      • sincerely,

      Myguel

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        thomthom
        last edited by

        @myguel said:

        Hi,
        I confirm the problem comes from the wine install somehow. I install the plugin on a mac the same way as with the linux and it works perfectly.
        I will ask for some help in the wine community.

        Thanks for your answers so far.

        • sincerely,

        Myguel

        Let me know what you find out.

        Maybe it could be encoding difference? I wonder if I recall someone on the forum mention something about line ending characters being an issue.

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

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          Soctrep
          last edited by

          I'm a noob. Do I need SU PRO? I have SU 8, Mac OSX, dragged both TT_Lib2 2.6.0 and tt_solid_inspector to Google Sketchup 8 folder, tried unzipping in Terminal (says cannot find or open file even tho it's on desktop) and still can't find Solid Inspector in Tools. What else could it be?

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            Could be that you installed it incorrectly... not sure.
            You might find it easier and more reliable to use this utility to install plugins:
            http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=42315

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

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              TIG Moderator
              last edited by

              @soctrep said:

              I'm a noob. Do I need SU PRO? I have SU 8, Mac OSX, dragged both TT_Lib2 2.6.0 and tt_solid_inspector to Google Sketchup 8 folder, tried unzipping in Terminal (says cannot find or open file even tho it's on desktop) and still can't find Solid Inspector in Tools. What else could it be?
              Read and understand this http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2012/01/installing-plugins-for-google-sketchup/ and then this http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=426513#p426513
              We could debate what files went into which folders... but if you follow this it will give you good results.
              Also some tools are Extensions and need activating from the Preferences menu the first time you install them, and/or they have special submenus from which you can run them etc... Read the tool's usage notes to clarify this aspect...

              TIG

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                karel1962
                last edited by

                Can't get to solid inspector work in Pro8 ???

                .rbz plugins do work ... . rb plugins don't ??

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                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  @karel1962 said:

                  Can't get to solid inspector work in Pro8 ???

                  .rbz plugins do work ... . rb plugins don't ??
                  You are somewhat cryptic in your error reporting...
                  I suspect that you are not installing the files properly.
                  Read the tool's download page again.
                  If you have v8 pro then the Preferences > Extensions > Installer tool will easily extract what's needed from the rbz archive and put it in the correct locations for you.
                  Note that this is an Extension and might require that it is one-time activated from 'Extensions', you might also need to restart SketchUp to get everything to auto-load the first time...
                  ALSO the tool needs a TT support Lib folder.
                  This is clearly explained on that page, there is a link to its download page...
                  Follow the instructions for the installation of that Lib too...
                  You'll probably have to restart SketchUp after the install to get everything working...

                  On a MAC the correct 'plugins' folder is the one at the root HD level NOT the 'users' one - this has been discussed in several threads in great detail...

                  To make installing tools' files and their support subfolders etc thomthom has also made a free Simple-Plugins-Installer, available via the Plugins Index. Once this is installed you can then easily install files and subfolders from rbz/zip archives and also individual rb/rbs files, without worrying about finding the correct folders etc...

                  TIG

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                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    @karel1962 said:

                    Can't get to solid inspector work in Pro8 ???

                    .rbz plugins do work ... . rb plugins don't ??

                    What exactly "isn't working"?
                    Did you install the rb file correctly?
                    Here's an article on how to install plugins: http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2012/01/installing-plugins-for-google-sketchup/

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

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                      mvollrath
                      last edited by

                      You sir are a godsend! Thank you so very much! 😄

                      -Michael Vollrath

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                        Poffel
                        last edited by

                        @thomthom: With this tool and your fantastic tt_lib2 tools you are my hero! Before, I was almost desperated.

                        👍 👍 👍 👍 👍

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                          amrossi
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                          Muito Obrigado!!!!

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                            a162042
                            last edited by

                            Outstanding tool . It took a little bit to figure out how to install on my MAC. What i found to be the problem was i did not have TT_Lib2 - 2.6.0.zip downloaded in my plugin folder once i loaded it i then loaded the solid inspector and it works great.

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                              apassemard
                              last edited by

                              Hello All

                              I downloaded the Solid Inspector plugin on my Mac and it wasn't loading.. After some looking around I realized that I had put the plugin here:
                              /Applications/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp.app/Contents/Plugins

                              Where it should have been put here:
                              /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/plugins/

                              Now it's working fine.

                              Hopefully that help some of the Mac users out there who are having issues..

                              Antony

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                                JBERGMAN
                                last edited by

                                This tool works great if you are trying to fix it yourself... I found this other plugin in the ruby library depot that not only identifies the problems, but corrects them too!

                                http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=793

                                worked for me first try...

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                                  Jim
                                  last edited by

                                  @jbergman said:

                                  This tool works great if you are trying to fix it yourself... I found this other plugin in the ruby library depot that not only identifies the problems, but corrects them too!

                                  http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=793

                                  worked for me first try...

                                  A more recent 'Fix Solid' is available right here on this forum:
                                  http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=48557
                                  EDIT: by TIG
                                  And there is the updated similar tool 'SolidSolver' http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=359994#p359994

                                  Hi

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                                    metageek
                                    last edited by

                                    @myguel said:

                                    Hi,
                                    I confirm the problem comes from the wine install somehow. I install the plugin on a mac the same way as with the linux and it works perfectly.
                                    I will ask for some help in the wine community.

                                    Did you get anywhere? I'm getting similar trouble running it in SU8 under Crossover (the commercialized Wine). On startup, I get a dialog titled "Load Errors", saying:

                                    Error Loading File tt_solid_inspector.rb
                                    uninitialized constant TT::System

                                    When I press OK, the entire SU viewport goes black. I did try the (possibly outdated) advice to run dos2unix on the *.rb files of the plugin, but that doesn't help--in fact, it causes SU to report a BugSplat after I press OK on the Load Errors dialog.

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      Did you install TT_Lib2? Linked under Requirements.

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

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                                        drawkcab
                                        last edited by

                                        Many thanks for this. New user breaking in and this worked beautifully. 2" whisker on vertex of 75 ft. tower found instantly - love it.

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                                          metageek
                                          last edited by

                                          @thomthom said:

                                          Did you install TT_Lib2? Linked under Requirements.

                                          Yup, did that.

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                                            thegoodguy
                                            last edited by

                                            Brilliant! Thank you so much for this excellent plugin 😄

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