Hi there,
thanks for this great plugin.
And sorry for reviving such an old topic but I figured out it won't work if you have some annotation in your model (took me some time to find this out).
The error occurs in copyEntities (around line 120 in the code) but I don't have the knowledge to modify the code to avoid such an unexpected behavior.
Maybe someone here could improve the code ?
Or at least point me on the good direction ?
Even if I know nothing about ruby coding...

Cheers and thanks for reading !

Hi there !
First of all thanks for making plugins.
Which version of SU is needed to run the plugin ?
Doesn't seem to work on SU Make 2015.

Cheers

"but at least SU could be used as the CAD modeller for GMSH?"
(from a previous post)

The "Meshkit" plugin from Peter V seems to do that.

Did someone try it ?
Because each time I launch SU (SU2015 Make or SU8) I have errors like "Error Loading File C:/Users/PC/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/pv_sketchytetgentools/pv_sketchytetgentools_class_loader.rbe"
etc.

I haven't found any information about this plugin on the forum.
So I post here and hope someone might help with my installation problem.

Cheers.

TIG,
I didn't realized it was such an old plugin.
So sorry if I revived this old post.

I typed the command exactly like you did but as you said it probably fails before it completes.
So I think it's important to tell people not to try it on an important scene that cost days of work at first.

Anyway it's finally your export_by_layer plugin (probably another old one) that I'm more interested in, because it can export in separate files in just one go. And as far as I know the other export plugins don't have the option to export groups or components in separated files without exporting them one by one.
I have a scene with 330 components that must become 330 DXFs.
And I won't click on each of them, launch an exporter, give each file a name, etc. It would take me a all day!
So I will keep on using export_by_layer (sorry to post that here but I'm not going to revive the other thread too...) until I find another way to perform this task.
If it doesn't work as expected with SU2015, I will use it on an old SU2008 version.

Thanks for your efforts, patience and explanations TIG.
All the best.

Hi TIG,
I'm not sure I understand well.
Should the command be something like "export_selection ('dae') output.dae" ?
Because this doesn't work.

I'm typing "export_selection ('dae')" but the file it produces is a SKP (2014).
So even renaming it with a DAE extension afterward won't work.

One other remark :
everything except the selection is deleted. And the original SKP file seems to be saved that way.
So without working on a copy of the original SKP file, all that was outside of the selection is definitely lost. Hopefully I tested it on a test file and not on a file with important work in it.

Tested on SU Make 2015.

Cheers.

"Some formats - like DXF - are limited to Pro users only..."

Sounds fair.

"The common format 'Collada / DAE' should export OK..."

Yes i was able to export with 'dae' type.
But it created a file with the 'skp' extension.

Thanks for your fast answer.
Regarding the second question, do you know any way I could export all my groups/components in separate files ?
I was thinking at trying "component2layer.rb" + "export_by_layer.rb" but ATM I don't see how to use the 1st one. Waiting for an answer from its author.

Thanks again TIG.

Edited :
Using "component2layer.rb" + "export_by_layer.rb" works fine.
But as I don't own a SU Pro licence, I can only export to DAE...
But for those who would like to export each component as a separate file, this is a workaround.

Hi TIG,
I've tried the plugin but wasn't able to export to DXF neither DAE.
Do I need to have SU Pro to be able to export something with this plugin ?

And just another question...
Let's say I have N groups (or components) in my active selection.
Will the plugin export N files (of the type specified) ?
If not, do you know a plugin that could export all groups or components in a selection as separate DXF files ? The name of each DXF being the name of the group or component that it contains.

Anyway thanks for making plugins.
And I'm gonna try this one again (last try did generate a bug splat).

Cheers.

Great plugin TIG, thanks !
I've done a lot of tests and it took me a while to understand how to generate exactly the number of slices I needed (by leaving the spaces value at zero at first and choosing number of spaces afterward)
The only thing I can't figure out so far is how to NOT generate start and end slices.
Tried negative value for offset without success.
What should the settings look like to generate just a central slice ?
For example to generate just one central slice in X and one in Y (resulting in a 2 pieces X shaped object when seen from above).

Is this possible with the actual version ?

Cheers !

Great plugin thanks TIG!

But why not let the user choose his own projection axis instead of only using Z down ?
It would make the plug even more useful if you don't have to rotate the target group as intended before to use it.

Cheers!

@box said:

I don't know if it's still relevant, but I just wanted to point out that you can superdrape edges.

Yes I know but with my previous try it didn't work I don't know why.
@TIG : it's not of question of scale, the objects are several meters.
It might be because my honey comb was not perfectly lying on a plane. I figured that later...
I've done another try and it works fine.

It's a good plugin, bravo !