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Hi Keith,
You need to create a different style for the scene where you want the section cuts to show. Go to the Styles dialog box and choose the In Model styles. At the moment you probably have only one. Right click on it and choose “Make a copy”. Now assign one of those styles to all the scenes where you do not want section cuts to show. Assign the other to the scenes where you do want section cuts to show. Modify the style that you don’t want section cuts to show with the Edit tab and the Modeling Settings icon. See the attached image.
Joe….
Hi Guys,
These images are really small and don’t seem to include the entire area of interest. However, if I am looking at this correctly, the finished ends are bearing all the weight of the cabinet. Is that what you intend Les? Could you send me your modified .skp to [email protected]? That would give me a better picture of what you are expecting. Thanks,
Joe…
Hi Cridd,
The models you are referring to, are they CabWriter models? If so, why are you using the Scale tool to scale them verses the Edit Story Stick or Edit Cabinet(s)?
Scaling (with the Scale tool) does not affect the CutList Bridge attributes. You should not be loosing them because scaling only changes instances not components. If you are loosing attributes it is because you are doing something to the components themselves such as using the Entity Info box to rename them or Explode to return them to primitives.
Can you tell me the specific steps you are taking that causes the attributes to be lost? ALso, can you tell me what you are trying to accomplish and I can tell you how to do it. For example, if you wish to change the cabinet number of a cabinet you should use the Re-Number Cabinet icon in the CabWriter toolbar. If you wish to change the name of a component (but not its cabinet number) use the Re-Name Component icon.
Never try to change a CabWriter component name using the Entity Info dialog box. The reason is that when you do this SketchUp fails to copy all the attributes associated with the old component to the new component. This seems like a real shortcoming of SketchUp, but it has been there for as long as I have been using SketchUp and in spite of users pointing it out the SketchUp team has never changed it.
Joe…
Hi Les,
Can you give me a little more info on what types of tips you would like to see. I.e., what questions about corner cabinets do you have. I am going to try and get a video out in the next week.
Joe…
I would need more information on what you are looking for. Extending the stile to the floor is a piece of cake and in fact can be done with normal SketchUp tools. Implementing it in code is easy too. The applied end panels a little more work but doable. But what about the sides and ladder base?
Greg, could you also comment on this?
Joe…
That feature is coming and will definitely be part of the first release toward the end of the year. What styles do you most use?
Joe…
Hi Guys,
One of the students I was teaching SketchUp to last night had this problem. I believe his was related to two windows being open too. But we didn’t take any class time to debug it.This one is new to me too Greg, but I have now heard of it twice in two days.
Joe….
Hi Keith,
There are a number of problems on a Mac when you operate with more than one model open. It has plagued me for years and I can’t seem to get to the bottom of them. I highly suggest that you only work with one window at a time. The problems seem to be between the Mac OS and SketchUp.
Joe….
Hi Keith,
That is a reasonable and useful request. I will add it to the list of feature improvements. I may not get to it real quick because I have higher priority things, such as overlay doors, to get to. But I will implement that request. Thanks,Joe…
Hi John,
You can’t change the file extension from .rbz to .rb. That won’t work. The .rbz files are simply a .zip file with the extension changed to .rbz so that SketchUp knows that they contain a compressed set of .rb files. So what you can do is change the .rbz extension to .zip. Then you can double click on the .zip file and you will see the uncompressed contents. In CabWriter’s case it will be a folder named cabwriter and a file named cabwriter_loader.rb. Now you can simply drag and drop both the folder and the file into your SketchUp Plugins folder.
However, you shouldn’t have to do this. The Window/Preferences (SketchUp/Preferences on Mac) Extension, Install Extension button is the easiest way to install an extension with a .rbz file extension.
Joe…
Hi John,
After we fixed your install problem this morning did you go back and try executing this command from the Ruby Console again?
Sketchup.find_support_file(“Plugins/”)
Did it work?
Joe…
Hi Kevin,
Yes, there are a couple of ways to do it. Here is one way:
1. In the source file select the cabinet you want to save for later recall. You can right click on it and choose CabWriter/Select Cabinet.
2. When the entire cabinet is selected right click again and choose Unlock. The selection color will now turn to blue instead of red.
3. Use the Edit/Copy command to copy the cabinet.
4. Open a new, empty SketchUp file.
5. Save this file with a meaningful name for the cabinet you want to save for later use in other models. I’ll call this the destination file.
6. In the destination file choose the CabWriter Create Project icon to make this a CabWriter project file.
7. In the destination file use the Edit/Paste command and place the cabinet at the Origin. (You can also use the Edit/Past In Place command if you wish).
8. This is a very important step: Select one component of the cabinet and then select the CabWriter Re-Number Cabinet tool. Enter a number higher than any cabinet number you expect to find in a model such as 1000.
9. Save the file in a folder of your choice.Later on, when you want to use this cabinet in a future model all you have to do is drag and drop its file icon into the new model and place it. It will come in as a component with a Definition name the same as its file name. You can now select the component, right click and choose Explode. The cabinet will return to its original component parts, each part beginning with C1000 in this example. When you new model is fully modeled you can use the CabWriter Renumber Cabinets tool to renumber all the cabinets sequentially.
SketchUp, independent of CabWriter, allows you to create a component library of your own. Go to your Components dialog box and choose the In Model icon. Next select the Details icon at the right (see attached image). Choose “Open or create a local collection…”. Now you can have an entire library of custom cabinets. Remember any .skp file can be added to a library as a library component. Hoe this helps.
Joe…
Hi Johan,
We will be adding two types of cabinets to our next major release (I may make minor releases to fix bugs in the interim): tall base cabinet for ovens and pantries and a lazy susan corner cab base and upper. It will not be long before we release this major update, perhaps late June early July. Thanks for your feedback.
Joe…
Hi Guys,
The problems discussed in this thread have been resolved and their fixes are in CabWriter release CabWriter 0.8.6 May 23, 2016 Beta. You will find it by clicking on the Beta Testers menu.
Joe…
