[Plugin] HouseBuilder metric 1.2

Didier Bur

A new version of this must-have developed by Steve Hurlbutt (and me for the toolbar, estimates, metric versions).
Enjoy !

Thread: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=1735

A new set of PNG icons made starting from an OK running template. They should display OK on any platform, or I am going crazy...

HouseBuilderTool.rb

HouseBuilder_metric_1[1].2.zip

hb_icons.zip

juju

Real sweet, thx Didier!

kmead

I have run into a bit of a problem:

Error Loading File HouseBuilder_extension.rb
private method `split' called for nil:NilClass

I run on Mac OSX so that may be some part of the issue. Is there something else I should have loaded?

[kmead]

samtsham

Same here:

@kmead said:

I have run into a bit of a problem:
Error Loading File HouseBuilder_extension.rb
private method `split' called for nil:NilClass

Also on a Mac, and can also not get many other scripts to display (see separate post in Ruby-board).

Any other Mac-users lucky with this one? Thanks ...

SAM from Vienna.

[samtsham]

Didier Bur

Hi,
I think it's a path problem. To locate the Housebuilder path on your system, it first tries to locate where SU is installed, then it goes to the plugins folder, then to the Housebuilder folder, to read the sections text file.

su_path = Sketchup.find_support_file("Sketchup.exe").split("Sketchup.exe")[0]

This is the offending line of the script, because I suppose there's no ".exe" file on a Mac, right ?
Please tell me where SU is installed by default on a Mac system and I'll try to solve this issue.
Regards,

Haggai

I just wanted to now if there is in view the possility to do angle walls ( not only 90 degres)?
I really like the ruby. it is very easy to use even my boy ten is builden an amazing house with it. I just see how everything is increasing so fast with all the rubys, that is why i am asking, maybe also curved walls?

thank for all the work you are doing for the Sketchup Community I have been looking here and there for a while now and I appreciate all that has been done.

Merci beaucoup

[Haggai]

Francois

@didier bur said:

Hi,
I think it's a path problem. To locate the Housebuilder path on your system, it first tries to locate where SU is installed, then it goes to the plugins folder, then to the Housebuilder folder, to read the sections text file.

su_path = Sketchup.find_support_file("Sketchup.exe").split("Sketchup.exe")[0]

This is the offending line of the script, because I suppose there's no ".exe" file on a Mac, right ?
Please tell me where SU is installed by default on a Mac system and I'll try to solve this issue.
Regards,

Didier,
I also have the same error message with HB metric 1.2 (on a Mac). But if this can help, HB metric v1.1 is working correctly for me. So, normally, the path used for 1.1 should work with 1.2
Otherwise, I think the default location for SU is /Applications/Google Sketchup 6/ and the name is SketchUp.app

Regards

John Sayers

Didier - as I've said before Housebuilder is a great resource.

Unfortunately I have a problem with the new metric version. I work in both imperial and in metric depending on the client's format. I installed the metric and it works for metric, but won't work in imperial so I've uninstalled it and gone back to the imperial version because it did work in metric.

Is it possible to have both in one program with a selection between the two systems??

cheers
john

Didier Bur

Hi John,
I will rework the script when back from holidays !
Regards,

John Sayers

Thanks mate - I'd really appreciate that. It's the best Ruby script of all.

BTW - I'm still confused between Header Height and Door Height in the door script. Surely they are the same thing.

cheers
john

AcesHigh

Didier, seeing you are from France, I have two questions:

1- you did make the feet/inches version before the metric one????

2 - the house builder tool is mostly useful to these woodframe houses which are most common in US/Canada. In France most houses use bricks, dont they?

[AcesHigh]

TIG

@aceshigh said:

Didier, seeing you are from France, I have two questions:

1- you did make the feet/inches version before the metric one????

2 - the house builder tool is mostly useful to these wood-frame houses which are most common in US/Canada. In France most houses use bricks, don't they?

The House Builder tool set was developed a couple of years ago by Steve Hurlbut in the US - it was in '&", BUT Didier metricated it more recently... It meant changing all of the timber sizes, dialogs and so on so it took a while.

Didier Bur

Hi,
TIG is right, and as I said at the top of this thread: "this must-have developed by Steve Hurlbutt (and me for the toolbar, estimates, metric versions)".
That's why it has been developed in feets first.

@unknownuser said:

In France most houses use bricks, dont they?

Yes and no, it depends where the house is: bricks in the North, natural stone almost everywhere, concrete and concrete blocks in suburban areas, wood in the south-west and in all mountainous areas.
Regards,

AcesHigh

thanks.

Living in Brazil, where woodframe is almost non-existant, I use only the roof function of it, since many roofs from brick/concrete houses are done with wood frame/trussers, whatever

[AcesHigh]

aadbuild

Hi all, I have been following the thread with house builder and I am having problems loading house builder as well. I am using a P.C and I have dropped house builder in the plugins folder and when I start Sketchup I come up with the following message:
No such file to load -- HouseBuilder/HouseBuilderTool.rbError Loading File HouseBuilder_extension.rb
(eval):36:in `readlines': No such file or directory - C:/Program Files/Google/Sketchup 6/Plugins\HouseBuilder\housebuilder_sections.txt
I have tried sevral variations but I have had no luck. Is there any one who could steer me in the right direction. I am looking forward to see what house builder can do. Your help will be much appreciated.

Didier Bur

Hi,
if you have correctly unzipped the package in your Plugins folder, there should'nt be any problem.
Check that you have:

HouseBuilder_extension.rb in your Plugins folder
a sub-folder named "HouseBuilder" with 2 other .rb files in it and a lot of png's and gif's as well. A .txt file is also there, with the wood sections listed in it.

Read the readme.txt file for further details.

abumail

Dera Didier,
Your Script is very useful and funny,
I have a doubt about the timber (beam) on top of the windows and door.
If i put door or windows it's result vertical, Shouldn't be horizontal?
Thank you in advance for your kind attention,
Giovanni

Anssi

Giovanni,

I think it is a matter of both local convention and structural strength. When I was taught about framing (half a zillion years ago) I was told to put the beam vertically. So from my point of view this should be correct.

Anssi

Didier Bur

I agree with Anssi.
But I want also say that it is NOT my script. The original was coded by S. Hurlbutt, I only tweaked it to metric units and parametric sections...

dayakar78mac.com

@didier bur said:

Hi,
if you have correctly unzipped the package in your Plugins folder, there should'nt be any problem.
Check that you have:

HouseBuilder_extension.rb in your Plugins folder

a sub-folder named "HouseBuilder" with 2 other .rb files in it and a lot of png's and gif's as well. A .txt file is also there, with the wood sections listed in it.

Read the readme.txt file for further details.

Hi Didier,

I have unzipped HouseBuilder_metric_12.zip in the Plugins folder. The HouseBuilder_extension.rb and sub-folder "HouseBuilder" are there as described by you. When I launch SketchUp, I still get the following error.

"Error Loading File HouseBuilder_extension.rb private method split called for nil:NilClass"

Could you please advice me to resolve this issue.

I am using SketchUp Pro v6.0 on iMac, Mac os x 10.5.4.

Thanks,
Dayakar

Error Loading file