Ive been running into similar issues over the past 3 weeks now. Sketchup has become very unstable using any of the Fredo tools (running SKU Pro 2013), but the root of it seems to stem from a plugin I installed called the Energy Plus Legacy Open Studio (its utter crap ans also breaks V-Ray and a bunch of other plugins). Immediately after installing it I've had nothing but headaches. Ive since uninstalled that plugin, uninstalled and reinstaled a fresh version of Sketchup, and reinstalled everything else (fredo and other plugins), so I thought the problems would stop, but It still persists. I get the most issues when running round corners, Joint Push Pull, and Curvizard, as well as the boolean operations native to sketchup.

I used to have a script that I could run that seemed to do the trick, I have no idea what it is or where I got it, but I would run the .bat operation, and it would re-organize the plugins menu and I would get more reliability out of the plugins. However that was in SU 8, I don't know if it would work in 13.

Anyway, all that said, I can reproduce the bug-splat issue consistently by running the round corner operation. Operations to reproduce go like this:

1. open new sketchup scene
2. create geometry
3. run round corners (any of the 3 will do)
4. operation will finish.
5. once the tool is finished; clicking, closing or any next operation will result in a sketchup bug-splat.

Ill check tomorrow when I get to work, see if its pulling too much memory and thats crashing SU or maybe theres a background operation that keeps running causing the crash? Im not really sure. But things are not going well at the moment. I'm pretty sure its a plugin conflict, I'm just not sure where because everything was running great 3 weeks ago and thats the setup Ive reverted too.

Im currently using the Vray 1.6 Beta, but the materials are all the standard Vray basic material pack. I bumped the glossy samples up from the base 8 to something like 25. Im not at the office right now but later I will be so ill check on the material settings. Truthfully I think its in the render settings and not the material because it happens across the whole model with any material that has some reflection to it.

Im having a similar problem. I keep getting some awful black spots all over anything reflective. My 1.6 will only render one scene at a time too. Ill go to render a second scene and will get nothing but sky. Anybody have ideas on how to fix it?

http://postimg.org/image/mp39dyuqt/

I saw the garden pack on the store page but I'm wondering if you're thinking of doing the same with trees and larger foliage?

Does anybody know of a plugin that allows me to soften multiple grouped objects? I have a lot of 3DS models that i import that need to be smoothed and cleaned up, but I have to open each group and soften them individually, which is quite painstaking. Any Suggestions?

Hey, If you ever need photos of specific parts, or diagrams let me know. I have a 56' at home and a pile of maintenance and repair manuals for it. Its not a Nomad like what your modeling, but for the most part their all pretty much the same guts.

Amazing model!

@hellnbak said:

@ely862me said:

The upper A arm could use some rounding on the outside edges !

I still can't believe your degree of patience !!

Yeah, I've worked on that. And the lower control arm. And pretty much everything else. I think I'll just buy a '56 and use it for reference (shouldn't cost too much, after all it's 56 years old, right?)

As for my patience, sometimes I do run short of that. But I remind myself that "There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over"

Ken,

I'm not sure if this has been answered, I didn't read the entire thread, but have you gone to View> Toolbars> Save Toolbar Positions before you install? I used to have a similar problem, but once I save a toolbar position set up all I have to do is run through the process of View> Toolbars> Restore Toolbar Positions, and I'm good to go. Have you tried that? Or does this particular plugin just kill any saved toolbar locations when its installed?

Just curious, and I hope that helps!

@unknownuser said:

Mr. Bur

Thanks for you very useful script.

Just a side note, installation of your script has re-arranged all my toolbars. This is nothing new, it happens with every script installation that adds a new toolbar. So I have to re-arrange the menus, and usually they are not in the same order, and another learning curve is required.

But this time, I have outwitted this darn re-organizational mess. I took a JPG screen snap shot of the toolbars before installation. Imported this JPG into a Sketchup model and saved the model as SketchupToolbars. So now I just load this program and re-arrange all the tools bars as the JPG indicates. Now no new learning curve.

Mr. Bur again thanks for the script.

Ken

I am really looking forward to playing with this one!

I actually needed to clean out my plugins anyway. But whats the easier way? Please enlighten me!

Running Sketchup Pro 8, Trimble update.

Well, To answer TIG, I've begun doing this already, and have found that its most definitely a plugin issue. I'm now in the process of migrating over each plugin. Its going to be a long annoying afternoon

Chris, to further explain the problem with the open command: when I hit file open or control+O I either have Sketchup freeze or I get the open box completely blanked out (empty window) and have to force quit the program. I didn't know if somebody might have had this problem in the past. Really it all started when I downloaded the Open Studio software (https://openstudio.nrel.gov/). I've since uninstalled it, and have had no problem, but it cropped back up today after updating some existing plugins (artisan update). I might just go start a fresh install and reload my plugins.

Has anybody run into an issue where a plugin conflicts with simple commands, for example File> Open? I'm running into this problem and I cant seem to back track my steps to find the problematic plugin. I have a number of them installed at this point, and most recently I updated the Artisan Plugin. But it seems to be working fine. Has anybody come across this issue before?

Thanks!

Thats great! Ill have to research that a little more!

HELP! Im freakin out! I installed TT_Lib2 and TT_QuadFaceTools to my plugins folder. TT_Lib2 gave me a copy and replace option when I went to place it in the plugins folder. Since I already have a number of TT's other tools installed I assumed it would be no problem. But I just opened Sketchup and bam, NONE of my plugins show up. Nothing in my tool pallet selection, nada! Their all still there in the plugins folder but nothing works in sketchup now! What happened? Suggestions?

When I open sketchup I get an error that reads:

C:Program Files (x86)/Google/Google Sketchup 8/Plugins/Makfaces.rb

The files listed below could not be loaded:

Sketchup.rb
no such file to load -- TT_Lib2/core.rb
progrsee bar.rb
no such file to load -- TT_Lib2/core.rb

Contact the developer of this script address: toddb@sumstard.com

Anybody else ever have this happen?!

So let me explain. I have a large site plan with lots of topography. I also have a flat plan with lots of tree components. What I want to do is take all those trees attached to the same plane and drop them to the topography I've created. I suppose it would be similar to using the drape tool. Does anybody know of a quick way to do this? I really don't want to place each individual tree for 5000 trees.

Thanks!

So I'm a little newer to posting to the forum, but I've been reading it for ages. I'm interested in suggestions for ways to create trees in Sketchup that are lower poly and render well in 3DS Max. My work flow moves from Sketchup to 3DS and I'm constantly finding myself having to build site work in Sketchup and add trees/plants in Max. While the trees in max are great and are perfect for up-close and personal models because render really well, I find their high poly count can cause some serious lag when working in large projects with lots of landscape. I just need something that renders well enough for creating overall site renders. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Ted