I think that the crash is not related to your plugin. See my post in the other thread. I've submitted a bug report to Google.

@honoluludesktop said:

Thanks Dan, will follow up here with progress.

Hi all. I'm the user in question. So, I literally just discovered that the crashing seems occur only when I push the escape key to dismiss the splash screen. I have not had any problems in the past few minutes, so this may not be an issue at all with the plugin. It seems to happen even if I don't have the plugin installed. The reason I wasn't getting this after reinstalling is that SU required me to pick a template, so the escape key didn't work. How about that?

Thanks for the reply, hdt. After several tries of using the 2.0 plugin with the "<Error> or empty file", I am now getting a crash on startup. It looks like it's crashing pretty badly. I opened the Mac "Console" application, which dumps out error messages, and I saw this awful mess about classes being defined in multiple places and a bunch of malloc errors. I can send this to you by PM if you'd like, but none of it seems ruby-related.

I'm running MacOS 10.6 for what it's worth. Thanks again!

@honoluludesktop said:

mysterd429, Thanks for the file. It contains one entity, a spline. Dxf_In doesn't support splines as the math is beyond me. Attached is a image of a SketchUp Pro's import of your file. If your drawing doesn't resemble this image, it is because SketchUp Pro's importer doesn't support the Objects in your Dxf file. Go here for a way to change Dxf splines into Dxf polylines.

It appears that the nature of the problem has nothing to do with v2.2. You should be able to run it on your system.

Get Dxf_In help from the Dxf_In Options menu to see which Acad entities are supported by Dxf_In.
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Thank you for your help. Are there other Mac users who are able to use v2.2, or am I the only one having issues? Or am I the only person using this plugin on a Mac?

I'm on my lunch break at work right now, but when I get home, I'll check to see if Illustrator can export DXF v12 and try that with the 2.0 version of the plugin. If that works, I'll have a solution that works for me.

I was unable to import Box00.dxf; I got the <Error> or empty file again. There was nothing in the Ruby console. The DXF file is from Illustrator; I've sent it to you by PM.

Hi, hdt. Yes, the 2.d was a typo. It was supposed to be 2.2.

Using 2.0, I don't get anything in the Ruby console. I do get two progress bars across the bottom of the model window after choosing the DXF file, one after the other. The first is marked "Stage 1 [ 1 ]" and the second is marked "Stage 2 [ 1/1 ]".

So if there's anything you'd like me to try, let me know. I write software for a living, though I've never used Ruby.

Thanks!

Hi all. I'm using Mac OS X 10.6 and Sketchup 8.0.4810. When I tried using the plugin, Sketchup crashed with no explanation. From then on, it wouldn't launch, even if I removed Dxf_in_v2.d.rb from the plugins folder. I had to reinstall Sketchup. I found the 2.0 installer at http://modelisation.nancy.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=735, but that gives me "<Error> or empty file".

Thanks for your work on this. Hopefully I can get it working.