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    • TIGT Offline
      TIG Moderator
      last edited by

      @bertier said:

      new error message :
      cofreporter
      Error: #<NameError: undefined local variable or method `cofreporter' for main:Object>
      (eval)

      It's cof****g****reporter - you mistyped! 😒

      TIG

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      • B Offline
        Bertier
        last edited by

        oops...

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        • B Offline
          Bertier
          last edited by

          working but :

          CoG Report File:
          'F:\neo batitrad\Bar & Ka/console_CofG_Report.csv'
          Cannot be written - it's probably already open.
          Close it and try making the Report again...
          Exiting.
          nil

          and it's not open, cause it's not written yet !

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          • TIGT Offline
            TIG Moderator
            last edited by

            @bertier said:

            working but :
            CoG Report File:
            'F:\neo batitrad\Bar & Ka/console_CofG_Report.csv'
            Cannot be written - it's probably already open.
            Close it and try making the Report again...
            Exiting.
            nil
            and it's not open, cause it's not written yet !

            Try renaming the folder 'Bar & Ka' to 'Bar_Ka' - The '&' in the file_path might be the culprit ?
            Also is your model SKP really called 'console.skp' ?
            Try the version 1.2 which has more error messages, that might report what is really up...
            http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=278046#p278046

            TIG

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            • TIGT Offline
              TIG Moderator
              last edited by

              Here's v1.2 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=278046#p278046
              with some extra error reporting to try and trap Bertier's reported cryptic error messages...

              TIG

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              • B Offline
                Bertier
                last edited by

                thank you TIG

                I'll try this tonite, got to get the kids at their grand parents now.

                where are you from ?

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                • Rich O BrienR Online
                  Rich O Brien Moderator
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                  • pilouP Offline
                    pilou
                    last edited by

                    If accents are forbidden, that is very annoyous for French Windows System 😲
                    Because there is an accent for the principal Desk and for some of path! !!! 😮
                    C:\Documents and Settings\Propriétaire\Bureau

                    PS I have not the use of this plug, but it's by curiosity 😄

                    Of course now I obtain nothing 😄
                    except this 😄 (i have saved my object with Cof as Untitled.skp
                    curious is the "/" and ""

                    cofgreporter
                    No such file or directory - C;\Documents and Settings\Propriétaire\Bureau/Untitled_CofG_Report.csv
                    CoG Report File;
                    'C;\Documents and Settings\Propriétaire\Bureau/Untitled_CofG_Report.csv'
                    Cannot be written - it's probably already open.
                    Close it and try making the Report again...
                    Exiting.
                    nil
                    

                    Edit: That works when I use a path without accent for save my file! 😎 👍
                    cvs.png

                    Frenchy Pilou
                    Is beautiful that please without concept!
                    My Little site :)

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      The Unicode paradox is an annoying bit of Sketchup's Ruby - some of the 'File' functions don't work properly if there are accented characters etc in path_names etc... Sorry!
                      At least we know the cause of the problem...
                      The \ / is also from the same methods when you get the filepath on a PC it has \ separators [/ on MAC], when you join on the new file_name it's always with the as the ;joining; separator / - but it still works OK... 😒

                      TIG

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                      • B Offline
                        Bertier
                        last edited by

                        there is no accent in my path ....

                        cofgreporter
                        undefined method `definition' for #Sketchup::Group:0xe005344
                        CoG Report File:
                        'F:\neo batitrad\Bar_Ka/console_CofG_Report.csv'
                        Cannot be written - it's probably already open.
                        Close it and try making the Report again...
                        Exiting.
                        nil

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                        • pilouP Offline
                          pilou
                          last edited by

                          Have you save your file SKp in the samme path?

                          Frenchy Pilou
                          Is beautiful that please without concept!
                          My Little site :)

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                          • TIGT Offline
                            TIG Moderator
                            last edited by

                            Bertier
                            Did you install v1.2
                            Although it might still fail you should get more error messages... 😕

                            TIG

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                            • TIGT Offline
                              TIG Moderator
                              last edited by

                              Heres's v1.3 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=278046#p278046
                              It corrects the glitch that a few users might get with 'group.definition' - OK if you have some of my other tools installed but not this one alone - now sorted...
                              Please try and report back... 😕

                              TIG

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                              • B Offline
                                Bertier
                                last edited by

                                hooray !

                                it's working :

                                cofgreporter
                                CofG Report written to
                                'F:\neo batitrad\Bar_Ka/console_CofG_Report.csv'
                                nil

                                nice.

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                                  Bertier
                                  last edited by

                                  for some reason, using CoG makes SU "not responding"....

                                  any clues ?

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                                  • TIGT Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    @bertier said:

                                    for some reason, using CoG makes SU "not responding"....
                                    any clues ?

                                    There's a lot of intensive stuff needed to 'integrate' possibly hundreds of slices through the selected object and find their common centroids...
                                    You should get a 'count-down' 'nnn of mmm' report in the VCB and then a '...processing ......' ?
                                    It will finish eventually...

                                    TIG

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                                    • K Offline
                                      ksjoern
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi, this is a very interesting plugin. I'm going to try it.
                                      Two things struck me.
                                      Knips 2011-09-23 um 09.23.18.png

                                      1st The rounding of numbers (but this is something I can work with ... )
                                      2nd Hollow objects (pipes, etc.) are calculated as full volumes.

                                      Knips 2011-09-23 um 10.09.14.png

                                      Can this be repaired with the hollow objects? That would be great.

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                                      • TIGT Offline
                                        TIG Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        You can edit the number of dp's in the code - in the lines around the first half of the 300s...
                                        I'm unsure about your comment - objects that are individual 'solids' are reported correctly - even when there are hollows. However, if you combine objects into a group it will by its nature cease to be a true manifold solid as there are internal 'partitions' - therefore sometimes the volume calculations can be awry. You should take the CofG of the parts and then make a combined CofG - this is also important if the parts have different densities...
                                        Can you supply an example where manifold solid objects are returning incorrect values.Capture.PNG
                                        This one returns proper results even if the two groups are nested into one, as the 'slices' needed to calculate the CoG are maintained - but it is not always possible...

                                        TIG

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                                        • K Offline
                                          KK279 Newcomers
                                          last edited by

                                          I installed this plug in today but it does not appear on any of the SketcUp 2023 menus. How do I get a report?

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                                          • TIGT Offline
                                            TIG Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            Read the first post in this thread...

                                            @unknownuser said:

                                            Usage:
                                            Use this after adding some CofG's [i.e. 'Center of Gravity' tags]
                                            Type 'cofgreporter' in the Ruby Console.
                                            If the Model SKP is new and has not yet been saved you will get an error.
                                            If there are no CofG's to Report you will get an error.
                                            If the destination CofG Report cannot be written -
                                            e.g. it's already open in Excel - you will get an error.
                                            Otherwise a CofG Report is written into the Model's folder.
                                            It is named to match the Model -
                                            e.g. 'MyModel.skp' and 'MyModel_CofG_Report.csv'
                                            A '.csv' file can be opened in Excel etc.
                                            Link the .csv into a pre-formated .xls file with additional 'sums' etc, so
                                            that it auto-updates.
                                            It is sorted alphanumerically and reports
                                            'ID' 'Weight' 'Volume' - the final two are in the units used in the CofG's.
                                            The 'ID' is the CofG name-tag based on the original Instance's name, but
                                            remember that you might have adjusted this in the dialogs during the making
                                            of the CofG's - i.e. it is as displayed in the CofG's text-tag, not
                                            necessarily the Instance's name.

                                            TIG

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