Just wanted to say thanks for creating this extension, and to ask why the version in the Extension Warehouse (which is 1.0.0) is older than the one posted here?
I first installed via the warehouse, but it didn't work properly, so it was a relief to find that the one posted here worked as expected.
Thanks again.
Ok, that explains it!
However, I still don't think it was a wise decision to change this. While I can see that it can make for less cleaning up if you just project the full photo onto the full model, it acually makes the situation worse if one chooses to just project the photo onto selected surfaces (like I mostly do). With this new design one has to do some manual work to prepare the model by hiding "offending" geometry prior to projection.
A better way would be to apply the "old" logic when some geometry is preselected (which implies that the user knows exactly which surfaces the image should be projeced onto), but use the "new" logic when the user just chooses "project photo" without anything selected.
That would give you the best of both "worlds", so to speak, but maybe it is too difficult to implement? It could of course also be a setting in the photo match options.
Regards
-Øyvind
Software makers should keep public lists of such known issues, so that users wouldn't have to go to great lengths to report them. No such (public) list exists for Sketchup, right?
No one has chimed in yet, is there any way of getting to know if/when they are going to release new, bugfixed versions of Sketchup?
Thanks for splitting the topic. Probably best that way.
For the sample model it is also possible to workaround the problem by using push/pull on the lower step to push it slightly down and out of the way before using the follow-me tool to chamfer the edge. Afterwards it can be pulled back up to complete the operation. A bit cumbersome, but slightly faster than manually deleting the otherwise leftover geometry.
Regards
-Øyvind
I hope you're right that they'll look at this soon.
As for the follow-me-tool, I sometimes use this to chamfer edges, and with SU7 (in certain cases) it seems to leave behind geometry that it shouldn't have.
To see what I mean, look at the attached model. In this model I want to lean the front of the steps inwards a little bit. To do this, I draw a line to create a surface to extrude, then I preselect the path and use the follow-me on the small triangle. As you can see from the image sequence, the result is not what I would expect (and not what I got in SU6). I know that I can just delete the leftovers, but it is still undesired behaviour.
Path preselected, ready to follow-me:
Result is not too good:
If the extrusion profile is not connected to the bottom intersection between the horizontal and vertical step, it works as it should:
Regards
-Øyvind
This is a pretty stupid bug IMO (I am a programmer myself). I did also report the bug directly to Google, but I am not optimistic they'll fix it anytime soon. Let's hope they'll prove me wrong. The follow-me tool is also more buggy than before, so all in all the "upgrade" is a real disappointment for me.
Regards
-Øyvind
I am 99% sure this worked correctly in SU6. I had been working on a model in SU6 where I had a building for which I was designing a new entrance, and where some geometry is placed in front of the model. This very scenario was then in effect, but it worked like it should. When I continued working on the model in SU7 I quickly discovered this very annoying problem.
And it's not like there is a suitable workaround either. You will have to remove the "offending" geometry before projecting the photo, and that may be difficult/cumbersome if you have a large model.
Regards
-Øyvind
That's strange. On my computer/installation this is completely reproducible.
Here's an image sequence showing what happens:
1: Shows the surface is whole and undivided
2: Photo is projected from sketch-over view
3: Looks OK while still in sketch-over view
4: If model is rotated we can see the surface is indeed broken
If you cannot reproduce this sequence, then I am stumped. SU6 did not do this on my machine.
Regards
-Øyvind
I recently made the big mistake of upgrading to Sketchup 7 and also uninstalling SU6 (both free versions).
There seems to be an extremely annoying bug in SU7 when using Photo Match and projecting the photo to surfaces. The problem occurs if there are some geometry in front of the surface onto which the photo is to be projected. SU7 then actually breaks the projected surface with some hidden geometry which is the shape of the projected version of the geometry in front.
To illustrate the problem, I have attached a model to test with. I've done a (sloppy) prhoto match, and I've just drawn two simple surfaces of the building, and on the two surfaces I right-clicked and selected "Project Photo", which works correctly. Then I drew a box in front of these surfaces. If I now right-click on the building surfaces and choose "Project Photo" (and confirm I want to overwrite existing materials), everything still looks OK, but only on the surface of it (pun intended). If you try to select one of the building surfaces you will now see that it has some hidden geometry, and it is no longer one surface.
This has to be a bug, right? It didn't behave like this in SU6.
Regards
-Øyvind