[Plugin] 3D Parametric Shapes - makes placeable components

johnwmcc

post removed

pomelo3d

Thank you very much for this update.
You may add a dynamic insertion point?

jiminy-billy-bob

Post removed

Rich O Brien

I just did a Men in Black mind wipe on 2 posts here.

Please remember what you are allowed post in public.

jiminy-billy-bob

Thanks

johnwmcc

I've just updated the plugin to extend it to draw a Helix, and to work in SU2014.

The helix will be drawn upwards from the origin (by default, with positive Pitch), or downwards by setting the Pitch to a negative value.

The helix can be made left handed by setting No. of rotations to a negative value.

The helix can be drawn starting at any specified start angle from the x-axis

The revised plugin will be available on the new Extension Warehouse as soon as it has been accepted and updated there - awaiting only some SU team updates to mesh_additions.rb and parametric.rb, which I am not able to make.

Please see tne first post in this thread for download of the updated version 1.5.

John McC

Rich O Brien

Hi John,

We can add this to the PluginStore if you want.

We can also add you to the Plugin Authors group to access their dedicated forum.

johnwmcc

Sounds good to have it added to the Plugin Store. What if anything further do I have to do before you can do that?

And what is the relationship between the Plugin Store and the new Trimble Sketchup Extension Warehouse? I've made a further Pull request for them to update the original with this and a wide range of other changes I made earlier, but it's been a few weeks since the release of the 2014 version of SU, and my updates to this plugin haven't yet made it to the new Warehouse.

Should it appear in both? One or the other only? I'd welcome your advice.

As to joining the Plugin Authors group, I'd be very pleased, but I'm only very sporadically active in writing (or usually, adapting others') plugins.

Rich O Brien

@johnwmcc said:

Sounds good to have it added to the Plugin Store. What if anything further do I have to do before you can do that?

I'll look after the first upload

@johnwmcc said:

And what is the relationship between the Plugin Store and the new Trimble Sketchup Extension Warehouse?

There's none as far as I am aware?

@johnwmcc said:

Should it appear in both? One or the other only? I'd welcome your advice.

That's entirely up to you. There's no harm in hosting in both.

@johnwmcc said:

As to joining the Plugin Authors group, I'd be very pleased, but I'm only very sporadically active in writing (or usually, adapting others') plugins.

That's no problem. You can pop in as you see fit.

jpalm32

Nice. I'll wait till in Plug-in store.

johnwmcc

I've added a further Shape - Helical Ramp.

The helical ramp further adds to the helix, and draws an (optionally tapering) helical ramp surface, with new ramp starting width and ending width parameters.

See first post in this forum for an updated v2.1 which includes the Helical Ramp.

majid

Cool, and what about the famous teapot?

unearthed

Wonderful plugin, thanks, great to have instant primitives, plus helices!

thomthom

@majid said:

:thumb: Cool, and what about the famous teapot?

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=24079

johnwmcc

Added Helical Ramp with Sides shape, with parameter for slope of sides from horizontal. Changed helical parameters to ask for start and end height, instead of pitch. Minor bug fixes.

johnwmcc

Minor update (to v2.2.7) - changed module name from CommunityExtensions to JWM in all four .rb files in .rbz archive to avoid potential conflict with SketchUp Extension Warehouse version.

eozel

It gives load error msg in my pc.

Error Loading File C:/Users/emre özel/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/jwm_shapes/shapes.rb
Error: cannot load such file -- C:/Users/emre özel/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/jwm_shapes/parametric.rb
C:/Program Files (x86)/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/Tools/RubyStdLib/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in require' C:/Program Files (x86)/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/Tools/RubyStdLib/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in require'
C:/Users/emre özel/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/jwm_shapes/shapes.rb:8:in <top (required)>' C:/Program Files (x86)/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/Tools/extensions.rb:197:in require'
C:/Program Files (x86)/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/Tools/extensions.rb:197:in load' C:/Users/emre özel/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/jwm_shapes.rb:24:in register_extension'
C:/Users/emre özel/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/jwm_shapes.rb:24:in <module:Shapes>' C:/Users/emre özel/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/jwm_shapes.rb:12:in module:JWM'
C:/Users/emre özel/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/jwm_shapes.rb:11:in `<top (required)>'

johnwmcc

I'm afraid I don't quite know why this happens, or even definitely how to fix it, though I have a couple of suggestions to try.

It seems from the Ruby console dialogue that you included, that the plugin loader (Plugins/shapes.rb) isn't finding the file parametric.rb where it expects to, in the Plugins/jwm_shapes subfolder.

How did you install the Plugin? If through the Window/Preferences/Extensions/Install Extension button, it ought to put the files where they belong.

Please look and see what files/folders you have in your Plugins folder
"C:/Users/emre özel/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/"

You should have one file from this plugin (jwm_shapes.rb) and one folder (jwm_shapes). The folder should contain the following files:
CHANGELOG.txt
extension_info.txt
mesh_additions.rb
parametric.rb
shapes.png
shapes.rb
shapes_icon.png
(and maybe shapes 221.rb)

If those files aren't there, the installation hasn't worked properly.

If you manually unzipped the .rbz file, you may not have checked the option to preserve the folder structure.

To fix it, you might try (a) installing the plugin through the 'official' route - open SU, then go to Window/Preferences/Extensions [Install Extension] and select the downloaded jwm_shapes.rbz file to install.

or (b) change the extension of the downloaded file from .rbz to .zip, Extract the files in it (preserving the folder structure), to get the files and folder identified above, then copy the one file shapes.rb, and then the folder and contents jwm_shapes, into the Plugins folder.

I've just double checked that downloading the .rbz file from the top of this post, and using the official SU Extension installer works for me.

I don't think this a problem specifically to do with this one plugin. You could try downloading another plugin, and trying to install that.

If none of this works, try the Sketchup Extensions forum.

Best wishes

John McC

driven

most likely suspect is ö in the path...

TT posted a workaround in the dev forum, search for force_encoding...

it was along the lines of

file__ = __FILE__
file__ = file__.force_encoding("UTF-8") if defined?(Encoding)

@emre, do any plugins load? if so which ones?

john

Box

It's worth pointing out here that the version of this that is in the plugin store, simply called shapes, doesn't work with SU2014.
The RBZ above does work and it's a different version.

So Emre you linked to the plugin store one as the one you had downloaded in another thread, Is that the case? have you tried with this one? Or the newer version also in the store?

John, you might want to see about updating or removing the earlier one in the store.