[Plugin] SolidSolver

deskpilot

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?

pilou

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!

TIG

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...

TIG

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

TIG

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...

pbacot

It was already great! Now new and improved! Thanks TIG!

TIG

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...

TIG

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...

cotty

Thank you for the nice updates!

TIG

Here's v3.5 http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TIG_solidsolver
[we skipped v3.4 !]
It fixes some face and tiny folded face failures - which might rarely need two tries to end up with a successful 'solid' !

cotty

I've tried with an group with some nested components, confirmed the question if I want to explode them, but they are still there afterwards...
(model here: http://blog.cotty.de/2015/04/pfosten/)

TIG

@cotty said:

I've tried with an group with some nested components, confirmed the question if I want to explode them, but they are still there afterwards...
(model here: http://blog.cotty.de/2015/04/pfosten/)
Thanks for the report.
I suspect what happens is that it's not a solid because it contains nested containers.
So you elect to explode them.
SolidSolver then does a test to see if any part of the geometry intersects - it may report 'solid' be be unprintable in 3d !
Having done the check it reports your model is already solid, but at that point it undoes its intersection check, which undoes the exploding too...
I can fix it, just needs a convoluted check/trap...
Watch for an update asap...

TIG

Following Cotty's report...
Here's v4.0 http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TIG_solidsolver Any nested contents will now stay exploded after the ensuing intersecting-faces check, leaving a true-solid.
The processing speed has also been greatly improved by recoding the intersecting-faces checker.

cotty

Thank you for the fast update, improvement confirmed!

TIG

Here's v4.1 http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TIG_solidsolver A rare fail with tiny hole healing has been resolved.

jtri

When I ran Solid solver on a component in this model I would get a bug splat. I fixed all my components so that they are solids and ran Solid Solver and still go a bug splat. Any ideas? I am using Ver 8 of SketchUp.
Thanks

15.4.5 bigger bottom stay.skp

driven

some of your geometry is on the Bottom Stay layer, move it to Layer 0 and it's solid...
john

jtri

Thanks! I did not see that.......

Definitelymaybe

thanks. sounds useful. but can u kindly tell me how can i install it? im new here

Thanks a lot

TIG

@definitelymaybe said:

thanks. sounds useful. but can u kindly tell me how can i install it? im new here ...
There are several ways...
In order of [initial] simplicity...

Download the plugin's RBZ from the PluginStore.
Assuming you have SketchUp >=v8M2
In SketchUp open its Preferences > Extensions - use the 'Install...' button.
Choose the RBZ and install it.
It loads and is available in the menu etc as explained in its Usage notes...

Alternatively download the SketchUcation PluginStore Toolset RBZ from its page or its PluginStore item. Install it as above...

Now you can Auto-Install any of the hundreds of PluginStore plugins using its dialog...
No need to download an RBZ at all.
So once you have installed this toolset you can Auto-Install from the PluginStore with no manual RBZ download at all.

If you do have an RBZ [perhaps downloaded from another source], then you can use the toolset's SketchUcation submenu item 'Install Archive...' - this works on RBZ OR ZIP files - an alternative to the native Installer which only installs from RBZ...

Almost all compatible plugins now come in RBZ format...
But if you have got a simple RB script obtained from somewhere else, then you can ZIP it, then use the Install... steps as outlined above.
If you want you can rename its file-type-extension from ".zip" to ".rb" - an RBZ file is actually a ZIP file with a changed file-type suffix...