[Plugin][$] VisuHole - v1.5a - 01 Apr 24

pilou

VisuHole only accepts to drill if the pivot point is inside the shape.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Damned! Un effet collatéral!
ça progresse, ça progresse!

Pants

Fredo,

Hope you got time for this, because it feels so close...anyway, can you confirm that you're able to make up new stencils and have them work as "punches?" I've found this only works for me if I use your "stock" three sample stencils - the ones you provided as defaults. It lets me pick a new shape that turns yellow and shows all signs of being ready to make a hole, but when I double-click, or try to "orient," etc...no hole results...just a "time elapsed" display.

I also have some Sketchucation plugins-vs-extensions issues/possible confusion. Plugin manager shows current 2/4 version. Later, after finding I was still having problems, I noticed the SUcation Extensions manager still showed the old version (now disabled). I keep thinking there's a need to delete/uninstall old versions, not just disable. Apparently one can disable a plugin and still find that it shows up as the old version, active, but in the SUcation extensions manager. Confusing, to me, anyway.

Mahalo - Dave

fredo6

Dave,

I would need to have your model with

the shape to drill
the set of faces to be used as a stencil.

That would help me to troubleshoot

Fredo

Pants

@fredo6 said:

Dave,

I would need to have your model with

the shape to drill

the set of faces to be used as a stencil.

That would help me to troubleshoot

Fredo

I just PM'd you...thanks - Dave

thorx

Hi to every one, only to mention that the last version of visuhole(1.3a) crashed in sketchup 2016 last version for mac and the way to replicate the issue is this:

Make a cube
Make a little circle to use with drill option
Put the circle at the corner vertex of the cube to make some kind of chamfer effect by clicking twice (to fix position and establish the axis).
Make the procedure number 3 one more time in another corner vertex of the cube and... that's it!, sketchup 2016 (last ver.19913 for mac) completely crashed and bugsplat appears.

To be sure that the problem isn't for incompatibility with another plugin, I disabled all other stuff before test the plugin and the same thing occurred.

Anyway, the whole collection of fredo6 plugins are the best I have seen, I know this is only a stupid bug that could be fix it soon...

Thanks for your wonderful work and the spectacular plugins you do guys.

My Machine:

Macbook pro (mid-2012) with OS X El Capitan 10.11.2
8GB RAM
1GB Nvidia 650gt
512GB SSD

pilou

Hello Fredo
No progress in this domain ?
Will be fine for Grooves with complex path!

fredo6

Pilou,

That would be a different plugin, because groove have a 3D shape in general.

I think sdmitch has done something already.

Fredo

rv1974

Grooving (edge extruding) is for sure in Top of the most missing features (among true curves,saving in background, and multiple curves as one profile path for example). None of existing scripts is close to workable level (say, comparable to JPP)

ken

I am having problems with this program in drilling more that one hole. I have a pair of 4x4x1/2 angles next to each other, 1" apart. I mark each hole location with a guide point. I can make one hole, but cannot make any other of the holes.

I would like to mark all the holes, like 10 to 20 and just run down the line drilling holes into the angle at each guide point location.

Things I have tried.

guide points in and out of group selection and using a line end to mark the locations.
Separte groups selected or grouping both angle group in one large group.
If I click on the "Recurse from..." selection after each hole I can continue making one another hole. After this new hole I need to click on one of the "Recurse from..." to make another hole.
Note, if I make a the second selection that is not on a guide point I can make a hole, but I cannot make two selections using the guide points as reference.

Hole in Angle.png

fredo6

Ken,

Could you post the model.

I am not sure I understand well, so it will help me to figure out.

Many thanks

Fredo

ken

Fredo

OK, here is the model. It has four version of the angles.

Blue is the two angles 1" apart
Yellow is the angles with a guide line and guide points where the holes are to be drilled
Red is the failure, after one hole on the guide points.
Green is what success should looks like. I can continue making holes if I keep selecting the "Recurse...." option. If I don't do the re-clicking of the "Recurse..." button, I never get the blue bonding box of a group, just the ghost lines. With the ghost lines I cannot make another hole.

Hope this help.

Cofferdam showing angle iron waiting for holes.png

Angle Iron w holes.skp

fredo6

Ken,

OK. Got it. and it makes a lot of sense.
Just a bug I will fix.

Thanks for signaling.

Fredo

fredo6

NEW RELEASE: VisuHole v1.4b - 12 Oct 17

VisuHole 1.4b is a miantenance release:

fix a problem where pre-selection was lost after an operation
certified SU2017
Support of Hi-res screen
compatibility OSX High Sierra

Note: v1.4a, published also on 12 Oct had a bug left. So better take v1.4b

The fix for Pre-selection concerns a bug signaled by Ken.

VisuHole Selection.gif

See main post of this thread for Download of VisuHole.

Fredo

ken

Thanks you Fredo. It works just like I need.

Short story. I have had this plugin on my computer for sometime, I never could get it to drill consistance holes. So I started this new project and I have way to many holes to drill holes as I have been doing. So I made a concerted effort to learn the plugin. I knew the problem was with me, because no one else was complaining. Than I found one of my problems, the "group in" and "group out". Didn't quite understand what was happening there. Figured that out and watch the video over and over. Trying to see the exact setup in the menu.

The other times I just gave up, had stuff to do. But this time I just kept at it. Then I found the post about guidelines and guide points. Then I knew it should work with more that one guideline or point. So now I knew I wasn't the problem.

I am grateful for all of your plugins.

bharralure

2017-10-13 09_47_12-Sans titre - SketchUp Make 2017.jpg Bonjour Fredo,
Juste un souhait qui n'est peut-être pas réalisable : est-il possible que VisuHole n'explose pas les courbes, arcs et autre cercles, et ainsi ne pas perdre les inférences et autres renseignements disponibles dans "Info sur l'entité" ?
D'avance merci.

fredo6

@bharralure said:

[attachment=0:2s4g1kip]2017-10-13 09_47_12-Sans titre - SketchUp Make 2017.jpg[/attachment:2s4g1kip]Bonjour Fredo,
Juste un souhait qui n'est peut-être pas réalisable : est-il possible que VisuHole n'explose pas les courbes, arcs et autre cercles, et ainsi ne pas perdre les inférences et autres renseignements disponibles dans "Info sur l'entité" ?
D'avance merci.

Not obvious, but I'll think of it in a next version.

Fredo

bharralure

Bonjour Fredo, et merci d'avoir bien voulu prendre ma demande en considération, mais sachez que ce n'est pas une obligation, mais simplement une suggestion, surtout qu'il est possible de ressouder manuellement ces arcs et cercles, pour retrouver facilement, par inférence, leur centre par exemple (très utile, entre autre, pour la cotation).

rv1974

cutting crossing window\polyline would be amazing spin-off.

fredo6

@rv1974 said:

cutting crossing window\polyline would be amazing spin-off.

And on top of that, it does a chamfering of the intersection!
...and keep everything as a solid!
what else?

rv1974

actually when I thought for 2nd time (after first wows!) I realized it hardly can be a precise tool- not so suitable for archviz (my case). could be good for conceptual doodling.