Wow, nice space. I for one would like to stand in it. Bet the space sounds nice too.

placot, Please verify that you have installed v1.9. I will post a special version of Reverse_back_face to step through the plugin to see where it crashes.

Others, If you can get the plugin to run by turning on "hidden geometry", first open the ruby console, then run the plugin. If you get a error message in the ruby console, post a screen print of it here.

Thanks, hdt

1. Do you have the folder "hdt_folder" in the "plugins" folder?
2. Did you select the appropriate scanning accuracy? If you have small faces, you may need to select "high".
3. Are your faces too small? Sometimes this is a sketchup problem. The workaround is to scale the part up, reverse, then back down.

At times, the plugin is not 100% accurate. Sometimes there are one or two faces that must be manually reversed. Can you pose a screen capture of the reversed model with problem faces?

@unknownuser said:

.......... And it's not possible to do a transformation of a bounding box.

There is a hack that can accomplish this. Save the component original transformation, transform the component (along with its bb), then transform its entities back to their original transformation (previously transformed bb remains). I did this once, but don't recall the exact procedure. Maybe someone here with more smarts can explain it better.

What's a real bb? As far as I know, the bb is aligned to the world axis at the time of its creation. So the same geometry, oriented differently can have different bb. Creating components out of the same geometry at different orientations.
The components rotated.
Exploded then remade.

You have simply copied select portions of the links I've provided, but haven't done the math. Of course the indivual units of measurement are small. As far as I know 350 msv is enough to be taken seriously. The contamination by a single measure is " 2.5 million becquerels of radioactive cesium-134 per cubic centimeter." Enough to far exceed 350 msv.

As in the case of your absurd offer to swim in the ocean off the damaged nuclear reactors, your discussion rambles, skirts the discussion, and fails to address the factual issues.

Here, I'll help you, and give you a start, 2.5 million becquerels of radioactive cesium-134 per cubic centimeter is 2.5 billion becquerels per liter.

I posted the report (along with the info to do the math), and expressed my dismay. What are you doing?

Just do the math.

Here and here are your conversion factors. 350 msv is considered serious. You are the engineer, prove to us that the radiation is insignificant. I just post the news. "2.5 million becquerels of radioactive cesium-134 per cubic centimeter."

These are not my reports or measurements. Aren't the reported levels of radiation (per cubic centimeters) sufficient to cause illness, and death? Perhaps not in the case of Superman, and yourself.:) Where are you getting your measurements from? Besides NHK, here is another source. As I posted before, the NHK is Japan's Voice of America, unlikely to to make light of the problem. If anything, I expect them to down play the situation.

The reason I continue to post, is because it is no longer "front page news", but a serious issue that should not be swept under the carpet.

@unknownuser said:

High radioactivity levels at No.1 reactor

The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has reported high levels of radioactive substances in water that has accumulated in the basement of its Number 1 reactor.

Tokyo Electric Power Company says a water sample taken from the reactor building's basement on Friday contained 2.5 million becquerels of radioactive cesium-134 per cubic centimeter. It also detected 2.9 million becquerels of cesium-137 and 30,000 becquerels of iodine-131.

The levels are almost the same as those already measured in contaminated water in the basement of the Number 2 reactor's turbine building.

Water contaminated with highly radioactive substances has flooded the reactor building's basement, apparently after leaking from holes created in the reactor's pressure and containment vessels in the fuel meltdown.

Under the utility's plan to bring the plant under control, a circulatory cooling system is to be installed to decontaminate radioactive water and use it as a coolant.

TEPCO says it will examine ways to decontaminate the water, as its radiation levels are too high for workers to approach.

Monday, May 30, 2011 22:25 +0900 (JST)

Hi laucity0513, I know how you feel, but please consider that without sharing, SketchUp users wouldn't have moved forward as much as they have. When I first began to code plugins, my ego considered protecting my work. It didn't take me long to realize that I would never have learned much on my own, and there were so many better programmers around, few of whom protect their work. So unless open access to your model will prevent you from earning huge money, I encourage you not to worry about it. Sorry if I am sticking my two-bits where it doesn't belong.

Aloha, hdt

Thanks Dan, will follow up here with progress.

With the currently reported levels of radiation in the Nuclear Plant's water, how could they consider dumping it into the Ocean.

@unknownuser said:

TEPCO mulls release of decontaminated water

The Tokyo Electric Power Company is studying a plan to decontaminate seawater pooled at the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant and discharge it into the sea.

TEPCO says about 3,000 cubic meters of radioactive seawater has been stagnant in the basement of the plant's reactor and turbine buildings since being hit by a tsunami following the March 11th earthquake.

The utility says the temperature in all 4 of the plant's reactors has fallen below 100 degrees Celsius, but cites the risk that stagnant seawater will corrode equipment.

TEPCO is considering a plan to decontaminate the water so that it meets national safety standards and then release it into the Pacific Ocean.

The utility says the concentration of radioactive cesium in the water is 30 times the permissible limit, but that it contains no other radioactive materials exceeding the safety limits.

In April, TEPCO drew strong criticism for discharging contaminated water with levels of radioactive iodine-131 about 100 times the limit from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The utility will decide whether to discharge water from the Daini plant after consulting with local municipalities, people in the fishing industry, and the Fisheries Agency.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says that a full examination of the plan is necessary even if radioactivity is below the safety limit.

It added that the concerns of local municipalities and people in the fishing industry must be taken into account.

The Fisheries Agency says it cannot now authorize a discharge of seawater even if the level of contamination is under the limit.

The chief of a fishing cooperatives' association in Fukushima Prefecture expressed shock and bewilderment at the utility's plan.

Wednesday, June 08, 2011 19:55 +0900 (JST)

Thanks, driven, I have asked the plugin user to attempt your suggestion. If it sort of works.....any suggestions how to handle my code so that it works?

My section_name is honoluludesktop, I assumed very unique, and there is no ";" in the data string. I do use ":" however, to seperate the data. I have not tried making another section/key yet. Thanks for the advice. I will post my progress as it unfolds.

mysterd429, Thanks for the error message, I have posted in the "Developers" section to see if anyone understands it. Dxf_In uses the Pc Registry (the MAC's 'plist') to store user preferences. One of our resident geniuses has suggested this area may be the problem.

The application, Intrinsic Alchemy is identified in the first line of the error message, is it running whenever you experience a SketchUp failure?

If you are interested, the discussion of the problem is here. There may be a easy way to restore your system without reinstalling SketchUp. Do you have access to the MAC's version of a PC's 'regedit', a editor for the MAC's 'plist'?

A MAC user suggested that the 'plist' message minor, and that:
"if someone else with 10.6 could run console starts with and without your plugin and compare those results, it will show if it's yours..."
His post is here. If you can, do this before the following. Please pm the results to me.

Check your pm for a version of Dxf_In with a new section/key for the MAC's 'plist'. Test it without running Intrinsic Alchemy. If OK, try running it along with Intrinsic Alchemy. Don't forget to remove all versions of Dxf_In before installing it. I Googled the error message CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary., and apparently it is associated with MACs.

TIG, Thanks. Yes, it is a Mac. My plugin uses the registry to store the plugin's user's options. Is there any reasonable chance that my plugin is causing the problems?

His problem has never happened on my PC, but because I do not have access to a Mac, I am unable to test my plugin on one. No other Mac user has reported this problem. It's happened on his machine at least two times with clean SU installs.

What about the first error message line that has a reference to another application Intrinsic Alchemy v3.3 Beta-0702. Google indicates that this is a game graphics development platform. Any guess why that is showing up in SketchUp's ruby console?

Could my plugin's register name be the same as one in Intrinsic Alchemy?

Bump, Any guesses?

A quciky 5 min. setup by Renditioner Pro. I need a new machine. Took a quarter of the NBA game to render.