Another vote for the back button.

Tried loading the program and came up with this error. Any help would be nice.

Thanks in advance

Ken

@dik harrison said:

Every time I mirror components, SU crashes.

I tried RPEdit-copy and the same thing happened.

Please try using Mirror selection on the Bearing Mount in the attached file.

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Note, I had the same problem with RPEdit. I found out the source of my problem was I had an old expired copy of RPTools. Once I remove RPTools and re-installed RPEdit, everything worked OK.

Ken

@unknownuser said:

Do let me know if it fails with a new drawing with a single face in it.

I need to know whether it fails all the time, or just sometimes.

Also, open the SketchUp Ruby Console before loading or running RpEdits. It may give us a clue as to what is going wrong.

Thanks,

Al

Mr. Hart

Well I found the problem. I had an old out of date Rp_Tools installed. When I remove this script the Rp_edit script worked great.

Note I PM you a couple of video files showing how the program worked before I discovered what the problem was. So please disregard these video files.

Thanks for the great script.

Ken

Here is what I see during the mirror operations

Ken

Edited
Well I guess I am going to have to figure out how to add a AVI file

Thanks for this plugin.

I have found the following.

Move OK
Rotate OK
Stretch OK
Copy Bug Splat
Mirror, Sketchup just stops with no bug splat.

Hope that is what you wanted when you said "tester arise"

Ken

OK, not sure what I did. However, I have been trying to learn how to make DC components.

Sketchup was shutting down every time I tried to scale the Google fence DC component, and I thought because I had some how changed the formula in the picket section this was causing the problem. However I now see that was not the case.

I went to purge all components in the model. Sketchup flashed an on screen error message and shut down. The message was to fast these old eyes, so I don’t know what the error was.

So I started Sketchup again and while I was working I was using a components directory call rigging, and when I wanted to go to another component directory I notice that all of my components directories, even the directory called rigging had been erases on the hard drive. The component directory was empty.

Note, using Vista, which I do not trust. I have back up on back up.

However, I could still get the recent component directory open, and pick a rigging components. Now, where are they being stored?

Sketchup was now stopping when I did any scaling on any rigging component. So I did a repair install.

But still having the problem of Sketchup shutting down. Can’t seem to be able to get rid of the recent directory of rigging components. They don’t show up in the Sketchup 7 directory. Found out that Ver 7 was using Ver 6’s rigging component directory. Renamed the directory and it stopped showing up in recent used section.

So now, everytime I purge Sang, Sketchup stops.

Also, I don’t remember that the component directory had to get online to Google to down load the basic set of components. As I remember, once they were downloaded, they stayed on your computer. Not now, I have to down load again and again the basic components from Google.

I pass this along, because if you don’t have your components backed up, they may disappear.

If I can’t get this resolved soon I will need to go back to Ver 6 to finish this project.

Any help would be appreciated.

Ken

OK, wanted to know how to make DC components. Downloaded the sample fence component. Every time I use the scale tool to make the fence longer I get the attached error and Sketchup shuts down.

Anyone else having problem with DC components?

Thanks for your reply

Ken

Found the problem I had changed one of the attributes. However, I see this as strange, that a bad formula would shut down Sketchup. In the number of pickets, I change the formula, how I am not sure, leaving off the “floor” part of the formula.

Guess DC components are very sensitive.

Going forward.

Ken

Found the problem I had changed one of the attributes. However, I see this as strange, that a bad forumala would s

Well I have found the offending ruby. After much trial and error, the ruby, Set.rb, if allowed to load will on my machine cause the sandbox tool not to work. If I don't let set.rb load, the sandbox tool works. Note, this is with Ver 6 and Ver 7.

I have copied part of the first section of this ruby. I don't know what it is controlling, I will do a search to find out where I got this ruby.

Now, what I don't know as of yet, what is not working now that I have stop Set.rb from loading.

Hope this helps any others that found the sandbox tool is not working.

Again thanks to all the help.

Ken

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#--

set.rb - defines the Set class

#++

Copyright (c) 2002 Akinori MUSHA knu@iDaemons.org

Documentation by Akinori MUSHA and Gavin Sinclair.

All rights reserved. You can redistribute and/or modify it under the same

terms as Ruby.

$Id: set.rb 11980 2007-03-03 16:06:45Z knu $

== Overview

This library provides the Set class, which deals with a collection

of unordered values with no duplicates. It is a hybrid of Array's

intuitive inter-operation facilities and Hash's fast lookup. If you

need to keep values ordered, use the SortedSet class.

The method +to_set+ is added to Enumerable for convenience.

See the Set class for an example of usage.

Set implements a collection of unordered values with no duplicates.

This is a hybrid of Array's intuitive inter-operation facilities and

Hash's fast lookup.

Several methods accept any Enumerable object (implementing +each+)

for greater flexibility: new, replace, merge, subtract, |, &, -, ^.

The equality of each couple of elements is determined according to

Object#eql? and Object#hash, since Set uses Hash as storage.

Finally, if you are using class Set, you can also use Enumerable#to_set

for convenience.

== Example

require 'set'

s1 = Set.new [1, 2] # -> #<Set: {1, 2}>

s2 = [1, 2].to_set # -> #<Set: {1, 2}>

s1 == s2 # -> true

s1.add("foo")

OK, I give up. Got work to do.

If I rename the plugins folder to pluginsKen, so it will not load, the sandbox tool works. If I copy my plugins from the laptop, into Ver 7 on the desktop, the sandbox does not work, but all the rest of the plugins work. So I have tried disabling plugins, a couple at each test, still cannot find the offending plugin.

Moving on. Maybe someone else will have better luck than me.

Thanks all for the help.

@chris fullmer said:

Ken, he's saying that the sandbox tools are not located in the plugins folder. So if you copied over the plugins folder, that will not interfere with the sandbox, as they are separate folders.

Did you also copy the "tools" folder from 6 to 7? That would be unwise because you will break the sandbox and delete the new dynamic components. So when you say that you copied the plugins, make sure you ONLY copy the plugins folder and NOT the tools folder. Does that clear it up?

Chris

When ever I update or change version. I copy, my material folder, plugins folder and components folder. After the update or ver change. I than copy the old material folder, plugin folder and component folder back into the new ver Sketchup folder. I didn't save and recopy the tools folder.

However, on the new install on the desktop, I did copy the tools folder and recopied to the laptop, thinking maybe something was amiss in this folder. Still on the laptop, sandbox did not work.

I though the problem would be in the plugins, because the sandbox is rb files. So I though maybe there was some conflict.

Thank Chris

@gaieus said:

Hi Ken,

The sandbox tools are in the Tools folder, not in the Plugins folder so I doubt that it is some kind of collision with any of the plugins. Are you sure you are editing the sandbox mesh (group) while you are trying to smoove? It won't work outside the editing context of the group.

Hi Gaieus

Yes, I am in the editing mode. It works in the fresh install of Ver 7 on my desktop, but the not the install of Ver 7 on my laptop where I have copied my Ver 6 scripts.

I have copied the sandbox tools folder from the Ver 7 on the desktop to the laptop. The sandbox still doesn't work.

Thanks for your reply.

While away from home and at work, I installed Ver 7 on my laptop. Copied all my plugins from Ver 6 to Ver 7 and after I was sure that Ver 7 working, uninstalled Ver 6. Later I found discovered that the sandbox tool did not work. I could draw a grid, but the smooth tool would not select or change the surface.

So now I am back at the house. I check Ver 6 on my desktop to see if the sandbox tool works. Nope. So I did an install of Ver 7 on my desktop, did not copy any of the rubies from Ver 6. The tool sandbox works.

So now I am in the process of trying to determine which ruby scripts may be at fault.

At first I am unchecked all the extensions, made sure that the sandbox tool extension was check on. That didn’t help.

I looked at the date of the last Sketchup file that the sandbox tool worked, 09/10/08. So now I am in the process of disenabling all rubies installed after that date, so far no luck.

Any suggestions? Anyone else with this problem?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Ken

Chris

Thanks for the help. Guess I will do a fresh install. Got somethings that need done thiw week, so I will do the install next week.

Thanks

Ken

@honoluludesktop said:

Hi Ken, Just a thought. Did you install sandbox, or copy it from SU6. If you copied it, try installing the SU7 files. Can't be sure but I thought that I read somewhere the the files were updated.

Yep, just copied, will try install.

Thank you

Ken

Using a 50' x 50' grid, 1'spacing. 2' smooth circle. I have tried smaller and large. The smooth tool just doesn't catch or moving any of the grid.

Ken

The From Scratch, the grid is made. I than explode the grid, and the smooth tool will not move any of the grid. I review the a Sketchup video to make sure I was using the tool correctly.

Thanks for you quick reply

Ken

Well, I don't use the Sandbox tool that much. However, it seems to have stop working now that I have installed Ver 7. Anyone else with this problem?

Thanks in advance
Ken

Please tell me what the hell any of you have done to make the world a safer place? My answer, NOTHING, except to be world class clowns.

Good president, bad president, at least he tried. Now, go find a funeral and have a good belly laugh.

Ken

I use Sketchup to model welding habitats. After making sure the model is correct and will do the job, I import to a ACAD file. I have been using TuboCAD 15, which will import Sketchup files. I have tried ViaCad. Didn’t like the interface.

Note, the problems with Exporting to a DWG file are circles and arcs. They must be redrawn in the cad program to get the correct measurements. Redrawing is not the problem, it is getting rid of the original circle or arc that is made up of poly lines.

Ken