[Plugin][$] VisuHole - v1.5a - 01 Apr 24
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Did you also install the latest Lib Fredo ?
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I have a problem with trying to bend small letters (1cm) on a cylinder as the picture shows in the attachement.
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If your object is too small, then SketchUp can't cope.
Points closer that 1/1000" - as might be created by your tiny sizes and processes - are deemed to be coincident.
Then the tiny edges aren't created and their faces are also lost !Try Scaling things up x10 or more and see if that helps ??
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For some reason I'm having trouble making a stencil. It seems that when I attempt to make a multi-shaped stencil (such as to drill 4 holes of equal size and spacing through a tube), I cannot select the group. Or, if I'm able to, it does not correctly make the stencil.
I've attached the most recent stencil I'm trying to make. The goal is to punch out the holes and leave behind what would be a frame. Yes, I now realize I can go about it a different way, but my problem with making a stencil still stands and I need to know if its something I'm doing thats incorrect or what. So to that end, I've also included a clip of what I'm doing to make the stencil and the results.
So this current stencil is already 60' tall, so it should be large enough but as you can see in the clip, it doesnt trigger like it should.
Can someone tell me whats going on? Thanks!
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Hello
You must click a single face or a group or a component of something planed to the XY axes for make a stencil!
Can be of course at any z but must be // to xy plane!
So your vertical one is impossible!
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Actually, you can pick the stencil in any plane, which is given by the face you click.
But don't click-drag, when you do that. Just click-release
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@unknownuser said:
But don't click-drag, when you do that. Just click-release
Cool!
So I was half wrong! 
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@fredo6 said:
Actually, you can pick the stencil in any plane, which is given by the face you click.
But don't click-drag, when you do that. Just click-release
It doesnt show it very well, but I was actually doing just that right at the beginning of the video. Right around 12 - 14 seconds, when I put the mouse to the center of the group and suddenly get the demo shapes. If I click-release, nothing happens. Uploaded a new movie to show.
However when I flip it so its laying flat like Pilou says to, I get it right away.
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When the stencil is based on a group or component, I was lazy to assume that the Z axis was to be sued as the plan for the stencil.
I made a change in LibFredo6 v9.5f to treat more general cases.
Fredo
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Bonjour,
Tout d'abord merci Fredo pour tout ces plugins extraordinaires qui me font tout les jours gagner des heures de dessin. On a du te le dire pleins de fois mais c'est vrai, t'es le boss!!!
Petite suggestion sur celui-ci. Il me semblerait intéressant d'ajouter des marquages sur l'axe des perçage (ou des extrusions également). On pourrait de cette facon non seulement les déplacer/copié + facilement (notamment, lorsqu'on "perce" un trou cylindrique simple, on perd l'intégrité du cercle et donc son centre) mais également de coter et de mettre en plan beaucoup plus rapidement.
Si j'ai pu faire avancer modestement le shmilblick.... -
Hi
I have yet to find the way to cut through my outer wall that is made of 3 solids going all around the building.So if I cut through my first wall ( 6 faces), I will also make an opening at the back ( 6 more faces to o through). And I find I can limit it to only the first cut, but then Im only 1/3 through my wall.
Is there a way to set max drill depth, so it goes all the way through my wall, but does not reach the back walls.?
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I have used Visuhole successfully to stamp a logo into my model
I noticed after converting to STEP file with FreeCAD that there are many hidden lines after the stamping, see "after carve.jpg"After the carve operation my model is no longer solid. I used CleanUp3 to clean up the model, after that there were a few lines I deleted manually.
SolidInspector2 says it is a solid
Solid Solver says it is notI am just wondering if the extra lines are to be expected after a carve operation or is there some setting in Visuhole that would avoid this?
thx
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Because of the two holes, the front face will become quite busy with edges when you carve the logo. If your model is at small scale, this can generate issues with the shape being manifold.
Possibly, you may try by putting rectangular edges around the holes over the main face to isolate them.
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Or do the carve first, Holes after??
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When I try to download this visuhole plug in, it says its not a sketchup model and wont let me download it...or even begin to download. I have sketch up pro 2022 windows.
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@hannahdesigns88 said:
When I try to download this visuhole plug in, it says its not a sketchup model and wont let me download it...or even begin to download. I have sketch up pro 2022 windows.
Extensions cannot be opened by SketchUp. You need to use Extensions > Extension Manager to install the .RBZ file
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To follow on from Rich's comment, it sounds like you have the download dialog set to 'Open with' rather than 'Save File' You need to set it to save file to get the RBZ to your computer to then get the extension manager to use it.
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it doesnt work as it should. tried several fonts but, always with little errors. see picure
what to do?
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Scale is the first most likely issue, how small is your model.
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@ploniman said:
it doesnt work as it should. tried several fonts but, always with little errors. see picure
what to do?[attachment=0:1pr1bp40]<!-- ia0 -->Bild 22.06.22 um 08.58.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1pr1bp40]
Scale the geometry so its oversized, run the tool and then scale it back down. SketchUp can struggle with forming geometry < 1mm.
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