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  • B Offline
    Bas9999
    last edited by 19 Mar 2015, 20:11

    Hello Anton_S

    I've tested it with Sketchup 2015... 😍 , it works like a charm!

    This is the code to read data for the serial port so far...

    onstart{
      @serial = Serial.new('COM8', 9600)
    }
     
    ontick{
      MSketchyPhysics3.closeControlPanel if frame == 1
      $serialdata = eval(@serial.read(1024))
      logLine("Serial data; " + $serialdata.to_s)
      logLine("")
      logLine("")
      logLine("")
      logLine("")
      logLine("")
      logLine("")
    }
    
    onend{
      @serial.close
    }
    

    Thank you!, i see if i can make a script that SENDS data to the Arduino / Raspberry...

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      mptak
      last edited by 19 Mar 2015, 23:14

      I see you tested it with SU2015...this confuses me. Were you using the 64 bit version of sketchup? Which Sketchy Physics download did you use? Thanks.

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        Anton_S
        last edited by 20 Mar 2015, 00:06

        I'm glad it works with SU2014 😉

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        • B Offline
          Bas9999
          last edited by 20 Mar 2015, 07:28

          @mptak said:

          I see you tested it with SU2015...this confuses me. Were you using the 64 bit version of sketchup? Which Sketchy Physics download did you use? Thanks.

          No, i used the 32-bit version of SU2015, sketchyphysics does not work on 64-bit (yet)

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            Bas9999
            last edited by 20 Mar 2015, 07:48

            Hi All,

            This is an example how to SEND data to the Arduino with SU 14/15, SketchyPhysics and Ruby Serial

            First the Arduino programming, here is the code to lit the integrated LED on digital 13, when there is a serial "1" recieved, the LED goes out when there is a "0" recieved.

            Arduino code:

            String readString;
            
            void setup() {
              pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
              Serial.begin(9600);
            }
             
            void loop() {
              while (Serial.available()) {
                delay(3);
                if (Serial.available() >0) {
                  char c = Serial.read();
                  readString += c;
                } 
              }
             
              if (readString.length() >0) {
                if (readString == "1") { digitalWrite(13, HIGH); }
                if (readString == "0") { digitalWrite(13, LOW); }
                readString = "";
              } 
            }
            

            Now...once programmed, create a sketchyphysics solid and paste this code in it:

            onstart{
              @serial = Serial.new('COM8', 9600)
            }
            
            onclick{
              @m = Sketchup.active_model.materials.add "My material"
              group.material = @m
              @m.color="Yellow"
            
              logLine("LED ON!")
              @serial.write('1')
            }
            
            onunclick{
              @m = Sketchup.active_model.materials.add "My material"
              group.material = @m
              @m.color="White"
            
              logLine("LED OFF!")
              @serial.write('0')
            }
            
            ontick{
              MSketchyPhysics3.closeControlPanel if frame == 1
            }
            
            onend{
              @serial.close
            }
            

            How does this work?
            When you run the script and click on the solid, the color will change to yellow and over the serial port a "1" will be send, de Arduino will recieve this "1" and will put on the LED light, when you release the mouse button, the model changes color back to white and a "0" will be sent, the Arduino recieves this and will put the LED light out!

            Have fun!

            Ps. Is there any code to read out a textbox or something (userinput possible?), where the user can specify the COMPORT and BAUDRATE?

            SU_14_15_Ruby Serial Sketchup Sketchyphysics screen.jpg

            I think i will start to create the 204/2015 walktrough soon!, this will be the banner for the
            projects:
            SketchyPhysics serial banner.jpg


            SU_14_15 - Ruby Serial SEND Example with Sketchup Sketchyphysics.skp

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              Bas9999
              last edited by 28 Mar 2015, 14:07

              Hi Anton_S

              *EDIT SOLVED!!! SEE BELOW

              Could you assist on this one?

              When for example i use a diffrent baudrate (on purpose) i still get this error:
              sp su15 serial recieve error baudrate.png

              The original code was:

              ontick{
                MSketchyPhysics3.closeControlPanel if frame == 1
                string_size = 1024
                $serialdata = eval(@serial.read(string_size))
              }
              

              I changed it to this, but that doesn't work:

              ontick{
                MSketchyPhysics3.closeControlPanel if frame == 1
                string_size = 1024
              
                begin
                  $serialdata = eval(@serial.read(string_size))
                rescue RubySerial;;Exception => e
                  @serial.close if @serial
                  MSketchyPhysics3;;SketchyPhysicsClient.physicsReset
                  UI.messagebox("ERROR!")
                end
              }
              

              How to catch this error?

              *EDIT SOLVED!!!
              I just changed the line to:

              $serialdata = @serial.read(string_size)
              

              so it's only:

              ontick{
                MSketchyPhysics3.closeControlPanel if frame == 1
                $serialdata = eval(@serial.read(1024))
              }
              
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                picpic020960
                last edited by 22 May 2015, 07:40

                Hello

                fine !

                but the link above is dead

                https://googledrive.com/host/0B3qg8f4WrNdHdHVyLVFuaHRjOTA/ffi%20+%20rubyserial.zip

                help and thanks

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                • A Offline
                  Anton_S
                  last edited by 22 May 2015, 22:40

                  Hello Bas9999,

                  I managed to tweak ffi and rubyserial (suggested by driven) into the plugins for SU. Download
                  https://googledrive.com/host/0B3qg8f4WrNdHdHVyLVFuaHRjOTA/ffi + rubyserial.zip
                  ffi + rubyserial.zip and extract into the plugins folder. It should work on Windows with SU2014 and SU2015. The advantage of it is that it doesn't require Python to run.

                  Here is RubySerial usage Wiki: https://github.com/hybridgroup/rubyserial
                  This is how I think your code should look like:

                  
                  onstart {
                    @serial = Serial.new('COM8', 9600)
                  }
                  
                  ontick {
                    string_size = 1024
                    $serialdata = eval( @serial.read(string_size) )
                  }
                  
                  onend {
                    @serial.close
                  }
                  
                  

                  Note: If particular serial port does not exist, an error will be raised causing simulation to reset.

                  If you want ffi and rubyserial to work with SU2013 and prior, you should upgrade SU ruby msvcrt to 1.8.6 or later. Do this by going to SketchUp Program Files, to the path of SketchUp.exe, and replace msvcrt-ruby18.dll with the new one, which can be downloaded [url=https://googledrive.com/host/0B3qg8f4WrNdHdHVyLVFuaHRjOTA/msvcrt-ruby18.zip:196vcuuf]here[/url:196vcuuf].

                  Tell me how it goes as I don't think I have any serial ports to test myself.

                  Anton

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                  • A Offline
                    Anton_S
                    last edited by 22 May 2015, 22:42

                    That's strange. For some reason SketchyUcation can't parse the url properly. Try using this unparsed link instead: https://googledrive.com/host/0B3qg8f4WrNdHdHVyLVFuaHRjOTA/ffi + rubyserial.zip

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                      picpic020960
                      last edited by 24 May 2015, 17:49

                      Thanks

                      the download is OK

                      but other pb : i want to test the bas9999 example but

                      it's SU2015 version.

                      On my Vista dsktop only SU2014 supported.

                      Can everybody downgrade bas9999 sketchup model file from SU2015 to SU2014

                      More thanks

                      NB : maybe the serial port work with ruby without SU-Physics ?

                       if yes , how to ?
                      
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                        TIG Moderator
                        last edited by 24 May 2015, 17:57

                        Here's a v2014 version SU_14_15 - Ruby Serial SEND Example with Sketchup Sketchyphysics[v2014].skp

                        TIG

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                          Anton_S
                          last edited by 24 May 2015, 18:18

                          @picpic020960 said:

                          NB : maybe the serial port work with ruby without SU-Physics ?
                          if yes , how to ?

                          Yes, Ruby Serial works without SketchyPhysics.

                          It's easy to use:

                          
                          # Require the library
                          require 'rubyserial'
                          
                          # Instantiate serial
                          my_serial = Serial.new(address, baude_rate = 9600, data_bits = 8)
                          
                          # Get data and do whatever you want with it
                          size = 1024
                          data = my_serial.read(size)
                          
                          # Set data
                          data = ""
                          my_serial.write(data)
                          
                          # Close serial once you're done using it
                          my_serial.close
                          my_serial = nil
                          
                          

                          See this link for more info: https://github.com/hybridgroup/rubyserial

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                            tomasz
                            last edited by 2 Jan 2020, 17:59

                            @anton_s said:

                            Yes, Ruby Serial works without SketchyPhysics.

                            I installed the 'rubyserial' gem, but the initialization of Serial.new("COM3")
                            crashes for me in SU2019 Win 10.

                            rubyserial-0.6.0.gem
                            ffi-1.11.3-x64-mingw32.gem

                            I will try to figure out why it does that.
                            Does anyone have had a success with 'rubyserial' in SU2019?

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                              tomasz
                              last edited by 2 Jan 2020, 18:42

                              I have found the answer. It is ffi gem crashing in Win10 in SU2017...18...19

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