Posts made by GWD

This year on December 12 and 13 there will be another 3D Basecamp Benelux for all SketchUp users and 3D fanatics.
Come to the Evoluon in Eindhoven (NL) and experience your best 3D experience ever with exciting keynotes and workshops.

Use the coupon code SkalpDiscount25 to get 25% discount on your 3DBasecamp tickets

On Thursday afternoon the Skalp team wil give a 3 hour workshop .
You will get the chance to get a personal lesson from the developers of Skalp.

We start with the basics of Skalp down to the smallest details of our extension.
We will explain in detail how you can create professional drawings of your SketchUp projects with almost no effort.
Not only do we explain how to use Skalp in combination with LayOut , but also how to create a workflow with AutoCAD .

During and afterwards you will have the opportunity to ask questions to the developers of Skalp.

We hope to see you in our workshop.

The Skalp Team

realSection isn't supported anymore.

We made a model with every detail modeled correctly...

We created a plugin to extract subdetails to a separate file...

We used Layout to create construction documents...

We only use SketchUp, Layout and Skalp (http://www.skalp4sketchup.com) for all our projects. From design to construction!

http://www.wydouw.be

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@tonywilton said:

I remember having this working at one time but it just creates an error now, referring to the helper file.

Error Loading File toggleWindows.rb
Error: #<NameError: uninitialized constant PLATFORM>
C:/Users/tonywilton/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/toggleWindows.rb:4:in `<top (required)>'

Any clues would be gratefully received.

I want to be able to define section material by group. Real section did just that.
Scalp is much more than I need.

Indeed Skalp can do a lot more, but if you like you can use Skalp just the same simple way like Real Section and define the materials by group. Take a look at the following video tutorial to see how it works:

http://youtu.be/GgIpVN4UAcE

Skalp for SketchUp

See you at Lisbon

I have several scripts all having the same problem. The script works fine on windows, works fine on mac. Except when it needs to do a lot of things (bigger models) on mac. Result is SU crashes! When do SU crash? SU crashes when the real memory size SketchUp uses become around the 2.8 GB (on my machine).

I thick the the problem is the ruby version used in de mac version of Sketchup. It uses ruby v1.8.5, the windows version uses 1.8.6. Ruby 1.8.5 is 7 years old. Has lot of problems with big arrays and with garbage collection.

I made a video of a script that crashes. On the left you see the model. On the right you see the memory use of sketchup. On the right below you see the script. What does this script do, it loops through the model and checks every group or component if it's manifold and hide the group if it's manifold.

Notes:
AW_lib.isValid? checks if the entity is a group or a component instance and that the entity is not deleted.
AW_lib.nestedGroups? checks if there are other groups or components inside the group or component
I have also expanded the Sketchup::ComponentDefinition class with a .entities so .entities works the same on a component instance like on a group.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoVcJl-t6kw

mac of pc?

I never tried SolidSolver, but fixSolid was first. It was first published with my other account but i lost it's e-mail and password of thats why I post it with my new account.

At Basecamp the people of 3skeng showed a way to connect netbeans to sketchup for using it as full working IDE for SU.Does somebody knows how to do it?

This plugin try to fix non-manifold solids (groups and components) to manifold solids.

fixSolid fix the following problems:

• heal missing faces
• remove single edges
• remove separate faces
• remove edges between coplanar faces
• remove innerfaces
• remove all edges with only 1 face connected (RISKY FIX)

Install:
The plugin is a SU Extensions. Go to the SketchUp Extensions and choose Install Extension... Choose the file fixSolid.rbz and the plugin will automatically be installed.

on OS X (Mac): SketchUp -> Preferences -> Extensions
on Windows: Window -> Preferences -> Extensions

Usage:

1. Select solid
2. Right-Click Context-Menu. If the solid is broken the option 'FIX SOLID' is present. If the option isn't present there are no problems with he solid.
3. Select 'Fix Solid'
4. You can set two options:

• Risky fix: if you choose a risky fix it's possible that a part of the solid wil be deleted. This action can be undone with the normal SU undo function. The risky fix try to fix all problems, the normal fix only fixes problems with no risk.
• Fix coplanar faces: If you choose no, the edges between coplanar will not be removed.

Remark:
Please send me solids which can't be fixed at this moment so I can try to expand the numbers of solids which can be fixed.

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fixSolid.rbz

With the new maintenance release 4 it isn't possible to change one of the options of the export 2D Graphic dxf/dwg. SU always jumps back to the default settings on PC. The mac version doesn't have the problem.

@archheni said:

..Yes, the workspace looks absolutely stunning now on Retina display!

Not only the workspace. The models are so sharp!!!!! Now i know why i bought the macbook pro retina.

When i started SU it told me that there was a new version and I came on a download page with a new logo for SU (see screenshot). When I tried it some minutes later the page was gone. I think somebody at trimble made a little mistake.

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There been a new version of Sketchup. The first Trimble version. But it's not possible to download the english version

@thomthom said:

@gwd said:

The problem isn't fixed at all on mac. I did the test i posted before with the new version. On mac the script runs 250% slower on the new version. On pc the script runs 300% faster on the new version!

Can you post your test code?

You can find the code on page 3

The problem isn't fixed at all on mac. I did the test i posted before with the new version. On mac the script runs 250% slower on the new version. On pc the script runs 300% faster on the new version!

Thanks. I try do it as quick as possible. The problem is that the plugin we use at our office can't be used by others because there are a lot of hardcoded things in it and I need to do a special cleanup of the code to send it outside.

At this moment realsection is only working at our own office and we don't have the time to make a public version of it. But I will try to build a new public version in a couple of weeks.

Regards,

Guy.

Google has changed the layout of the Sketchup Ruby API Documentation. I hate the way it works now. You need to open the menu's on the left to go deeper. When you are finally on your destination, he closes all menu's again and you can start over again to go to an other item. Google I don't like this, please change it back to what it was before. The new way I lose a lot of time when I want to look up something.