[Plugin] Zorro2 (beta)

[Chris Fullmer]

Download it from the first post in this topic. Save it to C:\Program Files\Google\SketchUp7\Plugins folder. (thats an approximate guess of the exact path, and it might be different on your computer. But just put it in your "Plugins" folder inside your SketchUp installation folder).

Then it will be installed in SketchUp the next time you run SketchUp.

And welcome to the forum!

Chris

[drewskiey]

I am a novice to this topic and a mac user, so please bare with me...
I saved the file "thumbs.db" (not ".rb"?) into the plugins folder and nothing happened.
I then changed the file to "thumbs.rb" and when i opened SU I received the error "Invalid char `\021' in expression".
what should i change?

[Chris Fullmer]

Hi drew, delete that thumbs.rb file. Thats not the right one. I'm not quite sure where you got the thumbs file from.

In the first post of this topic there is a file called zorro.rb. That is the file you want to copy to your plugins folder. So delete the thumbs.db and put the zorro.rb file into plugins, and then start SketchUp and you should be good to go,

Chris

[emibgc]

tanx a lot man...

[phmeier]

is it too late to coment ? hope not lol !! Well im donwloading that and i really think this is fantastic ..

I enjoy doing this kind of work :

And with this plugin i think i have some new things to try ,,,

[hetneo2]

was wondering if some one could direct me to a location where i can get the zorro2 plugin from, cos all the forum links are blocked from my end

[Gaieus]

It's attached to the very first post in this topic (go back to page 1 in the topic). If you have permission problems accessing the attachment, it's probably a browser cookie issue and please, follow the steps I sent you answering your email.

[talkingglue]

HI all,

I have been having quite alot of difficulty getting access to the Zorro plug-in on this site. I have successfully registered and logged in but i keep on getting messages saying i do not have permissions to view the files in the post. If anyone could help i would be over the moon with gratitude and content!

Muchos gracias,
Ronan

Mac OSX 10.6/Safari 4/2.2Ghz/2GB RAM

[Gaieus]

Hi Ronan,

Have a look at this announcement and if you seem to have login issues, delete your cookies from your browser.
viewtopic.php?f=180&t=19797

Ah yeah - and welcome to SCF.

[plot-paris]

I have got a file, where Zorro crashes constantly.
I created the geometry in a bigger file and tried to slice it. it crashed. I copied the geometry to a new SU file. it crashed again.

in the end I had to redraw the whole thing in a new file. and everything worked fine.

any idea why that is?
I attached the file for you to experiment...

crooked.skp

[chimbalo]

thanks the program is really good, shame that I have the same problem, I can not make a slice cut (bug splat) when the model is a litle bit heavy, anyways thanks and keep on.

[Whaat]

I can't say for sure why users are getting crashes. I am not sure if it is something I can fix or if it is a SketchUp bug. My only suggestion is to save before you use the plugin. Also, try to work with simpler scenes (save components to a separate SKP files and work with them)

[chimbalo]

After a few hours I figure it out how to fix the bug splat, I have a heavy model, every time that I started using the slice tool my model crashed up, I tryed exploding the model, chainging to newer sketch up, etc etc etc. At the end I took all the model and grouped up whith out the cuting plane, after I slice it, and was the solution for the problem, now it doesn't matter how heavy is the file, the plug in ,work fine. sorry for my bad english, I hope is useful for you.

[Gaieus]

Well, definitely useful and I hope I will remember next time I try to use it on a similarly complex model.

Thanks for the heads-up!

[KU ARCH STUDENT]

This as got to be one of the best plugs I've come across. Awesome job with this one....

[yoshiko sasabe]

I guess I created a small bug just before I released the plugin that I did not release was there. i will post a fixed version later today. Sorry! I will also try to create a tutorial later today if I have time. For those of you who do not want to wait, just change line 266 to read:

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Sketchup.active_model.start_operation("Zorro")

I belive this will fix the problem but I don't have time to fully test right now.

[Jim57]

Chimbalo—

I had the same experience as you. SU crashed when I tried to place the section plane inside the component and slice. I had to place the section plane from OUTSIDE the component and then it works like a charm.

Thanks for figuring that one out, and thanks for the Ruby!!

Best,

Jim

[chango70]

Whaat will there be more development on this plugin?

[Whaat]

Whaat will there be more development on this plugin?

Probably not, at least not for a very long time.

[okramme]

Best plugin for sketchup that I have seen!! Thanks

[Whaat]

Best plugin for sketchup that I have seen!! Thanks

Wow...thanks! You need to spend some more time around here to see what else is available. You might be shocked!

[mling87]

Thank you SO much for this plugin! Being able to quickly create and render section perspectives is an architecture student's dream!

[JPMays]

Just discovered this plugin through the Maxwell Render forum, but have been having similar issues as others: bug splats every time, even after exploding and removing a lot of the geometry. Anybody found a work-around for this? My model was rather complex, groups inside of components inside of components inside of components, but I've reduced significantly. Even copying geometry and pasting into new file does nothing.

[Whaat]

Just discovered this plugin through the Maxwell Render forum, but have been having similar issues as others: bug splats every time, even after exploding and removing a lot of the geometry. Anybody found a work-around for this? My model was rather complex, groups inside of components inside of components inside of components, but I've reduced significantly. Even copying geometry and pasting into new file does nothing.

I think one suggestion was to make sure your section cut is not inside a group or component.

[JPMays]

I've exploded the entire model (a copy of the original). There are now no groups or components. Same result.

EDIT: The weird thing is that when I tell it to slice using the section, at the bottom it says "Cutting Group #2...", but there are no groups listed if I go into my Model Options. It gets stuck there and then crashes.

[tmok]

i wanna try some
thanks

[taydiggs]

you will all love me for this one.

In order to CUT a section within a model, YOU DO NOT need to section plane and explode and delete etc!

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO is put it in PARALLEL projection and set the camera where you need the section to be.

Voila, section (obviously doesnt work for perspectives, but for elevations of architectural drawings this is an amazingly fast and easy fix.

[harshal kshatriya]

Man ijust love it

[Ben Ritter]

I don't understand the steps, because once activating zorro, it asks for a line to be drawn?

[Whaat]

I don't understand the steps, because once activating zorro, it asks for a line to be drawn?

Please read the PDF tutorial found on the first page.