Posts made by shannonnovus

shannonnovus

I agree! I still use this plugin, and find it useful. I hope it gets updated so it can run on SU 2024.

shannonnovus

I had a heck of a time trying to find links for all the ones included. They aren't all listed on Fredo6's Sketchucation page. https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pauthor=fredo6

Here they are for anyone else looking for details.

shannonnovus

Hi. I just got a popup saying Round Corner will expire in two days. Please no!!! This plugin saves me so much time. I greatly appreciate this and all other Fredo6 plugins. Thanks for being a pillar of the SketchUp community!

shannonnovus

Repairing edges isn't working for me. It claims to remove edges, but it doesn't.

For example, I'll select 12 connected edges.
Run CleanUp3.
The dialogue will say "Edges Reduced: 3".
But all 12 original edges remain.

So it's like CleanUp3 sees the correct edges that it should be deleting, but then it doesn't actually delete them.

I'm running SketchUp 2020 on Windows, with CleanUp3 v3.4.3.

I'd appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks for all the great plugins, thomthom.

shannonnovus

For the most part I love this plugin, but I'm having an issue with the "smooth by angle" feature. I'm running SketchUp 2015, with CleanUp3 (3.3.1).

It seems like the CleanUp plugin is "seeing" the lines that it could fix, and claims to be doing so, but isn't actually fixing anything.

Steps to reproduce:

Select the geometry (building outlines that have several line segments that are almost but not quite parallel)
Run CleanUp3, with Smooth Edges by Angle set to 5.0.
It runs, and says "Edges reduced: 1500", and the validity check is showing no problems.
BUT, then I still have the same number of edges in my model (8417) that I had at the beginning. Looking at the outlines in detail, the offending lines are still there.

I've tried both with faces included and faces deleted.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Shannon

shannonnovus

Solved my own problem, after some trial and error in the Ruby console. Here it is.

def unglue
model=Sketchup.active_model
selection=model.selection
comps=selection.grep(Sketchup::ComponentInstance) {|c|
glue = c.glued_to
c.glued_to=nil unless glue==nil
}
end#def

shannonnovus

Greetings,

I am trying to batch unglue components, but can't seem to find an easy way to do it.

When I select multiple instances, the "unglue" option is no longer available in the context menu.
I can't figure out how to modify the component definition (glue settings, etc) once the component has been created.
I don't see a way to "unglue" the component instances via the API.

I've searched, but doesn't seem like this is a problem others have had before. The issue is that I've made a house component, set it to be glued long before I knew what a pain it would be, and now I have 400 of them in my model. I'm adding topography, so I need to move all of the houses up to sit on top of the topography, but it isn't letting me, of course, because they are glued to the ground (aka. Google Earth Snapshot).

Any help on how to get out of this without changing each individually would be much appreciated, either using the GUI or writing a Ruby script to do it.

With gratitude,
Shannon

shannonnovus

Hello,

I'm having some difficulty setting status text for my plugin. From what I can figure, the command to Sketchup::set_status_text is working, but then instantaneously the status text is being rewritten by the default "Select objects. Shift to extend select. Drag mouse to select multiple." message.

How do I write my plugin such that the status text I set will stick around for awhile? Is that possible, or do I need to use a message box to give the user the results of the plugin having run? (As I have seen other plugins do).

Thanks!
Shannon

ps. I'm using SketchUp Pro 2014.

shannonnovus

I'd also very much like a way to access the global coordinates of points within groups without needing to reference the nesting parents transformation. The brute force method works, but has anyone found a better way to do this yet?

shannonnovus

@dan rathbun said:

Use the standard Ruby to_a() or grep() method to take a "snapshot" Ruby array copy of API collections.
Then iterate THAT Ruby copy, viz:
entities.grep(Sketchup::Edge).each {|e| e.erase! if is_vertical?(e) }

Thanks Dan! The grep method worked great!

@dan rathbun said:

def is_vertical?(edge)
>   vec = edge.start.position.vector_to(edge.end.position).normalize
>   vec == [0,0,1] || vec == [0,0,-1]
> end

Your example for how to test for a vertical edge did not work for me, which could be entirely my fault. TIG's code from the other forum I mentioned did.

edge.line[1].z.abs==1

shannonnovus

@tig said:


>     elsif e.is_a?(Sketchup;;ComponentInstance)
>       e.parent.entities.each{|face|
>         next unless face.is_a?(Sketchup;;Face)
>         ### check for compliance with some 'property' and then
>         matching_faces << face if match
>       }       
>     end
> }

One comment: This section of the code for components didn't work for me. It wasn't giving any error messages, it just wasn't making any changed to the components in my model. I changed the second line to e.definition.entities.each .... and that worked.

One question: I'm not processing faces like this example, but edges. I'm modifying another script from TIG to delete all vertical edges in my model. I need it to also recurse into groups and components, so I've combined it with the script here.

So ... the first time I run the script, it deletes all vertical lines that are not within groups/components. From groups/components, however, it leaves one vertical line in each. (This is run on a simple test file that has three cubes, one is ungrouped, one is a group, the last in a component.) If I run the script a second time, it deletes the remaining vertical lines from the groups/components. I'd appreciate if anyone could explain what's going on here, and if there is a way to write the code such that each vertical edge is dealt with in the first go.

Many thanks,
Shannon

shannonnovus

Hi TIG,

First of all, thanks for all your great plugins! I use this one all the time.

I'm having some problems with it recently though, and I updated to the current release (2.5 20130811), but that didn't help. Here's the situation:

Before recently, I was using the coords to label both XY and Z coords. Most of the time, though, I only actually need the Z coord. I recently figured out that it was possible to label with only Z by changing the units of XY to none. So, in a new model, I labelled all my building roofs with Z only. While having the model open and doing this the first time through, everything works perfectly. Problems arise when I reopen the model. It seems to be a problem with updating of the coords when the model is reopened. I don't know enough about the code to understand what's going on, but I've included a snippet (below) of what the Ruby Console is showing me. It keeps doing this over and over and over. Technically everything else in the model still works, but it grinds it to a halt, and doesn't allow any "undo" because the last items to undo are always a million "Undo Coords Tag Update".

So, again, this has only ever happened to me when I am using only the Z with XY units set to "none", when I close and reopen. But it does happen EVERY time I try this. I have tried in two different models, and tried deleting all the coords tags and redoing them. As usual, all worked fine till I closed and reopened the model.

Thank you for any help in fixing this. I really like the ability to label only the heights. And again, I really appreciate this plugin in the first place. It's extremely useful.

Error: #<TypeError: nil can't be coerced into Float>
C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/#coordstexttagtoolfromdatum.rb:729:in *' C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/#coordstexttagtoolfromdatum.rb:729:in update'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/#coordstexttagtoolfromdatum.rb:672:in each' C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/#coordstexttagtoolfromdatum.rb:672:in update'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/#coordstexttagtoolfromdatum.rb:1368
C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/#coordstexttagtoolfromdatum.rb:729:in call' C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/#coordstexttagtoolfromdatum.rb:729 Error: #<TypeError: nil can't be coerced into Float> C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/#coordstexttagtoolfromdatum.rb:729:in *'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/#coordstexttagtoolfromdatum.rb:729:in update' C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/#coordstexttagtoolfromdatum.rb:672:in each'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/#coordstexttagtoolfromdatum.rb:672:in update' C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/#coordstexttagtoolfromdatum.rb:1368 C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/#coordstexttagtoolfromdatum.rb:729:in call'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/#coordstexttagtoolfromdatum.rb:729

Sincerely,
Shannon

shannonnovus

Hello!

I am looking to add markers to my model. They are simple circles or cylinders. I have them as components because they are all the same shape/size/etc. They are basically place holders for where items are being placed in the real life version of the model.

The part I cannot figure out is whether it is possible to number the markers. I would like to be able to incrementally number each marker, either as I place them, or afterwards once they are all in their proper locations. I'd vastly prefer an automated method of doing this, but I couldn't figure out a good manual way either.

I feel competent with the basics of SketchUp with creating shapes and installing plugins, but the Ruby console is beyond me and I find the text tool baffling. I do have SketchUp Pro, so I'm able to use dynamic components if that helps.

For reference, I found this method of (seemingly - I haven't tried) doing what I need in AutoCAD LT, which is my other option. http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?66337-Auto-Increment-Numbering-for-AutoCAD-LT I'd much prefer a SketchUp way to do this, if there is one.

Thank you in advance!
Shannon