[Plugin] SolidSolver
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If it is installed properly then it will appear in the SketchUp > Tools menu AND the right-click context-menu if a group is preselected.
So, it seems you have not installed it properly - I'm unsure how though...
To find you default Plugins folder copy/paste+<enter> this into the SketchUp > Window > Ruby Console:
Sketchup.find_support_file('Plugins')
On a PC it's usually in the main SketchUp folder.
Check that its permissions are correct.
As an admin [if you are not one give yourself that ability in the Users Control-Panel...]
Now, in Windows Explorer, select its icon and right-click > context-menu
Properties > Security
Edit
Tick every listed user/group to have FULL [read/write] permission
Apply/OK to Save changes.Next find the SketchUp.exe file in the main SketchUp folder...
select its icon and right-click > context-menu
Properties > Compatibility
Tick the last box 'Always Run As Administrator' [or similar wording]
Restart SketchUp...Next there are at least three ways of installing it [for the first two you need the latest v8 or newer SketchUp]...
Method 1:
Use the SketchUcation built-in Plugin Store tool to AutoInstall it afresh...
It should quickly be extracted, installed into the right place, and loaded.
It is not made as an Extension so it will not appear in the SketchUcation Extensions Manager.
BUT it should appear in the Loaded [left] column of the SketchUcation Plugins Manager.
If it does not something is badly awry and come back to us...Method 2:
First [re]download [or move?] the tool's RBZ archive onto your Desktop.
Window > Preferences > Extensions
'Install Archive...' [or similar worded button at button of that pane].
When prompted, find the RBZ archive and OK.
This should then install/load it much like the SketchUcation tool...Method 3:
Your Folder Options needs to be set to display file-type suffixes...
Change the RBZ ending of the file to .zip
Extract its contents into a temporary folder.
In the case of this tool it is a single .rb file.
Move that into your Plugins folder.
Restart SketchUp and retest...
[Note that more complex tools may have a subfolder of required 'helper' files, move that folder into Plugins too - never move the files out of it! Some others (usually thomthoms's and Fredo's) need a separate installation of a 'Lib' folder of shared helper files...]Let us know how you get on...
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SolidSolver seems to hang on complicated/complex solids. When I run it against simple/ relatively simple solids, it hangs consistently.
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SolidSolver rarely hangs... BUT on very complex shapes it will take a long time to finish.
Use it in conjunction with SolidInspector...
Give it a chance and manually tidy what you can see is clearly wrong...
Then run SolidSolver...
It'll be quicker over all.
It's not magic, you can readily construe some forms that are not 'fixable'
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Hi TIG,
I tried to use your tool to clean the model. Unfortunately, after using the model disappeared.
A few posts above you wrote to manually remove some of the unnecessary edges. After doing this operation for a while I can see how the model is being repaired (holes disappear). Unfortunately, after a while the whole model again disappears.
I will be grateful if you look at this model.
I do not want duplicate content in the forum, so I've included a link to the main thread.
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=79%26amp;t=56666
Regards,
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Hi TIG,
Is this in the Plugin Store?
Want to know if I should load the old one or if there is a new one for 2014... -
It is - http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TIG_solidsolver
And it works just fine in v2014.
Many such Plugins needed no adjustment to be compatible...A simple search in the PluginStore's own Search box is a powerful ally...
Please don't move Plugins over from an earlier SketchUp version [unless you really have to!]: get the latest Plugins version that is available - some Plugins have had to be reconfigured to also work in v2014, whilst a few others still need fixing [hopefully none of mine?].
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What about of the all "old plugins" not updated (if necessry) to 2013,2014...?
Does exist a repository for them ?
First post of the threads ? Of ourse if he author don't erase them!
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zerobmeister ; FYI, even thought SU reports the model as solid it does not mean the printer will accept it for printing. Some of them have criteria that goes beyond " solidness" for printing
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pilou;
I've had the question the other way. Are plugins updated to the new API ok to run in say SU 8, AKA are they downward compatible? -
I do not know of any Plugin that have been updated to be compatible with SketchUp v2014 which does NOT work on the earlier SketchUp versions.
In the rare cases where the two versions need alternative coding the author has 'version' tests.Many Plugins were already automatically compatible with v2014 with no changes.
The following are some of the reasons for the code needing an update:
Script was not saved as "UTF-8 without BOM" encoding.
Changing the encoding then affects some previously included non-basic ASCII characters...
Code uses some deprecated syntax - which was tolerated in earlier versions, but is now failing in the newer Ruby.
Code uses one of a few Ruby methods that are no longer supported, or which now give somewhat different results.
SketchUp's own Ruby methods have be adjusted: there are only few - e.g. model.save... -
@tig said:
It is - http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TIG_solidsolver
And it works just fine in v2014.
Many such Plugins needed no adjustment to be compatible...A simple search in the PluginStore's own Search box is a powerful ally...
Please don't move Plugins over from an earlier SketchUp version [unless you really have to!]: get the latest Plugins version that is available - some Plugins have had to be reconfigured to also work in v2014, whilst a few others still need fixing [hopefully none of mine?].
well, all that came up was your manifold plugin. but i found it. had to add a space between solid and solver. and then scroll down a bit.
thanks.
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Sometimes you need to think what you are searching for... and split compounded names...
That said SolidSolver WILL work in the search [because I just renamed the Plugin's title in the database ] -
Hi TIG, greetings from South Australia. Your plugin is just what I need but, when I download it, I get this notification in my download page:
TIG_solidsolver_v2.2.rbz
That seems fine but when I click on it to open it, I get the usually 'windows can't read this etc' So how do I load it into SU2014 on win7 64bit system?
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rename it in TIG_solidsolver_v2.2.zip
unzip
and put the result in the Plugins folder!
This last one can be in different place following your Windows system! -
No need to faff on with RBZ to ZIP etc.
In all SketchUp versions since v8M2 you just have to use the purpose-built native-tool from the Preferences > Extensions > Install... button... to get the contents of any RBZ directly installed into your default Plugins folder, and loaded... -
Here's an updated version that also tries to fix intersecting forms - which might appear initially 'solid' but have intersecting faces, and will mess up 3d-printing...
v3.0...
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TIG_solidsolver -
Here's an update to v3.1 http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TIG_solidsolver
It corrects some typos with the code.
It should now correctly find intersections, holes, flaps, partitions etc and try to correct these and make a selected group or instance a proper 3d-printable solid...
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It was already great! Now new and improved! Thanks TIG!
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Here's v3.2
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TIG_solidsolver
It is now faster, more robust, and resolves intersecting forms, partitions, and reversed faces better... -
Here's v3.3
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TIG_solidsolver
There's a fix for an intersection glitch when solving multiple groups in succession, and the resulting edges were sometimes getting transformed inappropriately...
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