Posts made by plesiosaur

It seems to be deselecting everything. Are there any selection settings that I need to addressed before using?

Any plans to add Thea to the Render list? Thanks

Dave, Thanks I appreciate the help.

I like the Dimension tool when dimensioning circles… except when I am dimensioning a component with multiple copies and/or on multiple scenes.

When I am faced with this situation (multiple copies), which is quite often, I end up with the diameter dimension on all the iterations. Currently, as a work-around, I am using the Text tool to display the diameter of the circle so that I do not have to edit the component and end up the that dimension on all of the copies, but doing this negates the nice dimensioning characteristic of the Dimension tool.

Is there a technique or tool that I am not aware of that would allow me to get the same dimensioning characteristics without having to edit the component, and without having to use the Text tool and loosing Dimension tool characteristics?

Thanks

It would be nice to see the "Glue to" drop-down list in the Create/Make Component window be more dynamic; something where you can type in the first letter of the option: N - None; A - Any; H - Horizontal; V - Vertical; S - Sloped, instead of always having to manually select the option from the list, or perhaps use radio buttons to select the option instead of a pull-down list.

One other very small suggestion: change either the pop-up window title from "Create Component" to "Make Component" or change the context and Edit pull-down menu to say "Create Component".

Sorry for nit-picking...

Here is a simple process that I use when I need to “stretch” a board that has dovetails and I cannot use Push/Pull without a lot of tedious editing; granted, it is not a one-does-it-all plugin but it is straight forward and it does work:

1. I make a copy of the component;

2. Make the copy of the component editable;

3. Use Chris Fulmer’s Zorro plugin to slice the component, I usually change the view to one of the cardinal views (Front, right, top, etc.) before I slice;

4. Once you have completed the slice, select the new portion of the component created by the slice by drawing a box around this new portion;

5. Now use the Move command and grab a corner of the new portion opposite the slice and stretch the board. You can either stretch the copy or the original depending on what you are doing.

In my former life as a cartographer/gis analyst (30+ years) I have worked with several different forms of software and programing languages from FORTRAN to Python; I have seen this type of thing happen before – a new release seems to come from nowhere and totally under-whelms the users causing all kinds of angst and hard feelings. But, what I have also found is that it is often that case that the companies feel that they have to push something out, especially when there have been seemingly long dry spells between releases, and when this has happened in the past it has often been the harbinger of bigger and better things in the not too distant future.

If indeed Trimble is making major strides behind the scenes, but those strides have used more resources than they originally calculated, that could explain the aforementioned lackluster release. I for one am willing to cut Trimble some slack even though it is costing my business a certain amount of heartache, with the hope/hunch that there are bigger and better things in the not too distant future.

This is certainly a good place to vent and if one chooses to move on because they feel that they have been repeatedly let-down and are disappointed then they are free to do so – and I can certainly understand that position.

At this point in my already strained budget it would be cost prohibitive to switch to another vendor and make even moderate changes to my methodology, but again that’s just me.

Respectfully

@plesiosaur said:

FYI for those who use 3Dconnexion products:

I am, or have been, using a 3Dconnecxion SpacePilot Pro with SU8; it appears that 3Dconnexion does not play well with SU2013, at least not for me.

Per my phone conversation today with 3Dconnecxion: It will be 2-3 weeks before the new software/driver will be available; so, for those who use 3Dconnecxion products you may want to wait on the SU2013 install until their new driver is available, or not....

@rich o brien said:

Did you try right clicking the SU2013 icon and choosing Run as Admin?

Rich, you're the man! Thanks!

@alan fraser said:

Unless that's a typo on your part, the fault may lie in the syntax. SketchUp shouldn't have a capital P.
I can't say I've had any problem with any of Fredo's plugins...Round Corners included, after I upgraded the LibFredo6 Library files.

Alan, the syntax is per the SU2013 installation, just for kicks I renamed the folder with a lower case "p" - same error messages; I deleted all of the Fredo6 plugins and folders from my SU2013 plugins folder then re-re-installed all of them; again, same error messages. I may have to re-install SU2013 to see if that fixes it.

FYI for those who use 3Dconnexion products:

I am, or have been, using a 3Dconnecxion SpacePilot Pro with SU8; it appears that 3Dconnexion does not play well with SU2013, at least not for me.

I noticed that Fredo6’s plugins do not appear in the EW, does anyone know why?
Also, the Fredo6 plugins that I installed in SU2013 do not work, these are the error messages I’m getting:

"Cannot load plugin LibFredo6 because the script cannot create DEFPARAM_Dir folder in:

C:/Program Files (x86)/SketchUP/SketchUP 2013/Plugins

Please create it manually, respecting the case"

Also,

"Error Loading File LibFredo6.rb
undefined method 'average_load_time' for
Traductor::Plugin:Class"

Is anyone else experiencing a similar problem? Does anyone have a suggestion, I use the roundcorners.rb and FredoTools.rb a lot.

One note on Fredo Tools mentioned above: Be sure that the leader line format in the model info setting, Text>Leader Lines, the leader style must be set to Pushpin; if it is View Based you will get adverse results.

Thanks all, I use FredoTools as well but never thought to look there. Thanks again

I am looking for plugin that creates multiple leader lines for a single line of text e.g.
I have an exploded view with numerous parts, some of which are am iteration of the same part, I want to use one text entry with multiple leaders pointing the different iterations of the same part. Any suggestions? Thanks.