Exactly what I was looking for. Many thanks

And if you forget the "4" in the beginning you have to both press "4" and "S" later. Two key presses and you'll be dead!

@bob james said:

Title says it all: Fredo Tools Launcher window is too small. Arrowing down does not make the list move.
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There seems to have problems with the Webdialog dimensioning.
Most probably you have set up your browsers with medium fonts.
I'll try to have a look and fix that.

At least can you navigate with the arrows?

Fredo

As Jim says - these folder-paths setup the starting folder presented to you in the 'Save' dialogs when you save/export one of those types - e.g. Component > Save... should start in your specified Dropbox folder...
SketchUp will always include the default Components folder's contents in the Components-Browser dialog.
You can add additional folders to your listed Components setup...
These should be remembered across sessions ?

there are several threads on this issue now and i just realized i never posted my solution to using dropbox as a source for plugins to enable synchronization between multiple machines.

i have it listed in detail here:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=58948%26amp;p=569678#p569678

Great!

Alas, when trying to set up my cloud I get
sync.PNG
I have encountered no place where it gives me the opportunity to do that??

Also, when I open http://cloud.sketchucation.com/ there are no plugins in the folder

Finally: when I click on "Open my http://cloud.sketchucation.com, I get
Substance.PNG

I tried disabling my ...sketchucloud/plugins folder and re-enabling, but that did not change anything.

😳 Help

Thanks.

wikii's combin gizmo has to be my favorite of any 3d modeling program - it's very clever - too bad no imperial 😢

Bummer.
Thanks, Rich.

The grey buildings kind of ruin the illusion. But it's looking very real... I might suggest some more darkened car colors. You don't see many orange cars. Great job though... The view and the scaling and the textures... very nice.

@sdmitch said:

Bob, I started working on something like this last October.

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=48176&p=432239&hilit=handrail#p432239

I see if I can adapt it to your specs.

could you please enable (in your following plugin) the following behavior for vertical elements:

obligatorily: posts in the corners; the gaps between vertical elements (placed evenly between corner posts) have the value which is closest to defined by user <= in accordance to local regulations
?

Those tools may well add 'observers' onto your Model's Materials collection, which in turn might well mess you up as you add materials... However, they are mainly encrypted, and I don't have a 'live' copy of them either, so I can't be certain...

If you narrow it down to the one culprit, or you decide its an interaction of say the two, then it would be helpful to the wider community if you advise the author[s] directly - they might be able to make their tool less 'aggressive' with some simple recoding...
😕

Hi Bob,

In this topic I collected (and have now updated) some of the icons: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=6236#p6236

Some I have to figure out myself (Rich made them instead of the forum template icons which did not say too much either at the first sight).

@martink said:

I think it's this one: ModelFunction
http://modelfunction.com/

Yes, that's the one. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be available anymore. At least it describes more fully what it does (did).
Thank you for finding it 👍

@tig said:

So ensure it's in there and not in the Plugins folder on its own - when it'll try to autoload !

examplescripts.rb was also in the plugins folder 😳
Thank you, TIG.

Hi. Your post reminded me of a similar question I was going to ask here a while ago, but I never got around to asking.
Today I went looking for and found the Plugin that I was going to ask about, thanks to your post...
Component Spray:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=33908

I know I used it to make a model that needed evenly spaced columns arrayed along a path... but I'm not sure if it was an easy workflow...
If you go to this page, down to plot-paris's post with the image showing column placement you can see what I mean:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=11746

Hope this of some use... good luck.

@tig said:

If it is indeed the 'CW15Auto.dll' file that is somehow corrupted/infected - as Csaba's link [finally] suggests - then I don't know how you go about fixing it...

That thread does not suggest this... most of the people posting in that thread are "grasping at straws". This 'CW15Auto.dll' file, is specific to the OP's application, called "SONAR".

The one guy that KNOWS what is going on... it seems, cannot be understood by most of the other readers and posters.

The issue is that the MSVC 2005 runtime redistributable needs to be updated by the SketchUp installer, but the original msi installer packages have been removed (deleted by the user.) The originals must be there so that they can first do an uninstall, before the newer version can do it's install.

It's a major headache, I have first-hand experience with, because I did not think I needed the MSVC msi packages anylonger, and manually deleted (what I thought were temporary installer folders,) in the root directory of my drive.

Now I cannot update (or actually uninstall,) any of the Visual Studio Languages.

I either need to wipe the drive, and re-install everything... or spend a day or two, manually cleaning up files and the registry, to put the machine back into a pre-install state. (Or.. I may try what this post suggests... manually re-creating the installer directory and copying a good msi file from my mother's XP machine.)

@wyatt
Thanks for the "clue" -
@unknownuser said:

Have you checked Program Files/.../Sketchup/Tools/Sandbox folder?

I'm using symbolic links for plugins, tools, materials and components and somehow I hadn't updated the tools link.

Thanks again for your help 👍

@michaelv said:

Bob,
Let me ask you this: What is it you're trying to design? And how you came about having the field of points (rather than the shape)?

I ask because I'm currently working on a plugin that creates a curve from a set of points (although not cpoints but a list of x,y coordinates) and then generates a solid from a series, much similar to what you're trying to accomplish.
I don't have a set of drawn points to start from but rather a list of adimensional x,y coordinates (multiply by a scale factor or dimension to get the result), like a spreadsheet.

Depending on what it is you're doing and what you have to start with, it may be an interesting option for me to consider in my tool. In any case I may think of how I may modify it to do what you need (the whole shape) if it's possible.

If you have a list of coordinates (file), it shouldn't be too hard for me to create the tool that will make a mesh/surface out of it, as I will need such a tool in my plugin, so it's part of writing it. All it would need is a bit of input change.
If you only have construction points, then it will need to extract coordinates from the selection. I guess Sam's tool does that inherently, and might be able (if not already) generate an array of coordinates. I didn't look at the tool yet.

I am interested in the tool you are developing. I am working on modeling chromosome ends on a sphere. I have been modeling chromosome ends on the surface of a sphere using Buckyball in SketchUp8. The sphere is rotated/orbited so that one gets different projections of the labels that approximate the distribution of chromosomes in actual cellular spreads (the various polygons are numbered for ease of identification). (I can send images of the spheres and models if youlike but I can't past them)

My questions:

How can I get the coordinates (2D or 3D) of the different labels (chromosomes ends) in each of the projections I notice that there is “wobble” or discrepancy between the assigned positions of the label (i.e. to specific pentagons or hexagons it was originally assigned to) and the location it appears at in the projected sphere. Is it possible to increase the fidelity or decrease the variation between the assigned and apparent location? When I export different projections (of the same sphere), i.e. those rotated to give different chromosome distributions, I get identical sets of data. The file is huge. I take it SU gives the coordinates (?) of all points in the model, and it matters not what orientation or rotation is current. Is that the right understanding? Is there a way of simplifying the data points so that only the coordinates of the labels are retained?

Here are X,Y coordinates of one chromosome spread. Perhaps you can have a creative approach to plotting these points on a sphere:

Chrom X Y

1Ap 4.3 0.3
1Aq 3.0 9.0

1Bp 2.5 1.4
1Bq 0.4 2.9

2Ap 9.7 2.7
2Aq 8.2 9.3

2Bp 6.9 3.7
2Bq 0.2 5.5

Xp 8.2, 4.6
Xq 0.6 7.7

Y1p 7.4 1.4
Y1q 11.8 4.4

Y2p 7.7 3.2
Y2q 8.6 2.2

m,any thanks,
BL
blibbus@gmail.com