[Plugin]T2H_BuildingStructureTools2.2.4 in20141207

TIG

@dave r said:

Hi TIG,
I know I could have renamed it but I still have the ZIP file. I don't have AlexM's ContextMenuOptimizer but I'll look for it. The grayed out menu thing was a big issue before with TOS or something else but the plugin was updated and the problem seemed to have gone away. I don't remember what the changes was to the specific plugin, though.

The 'ContextMenuOptimizer' is available here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=252413#p252413
There is a 'theoretical' limit of ~1000 commands being active before the context-menu 'breaks'.
The optimizer tries to 'flush' unused commands so this is avoided...
Unfortunately you have to have a 'command' made if you are to use a toolbar, so the more tools that you have that use toolbars the nearer you will get to the limit and then get possible gray-outs.
The earlier problem with some of Fredo's tools [and a few others] was that they remade a new command every time you used the context-menu, and thereby it quickly used up the available command slots as the old command was still remembered too... and the dreaded gray-outs ensued...
These issues were addressed in the tools' code, and one command is now initially defined and reused as needed, so as long as you've updated all of Fredo's tools etc then that particular problem has gone.
However, I still get occasional gray-outs on context-menus when I have a lot of tools loading commands during tests etc, so it is possible to exceed this limit even with the optimizer running and when all tools themselves have been optimized...
Remember that most context-menu items will remain available on the end of the Edit Menu, so you can usually do the required actions that way if the gray-out happens - but if all else fails you must save and restart

Dave R

Thanks TIG. Installing it now.

TIG

Incidentally I have found that the one script that tips we over the edge is thomthom's selection_toys ad that adds dozens of new commands under three submenus in the context-menu. If I stop this loading I get no gray-outs

thomthom

@tig said:

Incidentally I have found that the one script that tips we over the edge is thomthom's selection_toys ad that adds dozens of new commands under three submenus in the context-menu. If I stop this loading I get no gray-outs

It does add a few Command objects - but it's not leaking them. (I've checked.)
However, it does appear that SketchUp has a limit to Command objects regardless - so if you have many plugins installed you may experience greyed out menus.
If you load just Selection Toys it does not grey out. If you remove a few other plugins you'll not get the grey outs. The only thing is that Selection Toys adds a few items which fills up the limit more than others.

TIG

Thomas
I wasn't suggesting that your tool was faulty - it just adds lots of commands that use up the available 'slots'.
It would be good if Google could resolve this issue as we are currently hitting a wall with the number of plugins we can load at once if they have commands set ?
You don't need commands to have an item display in the context-menu, unlike a toolbar that has to have a command, but a command does allow 'validation_proc' etc... BUT if you disable selection_toys in the context-menu it still tips the commands over the limit and grays-out - it seems it's the commands total not the number used in the context-menu itself! The only way is to stop it is to stop it loading completely - OR if I want its functionality then I need stop some other tools loading that make numerous commands themselves. Which brings us back to this thread - these tools will cause gray-outs if you have many commands getting made by tools, so one way to temporarily disable some - selection_tools is a soft target as you can remove many commands with one disablement!
It's a pity we can't dynamically load/unload commands without restarting Sketchup...

thomthom

Yea - the design of Selection Toys UI manager is troublesome with the current Command limitations. For version 3 it'll be completely different, but that's not an update that'll be coming in the immediate future.

baldaman

Dear TAK2HATA
It is a great pain to see your country so violently damaged.
Here in Paris we keep looking toward japan and pray for all japanese people.
United, we shall overcome!

tulacong

thank you

diegog321

Thank you very much for the plugin

Hope you are doing OK

Diego

Elibjr

@tak2hata said:

Thanks about the info of world steel beam tables.
I will read it later.
Earthquake hit me now!
Very Terrible.

First of all, thank you for the use if the plug-in. But after this seeing this note and looking at he latest news reports of a 9+ Richter scale earthquake that hit your country last week and the rising with issue with the nuclear power plant because of the earthquake, I am praying that you and your family are OK! Please let us know your status when you can so we know that you are OK. We all appreciate what the work you and others have done on this plug-in, but my family and I are praying that you and your family will be able to get though this tough time.
Elibjr.

howardhong

kanvare!..nippon...

Bob James

@tig said:

@bob james said:

@tig said:

This 'b15' is one country's standard 'code'

Does anyone have a "Rosetta Stone" to convert these codes into USA codes?

try this http://www.structural-drafting-net-expert.com/steel-beam.html ?
My old SteelSections includes most UK/EU sizes... in the txt file...

Thanks, TIG.
I think I'll stick with Profile Builder.

tocthieuso83

Thank you very much!

tak2hata

Thanks for a lot of people cheers us!

Japan still seriously,
but we will revive surely,thanks to everyone's assistance.

Thank you really.

I move to the west of Japan now, and am working.
So correcting this plugin seems for a while.

To become more convenient, I want to devise it.

Thank you for you ..true...

thomthom

Take care - all the best!

Elibjr

@tak2hata said:

Thanks for a lot of people cheers us!

Japan still seriously,
but we will revive surely,thanks to everyone's assistance.

Thank you really.

I move to the west of Japan now, and am working.
So correcting this plugin seems for a while.

To become more convenient, I want to devise it.

Thank you for you ..true...

Great to see that you are alive and well. take your time with the plugin. Your well being is much more important! Thanks again for it.

tulacong

@tak2hata said:

Building structure tool for Sketchup
Draw Structures and Modify Easy.
v0.2--solved probrem about reading default first time by TIG.Thanks.
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This is still a beta version.
It released it though it was early for a moment.
The animation of the operation explanation is here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr6CXOk1p3s

A very huge earthquake hit Japan.
It made a lot of miserable.

If you feel this tool useful then I want you to donate for 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunamim,please.
It will cheer us strongly.

Thanks.

thanks verymuch

Uguzzone

I just made the donation for save the children for japan.

Thanks for the plugin

Gaieus

@uguzzone said:

I just made the donation for save the children for japan.

tibet

hi guys,
from some odd reason i can´t recover BST icons.
any idea how to fix it please?
i reinstalled it again without success.
maybe, i miss something, because everything seems to be fine.
thanks!