I looked at these and do understand the advantage over working with segmented arcs but I was not able to achieve the requested ...

Am I missing something or a tut?

Many thanks!!!
Jörg

EDIT: I thought too complicated ...
Using the manual method above and determining the true intersections did it.
Then all I had to do was to draw all circles/arcs (again) using the generated cPoints.
THX to TIG (again)

Hi TIG,

struggling around with connecting two circles with an arc of custom radius ...

... I thought it could be an option for the fillet tool!

Many thanks for your helpful tools!!!

BR
Jörg

1000 thx!

Hi,

I do have a problem with this plugin ...

Pls. have a look at the attached file!

I would like to subtract "sub_1" and in a second step "sub_2" from "main".

But unfortunately it does not work ...

Many thanks in advance!!!!

Jörg

aufnahme_001.skp

Hi Gilles,

thank you!

That was too easy (as so often )

Best regards,
Jörg

Hi,

attached is my testenvironment ...

Have fun!

Jörg

testenvironment for boolean substraction of encapsulated group

Hi,

thank you anyway!

I tried adding an 'object' to the inner group that is not encapsulated ...
So I have some kind of selector.

But this doesn't work either

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!
Jörg

Hi Gilles,

thanks for the quick reply ...

But I don't get it ...

'copy them outside with paste in place' seems quite paradox to me ...

Could you pls. explain again?
(slowly)

Many thanks!!!!

Jörg

Hi,

is this plugin still maintained by anybody?

I would like to know if it is possible to substract an capsulated group from the surrounding one ...
For example by selecting the groups through the outliner (this doesn't work).

Or does anybody know of a manual way to do that?

Many thanks in advance!

Moin,
Jörg

Hi Tobi,

thank you for sharing!

Unfortunately I am not able to make it work ...
(I only tried v0.5!)

In milling mode 'Surface' I'm getting an error from the Java cmd prompt:
Error: Wrong surface part argument!

In milling mode 'Pocket' I'm getting an error from the Java cmd prompt:
Error: 1

In milling mode 'Cut out' I'm getting an error from the Java cmd prompt:
Error: Wrong cutout part arguments!

And with mouse over the added parts the shown milling options seem to be screwed up ...
The milling options and the milling mode seem to be incorrect.

I would really like to make this thing work!!!

Moin,
Jörg

dereeei:
I recognized too that my unit detection was not fool proof and added a listbox ...

It seems that we are working on similar tasks ...
since I came across the same problems than you.
Currently the exporter exports all connected entities of the current selection.
So selecting a contour of a object will export the whole thing

I am in the process of developing some kind of peprocessing tools ...
The first one will be a drop tool where you can select any face of a model and it will be copied to z=0 and rotated to ground plane.

But I'm neither familiar with Ruby nor Sketchup toolbars ...
So this will take some time

Thanks again for your feedback!

We read!
Jörg

Hi,

utiler:
It might not have come out clearly ...
I'm using SU 8 free (just updated my profile )
And the standard dxf-exporter is for pros only ( as far as I know )

So ...
I don't know how it differs to standard SU export

Is there a specific reason why you are asking?

Respects
Jörg

Wohooo, that was fast

I exported without any problems ...

Here is my output ...
unitsFactorProblem.dxf
Could you pls. send this file to your friend to doublecheck?
Could you pls. check the setting and try again?

If you select the measure tool in SU ...
is the length displayed like '371,25mm'?

Thank you!

Cheers
Jörg

Hi!

Gumleguf:
I can not reproduce here ...
The only thing I could imagine is that you disabled the
'Display units format' setting (Window->Model Info->Units) but then there should have been a messagebox saying "Unable to detect the actual unit setting ...\nGenerate Output in inch?" and the whole DXF would have been 'inverted' because the units calculation factor is -1 in this case ...
(will be fixed in next release! )

Pls. let me know if the problem persists!
And maybe you do have a screenshot that could help or the .skp file of your model ... ... ...

Anyway, thank you very much for the feedback

More than 120 downloads and just this few problems/bugs/featurerequests/...

Enjoy,
Jörg

Hi,

@Dubman1013
There is no filetype to choose from!
The Plugin takes the current skp-filename and exchanges '.skp' with '.dxf' thats all!
(For unsaved models the default filename is 'Untitled.dxf')

Just click 'Export to DXF' then choose the folder to save to and save the dxf.
Before saving you may change the filename to your needs!
(But don't forget '.dxf' at the end of the filename)

Have a nice day!
Jörg

Hi,

new version v0.0.4 available ...
I updated the first post.

Have fun!
Jörg

Hi,

as mentioned above, the plugin does not export to correct DXF2000 format!
By now (for example) arcs with startangle of 245° and endangle 13° can happen!
I am not sure if this will be interpreted correctly by all importers or Autocad ...
And there is no HEADER or TABLE section or any (ENTITIES only!)
But I'll correct this in a future release!

But I also noticed that my 'orientation-algorithm' was incorrect for arcs with odd number of edges ...
I realized that the z-normal tells me if the arc was drawn cw or ccw ...
Thanks to TIG, which gave me food for thought

Bep:
Thank you for the report!
I'll try Doublecad xt ...!
(or let you generate the reports )

TIG:
Yes, I converted everything although normals shouldn't.
Thank you!

Give me a day or two to

• 'fix' arc-orientation (again ).
• implement export of 3d oriented circles and arcs to lines ...
• support Faces (however )
• respect Components
• not explode everything anymore!

Thanks again to everybody!
Jörg

@blajnov said:

Error persists arc oriented incorrectly.

Hi blajnov,

can you pls. provide the source .skp file?
So that I can reproduce here ...

I have drawn something similar and opened in heekscnc and freeCAD.
Both seem to be fine!

Kind regards
Jörg

Hi,

new Version v0.0.3 available!

I updated the text and the dl-link in the first post and added something like a version history.

Still feel free to comment ...
And use the plugin as often as you can

Greetings
Jörg

Hi,

thanks for your comments!

This is a quick and dirty release ...
But I couldn't await to release it and see if anyone needs it's functionality.

About the bugs ...
-it explodes everything in model.
Yes! It explodes everything and then it loops through all edges and get's each connected.
That's the way I try to find 'Objects'.
I will change it to respect Groups and Components!
But first I have to get rid of the orentation problem of the arcs!!!!!!
-it doesn't export faces.
This plugin does not process any faces (by now ).
-some arcs are oriented wrongfully.
I know
If anyone knows a solution ... ... ...
- funny fact is that the built-in SU8-PRO exporter does the same.
I didn't know
-it behaves differently if everything in model is selected, or if nothing is selected.
Not in my environment (but I changed the script a bit).
Pls. try again with the next release!
-what DXF version does it export? (most milling software need DXF2000)
Ups! I didn't care about any DXFversion!
Just took the first spec I found.
But in future I'll use DXF2000!

dereeei, thanks for all information!

Stay tuned!
Jörg