Posts made by slbaumgartner

This is true for all SketchUp tools that are context-sensitive: they won't show up in the shortcuts editor unless the appropriate context is activated, e.g. by selecting an edge, face, group, or component.

Also be aware that edits can break a curve apart into individual segments, losing its original identity as a single curve. In that situation pushpull will generate unsoftened edges from each segment end. You can use the eraser tool to soften them afterward.

There are several issues with that old Ruby plugin. I would advise against using it without thinking carefully about what it does and reworking it. In particular:

• It does not comply with the current practice of never assigning tags/layers to edges or faces (unless you are really expert and understand the risk you are taking). Only assign tags/layers to Groups, ComponentInstances, and non-geometric objects such as dimensions, texts, and images. Tagging edges and faces creates the mistaken impression that they are isolated against interaction, whereas in SketchUp the tags/layers have no effect on interaction. This is a cause of many errors and frustration as naive users edit their models. Layers in many 2D drawing and photo editing apps do isolate geometry, and there is a myth that layers in CAD also isolate geometry, but this is not true: edges never intersect in CAD unless you tell them to do so. SketchUp is different!
• In keeping with the previous, current advice is that you should very rarely make any tag/layer active besides "untagged"/"Layer0"
• The code should be wrapped in modules with distinctive (hence likely unique) names so that it can't clash with other code.
• The name change from layers to tags in SketchUp is purely a GUI thing to help avoid confusion, especially since LayOut has layers that behave the same as in many other 2D drawing apps. As a result, to avoid breaking many extensions, the name was left as "layers" and "Layer0" in the Ruby API. It is up to Ruby code to substitute "untagged" for "Layer0" if you want consistency with the GUI.

I think TIG is on the money. The macOS bug affects code that writes text directly to the screen using the OpenGL primitive draw methods, which I think is what Fredo uses for his menus. Unfortunately, I haven't seen an exhaustive list anywhere of exactly which Mac models are affected (it is not all - for example my 16" MBP doesn't have the problem) or under what conditions (note that some of Fredo's menu text is right-side up), so until Apple addresses this it will be very awkward for anyone to work around it.

Take a look over on forums.sketchup.com. There have been numerous reports of crashes on Mac and various fixes depending on the actual cause.

This extension lets you find out what objects in your model are contributing the most to its edge and face counts. It provides a detailed breakout, object by object, that is at best tedious to see using SketchUp's built-in Tools. It has two versions:

• A Visual report that zooms in and draws a highlight around an object while displaying its edge and face counts in a dialog box. This presentation is particularly useful if you don't routinely name your groups or components, as it shows you exactly what in the model is contributing those edges.

You can navigate to the object with the next lower edge count by pressing the right arrow and to the one with the next greater count by pressing the left arrow. You can enter the context of the current object by pressing the down arrow key and then repeat the left/right arrow key actions to examine its contents. The "Up" button returns to the parent of the current context.

• A tabular report that lists all of the objects in the current context sorted in descending order of edge counts. This version provides a faster overview of an entire context. You can enter the context of any object by clicking on its row in the table, and return back to the parent by clicking the "Up" button.

Download from the SketchUcation plugin store
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=SB_Statistics_Probe

Check the current style. It appears you have the ground color set to black.

There is a known issue (feature?) when using Architectural units that the ~ indicating that the displayed measurement is rounded isn't shown when both feet and inches are present.

I'm not sure why you want to use silicone (I assume you mean a silicone-based caulk?). Are you worried about different expansion of the metal vs wood? Silicone will accommodate that, but will provide a somewhat rubbery bond that might be a bit unsettling to people going up the stairs unless there is a tight fit between the wood and metal. But if that is the case, there won't be room for different expansion anyway!

I think I would also favor an epoxy.

The messages could make things clearer. Yes, there is an update available. The PluginStore or Fredo's own check will tell you so. And yes, you can download and install the extension update. But until you purchase and install a license (done via an item on the Fredo Corner menu), the updated extension will not run. It seems that the days of incredibly powerful but free extensions are starting to fade away.

The mystery, which so far as I know nobody has yet solved, is why only certain Mac users are seeing this. For example, my MBP also uses a Radeon Pro 5500M but I have never seen anything upside down. I'm on Big Sur 11.2.1, but I got here straight from Catalina so I don't know whether earlier minor versions had this problem and they fixed it.

Good thing the holes were very small!

Strange! Round Corner does not show its menu upside down on my 2019 MBP 16". Dimensions are also right-side up.

What version of Round Corner? I have v3.3a, which seems to be the latest, though it hasn't been updated in 3 years since he released Fredo Corner.

What graphics is SketchUp using? Check SketchUp->Preferences->OpenGL->Graphics Card Details. If it is using the Intel Integrated instead of the Radeon, that could be the issue. That would suggest auto-switching isn't working right.

Sorry, there is no interface to the Outliner in the Ruby API (or to other GUI panels, for that matter).

If you want to skip the trig, you could also use my trilateration extension:

https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=SB_Trilateration

And then there's the tale of a customer service rep handling a call from a person who said their computer wouldn't turn on. They had the customer verify that the power switch was on - yes. So they next asked whether it was plugged in. The customer said "I don't know, I can't see back there". The rep asked why, and the customer said "well all the lights are out because the power failed".

At least on Mac, in the Dimensions panel of Model Info you can choose a color for use by dimensions. You can then click "select all dimensions" and "update selected dimensions" to apply that color to existing dimensions. Whatever color you select remains as the default color for any new dimensions created later. You can also select a dimension and then edit its color in entity info without affecting any other dimensions.

Edit: Dave posted while I was writing.

Please explain more about what you mean by "join them together and intersect the 2 parts together". That is, what specific tools and steps did you do?

Yes, Inkscape is free. https://inkscape.org

That looks like you bent the path in the wrong plane - sidways instead of vertically.