[plugin] Structural analysis - SketchStruct: 30 Oct 12: v201
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awesome it's the future
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Sing me up!! If you guys can take it to the next level it could freaking awesome. BRB gotta try this thing!
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Looks great keep up the good work.
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Great tool, i hope you can finish what you have started.
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it is so hard to make... congratulations!
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Coool .. I'll check it out !
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@target2427 said:
Changelog
v2.0.1 - Added confirmation when choosing materials, now using .rbz install methodCheers
don't know why: version 2.0.0 is downloaded following the link
and when y try, the ruby box says
Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method
[]' for nil:NilClass> C:/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SketchStruct2.0.0/stiffness.rb:815:inmember_load'
C:/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SketchStruct2.0.0/stiffness.rb:813:ineach' C:/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SketchStruct2.0.0/stiffness.rb:813:inmember_load'
C:/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SketchStruct2.0.0/stiffness.rb:858:inmain' C:/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SketchStruct2.0.0/main.rb:98 C:/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SketchStruct2.0.0/stiffness.rb:815:incall'
C:/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SketchStruct2.0.0/stiffness.rb:815no outputs are shown, only inputs
apart from that, it is a nice idea, wish it comes through
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oh yeah... I'll be watching this one.
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Sorry about this, I did upload the file but for some reason sourceforge did not pick it up as the latest version. I have manually overridden this now and the newest version should be available for download.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sketchstruct/files/latest/download
@glro said:
@target2427 said:
Changelog
v2.0.1 - Added confirmation when choosing materials, now using .rbz install methodCheers
don't know why: version 2.0.0 is downloaded following the link
and when y try, the ruby box says
Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method
[]' for nil:NilClass> C:/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SketchStruct2.0.0/stiffness.rb:815:inmember_load'
C:/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SketchStruct2.0.0/stiffness.rb:813:ineach' C:/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SketchStruct2.0.0/stiffness.rb:813:inmember_load'
C:/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SketchStruct2.0.0/stiffness.rb:858:inmain' C:/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SketchStruct2.0.0/main.rb:98 C:/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SketchStruct2.0.0/stiffness.rb:815:incall'
C:/PROGRA~2/Google/GOOGLE~3/Plugins/SketchStruct2.0.0/stiffness.rb:815no outputs are shown, only inputs
apart from that, it is a nice idea, wish it comes through
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I tried again the link and yes, now it is the last version
I tried a few times and it worked as expected; sometimes it didn't though
once i got this error message:
"Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method
[]' for nil:NilClass> C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/SketchStruct2/read.rb:231:inget_nodal_loads'
C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/SketchStruct2/read.rb:230:ineach' C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/SketchStruct2/read.rb:230:inget_nodal_loads'
C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/SketchStruct2/read.rb:11:ininitialize' C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/SketchStruct2/main.rb:66:innew'
C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/SketchStruct2/main.rb:66
C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/SketchStruct2/read.rb:231:in `call'
C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/SketchStruct2/read.rb:231"With another example, the program gave a result, but in the ruby box, it wrote
"no. joints: 4
no. bars: 3
no. restraints: 4
DOF: 8
Maxwell's number: 1
Errror, mechanism forming
no. degrees of freedom: 8"Obviously, there is still a lot of work to do to make it a usable tool, but i like very much having it in the sketchup environment
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Hi
Just a couple of questions about how you created the structure.
When I run your file I get the same error, however, when I redraw the structure, the program runs fine.
Did you first draw your structure with SketchStruct installed?
and
Did you draw the structure manually, line by line?
Thanks
Tom
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@target2427 said:
Did you first draw your structure with SketchStruct installed?
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Did you draw the structure manually, line by line?
Yes to the first question
No to the second
I had it drawn automatically by another plugin i am working on, that makes a model of a scaffolding
From this model, i kept only the axis line and applied to it loads, supports, material and geometric values.
I didn't guess it would make a difference with a structure drawn from scratch
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Ok, it looks like the two plugins are incompatible at the moment. SketchStruct uses a couple of minor functions for numbering the edges, this is done as the lines are drawn by the user.
This is a simple function which probably be included in your plugin to allow the two plugins to work together.
If you want more info on how the numbering works, I will be happy to help.
Tom
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@target2427 said:
Ok, it looks like the two plugins are incompatible at the moment. SketchStruct uses a couple of minor functions for numbering the edges, this is done as the lines are drawn by the user.
This is a simple function which probably be included in your plugin to allow the two plugins to work together.
If you want more info on how the numbering works, I will be happy to help.
Tom
The plugin i am working on doesn't use any numbering for edges; it is probably done automatically by sketchup
It seems to me that it would be an enhancement for your plugin to be able to number edges of an existing drawing; this way the user could store models and re-use them
Anyway, this is how usual structural analysis softwares work
Thank you for your answer
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I did attempt to achieve this with the automatic Sketchup numbering, however, I had problems as Sketchup does not save these consistently. i.e. the IDs would change between sessions after saving and loading.
Hopefully I can find a way to achieve this with the sketchup numbering. I will try to look for a way to include this in the next version.
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it seems to be a very nice and useful pluging, but I can not set supports and load. don't know why.
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Tom, this plugin is interfering with normal behavior of SketchUp[1].
I had a quick look at some of the code and there's a lot to go over. In the meantime, I recommend users of this plugin disable it in the Extensions dialog when not in use.
[1] http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=49507
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@jim said:
Tom, this plugin is interfering with normal behavior of SketchUp[1].
I had a quick look at some of the code and there's a lot to go over. In the meantime, I recommend users of this plugin disable it in the Extensions dialog when not in use.
[1] http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=49507
I am aware of this and will try to fix this for the next version. Sometimes errors pop up in the Ruby console when drawing lines indirectly (squares, arcs...).
I apologise for the errors, but it is something being worked on
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This plugin should be awesome. And may become another very good reason to tell my brother to learn SketchUp and not just CAD
I hope all bugs could be fixed and works as it should be. -
Hi all
Just thought I should give you an update on the current progress. At the moment I am working on a Mesh analysis plugin (2d currently). The analysis itself is working fine, however when using very refined meshes (i.e. 100 elements), Sketchup pretty much crashes on my computer. To resolve this, I am also working on a Sparse Matrix library for Ruby. The idea of this is to reduce the time of calculations by only storing non-zero entities. On this, I have got matrix multiplication and addition working, however the more complex task of solving sets of simultaneous equations is not yet complete. I will not be releasing this plugin until I can get this working effectively.
My next semester at uni is now starting, so progress may be slow on this.
Cheers
Tom
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