Posts made by wind-borne

@thomthom said:

I'm also not sure if I understand the issue in question either...

Hi,

Selection Toys toolbar toggled for ages, recently the shortcut heads to the tool menu shown on right instead of tool palette in view menu left.
Never used to show up as shortcut in tool menu before. Don't know if caused by upgrading to Snow Leopard or SU maintenance release as did both almost simultaneously. If there was a slight variation as I did in Chris' problem would be solved but I am lost when looking inside your plugins.

Here is an example why I can't do within SU, choosing one chooses all but only toggles one

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Hi Chris,
Don't know what changed to cause problem but this solved.
I just deleted the space between Extended Standard in the toolbar line, now toggles toolbar with that spelling in shortcut. Adjusted your others as shown in screenshot previous post.

Thanks

clf_extended_views = $clf_tools_menu.add_submenu("Extended Standard Views")

	toolbar = UI::Toolbar.new "ExtendedStandard Views"

Noticed other thread on toolbars so updating on new behavior on Mac side.

Would like help to restore ability to toggle toolbars on and off with shortcuts on Mac. I have never been able to choose shortcuts for toolbars within SU preferences, (choose one chooses all) yet only toggles one. Work around was setting up within System Preferences which worked until recently. Upgrading to Snow Leopard or latest SU maintenance release?

The problem exists in Chris Fullmer's tools, TT's, and a couple of Fredo's. The items in Tool Palettes and Tools/Plugins have the same name and the shortcut heads for Tool/Plugin first.
I was able to find lines to delete spaces in Chris' plugins to make functional but I'm lost in a maze with Fredo's and ThomThom's.

Fredo Scale and BZ__Toolbar work fine as they differ between menus i.e.(Fredo Scale vs. FredoScale)
Joint Push Pull won't toggle now but did when NUL Transformation.
Round Corner shortcut possesses a strange trait of moving between Tool Palette and Tool whenever I add a new shortcut(moves to Palette for as many files I open in that session) to Tool the next time I open SU.

Though I have shortcuts within SU for TT's Selection Toys that I use most would also like to be able toggle toolbar as before. Also, I can't get superscript(2)to properly enter menu title box for shortcuts to even test Edge Tools, would work perfect if I knew where to delete superscript from Palette line as that would differentiate from Tool menu. If you could direct me to line in code I could alter or if you could alter on future update would be appreciated.

Thanks for the great tools.

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@unknownuser said:

Ahhh! I knew it was there somewhere!!

You have to be very accurate to be able to click on it, and I had to hide all the geometry that was on top of it, but I got it!

Thanks so much!

Another simple way is keyboard shortcut

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Duh,

I always just looked inside the box but now I see words outside changing to reflect the action.

Thanks

Does anyone know if the 'measurements box' png in the Mac toolbar is accessible and editable?
I like the box top center yet frown upon the word invading the landscape.

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http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=251619#p251619

choose layer and edge color

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@thomthom said:

But, today I was contacted by a plugin user today that reported that they did not have a Google folder under application support, but instead just Google Sketchup 8. (And no plugins folder.)
library/application support/Google Sketchup 8/Sketchup/

This user was using OSX 10.5.8.

Wouldn't that slash at the end imply there was more beyond?

mine

/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/plugins/

@arjunmax09 said:

it doesn't have lock layers option

layer manager

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@thomthom said:

@tfdesign said:

That's odd. It must be a PC thing because the Mac version (or my Mac version anyway) starts with the selection tool. A windows bug?

Edit; Is it something to do with how you've saved a template as? I always make my own template. Perhaps the default starts with the line tool, and making a template, to get rid of Sang, would leave you with the selection tool, which is then saved as a tool pref with the template?

Are you sure you don't have a plugin installed that modifies this? because there is no option in SU nativly to set which tool SU should activate by default. It's hard-coded to the Pencil tool.

My Mac always opens with Selection tool, on 6,7 or 8. I don't have any plugins on 6.

ChrisP_ColorEdge

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=251619#p251619

In the other thread I thought the disable auto-activate was a clever comment not a solution. I looked back in 6 & 7 and that option has always been checked on my programs with no problems. As soon as i installed Render[in] on 8 chaos ensued, still have auto-activate checked on 8 with no problems minus Render[in]

here is older thread and what plugin was doing it for me.

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=271592#p271592

1001bit pro plugin

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@mariocha said:

Ok, lets disable "Auto-activate paint tool" in the preferences, drawing.

Removed Render[in] and the problem vanished.

I don't even have to start the paint bucket, selection tool is not the only one. Eraser becomes paint bucket too.
I have been holding off doing a clean install thinking I was alone

@earthmover said:

Silly question, but how do you get the Google Earth terrain data into Sketchup? I spent hours one day trying to figure it out and never did. Looks like it would save me a lot of time.

When you import your location terrain comes along as separate layer.

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@jhearcht said:

@wind-borne said:

Do you see the toolbar anywhere?
Might be the only access.
Doesn't show as plugin or tool in menus on my computer.

I finally found ColorEdge in the Views/Toolbar menu. When selected, a new toolbar appears. So far so good. But after trying every combination I can think of, I still can't get the look I want.

When I click a free edge the color changes to the current material selection, in this case a gray color. But that single edit automatically changes all edges in the drawing, including Profiles, to By Material.

I want Profiles in black and only selected lines in gray. But apparently there is no way to distinguish between Edges and Profiles in color. It's all or nothing. In my CAD application any object can be given it's own edge and face color. Why is that so hard in SU?

I have looked for a plug-in that will allow me to select objects by type and edit them separately from all other objects. But the universal edge color seems to override any custom edits. I tried Color By Layer, but that colors everything on each layer the same. Again, no way to edit each layer separately.

Does anyone have any more suggestions????

Watch the videos?

In the earlier image I posted there were 5 shades of gray within the black rectangle

Here's a simple block with some colored edges.

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@redinhawaii said:

That seems easy, but did not seem to work, I quit SU8, after Command paste the plugins, they show up but when I relaunch SU8 the menu bar does not show the plugins menu, i.e. where it use to be in SU7.
And the main issue was that the model created in SU8 does NOT copy and paste into SU7. Is that so, or again am I doing something wrong.
thanks
aloha
red

make sure your plugins are on this path

your work in 8 do a save as 7 then you can paste work onto 7

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I was just curious as to the grayed out icon, I can easily switch styles if I want that view.

BTW, I wasn't around when you created some of your styles which really help when I find myself too focused on a project.
Pop up the blackboard, back of envelop, etc., smile and hopefully remember to purge regularly.
Thanks