Topics created by Mike Backler

@mike backler said:

Hi All

I have just installed the Chronolux and Curviloft plugins and I get the following error messages:
"Chronolux_ext.rb, date.rb, and yaml.rb - Superclass mismatch for Class Date Time"
"CurviloftTool.rb - Uninitialized constant Curviloft :: T6"

Could someone please tell me what I need to do to correct these errors.

Thanks
Mike Mackler

Hi, Mike.
You can try to test special edition of Chronolux.
Installer download link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/44695539/chronolux/chronolux_1_1_beta_special.exe
ZIP archive download link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/44695539/chronolux/chronolux_1_1_beta_special.zip

Note, that it is not official release yet, because version 1.1 updating is still in progress now and one of new features will be the new "Time Settings" dialog (this functionality fortunately already implemented). I decided to use web-dialog for "Time Settings" instead of standard "UI.messagebox" method so it became possible to get rid of standard Ruby "Time" class extension. Java-script has its own built-in date strings parser and besides I found free DHTML calendar widget so date and time picking becomes more user-friendly now.

Kirill.

p.s. Can you tell, what is 'yaml.rb'?
You see, it is possible that yaml.rb is a plugin, which also tries to do something with Ruby standard Time Class and its behavior results name conflict (it's just an assumption).
Note, that Chronolux v.1.0 uses officially released Time class extension library, so it is actually rare situation, when it refuses to work, but I decided to get rid of standard class modification anyway in v.1.1 of Chronolux.

Anssi, that's true but as a general practice in SketchUp, it isn't a good idea to move edges or faces to other layers. Of course you know that and can deal with it for your exports to Revit.

One of the easiest ways to make one is ...first build a straight ramp with the required slope then use Chris Fullmer's shape bender plugin to bend it along a path...

Thank you Gaieus and Dave R. Works like a dream, I can now save and store all the materials that I have created in various models and have'nt been able to use again. Durrr so simple.

Thanks again

Mike Backler

Hi Mike,

There is a plugin which would allow you to assign a (web) URL to any entity in SU - say a building that's turned into a group and such. You need to right click though and select the URL item in the context menu and then it will open a "normal" browser window, not a neat, chromeless one within SU. (see url_link.rb here)

There were requests for this during development of SU 7 though because (theoretically) dynamic components could do this but AFAIK Google finally didn't include this feature for security reasons. I see you have SU 6 anyway so you couldn't go anywhere with DC's as it needs SU 7.

I'm pretty sure however that with some modification of the URL plugin, it could be made nicer in SU because webdialogs have been implemented since that script was written (before SU 6).

OR you do the whole presentation in Google Earth and add as much rich html content on click as you want.

Hi Mike,

There is a long thread about this in the tutorial section:
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=744