[Plugin] FredoTools - v4.5c - 24 Jun 24

TIG

John

You have almost certainly mis-installed it.

Read back a few posts through this very thread...
There are very clear instructions in the first post AND in many subsequent ones on how to download and extract the files, and the subfolders of files etc, that this tool needs, including the supporting [linked to] 'Lib' set.
There are also some other posts regarding the general issues about download/extract/install toolsets, and links - including some to thomthom's 'Simple Plugin Installer' - which would [if you had it installed] avoid all of the headaches that some users like yourself seem to get themselves into with archived file-sets...

riek

@rich o brien said:

There's no FredoTool directory.

If you read the first post on this thread it clearly shows the footprint....

hoi, fredo
i have installed libfredo6_Dir_46,
not fredotools
i tried it, but it wouldn't work

but the strange thing is,
curvizard
and
curviloft
didn't run either,
and now it runs smoothly

thanks for the plugins,
i'll try to install the FREDOTOOLS later on

pedroines

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff431742.aspx
For whatever reasons Windows7 doesn´t allow winrar - in my case - to unpack the files to the plugins directory.
Follow the above recomendations allowing winrar to run under administrator rights and it´s done.Hope iy helps

TIG

@pedroines said:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff431742.aspx
For whatever reasons Windows7 doesn't allow Winrar - in my case - to unpack the files to the plugins directory.
Follow the above recommendations allowing Winrar to run under administrator rights and it's done. Hope it helps
It's not so much the decompression application running as 'admin'... BUT that 'you' have FULL security-permissions to read/write to the Plugins folder [and for that matter Components, Materials and Styles folders too, because from time to time 'you' will want to add files to those...]

mingjae

hi,

can I copy paste only the FredoTools_CurviShear.rb only to the plugins folder and erase all other plugins from the FredoTools_Dir_12 folder?

will it load properly like the old day coz i only need the curvishear to make a ramp

fredo6

@mingjae said:

hi,

can I copy paste only the FredoTools_CurviShear.rb only to the plugins folder and erase all other plugins from the FredoTools_Dir_12 folder?

NO it won't work.
But if you go to the Default Parameters dialog box of FredoTools, you can select which ones would appear in the icon toolbar and in the contextual selection menu.

Fredo

pbacot

I had Remove Lonely Vertices in my context menu. This has recently disappeared. Is there some trick to get it into the context menu?

Thanks, Peter

fredo6

@pbacot said:

I had Remove Lonely Vertices in my context menu. This has recently disappeared. Is there some trick to get it into the context menu?

Strange,

Just in case, go to the Default Parameters dialog box because this is where you can enable or disable the tools of FredoTools in the toolbar and in the contextual menu.

Fredo

pbacot

I didn't realize it was under the FredoTools submenu... it used to be different right? Or am I imagining?

Thanks for the help. Now I have this oft-used function again!

fredo6

@pbacot said:

:oops: I didn't realize it was under the FredoTools submenu... it used to be different right? Or am I imagining?

Thanks for the help. Now I have this oft-used function again!

Well! It is like this because the real estate of the contextual menu is precious.
But of course, it is less efficient.

Fredo

AsiaStarArt

谢谢你
Thank

asaavedra

Hello, I love Freddo plug ins, but I installed SketchUp 13 and these plug ins do not work ... you plan to make it compatible soon??

Alan Fraser

@asaavedra said:

Hello, I love Freddo plug ins, but I installed SketchUp 13 and these plug ins do not work ... you plan to make it compatible soon??

They do work. Update your Fredo6 Library file.

ruggero56

Devo studiare tutto in inglese, Fredo!! Ma la installazione è stata perfetta! Complimenti e grazie!

davi

thank you very much!

jumboojum

Thank you so much sir

tolson68

Fredo,

I have installed Sketchup 2013 Make on a Linux instance and it seems to be working well. Unfortunately I have a problem loading FredoTools 1.2a. The error message I receive is:

Error Loading File C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2013/Plugins/FREDOTOOLS_Dir_12/__loader.rb
can't convert nil into String

I have tried disabling my other plugins to isolate the cause and then adding them back one at a time and when FredoTools is enabled I start having this problem. I'm happy to assist you in any tracing, since I'm aware that SketchUp itself is not supported on Linux. This is a brand new install and all plugins packages have been downloaded within the past 24 hours.

I am also encountering the same problem in Sketchup 8 on the same machine.

Kind Regards,

Tom

TIG

@Tom

Ensure that the SketchUp Plugins folder AND all of its contents [subfolders/files] have FULL Read/Write security permissions set.
On Windows existing contents typically adopt the settings of their parent.
Properties > Security > Edit... each user/group in the list > FULL... Apply/OK

On a MAC you need to deliberately tell the OS to apply the changes to contents.
On Linux it may be the same...

Also set Sketchup.exe to 'always run as administrator' [if you can] ...

Do you have that .rb file in the named subfolder
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2013/Plugins/FREDOTOOLS_Dir_12/__loader.rbIf not, then it suggests you had limited permissions and the have not installed the files as you think you have...

fredo6

@tolson68 said:

Fredo,

I have installed Sketchup 2013 Make on a Linux instance and it seems to be working well. Unfortunately I have a problem loading FredoTools 1.2a. The error message I receive is:

Error Loading File C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2013/Plugins/FREDOTOOLS_Dir_12/__loader.rb
can't convert nil into String

Tom,

Strange message. Not sure it is related to your Linux installation.

Could you check that the file __loader.rb contains a single line:
Traductor::Plugin.myplugin('FredoTools').effective_load

Fredo

tolson68

TIG, The __loader.rb does exist in the .../FREDOTOOLS_Dir_12/ folder and has it's permissions set to -rw-r--r-- and all other *.rb files have the same permissions.

Fredo, The __loader.rb file does contain the line:

Traductor::Plugin.myplugin('FredoTools').effective_load

...and nothing else.

If I rename the 000_AdditionalPluginFolders.rb file the error appears to go away, which seems like an acceptable workaround. I am unable to use WebDialog for that add-on for somereason. All other WebDialogs are working, but that one just displays raw HTML, but does not generate any exceptions other than when FredoTools is loaded, curious.

Thanks,

Tom