Plugin interfering with DWG import (solved)

scottlininger · 3 May 2012, 20:23

Hey Edson,

Does it fail with all DWGs, or just one in particular?

I installed Rick's script on SU8 Pro on my mac. Same OS version as you, and the DWG import worked for me. Could you share the file?

Edson · 3 May 2012, 20:34

@tig said:

Edson

This has every version FOO'd...

bad news. it does not work either. sketchup crashes every time.

Edson · 3 May 2012, 20:36

@unknownuser said:

Hey Edson,

Does it fail with all DWGs, or just one in particular?

I installed Rick's script on SU8 Pro on my mac. Same OS version as you, and the DWG import worked for me. Could you share the file?

scott,

yes, I have basically been using one file for my tests but it fails with all dwgs. I can surely share the file.

03a_ANEXO-III-LEVANTAMENTO-TOPOGRÁFICO1.dwg

scottlininger · 3 May 2012, 21:21

Hrm. Edson, I grabbed that file and I'm not seeing a crash. I'm on SU 8.0.11751.

Even in there is something corrupted about your specific SketchUp install, it's very strange that a plugin would change the behavior. I guess we'll wait and see if Rick can recreate... either way it'll be another clue.

TIG · 3 May 2012, 21:25

@edson said:

@tig said:

Edson

This has every version FOO'd...

bad news. it does not work either. sketchup crashes every time.
Strange all we have done is separate the Vector class/method into one that's unlikely to have a name clash...
So to recap...
If you have those two .rb files loading then DWG fails.
If you remove the files DWG works OK ?
That's plain weird...
Can you double check both edited files are in the Plugins folder...
You don't have Fredo's tool loading to add an extra networked Plugins folder ???
It might be loading an unedited version from somewhere ??????

Edson · 4 May 2012, 16:28

scott,
my SU version is 8.0.13608.

TIG,
it is enough to remove vector.flat_angle.rb for SU to import the dwg without problems. I only removed the other to get rid of error messages asking for the other.

you have only posted the edited pathcopy.rb file, not vector.flat_angle.rb.

what fredo tool do you mean precisely?

TIG · 4 May 2012, 18:29

Fredo's AdditonalPluginsFolder [or similar name...]

I'd disable both of RickW's files, as one needs the other etc...

Edson · 4 May 2012, 18:45

@tig said:

Fredo's AdditonalPluginsFolder [or similar name...]

I'd disable both of RickW's files, as one needs the other etc...

no, I do not have that plugin by fredo6 installed.

I have disabled both plugins. I am almost sure there are other plugins that help copy objects along a path.

bigstick · 5 May 2012, 08:59

Actually every one of my Macs in the office (3 in total) has the same problem of being unable to import dwg files in SU Pro. This has been the case for every version of SU8 pro that I have used, and in the office it makes no difference whether we are on Lion or Snow Leopard.

The import seems to work fine, the geometry seems to be imported, and the summary dialog pops up with the imported entities, but then SU crashes.

Works fine on my MacBook Pro at home with the same version of SU Pro 8.0.11751 though. This probably has more plugins than any of the other machines.

Pathcopy is not the culprit for me because it's on my home machine which works, and on my office machine, which doesn't.

Works fine on the PC under all situations.

Edson · 5 May 2012, 12:06

@bigstick said:

Actually every one of my Macs in the office (3 in total) has the same problem of being unable to import dwg files in SU Pro. This has been the case for every version of SU8 pro that I have used, and in the office it makes no difference whether we are on Lion or Snow Leopard.

The import seems to work fine, the geometry seems to be imported, and the summary dialog pops up with the imported entities, but then SU crashes.

Works fine on my MacBook Pro at home with the same version of SU Pro 8.0.11751 though. This probably has more plugins than any of the other machines.

Pathcopy is not the culprit for me because it's on my home machine which works, and on my office machine, which doesn't.

Works fine on the PC under all situations.

my only guess is that in my case vector.flat_angle.rb conflicts with some other plugin. finding it is something much beyond my knowledge.

RickW · 7 May 2012, 19:02

Does SU crash if vector.flat_angle.rb is the only .rb in the Plugins folder?

Edson · 7 May 2012, 20:18

@rickw said:

Does SU crash if vector.flat_angle.rb is the only .rb in the Plugins folder?

no. it looks as if it conflicts with some other plugin.

RickW · 7 May 2012, 21:23

It seems to me that the only way a plugin could crash SU when using the native dwg import is by using observers. Can anyone think of any other way?