@pilou said:

You have some basic pdf here! (and you are lucky in English )

I mean, yes, the instructions are good. The usage of this plugin is well documented.
What I wanted to say is, there are lots of valuable tools spread across forums and hidden in the darkness of the internet that could make work so much easier for many people, and there's no unique place to store them and keep them organized, with proper files kept in the way they are easy to find. You really have to dig deep sometimes, or just luckily stumble upon some gem (as I did yesterday). In this competition I find Blender and its addons better organized than SketchUp. But it's just my impressions and thoughts, and maybe I'm just polluting this thread

Oh my, it finally works!
I wish these old sketchup gems were a bit better documented. It's a wasted potential lying in these little scripts that most people are not even aware of, or they are not determined enough to dig and ask others for help to barely launch them.
Thank you, Pilou, a lot for your help!

@pilou said:

Why you don't want Install the free 2017 Make ?
Because I don't believe that plugin is follow-up by their creators.

Ok, I installed SU Make 2017 and Ferrari. I get this error at SketchUp launch:

Error: C:/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Plugins/FerrariSketch/FerrariSketchmenus.rb:3:in eval' C:/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Plugins/FerrariSketch/FerrariSketchmenus.rb:3:in require'
C:/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Plugins/FerrariSketch/FerrariSketchmenus.rb:3:in <top (required)>' C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2017/Tools/extensions.rb:197:in require'
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2017/Tools/extensions.rb:197:in load' C:/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Plugins/FerrariSketch.rb:17:in register_extension'
C:/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Plugins/FerrariSketch.rb:17:in `<top (required)>'

Nothing happens when I select a welded outline and try to create a structure

Rather not.
But try contacting the developer, maybe they will help you. And let us know if you find something out:
https://www.sergeferrari.com/

Hi,
It's been a minute, I know, but I still have the Move2Elev plugin if you want to give it a try. But I believe there are many other plugins that can be used instead. Perhaps vertex tools or something with "align" in name. I don't remember exactly how this one works.
Here it is:

[mod=:1ve79dnz]File removed. because the author hasn't authorized redistribution.[/mod:1ve79dnz]

Yes, I know it's old. Just wanted to give it a chance hoping it would work.

TIG, I use all the plugins you pointed, but Ferrari looks so cool that I'll use the old SketchUp just for it. I think it's worth it.

Hi,
I installed Ferrari on SketchUp 2020 and it gets me an error at SketchUp lauchup:

Error: #<SyntaxError: c:/users/user/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2020/sketchup/plugins/ferrarisketch/ferrarisketchcode.rbs:335: syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER, expecting ']'
g = [Geom::Point3d.new 0, 0, 0]
^
c:/users/user/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2020/sketchup/plugins/ferrarisketch/ferrarisketchcode.rbs:752: invalid multibyte char (UTF-8)
c:/users/user/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2020/sketchup/plugins/ferrarisketch/ferrarisketchcode.rbs:879: invalid multibyte char (UTF-8)>
C:/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/SketchUp/Plugins/FerrariSketch/FerrariSketchmenus.rb:3:in eval' C:/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/SketchUp/Plugins/FerrariSketch/FerrariSketchmenus.rb:3:in require'
C:/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/SketchUp/Plugins/FerrariSketch/FerrariSketchmenus.rb:3:in <top (required)>' C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/Tools/extensions.rb:197:in require'
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/Tools/extensions.rb:197:in load' C:/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/SketchUp/Plugins/FerrariSketch.rb:17:in register_extension'
C:/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/SketchUp/Plugins/FerrariSketch.rb:17:in `<top (required)>'

The Ferrari toolbar appears in the UI but if I select some edge loops to try to create a tensile structure, nothing happens.
Can someone help me, please?

Hi,
I have a little suggestion.
Currently the color live mesh analysis uses real sketchup materials and thus is destrudtive. Any materials that were already applied to faces, get wiped away. I don't think there is any way to restore them. Is there?
So I was thinking,
Maybe this tool could work non-destructively, by overlaying the topology-indicating colors on top of the screen, instead of painting faces. This would protect any materials that are already applied to faces. That would be a much welcome change.

I've got one more feature suggestion.
Merge close vertices "through groups", so if many groups/ components are selected, instead of raw geometry, vertice merge can also be performed. Currently it seems that we can only work on raw geometry. Merging vertices is sometimes a crucial fixing/ optimization algorithm and it's good if it can process many objects at once.

I recently worked with a model - bunch of people, hundreds of thousands of faces altogether and it got imported so bad that every single face was separate, can you imagine that... I mean, I know you can. I worked around by exploding all the groups, merging the vertices and regrouping with "Loose to groups" plugin, but I would rather not repeat that in SketchUp anymore...

Hello,
I have an idea - it would be very handy to have an axis snapping feature based on keyboard arrows, similar to the one in the native line tool.
The exact behaviour I have in mind is:

1. Activate the tool,
2. Pick first point,
3. hit one of the keyboard arrows while guiding a "virtual line" to lock direction: X, Y or Z,
4. possibly repeat for the second line, so the two lines will quickly form one of the main planes: XY, XZ or YZ. Alternatively, only one line could be locked to a main axis, and the other would be drawn freely.

Sure, there is axis snapping for this tool already, and it works well. Though, in some situations using arrows to instantly snap the "virtual line" to axes would benefit for working speed.

It's just a suggestion, if you have time and will to further develop this tool

Hello Thom Thom,
Sorry I am responding back to your post so late, but lately I was the one to have rather hard (busy) time

You asked me to specify exactly what I meant by that request:

"bevel vertices with more segments (like Fredo Corner, but Fredo Corner doesn't work with flat faces)"

My suggestion was to enable not only bevelling vertices but also rounding them. So let's say bevelling means that you add one edge at a vertex between two existing edges and rounding means that you add more edges and create an arc between them. Like in Blender - you bevel a vertex and use mouse scroll to add more segments. This is the feature I pursue. There are several corner-rounding tools for SketchUp but none of them allows manipulating vertices directly, like your plugin does. That's why I believe my suggestion makes sense

I can see there is a new version. What has changed? There is no changelog.

The instruction PDF is not very clear at the beginning. It says:
"Licensed extensions have a License... menu."
but it's not explained where the menu is. I finally figured out that I have to go to Tools > Fredo6 Collection > Fredo Corner (or other plugin) > License, but this could be stated in the doc. That's my little suggestion.

Hello!

Just wanted to say how nice this plugin is when I use imported gradient textures that need to blend smooth with SketchUp "vanilla" colours.
Here you can see screenshots taken straight from SketchUp viewport with Color Flat Mode versus SketchUp default shading.
With the default shading it's impossible to achieve proper blending.

Thank you!

Hi,
I was thinking of how to achieve controlled one-axis scale with vertex tools 2.
As far as I know, we currently have two methods of scaling, each having its limitations:

• the "gizmo scale" where we can scale vertices in one axis (non-uniform scale) but cannot choose to scale origin - it is arbitrary set to center of selection,
• the scale tool available from toolbar icon, where we can scale with more precision: pick scaling origin, then source and target position. Very handy, but only lets us do uniform scale.
  It would be very cool to combine advantages of both methods and have a precise, non-uniform scaling tool with soft selection.

PS Still looking forward to custom falloff and more falloff preset (à la Blender proportional editing)

PS 2 From time to time I get a message that my VT2 licence is invalid, then I have to type my key again. It is not a big issue as it happened a few times this year (firstly with VT, now with VT 2), but I thought I would mention it.

That's weird. I actually did a cleanup using ThomThom's plugin and JPP first threw an error. Then did a cleanup again and JPP worked fine.
I don't know why it happened but sorry for bothering you.

Then would it be possible for the plugin to skip the ill-formed faces, leave them unextruded and proceed?
Ok, some of the faces are broken but most of them are OK. Why break entire operation due to a few wicked faces?

Hello,
I got an error with joint push pull extrusion in SketchUp 2020.

Date: 10-Jan-21 15:59:27
An error occurred in Joint Push Pull
Error in generation of the geometry

undefined method `target' for nil:NilClass

jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 447 -- block in geometry_create_top_face
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 445 -- collect
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 445 -- geometry_create_top_face
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 258 -- block in geometry_robot_prepare_mesh
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 257 -- each
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 257 -- each_with_index
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 257 -- geometry_robot_prepare_mesh
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 212 -- robot_call_action
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 183 -- geometry_robot_exec
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 166 -- geometry_robot
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 81 -- block in geometry_execute
lib6operation.rbe: 369 -- step_geometry
lib6operation.rbe: 304 -- block in yield?

JPP error.skp

Hello, Pixero!

Recently I had a thought:
Would you consider adding STEP functionality to your plugin? I mean setting minimum increment for any transformation, e.g. rotate every 15 degrees from 0 to 45 degrees. Or move any 10m from 0 to 50m. Or scale every 2x from 1 to 6x etc.
I think this could be done with two parameters:

1. step/ increment value, e.g. 2m (move every 2m)
2. multiplier for scope, e.g. 1x - 3x, which will result in 3 possible transformation results: 2m, 4m, 6m.

This would be very useful for "semi-randomization", when you want your groups to randomly rotate every 90 degrees roughly, in order to retain sense of orthogonality (sorry if there's no word like this ).

And one more suggestion, if I may:
Is it possible to link this thread under plugin's main page? I mean this page:
https://sketchucation.com/plugin/2254-chaos
so that people could instantly access the discussion when seeing the plugin.

Hello!
I'd love to have a version of this plugin which respects group's local axes over world's (model's or global axes or whatever it's called).
Currently, if I select nested geometry and try to align it, it will align according to world's axes. In my opinion, more logical (and useful too!) would be relying on group's axes, because right now, if the whole group is rotated (so its axes don't match world axes) and I open it and align nested entities, they will be aligned incorrect in relation to group's bounds.

Also, when aligning groups it would be nice to have choice whether aligning takes geometry into account (current behaviour) or just origins of groups.

This plugin also has a problem with losing selection after performing UNDO.

I know this is an old script but perhaps somebody would take it and include any of these improvements.