Here's what I did:
def onMouseMove(flags, x, y, view)
@ip.pick(view, x, y, @ip1)
view.invalidate
view.refresh
end
def draw(view)
view.tooltip = @ip.tooltip
@ip.draw view
# draw other stuff to the view...
There are some minor differences, but it's not obvious to me why yours doesn't seem to work.
Steve
Just speculating here...
Could it be an order issue between the drawing of the tooltip and your drawing operations? I draw the tooltip first (via view.tooltip=InputPoint.tooltip and InputPoint.draw view) and then do my view.draw operations.
Steve
Ah, piece of cake...any beginner can set up a plane that precisely (NOT!)
Boy, without knowing the actual locations of everything it is tough to say whether that is sloped or just the beam is angled away from the camera...maybe if Jeff wants to analyze the video frame by frame
The mental hurdle in this joint as nicely illustrated in Scott's video is that the joint slides together along a 45 degree sloped line, not straight in as we are accustomed to. That fools the mind and eye into thinking it can't go together at all!
Steve
Unless you work with very large, complex models or simultaneously run a renderer, SketchUp is not a significant "memory hog" the way that PhotoShop is. And unless you significantly "overbook" memory by running too many programs at a time, you will probably not see much improvement in SketchUp from putting your VM onto an SSD (SSD will be much faster than VM on a hard drive, but except as noted SketchUp is usually not guilty of gobbling memory). In addition, if your computer can hold it, you will get a larger benefit from adding more RAM.
Although other causes are certainly possible, the most common source of crash on open is a misbehaving plugin. Have you tried disabling all plugins before opening the file to see if that helps?
Dave implied and demonstrated but didn't state explicitly the original cause of your problem: the geometry you intersected was too small, and this caused SketchUp to merge some vertices. Jagged edges, strange spikes, and missing faces generally result from this action. It is almost always worth your time to scale up before doing an intersect and scale back down afterward.
A further note: if you change your shortcuts, SketchUp does not generally save the changes to the properties file until you close SketchUp (at least on Mac). As a result, the sketchUcation tool TIG mentions (which reads the file) won't see the changes until you close and restart SketchUp.
I think that the arrow keys action to lock the inference engine is built-in, not handled by a shortcut, since it is neither a menu item nor a Tool. Therefore, I think Pixero is right - if you delete your own shortcut assignment, the inference locking behavior should return.
@gu5to said:
Hi folks. Ok so I've just downloaded the CutList plugin and I'm hoping to use it on a model I've already created. Does anyone know if this is possible? It seems each part of the model needs to made into an component before it can be read correctly by CutList. Does anyone know of a way to break down my existing models into parts that I can make into components? It feels as if this could be a very time consuming project and might almost be worth starting again... unless one you you geniuses can save me!
Many thanks,
Gus
Alas, CutList only works with components, so you are going to have to do some work. If all of your parts are rectangular solids it is at least theoretically possible that a plugin could analyze the model and create the appropriate components automatically, but I have never heard of one that does that.
However, if you select the end Face of a board and make it into a component, you can then open the component for edit and push/pull the face to the required length. Repeat this process for each board. Then make a new layer and assign all the components to it. Make the layer invisible and you can then erase any remaining stray lines and faces. Make the layer visible again and you are done. I think this process will be faster than starting all over.
On another note, if you assign materials to the boards CutList will include those materials in its output.
Steve
@maxjayok said:
Hi everyone,
I hope you're all well out there.
I was wondering if anyone uses Sketchup on a Macbook pro and, if they do, whether they find that, for whatever reason, the software repeatedly freezes?
I've been working on organic, symmetrical shape designs but am finding that I rarely get anywhere because as soon as the design reaches a certain level of complexity, the software freezes.
I contacted apple support and have made sure that is not the machine I'm using.
I just wondered if anyone ever had experienced this problem and, if so, how did they resolve it?All the best everyone and thanks in advance!
Max
My regular machine is a MacBookPro Retina. I haven't experienced what you describe.
Steve
Jim,
Interesting question! What you request sounds like the switch many compilers provide to continue processing beyond the first error (with the addition that the error messages need to be captured somewhere accessible). Just as with a compiler, this would risk causing a cascade of nonsense errors from subsequent loaded files, but also just as with a compiler that might be a tradeoff the developer was willing to make.
@pbacot said:
Lo these many years I've had an icon in my customized Mac toolbar to make a component. Now in v2015 I can't find it listed under "customize Toolbar". Where did it go? If you see it there, please help me find it. Thanks, Peter
It's still there on my Mac. Second row, roughly center.
Steve
@driven said:
@steve
that stopped the errors, but still not working here...
send me your copy...
john
sent via PM
@driven said:
hi Jim
to clarify, I'm trying to run it in 'Ruby Console' using the embedded ruby 2...
and it also fails using Jeff's Terminal.app cmd, but mac also uses ruby 2...
john
John, try putting the magic comment at the head of jim's file:
At least that worked for me from a Terminal window. And the png I got was much nicer than the ones I remember from SU 8 when I last tried this...
Steve
@john2 said:
@dave r said:
The clipping thing has nothing to do with groups or components. The clipping behavior can be managed, though, and no plugins are required to do it.
Okay, and how difficult would it be to make a plugin [not for me, of course, but for a developer] to make a plugin that enables me to click on the axis to get inside the culprit groups/components. Of course there is outliner menu to search but the "click-on-axis-get-inside-the-component plugin" would be really awesome.
Sorry, not following what you are asking for. As Dave observes, the clipping is an OpenGL behavior that has nothing to do with components or groups. The camera position with respect to the model triggers the clipping, not the kind of content in the model. So, what exactly do you mean by "get inside the culprit groups/components"? Culprits in doing what? Get inside = what? Component axes are not geometry, so I doubt it is even possible to detect when a click lands on them.
@john2 said:
I have 4GB RAM and an i5 processor in my laptop. I want to ask while running SU 2015x64, would my laptop perform better if AutoCAD 2012 with a 1 mb drawing is open or with Adobe Reader XI window of the same drawing opened as a pdf?
I'm asking this because I keep on looking at my 2D drawing while modelling in SketchUp so want to ensure that I get the best performance from my hardware with respect to the multiple software windows open at the same time.
I don't know which application would take more memory for a particular drawing - I'm sure it varies with the details of the drawing. However, you can look at Task Manager (or Activity Monitor on Mac) to see how much memory and CPU each of them uses.
