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    • utilerU Offline
      utiler
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      Looks very promising, TIG!! πŸ‘ πŸ‘

      purpose/expression/purpose/....

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      • BoxB Offline
        Box
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        An extremely useful tool, however my struggle with dyslexic transposition makes the name somewhat disturbing.

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        • KrisidiousK Offline
          Krisidious
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          This will be great for architects wanting to show the amount of dirt fill to dig out and add to grades. Nice work Tig. Is this your first ever commercial plugin? It's about time you charge for some your fantastic work.

          By: Kristoff Rand
          Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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          • TIGT Online
            TIG Moderator
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            @krisidious said:

            This will be great for architects wanting to show the amount of dirt fill to dig out and add to grades. Nice work Tig. Is this your first ever commercial plugin? It's about time you charge for some your fantastic work.
            I write many commercial bespoke plugins every year. You just see the ones that I 'give away' - although donations are always welcome...
            This one seem a bit more commercially useful than mostm so I thought I'd see how it goes as EVAL+modest$... It's also a chance to try out the SCF Shop...

            TIG

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            • TIGT Online
              TIG Moderator
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              @box said:

              An extremely useful tool, however my struggle with dyslexic transposition makes the name somewhat disturbing.
              The anagrammatic possibilities were realized early on πŸ˜‰

              TIG

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              • jgbrock1J Offline
                jgbrock1
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                This is the plugin I have been waiting for! I am a designer/builder and use cut/fill analysis on all my jobs (I have been creating complex terrain groups, painstakingly making them SOLIDs and noting the differences in volume). I downloaded the plugin and cannot seem to make it work. I used an existing file, named the existing site EXTG, chose both groups (which perfectly align) and chose the command, but nothing happens - no error messages, nothing. I even recreated the existing site mesh without the skirt (that I added to previous) and chose the "Add Skirt" command, but nothing happened. Could it have not installed properly? (the menu shows up when I open SU and the folders/files are in my SU Plugins folder. Thanks! Anxious to make this work

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                • TIGT Online
                  TIG Moderator
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                  @John

                  If you run it with the Ruby Console open any messages.
                  Any text in the Status-Bar ?

                  If it's very complex it might take some time to process...

                  Can you PM me the SKP so I can test it directly ?

                  TIG

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                  • K Offline
                    KrisM
                    last edited by

                    TIG,

                    This will be very useful. I also do a lot of cut & fill and this is not a foolproof process in Sketchup. I presently use other programs for this work but it's great to see the capability introduced to SketchUp. You've will save me more than the cost of the plugin on the next job I use this for. Thanks.

                    Kris

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                    • jgbrock1J Offline
                      jgbrock1
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                      @TIG

                      I tried to send you a private message but it says I do not have authority to do so - I have been a member for a while, but not premium yet (does that matter). This is the error I received - think it has something to do with file locations but not sure. The proper .rb file and folders are in my Plugins folder??:

                      Error: #<Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - C:/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
                      (eval)πŸ’―in readlines' (eval):100:in read_counter'
                      (eval):137:in new' C:/Program Files (x86)/SketchUp/SketchUp 2013/Plugins/TIG-CutNfill/TIG-CutNfill_loader.rb:25 (eval):100:in call'
                      (eval):100

                      I would be glad to send you the file to check it or perhaps these lines above explain it all - probably very obvious, just not to me:) I'd appreciate your help and more than happy to upgrade to premium membership if it allows me to participate more.

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                      • Rich O BrienR Offline
                        Rich O Brien Moderator
                        last edited by

                        You can't PM because you have not more than 3 posts. It's an anti trolling measure.

                        Sent from my iPad

                        Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                        • BoxB Offline
                          Box
                          last edited by

                          You don't need to upgrade to premium, just make another post which will be the 3rd that needs to be moderated and your PM's should work after that.

                          Edit. I see the big man got in there while I was typing.

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                          • jgbrock1J Offline
                            jgbrock1
                            last edited by

                            Thank you for clarifying

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                            • Rich O BrienR Offline
                              Rich O Brien Moderator
                              last edited by

                              Although that 666 in your ruby message does suggest some evil is at work!

                              Try saying TIG x 3 while touching your elbow off your nose. Should fix it.

                              Sent from my iPad

                              Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                              • TIGT Online
                                TIG Moderator
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                                I'm onto the issue...

                                There's a stupid typo in the code that throws up an error message once - the first run of the tool - it's now fixed in v1.1***

                                The SKP you PM'd to me threw up three or four immediate things.
                                The EXTG & Proposed meshes do not have a common bounding box.
                                Select each in turn [use the Outliner] to show this.
                                Explode them and regroup [in turn] and then recheck they overlay properly too.

                                The site is very large, most of ot is unaffected and EXTG & Proposed are the same.
                                However, ever facets needs inspecting - cutting the site down to just the part that's changed will be much faster

                                An issue that could affect things is also the vertical faces in the Proposed - I'll trap for those... watch out for v1.1...***

                                TIG

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                                • TIGT Online
                                  TIG Moderator
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                                  An updated v1.1 is now available in the PluginStore.
                                  http://sketchucation.com/resources/pluginstore?pln=TIG-CutNfill-v1.0
                                  http://sketchucation.com/plugin/760-TIG-CutNfill-v1.0
                                  It will also be available shortly in the Shop...

                                  It is now faster and less likely to failure - it tries to mend non-Solid Cut/Fill results that can occasionally occur when two Solids are intersected.

                                  Note that if you have previously purchased a license you do not need to buy a new one.
                                  Just download/install the latest EVAL version and it will find and use the license-file already in the Tool's subfolder...

                                  TIG

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                                  • TIGT Online
                                    TIG Moderator
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                                    An updated v1.1 is now available in the PluginStore. http://sketchucation.com/resources/pluginstore?pln=TIG-CutNfill It is also be available as a pre-licensed version in the SketchUcation Shop...
                                    http://sketchucation.com/shop/plugins/767-cutnfill-v1-1

                                    It is now faster and less likely to failure - it tries to mend non-Solid Cut/Fill results that can occasionally occur when two Solids are intersected.

                                    Note that if you have previously purchased a license you do not need to buy a new one.
                                    Just download/install the latest EVAL version and it will find and use the license-file already in the Tool's subfolder...

                                    TIG

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                                    • U Offline
                                      unearthed
                                      last edited by

                                      Thank you TIG, that's one amazing plugin, even gives me a nice little solid cut/fill object, SU just became a whole lot more useful.


                                      cf.JPG

                                      Growplan - People ∩ Plants ∩ Place

                                      windows 7 64b, 4GB RAM, SU 8.0.16846
                                      Gimp, QGIS, Vectorworks 12, Bricscad 11

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                                      • F Offline
                                        fantoosh420
                                        last edited by

                                        I had done this in a project manualy... and surprisengly using same color code πŸ˜† πŸ˜† . this was done almost 1 year back... good to see that there is a plugin though.


                                        SITE 98.jpg


                                        CUT & FILL 15.jpg


                                        Sketchup 14.0.4900
                                        Core i5 760 @ 3.00 Ghz. 8 GB RAM windows 7 SP1 X64

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                                        • TIGT Online
                                          TIG Moderator
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                                          @Amit

                                          Great minds think alike... πŸ˜„

                                          Or perhaps the SCF PluginStore collects more data about you than we admit to πŸ˜‰

                                          TIG

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                                          • P Offline
                                            pillarpom
                                            last edited by

                                            This is the very useful plugins for me. Unfortunately I can't get it done for me. It keeps showing that I have to align the corner of the two groups although I've done so.
                                            Can someone tells me what I was wrong.


                                            cut_fill.JPG

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