[Plugin] Toggle Units

[Matt666]

Hi. I apologize for mac bugs, I have no mac to test plugins...
Did you see there is an option that lets you choose icons you want to display? You can hide fractional icon if you want.

[element]

Useful plugin.

[pololo]

Useful plugin!!! Thanks!!

[Pete]

Matt666, thank you for the very handy plugin. I use this all the time and was wondering if I could make one request...

Could you add a favorites toggle? What I mean by this is allow the user to set favorite units / precision combinations they could toggle between with one click. In my case I need to toggle CM with 0.0 precision and Inches with 1/16 precision constantly. If I could set these two as favorites and have one button that would switch between only those two I would owe you!!

[Matt666]

Hi Pete! Thank you for your kind words..

i don't use SU and Ruby anymore, my new job as musician doesn't need for these kind of software!
But I love programming so I will try to do something for you..

I just have to reinstall SU!

[design54]

i have a question please;
can i use the plugin toggle units in commercial use; i mean i will not sell it, i want to use it in my design, i am interior designer and i use sketchup pro 8, to designs designs for clients so is it allowed to me to use it or no?

thank you
waiting your feedback

[TIG]

i have a question please;
can i use the plugin toggle units in commercial use; i mean i will not sell it, i want to use it in my design, i am interior designer and i use sketchup pro 8, to designs designs for clients so is it allowed to me to use it or no?
thank you
waiting your feedback

Obviously you can't 'sell' someone else's creation, but the use of most of the forum's 'free' tools in your 'business' is acceptable, unless there is something specifically in a tool's 'notices' saying you can't... In this case it's 'All Rights Reserved... Free License...' etc but with no other limitations that I can see...
Having said that it would be nice to offer an author a modest PayPal donation - after all if you are making money from a tool then sharing some of it would only seem fair... "What goes around comes around..."
Matt666 doesn't have a donation button on the 'SketchUcation Plugin Store', but this doesn't prevent you sending him a Private Message and asking the question... If he declines you are no worse off, if he accepts you might feel better in your heart...

[atelierpaar]

Hello there,
I just installed SU 2014,
After downloading Matts Toggle_Units.rb using the sketchucation download-Manager I get the following Error message:

Fehler beim Laden der Datei Matt_Toggle_Units.rb
Error: #<SyntaxError: C:/Users/Architekt/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units.rb:62: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ')'
Sketchup.register_extension (ext,true)
^>
Any Idea how to fix this ?
thank`s for your comments,
Uli

[hygicell]

same problem here !
could someone please make this wonderful plugin available for sketchup 2014 ?
thanks
Frank



Error Loading File Matt_Toggle_Units.rb
Error: #<SyntaxError: C:/Users/Frank/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units.rb:62: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ')'
Sketchup.register_extension (ext,true)
^>

[jiminy-billy-bob]

You should try to contact Matt by email or something, so that he can fix it.

In the meantime, open the file
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\SketchUp\Plugins\Matt_Toggle_Units.rb
in notepad.

Change the last line from
Sketchup.register_extension (ext,true)
to
Sketchup.register_extension ext, true

Then it should work fine.

BTW, even if we can't get in touch with him, we cannot redistribute a fixed version of his plugin, as he states in his files "All Rights Reserved".

EDIT : It seems he visited the forum on Feb 27, so he should be around somewhere

[Matt666]

Hi all, I edited 1st post with a correction of the bug. Thank you.

[atelierpaar]

your right,
after changing the last line, everything works fine.
thanks for your help jiminy-billy-bob

Uli

[dtrarch]

Error

[dtrarch]

Hi all
I needed to add extensions.rb to plugins and edit
toolbar_manager.html
tustrings.en
to correct english(engeniery) to Engineering (.en)

Now works and spells OK

Thank you Matt and what do you play ?


dtr

[hygicell]

it works !

many, many thanks jimini-billy-bob !

[Matt666]

What do I play?

[Box]

I believe he is referring to this

Hi Pete! Thank you for your kind words..

i don't use SU and Ruby anymore, my new job as musician doesn't need for these kind of software!
But I love programming so I will try to do something for you..

I just have to reinstall SU!

[Matt666]

Aaaah! ^^ I am a drummer!

[CadFather]

Aaaah! ^^ I am a drummer!

yeah, we know the types...bad dudes!

[TIG]

There was a single method (arguments) error in the extension 'loader' .rb.
I've corrected it to method(arguments) so it is now v2014 compliant.
I updated it for the PluginStore entry [v3.000]...
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pl ... ggle_Units

[brendanherri]

Hello all,

I still have some troubles with this very usefull extension.
It also seems to be related to a UTF8 issue as you can see the error message below.
I have Win7 64bit pro. Any idea ?

Erreur de chargement du fichier C:/Users/dell/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units/Toggle_Units.rb
Error: #<ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8>
C:/Users/dell/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units/Toggle_Units.rb:16:in `split'
C:/Users/dell/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units/Toggle_Units.rb:16:in `block in <module:Toggle_Units>'
C:/Users/dell/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units/Toggle_Units.rb:15:in `each'
C:/Users/dell/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units/Toggle_Units.rb:15:in `<module:Toggle_Units>'
C:/Users/dell/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units/Toggle_Units.rb:5:in `<module:Matt_Tools>'
C:/Users/dell/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units/Toggle_Units.rb:4:in `<top (required)>'
C:/Program Files (x86)/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/Tools/extensions.rb:197:in `require'
C:/Program Files (x86)/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/Tools/extensions.rb:197:in `load'
C:/Users/dell/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units.rb:62:in `register_extension'
C:/Users/dell/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units.rb:62:in `<top (required)>'

[driven]

The language string files haven't been encoded as UFT8 and have a silly extensions [.en, .fr]...

it would be simpler to use .txt so people can edit their own copies.

john

[TIG]

Dam' - missed it - I'll look & update asap...

[TIG]

Only the FR file was wrongly encoded as ANSI !
The EN one worked fine...
The plugin's HTML file shows NO encoding at all - which is just weird !
It'll be fixed and an update published shortly...

Update v3.001 with correctly encoded FR file etc now in the PluginStore.
.

[brendanherri]

Works fine !
Thank you TIG, you're great.
Merci beaucoup.

[jimmylomax]

First, this extension is incredibly valuable for me. So many thanks for it! When I find things like this I feel stupid [face palm], I didn't seek it earlier... so much time wasted!

2nd on feature request for presets. For example, it would be amazing if I could have/make three:
1) decimal, mm, 0mm precision (sometimes I do my detailed work or reference other models)
2) decimal, in, 0.000" precision (most of the time when I'm doing detail work, this is my preference)
3) architectural, 0" precision (my output presentations are almost always feet and whole inches)

[atelierpaar]

Hello
I just installed SU 2019
Unfortunately i get the following errocode :

Fehler beim Laden der Datei C:/Users/Architekt/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2019/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units/Toggle_Units.rb
Error: #<SyntaxError: C:/Users/Architekt/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2019/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units/Toggle_Units.rb:205: Invalid return in class/module body
return if not settings.include?("tr...
^~~~~~>
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2019/Tools/extensions.rb:197:in `require'
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2019/Tools/extensions.rb:197:in `load'
C:/Users/Architekt/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2019/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units.rb:62:in `register_extension'
C:/Users/Architekt/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2019/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units.rb:62:in `<top (required)>'

anyone any idee how to fix this problem ?
thanks for looking into the this
Uli

[TIG]

The newer Ruby version is unsympathetic to coding errors !
Using a plain-text editor, like Notepad++, edit the file:
C:/Users/Architekt/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2019/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units/Toggle_Units.rb
Find line #205
return if not settings.include?("true")
Add an initial #
#return if not settings.include?("true")
Save the file and restart SketchUp, to test it...

Other 'returns' in the code seem OK...

[atelierpaar]

Hello and good morning,
thanks TIG, that was it. What a difference a # makes !!
Toggle_Units works fine again.
thanks again for your quick reponse
Uli

[wrc86]

The newer Ruby version is unsympathetic to coding errors !
Using a plain-text editor, like Notepad++, edit the file:
C:/Users/Architekt/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2019/SketchUp/Plugins/Matt_Toggle_Units/Toggle_Units.rb
Find line #205
return if not settings.include?("true")
Add an initial #
#return if not settings.include?("true")
Save the file and restart SketchUp, to test it...

Other 'returns' in the code seem OK...

Perfect TIG thanks! it worked perfect on mac SKP2019