@tig said:
Works fine on PC and MAC for me - provided that simple rule is followed.
I did follow that simple rule, however, I made a stupid mistake elsewhere. 
I installed the plugin to the reservoir folder (mysteriously named "Plugins" just by chance! 
) that I made especially to keep and archive all the plugins… so it wasn't installed properly to begin with.
Now it's installed to "plugins" under Sketchup folder, and working fine.
Sorry to waste your time, guys.
Does SectionCutFace work with Macs (OSX10.7, Mountain Lion)?
No SectionCutFace context menus available when section planes are right-clicked... 
Thanks everybody for insightful tips.
@box said:
One of the simplest things is to use an onscreen keyboard, this lets you hit crtl, alt etc as needed and change tools easily. would work well with a wacom.
I didn't even know such a thing as on-screen keyboard existed.
This method is easy and has no learning curve. However it's not as fast as keyboard shortcuts (basically the same as using icons to send commands), and takes too much onscreen real estate.
Pilou;
But, that is not sketchup! (but but, I love MOI too. A lovely prog.)
pbacot;
Woah, don't they burn your hands?
@jaceguay said:
You could try to use a mouse gesture program, I´ve used stroke it with great sucess you just have to spend some time creating the gestures and getting used to it.
Tell me you are not a genius and I won't believe you!
What I really liked about this method is that all my original shortcuts are directly translatable to mouse gestures.
What I mean by this is:
Command >> Gesture
G >> G
Alt + G >> Reversed G
Ctrl + G >> g (lower case)
"Reversed T" does not mean "mirrored" or "upside down", but T drawn backwards, as in counter-clockwise O to clockwise O. As soon as these rules were established, I had a whole keyboard under my command, literally.
There was no learning curve, since I kept the same, old, time-tested and beloved shortcuts; all of them.
I even added some new shortcuts because now key-combos as "Alt + P" or "Alt + L" are just as easy to type as "Alt + C"!
What is really amazing is after half a day of mouse gesturing, I'm already back to my previous speed, if not faster.
I have a feeling that I will be using mouse gestures even after my left arm comes back to business.
I cannot thank you enough, jaceguay!
One more thing, I found that Strokeit was kind of obsolete as the last release was in 2010.
There is a good substitute program called Strokeplus, its last update was last month. It has easy-to-use GUI and an extensive help file too.
http://www.strokesplus.com/
Hello.
Over the holidays I broke my left arm when I fell off from my skateboard. 
As a result, I re-discovered SIRI and am really impressed with its capability (I'm writing this post with it).
However, when it comes to CAD, thing are not so easy.
So far, the best one-hand input method for SketchUp is a programmable mouse (Logicool G400).
I assigned modifier keys (ctrl, alt, shift...) to its four buttons and that helped me a great deal.
I only wish if my mouse had 27 more buttons...
So my question is, what is the best CAD input method (or device) for a person with only one working hand?
Is 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse good in my case? Looks like it still needs a separate mouse.
How about Siri? Can it be used with SketchUp in anyway? Maybe a Wacom pen-tablet?
Any suggestions are welcome!
OMG! Little Rascals is going cloud? Is that what this thread is about?
Wonderful. They never made it in Japan, you know... 
I think there are some confusions in the original proposition.
The title mentions to "Adobe Creative Cloud (basically a form of licensing strategy)", then shinyaohno says something about AWS (Amazon Web Service, Software-as-a-Service model).
If my memory serves me correct, your software is on your HD with ACC, whereas you don't install software to your HD with AWS. You do your computing with ACC, they do (most of) your computing with AWS.
From the context of argument, I assume he means AWS, not ACC.
Say that is true and I don't agree with him.
Seems to me that most of SU's performance problems come from its own backbones. SU at its current state cannot utilize what's available in our workstations to its fullest; therefore, it doesn't look like it is a kind of problem that can be solved with Rubies either.
Going cloud is a tremendous investment, I hope that Trimble rather puts that check into 64bit, multi-threaded, GPU-powered version of SU.
My two cents.
If I'm in a minority who is having trouble using RichSection, it must be because of something esoteric in my Plugins folder... a recent plugin, not a kind that everybody installs...
@pgarmyn said:
In 'procesRS' I have only twice 'layer='
It can't be the first:
Layer? layer... Let me check, I'm not a "layer" person, I'm rather a "group" person, I don't have many layer-oriented plugins. In fact, I have only one: Layers Panel.
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=52225
I reinstalled Layers panel and then tried RS, it doesn't work.
I uninstalled Layers panels and tried RS again, it works. Gotcha.
pgarmyn,
I thought this might be getting nowhere with 200+ plugins, so I did a big cleanup of my Plugins folder for the first time in 10years, cut them down to around 100.
Those are indispensable 100s, so I was really nervous when re-starting SU... Voila! your RS worked (so did everything else)!
Thank you for the wonderful plugin, now I have to taste a dip of it.
@pgarmyn said:
Can you try running the plugin alone, after switching off other plugins (+ restart SU)?
Let me know if that makes the difference .....
If RichSection is running alone, it works.
Then I added "offset.rb" which I no longer needed back to Plugins folder, RichSection stopped working. So I figured it was "offset.rb", I erased it from Plugins folder and put everything else back in. Then RichSection stopped working again and I got the error message:
"Error: #<TypeError: reference to deleted DrawingElement>
(eval):2134:in layer=' (eval):2134:in procesRS'
(eval):1456:in updateRichSection1' (eval):1373:in createRichSection'
(eval):1318:in toolRScreate_part2' (eval):97:in onElementAdded'
(eval):2415"
Hmmm, there must be a bad guy hidden inside my Plugins folder. I have something like 200 plugins, where should I start...
@pgarmyn said:
Do you use components or groups? Are they closed in the sectionplan?
Test it with a Solid without changing any parameter in the dialog box?Is there any error on the Ruby panel?
I tried it with a solid group, still no result.
There is an error reported in Ruby panel. It goes;
"Error: #<TypeError: reference to deleted DrawingElement>
(eval):2134:in layer=' (eval):2134:in procesRS'
(eval):1456:in updateRichSection1' (eval):1373:in createRichSection'
(eval):1318:in toolRScreate_part2' (eval):97:in onElementAdded'
(eval):2134"
BTW I updated RichSection to the latest version.
Yeah it's kinda late, get some sleep.
Seriously, can you only select the part of face on the board that you want to keep as the result of this push/pull? What I am suspecting is that those lines are not really dividing the face of the board as you intend to... maybe they are not edges (one of them look like construction line), maybe the board is a group. 
pgarmyn,
Tour de force! 
Videos look marvelous too... however, is it working properly for everybody else?
So far I'm getting no result from the plugin.
It makes cuts and shows the dialog box, but never generated sections with materials.
IOW it is working like native SU section tool, although it does generate automatically named scenes.
I'm on Win7, Dell XPS8500, Intel Corei7-3770 3.4GHz, 12GB RAM, SketchUp8.
Any help?
"Not sure about the practical purposes of this graph?"
I thought that that was a question, to which you'll give us an ingenious use of the graph later in the video, but it was a statement! 
kirill2008, I use your LSS Chrono all the time. I think it is a great plugin. Cannot thank you enough for that!
I haven't DLed this plugin yet but surely I will give it a try later.
The only issue I have with it so far is the way the plugin understands the floor area of rooms by tracing point by point. It's much easier if we can simply select the floor plane to designate the floor of rooms, don't you think?
X10 faster, sure!
The last year's Chipotle ad was more comprehensible especially to those outside the US (where no Chipotle exists).
The story behind the ad is also interesting. They made the first ad almost completely in-house!
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/food-for-men/chipotle-grammy-ad-6654671
@unknownuser said:
Seems PPB's Forum down ?
It's been hacked (again), and having difficulty putting it back...
Below, I'll quote administrator's words from pushpullbar facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/pushpullbar/330726573706).
For those wondering what's happening with pushpullbar, the sad news is that it's been hacked again. The good news is that at least there is backup from the hosting company this time, though I really lack the energy, health, motivation and the know-how to make the forum great again at this stage. It's been 9.5 years and this was all before social media took over and has taken away many of our time and attention to forum websites. Forum softwares really haven't caught up to the game yet and are just as convoluted to use as ever. If I were to do it, I really need the help of someone dedicated enough and have php knowledge and knowing how to properly integrate the forum with Facebook and Twitter as well as a mobile devices.
Bob,
I'm not sure if this workaround means anything to your situation, but if you make a new component while inside of an old component (which has no "glue to" option) and select the "glue to" option, you get exactly the same component (means it contains the same entities) and the same axis orientation; but the catch is that you get different location for the origin of axis. Here is how;
Hope this little tut helps.
How timely, I just bought this huuuuuge 3D printer that spits out a whole house (well a half of a house at a time, to be precise...).
Mesh Fusion tool will sure come in handy!
Seriously, I always admire the way modo integrates complex functions into simple, workable UI.
I also like their licensing policy; "When you buy a MODO 701 Individual License, you can use it on Windows, OSX and Linux as we license the software to you, not your computer. "
Trimble, are you listening?
@glro said:
i don't see any download link on the web page
this seems to me more a PROJECT of plugin, than a real one
Here you go;
http://code.google.com/p/rescape/downloads/list
That's a lot of coding...
toddakeson,
There are some one-click-solutions like suggested in above posts, but if you want to have more control over design and details, you need to build each elements of the stair separately I'm afraid.
One quick example. See attached skp for details. I named a couple of plugins in [] here but they can be substituted with many other good tools.
Cheers.
@dod3r said:
more than one active section plane
It's not a straightforward function of SU, but you can make several cuts simultaneously active.
The first section plane is inside of a group, and then the second is outside of it.
Well, it's a "workaround", I know...
It can be done with FredoScale (Box Stretching to Target). Door has to be closed prior to the operation in case you want precision.
I just found that "Box Stretching to Target" icon is not on the toolbar of v2.2 as the tutorial video shows it is, however you can access the tool from menu bar instead.
