Topics created by Didier Bur

Thanks a million TIG 👍

If you look back through the last few posts you can see that this extension hasn't worked in newer versions of SketchUp for a number of years. At this point it doesn't seem like that's going to change. I don't know what Didier has in mind but for now I would uninstall this and look for some alternative.

Ditto for the 20 years ago sentiment. I downloaded it a few months ago to try it again, but I still wind up with that "early 90s" look to a render - pretty cheesy. I guess I don't know how to make it work right yet.

Yeah, I started programming from the command line a long time ago. Folks since those days have gotten used to "point n click" interfaces ... 😄

BTW, POVray for Windows does have a nice IDE with integrated help, etc. It's even possible to add custom libraries and code for insertion into your .pov files... It's a bit advanced but a great time saver.

Cheers.

@thomthom: correct, I need the names for another purpose, along with the associated definition. (su2pov)

@Dan: - I didn't even know that an image could have no name... How can this occur (each image has a path (with a file name at the end) ❓ image.path=nil occured only one time with an old model and I cannot reproduce this, so I think I made an error whan typing code in the console or something like that...
- tw exports at the original format.

Tom,

I just say that the strings are just flattened when writing to the lang file and encoded when reading.

Anyway, I wrote this package a while ago, when I was not sure about Ruby and SU API. I would probably do differently today, simpler, because many features are not really used (like the cascading language, allowing to see strings say in Portuguese first, then German, then English, if any of them is missing.

Fredo

Perhaps the LAS file is not encoded as UTF-8 ?
Can you open it in a plain-text editor, like TextWrangler, and reset its text-encoding to that, re-save it and try again ?

Or attach the LAS file to a post [as a ZIP] so that we can look at it...

Cool, thanks a million 😍

Hi

@unknownuser said:

Is there a way to get a list of all plugins?

I'll try to provide that soon.
EDIT 2010.06.15: done.

@unknownuser said:

would have been nice if it redirected instead if producing 404

ht_access only redirects old bookmarks that were pointing to main pages... 😳
regards,

Me stupid 😳

FYI, there is a newer STL import/export project, open sourced by the SketchUp team over at: https://github.com/SketchUp/sketchup-stl

I know it's not being updated anymore, but has anyone tried it with SketchupMake2017? I could really use a tool like this right now, but when I use this one to create a RAW file, the uploader tells me "There was an IO Exception loading your terrain. Please check free space." The server log for the application: "[TERRAIN]: Error Saving a terrain file uploaded via the estate tools. It gave us the following error: System.IO.EndOfStreamException: Unable to read beyond the end of the stream." Is there another way to export mesh as a RAW file?

Extremely useful extension, THANK YOU.

For the next update, please have a look at the Show/Isolate/Hide... layer-by-Filter. I have "Existing filters:' from prior actions but when selection one of them from the drop-down box, it doesn't populate the "Filter string to * layers" entry at the bottom of the window. I have to re-type the filter string each time. Can't use the prior Existing filters.

I'm using SketchUp Make 2016 for compatibility with my PCs.

Thanks.

Hello,
I know it's an old plugin and "long no touch", since the last update was a few years ago. It worked perfectly till SketchUp 2020, but in 2021 I can see none of Projections' commands on the list in shortcut preferences. All tools work fine from the toolbar, but I cannot assign any hotkey, due to lack of records in preferences.

@dan rathbun said:

So... what happens if you wrap the very long string inside

=begin

=end

The same, .rbs fails.
Thank you Dan for your advice.
Really I don't look for a solution.
I only want to advert others about this. It's difficult to debug this error.
Yesterday I scrambled the code but it didn't work. It was difficult to find out why. After a long time I discovered that by mistake I put a comment too long in same line and that was the reason.

@jim said:

Does there exist some sort of .zip installer?

As I recall, WinZip could create self-extracing archives (.exe extension,) with a 'suggested destination folder'. When run, a confirm dialog popus up, allowing the user to override with a browse button, or simply edit the destination path in the edit control box.
Still in use today, but I believe is a pay WinZip Pro version that only will do this.

Cabinet files (.CAB) are free and native to Windows, I believe at least the extract exe is installed on all Win32 machines; the cab maker (filename slips my mind,) is in the SupportTools package. BTW, MSIs use cab by default I believe.

Thanks all for yur help.
I have encountered very weird things with this 'bug', like: create a new empty group, put a face in it, pushpull the face, and list all the entities of the group. I got several faces and a component instance 😲 .

@unknownuser said:

I think the secret is to make the empty new group AND put something into its entities asap.

Yes, I've tried that too, it works most of the time but not 100% 😠
Pfff, I'll let you know if I find a way to eradicate this bug.
Thank you,

Didier,

Gentil d'avoir pensé à moi, mais j'avoue ne pas avoir le temps en ce moment ni la compétence pédagogique.
En tous cas, il est interessant de savoir que des utilisateurs cherchent à se former à Ruby Sketchup.

Fredo

Having a hard time now. Rarely is anything being sprayed, no matter the setting. No groups or components on the receiving end.

FloatDomainError?

component spray fail-1.JPG

here is how you do it using TBD's bridge sollution http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=169&t=6903#p137855