[Plugin] Boolean--OSCoolean (Oct 2010) for SU 8 free version

[narongwit12]

Thank you very much for this brilliant rb. Would you mind to share us the brief idea of the mechanism of this plugin? I want to do a union thing, but find it quite hard to do it without any guide.

Best regards
Narongwit

[lorca]

For those who are saying nothing happens, well, you have to make each object a group/component. I was having the same problems like some of you until i made each object separate from eachother. When you place them together you choose one object then right click to the plugin and choose "cut" and depending of which object you chose you'll get the "negative" or "positive" cut. Although, I think there is a bug when you place an object in a severe angle inside, it tends to cut almost all of the opposite object leaving expose in the air only the hole that the other object traced. I wonder if the creator of this plugin is still working on the new release.

[jca]

looks great !
tried both OSCoolean.rbs and OSCoolean.rb but neither worked...
I'm using SU6 under MacOS X 10.5 OS.
any working version for mac ?
thanks a lot

[apple85]

hi,
just out of curiosity how does the OSCoolean differ from the commercial booltools plugin?

[Pilou]

In theory nothing but in practice that is an another story

[Gaieus]

For the information of te "rest of the World", Oscarlok updated the plugin (see the first post as of October 2010) for SU 8.

He just forgot to add a new post or bump the topic otherwise.

[Ken]

OSCAR

In your Oct release, only three icons are displayed. And the last two, cut and intersect perform the same function.

Thanks for your work with this plugin.

Ken

[oscarlok]

OSCAR

In your Oct release, only three icons are displayed. And the last two, cut and intersect perform the same function.

Thanks for your work with this plugin.

Ken

Hello Ken,

I am sorry for that! I have changed it to the New OCT version. The previous one is still Sept version.

Thanks Ken

Oscar

[shura]

Does it work in SU 7.1 as well?

[oscarlok]

Does it work in SU 7.1 as well?

This is a SU 8 only。Maybe in the next next version。。。。

[shura]

thanks oscarlok, just collecting reasons to upgrade, you know

[mitcorb]

I never could get the version for Sketchup7 to work??

[mitcorb]

Bumping this just in case someone knows a solution to making the older version work in SU7?

[Pilou]

Someone said that disable SketchyPhysics permits to use OSCoolean in V7 (?)

[mitcorb]

I do not have Sketchyphysics. Must be some other tool. I will try to run it with the console on, capture and post back.

[mitcorb]

Here's what I get trying to Intersect a simple cylinder group and a cube group which I set overlapping or coincident in the same location :

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `entities' for #<Sketchup::ComponentInstance:0x6775c40>>
(eval):573:in `get_grocom'
(eval):570:in `each'
(eval):570:in `get_grocom'
(eval):588:in `Preset'
(eval):713:in `Intersect'
(eval):823
(eval):823:in `call'

[thomthom]

Here's what I get trying to Intersect a simple cylinder group and a cube group which I set overlapping or coincident in the same location :

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `entities' for #<Sketchup::ComponentInstance:0x6775c40>>
(eval):573:in `get_grocom'
(eval):570:in `each'
(eval):570:in `get_grocom'
(eval):588:in `Preset'
(eval):713:in `Intersect'
(eval):823
(eval):823:in `call'

ComponentInstance doesn't have an entities method - you need to access the definition.
There are some plugins that adds .entities to ComponentInstance and I've seen some other plugins that also made the assuption taht this method existed.

[mitcorb]

Hi, ThomThom:
Thanks for your quick response.
Unfortunately, you're talking way over my head
I mean, I see what you're writing but I don't know what I'm reading

What means 'grocom' ??

[thomthom]

Hi, ThomThom:
Thanks for your quick response.
Unfortunately, you're talking way over my head
I mean, I see what you're writing but I don't know what I'm reading

Sorry - it was intended for Oscar.

What means 'grocom' ??

Just method name.

[mitcorb]

You did note that this is for V7? I am not ready for V8 just yet.

[Pilou]

Works fine for me for SU 8 free
I click first on the icone then objects !

[Humpmetwice]

I love this plugin but wasn't able to get it to work with SU 7.1, I know its for v-8 but was hoping someone had a fix!

[Pilou]

I know its for v-8 but was hoping someone had a fix!

and what is the problem to not load the V8 in another folder and save as V7.skp ?

[Humpmetwice]

and what is the problem to not load the V8 in another folder and save as V7.skp ?

Nothing I was just wondering if it was a fix for v7.1 is all.

[DoodleDown]

Thanks for this, very excited. I just upgraded to 8 for this, but the plugin isn't showing up. Are there any dependencies or known conflicts that could be at fault?

My Sketchup 8 plugins folder only has the folders Oscar, Cadspan, JPP_Dir_15, LIBFREDO6_Dir_34, Ocean, TIGtools, TOS_Dir_16 plus Utilities, plus the rb files OSCoolean, deBabelizer, extrubeEdgesby(various things), jointpushpull, LibFredo6, LibTraductor, loop_subdiv, ocean_extension, su2stl, ZLoader_OnSurface and utilities, if that for some reason makes it obvious to anyone. I'm on 7 Pro.

Thank you very much, whether or not you can point out what's wrong!

[oscarlok]

Thanks for this, very excited. I just upgraded to 8 for this, but the plugin isn't showing up. Are there any dependencies or known conflicts that could be at fault?

My plugins folder only has the folders Cadspan, JPP_Dir_15, LIBFREDO6_Dir_34, Ocean, TIGtools, TOS_Dir_16 plus Utilities, plus the rb files deBabelizer, extrubeEdgesby(various things), jointpushpull, LibFredo6, LibTraductor, loop_subdiv, ocean_extension, su2stl, ZLoader_OnSurface and utilities, if that for some reason makes it obvious to anyone. (Obv there's also OSCoolean.) I'm on 7 Pro.

Thank you very much, whether or not you can point out what's wrong!

Do you have the Oscar folder inside your plugins folder in 8?
or try to unzip the OSCoolean again into your plugins folder in 8, please.

Oscar

[DoodleDown]

Yeah, I downloaded and unzipped the folder and the file into Plugins several times. Mucho wierd.

[notareal]

Maybe you need enable OSCoolean toolbar? If I recall right, OSCoolean toolbar is not automatically enabled.
btw great plugin, thanks for update.

[DoodleDown]

Maybe you need enable OSCoolean toolbar? If I recall right, OSCoolean toolbar is not automatically enabled.
btw great plugin, thanks for update.

Well that sure should have been obvious. Thanks!

[oneturboneeded]

I cant get it to work I see the tool bar, I click both groups, says scoolean is processing and it does nothing else. Thanks,
-shawn