[Plugin] Roof.rb
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@shelton mendes said:
Hello I am Brazilian, and I'm kind of new here!
I was wondering how good to install roof.rb with details?
sketchup is my version 8
plugns already put in the folder and nothing happened qunado opened the sketchup8
I could only install v-ray!
can someone help me?
Shelton - please complete your User Profile, so we know about your OS etc...Installing this tool is much easier than most...
The .rb file goes into the Plugins folder.
The 'help' files need to be installed separately - they need to be extracted from the ZIP and these too go into the Plugins folder.
After a restart the 'Roof' toolset should appear in the Plugins menu under a submenu called 'Roof...' containing various roof tools, the Help files will not open if you have not installed the 'help' files.
The 'Help' contains detailed explanations of how to use each of the tools...
These can also be opened independently outside Sketchup...If you are having problems with installing tools then why not get thomthom's 'Simple-Plugins-Installer' - it's available to download from the SCF 'Plugins Index' [via the Resources menu item above].
His tool comes as a RBZ archive and is installed using the v8 Preferences > Extensions > Install... button. Thereafter it appears in the Plugins menu and can be used to auto-install tools or toolset in RB/RBS/ZIP and RBZ formats... So for example with the Roof tool you get the RB and install that, then the ZIP of help files and install that... Thereafter the Roof tools should appear under the Plugins menu submenu list... -
Thanks For the new update much appreciated
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Hi!
Yes - it is a great plugin. But...Can you imagine, what kind of error I'm producing with the Roof-Plugin here?
- On the first shape it worked fine (so you can see...) (Pic 1)
- When I want to use it on the second shape, all I get is a Bugsplat
(Pic 2)
Do you need the Buglog of SketchUp? (I can't read the .dmp-file...)
FYI: I'm using SU 2013 Pro (V 13.0.4124) and Roof 3.7 just new downloaded.
Thanks a lot!
Robert
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Delete the face and recreate it by drawing over the8 edges in a clockwise direction.
The face will reform try re-roofing...Also try reversing the face.
Or copying it above, group it, delete the original, move the face-group over the original location and explode it, this can fix edge weirdnesses... -
@tig said:
Delete the face and recreate it by drawing over the8 edges in a clockwise direction.
The face will reform try re-roofing...Thanks for the hint.
Doesn't work either - unfortunately.I've deleted the face. By drawing the first edge, it reappeared - grrr.
So, I've copied it (z more than 0, I've learned above
) and drawn the eddes by reference lines. Deleted the face and the edges and drawn it all clockwise.
Bugsplat again.Ha!!! There it was: Before I used the plugin, I turned the face correctly. Without turning it (the backside above) it works!
So long
Robert -
it's nice plugin and work as well in sketchup pro 2014 thanks TIG
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Very great tool, thanks a lot!
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hipped does not seem to work in SU2015 is this correct for anyone else???? -
It should work in all versions...
I'll double-check...
Did you install the latest version from the PluginStore ?
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=Roof -
It worked for me in SU2015.
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thanks for the input, i have removed it and reloaded it a couple of times it seamed to clash with onion dome which also did not work removing onion dome and reinstalling roof ----------- now works
thankyou
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Hi,
I just installed the latest version.
I made a simple rectangle. Selected the face.
Went to Plugins>Roof>Hip
no matter what combination of parameters I use I get a message saying:
"Hipped Roof Error.
It was not possible to make a single pitch hipped roof from this face."What could be the problem.
Using SketchUp 8 Pro, Windows 8.1
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@huckrorick said:
Hi,
I just installed the latest version.
I made a simple rectangle. Selected the face.
Went to Plugins>Roof>Hip
no matter what combination of parameters I use I get a message saying:
"Hipped Roof Error.
It was not possible to make a single pitch hipped roof from this face."What could be the problem.
Using SketchUp 8 Pro, Windows 8.1
just guessing here... broken edges? are you lines complete and unbroken?
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Just Push Pull your surface (even 1 mm), select the top one then call the plug!
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As Pilou says, the roof face's plane must be 'flat', BUT it CANNOT be at z=0.
BUT this might not be the issue...
It is quite possible to make a face-shape that can't be used to make a properly resolved hipped roof - at least one with all faces at the same angle as needed by 'Roof' - e.g. a cranked star...
Try making the roof manually - it's not possible to 'hip-roof' some such forms unless you make some roof-faces slope at different angles...Also sometimes a face's edge-order get 'jumbled' - the solution is then to select the face, group it and then explode it immediately, this often fixes the data-base jumble as the merged face/edges are properly ordered.
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Hi to all,
First of all, thanks to everyone in the Sketchup community, I'm new to it and I discover really fair people. Now to TIG, thank you for this great plugin, really powerful, a masterpiece ! A free masterpiece !
Unfortunately I'm too young here to send MPs so my request will be public.
Actually I have to teach Sketchup and I would like to put the "roof" plugin into the process. Issue : I'm french and not everyone understand english (especially technical terms), is it possible to get the "unscrambled" version so I can traduce it in french ? If it's possible I would be pleased to upload it here with your agreement.
Thank you in advance.
Larry -
It's not a 'scrambled' file
If you download the RBZ archive from http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=Roof
and change the file-ending to .zip you can then extract its contents, which is this RBZ is just a single .rb file.
You can then open that file in 'Notepad' on PC ['Notepad++' recommended] or 'TextWrangler' on MAC.
Edit it as you wish.
Translating English strings to French.
If you use 'Notepad++' the text-strings [which occur in between ' ' or " "] they are colored clearly so you can see them.
These occur in .menu, .statusbar and .messagebox methods...
Good luck...Please don't publish the changed .rb outside of your immediate FR 'circle', without more discussions with me...
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Oh right. I did that but for some reasons I though it was uneditable... I think I'm a bit slow..!
Thank you very much for your response and advices
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Hello,
Is anyone having problems using "roof" in 2017 pro ?
I get this in the ruby console (for a hipped roof) :
[it works fine in 2016 pro]Error: #<TypeError: reference to deleted Face>
C:/Users/apache3/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Plugins/Roof.rb:287:inouter_loop' C:/Users/apache3/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Plugins/Roof.rb:287:inhip'
C:/Users/apache3/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Plugins/Roof.v4.rb:4088:inblock in <top (required)>' SketchUp:1:incall' -
It currently does not work in v2017 because of the way they changed how SketchUp references/IDs exploded entities.
It was reported in a separate post just before Xmas, it's on my list of things to fix...
Meanwhile you can still use it in v2016 and import the roof geometry into a v2017 model
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