Ahoi,

as some of you already realized, project Ropefall has closed doors. This means no new licences will be given away.

Maintenance support will remain available in the maintenance period (a year after purchase).

Thanks for your support so far!

Balazs

Projector cabling...

Thanks Kwin for the awesome pics!!

Dan, thank you for the your comment! I answered it in the bug report, I suggest we continue the discussion there.

a ticket has been filed here

https://github.com/SketchUp/api-issue-tracker/issues/15

Thanks a lot for your feedback.

I am planning to build a more sophisticated licencing system but it is a non-trivial task and takes time to develop. Or maybe I go with SU's licencing system in some future release, we will see.

For now, we have to live with this simple process. Please just drop me an email once you need a new key within a year after purchase.

Hi Guys, thanks for reporting this.

The licence is valid for a single Ropefall installation, it does not expire.

So if you install Ropefall on a Sketchup 2015+, successfully enter the licence key purchased and do not change or modify anything in your Sketchup environment that makes the licence key invalid, then you should be able to use that Ropefall instance forever.

So what change can make a licence key invalid?

• reinstall Sketchup for some reason (e.g. on a new machine)
• upgrade Sketchup version, e.g. from 2016 to 2017
• anything that makes Sketchup registry corrupted

In these cases please contact me at ropefall@sketchrope.com and I will generate a new licence key for you, free of charge within the one year maintenance period.

Does this help?

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Dave made some investigations which got deleted by moving this thread to the developers forum. I give here a short summary of his findings:

• he tried to reproduce the issue on the attached model by manually using the FollowMe tool. He suggested to scale up the model before applying FollowMe to eliminate small scale issues such as edges should be longer than 0.001 in.
• he also found weird irregular segments on the line
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Dave, thanks for looking into this!

I uploaded the skp (created by commenting out "face.followme(edges)" line in the script above). Interestingly, Sketchup can use the FollowMe tool normally if I use it manually on the model (select the line -> select FollowMe tool -> select disc at the end of the line). There is no bugsplat report in this case.

The issue seems to arise when FollowMe is run over the API. And I checked the edge lengths : none of them is less than 0.001 inches, the smallest being 0.0031780318151616855 inches. See the list of edge lengths below.

Thus the situation seems to be different from what you describe above because:

• Sketchup chokes (!), its not just some small faces won't get created
• the edge lengths are longer than 0.001 inches (Sketchup crashes even if I remove that shortest edge of length 0.003 inches)

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0.4155083617644397
0.42840424004615574
0.4398082890187205
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0.4864211022176622
0.48957687526628785
0.49213077917050796
0.49415726557699746
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0.49816004357814353
0.4979412695177626
0.497762205183359
0.4976576322108056
0.49766269227690346
0.4978134037542148
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0.5021294757761189
0.5040139672197974
0.5063559760228643
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0.5816650831325503
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0.369203117349373
0.4297282738342088
0.4904175142295599
0.5510354987677838
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0.7958257011590709
0.5496677522125281

model for the followme tool

FollowMe works even without scaling up when using it manually over Sketchup UI. It chokes only when calling it over the ruby API.

Some more background: some customers of mine detected this issue when using my Ropefall plugin. So the obvious (already known) workaround is to only draw midline of the rope with Ropefall and use FollowMe manually around it.

To implement your scaling workaround in the plugin is hardly viable since it is hard to guess how much scaling would be enough.

Also, I think the right place to fix this is in the core product. Sketchup should handle weird wire shapes in a graceful way, it should never crash. At least not when the API contract is respected (I mean the script above uses the API properly, yet Sketchup chokes on it).

Please note this example is an artificial one created for reproducing the issue - that is why it has such garbage near the end of the line. The first fixed segment is vertical, which is hardly ever the case in realistic uses.

Any opinion on this maybe from the Sketchup team would be highly appreciated! Thx!

Also, is there any developer platform for reporting Sketchup issues? I reported this over bugsplat but i could not send the script reproducing the issue in the bugsplat form. Thus some bugzilla or jira reference would be nice to file the bug report properly...