[SOLVED] Booleans operations available to free SU?

jolran

Hi!

Is for ex: group1.subtract(group2),available to free version users of Sketchup?

It says version 8+ in the API, but I got unsecure it will work for everyone when I was adding it to my code.

Intersect_with is faster, but it's not trivial to heal the intersections afterwards..

Thanks.

driven

hi jolan,

if you write a test, I'm sure someone will run it... no need to be a 'coder' themselves... john

jolran

Hi John. Thanks for replying.

Thought I would get a quick yes or no on this one.

I'm using the solid subtract method for some tests in "Hatchfaces" development.
So it's kinda burried in the code.. Kinda difficult to post a test snippet for that purpose from my code just yet.
Maybe later when or if it's a more definitive solution.

Dan Rathbun

I checked the Release Notes webpages for both the app and the API, and it's not clear.

driven

I was thinking a copy/paste 'visual' test like this may be useful
subtract

# Test booleans on Free
 #Create the box

ent = Sketchup.active_model.entities 
face = ent.add_face [0,0,0], [1,0,0], [1,1,0], [0,1,0] 
face.reverse! 
face.material = Sketchup;;Color.new("Coral")
face.pushpull 1
Sketchup.active_model.materials.add "Purple" 
group1 = ent.add_group face.all_connected

 #Create the 2nd box

ent = Sketchup.active_model.entities 
face = ent.add_face [0.5,0,0.5], [1.5,0,0.5], [1.5,1,0.5], [0.5,1,0.5] 
face.reverse!
face.material = Sketchup;;Color.new("GreenYellow")
face.pushpull 1
Sketchup.active_model.materials.add "Blue" 
group2 = ent.add_group face.all_connected 

 #test .subtract
entities = Sketchup.active_model.entities
 instance1 = entities[0]
 instance2 = entities[1]
 result = instance1.subtract(instance2)
 
 
=begin
 #test .union
entities = Sketchup.active_model.entities
 instance1 = entities[0]
 instance2 = entities[1]
 result = instance1.union(instance2)


  #test .trim
entities = Sketchup.active_model.entities
 instance1 = entities[0]
 instance2 = entities[1]
 result = instance1.trim(instance2)
 
 #test .split
 entities = Sketchup.active_model.entities
 instance1 = entities[0]
 instance2 = entities[1]
 result = instance1.split(instance2)
 =end

union, trim and split can be swapped to test them as well.
john

driven

in answer to your original question,

I just installed free on this laptop and copy/pasted my code...
Error: #<ArgumentError: (eval):25:insubtract': 'subtract' is a Pro only feature.>
(eval):25
(eval):25`
john

TIG

It's dead easy to post a test script and a snippet.
Make a SKP [v8] with two cubes that are separate groups that partially overlap.
Select the two groups.
Copy/Paste into the Ruby Console a short one-liner for v8-Free to test...
Something like:
s=Sketchup.active_model.selection;s[0].subtract(s[1])
Does one get subtracted from the other in v8-Free?
I suspect NOT.
BUT it does in v8-Pro.

Dan Rathbun

@driven said:

in answer to your original question,

I just installed free on this laptop and copy/pasted my code...
Error: #<ArgumentError: (eval):25:insubtract': 'subtract' is a Pro only feature.>
(eval):25
(eval):25`
john

Makes sense.. otherwise we'd be able to write Pro feature custom tools for Free. which defeats the purpose of a Pro version.

jolran

Was gonna post a snippet this morning but you guys did the work for me

So I see John, you got an error "is a Pro only feature."
That pretty much sums it up. Like Tig also suspected.

Dan said.

@unknownuser said:

Makes sense.. otherwise we'd be able to write Pro feature custom tools for Free

Yeah, thats why I posted the question. Being a PRO user I momentarily took this method for granted when I did not receive an error message in my code.

Thanks everyone involved for clearing this up.

Maybe Google should put PRO label for methods like this after the 8+ in the API.