ThruPaint 2

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The first few times I tried sketchup upon upgrading the plugins, it crashed immediately on the application startup. I had installed (updated) LibFredo6 v13.4a and thrupaint2 along with the updated jointpushpull. I was not able to get sketchup to open (with plugins loaded) to disable the plugins through the extension manager, so I restored the plugin folder from Time Machine to its previous state – then tried installing LibFredo6 v13.4a without the other Fredo updated plugins.

With only LibFredo6 v13.4a installed, Sketchup opened but every time I tried using thrupaint1 (or thrupaint2 when I had reinstalled it again), sketchup immediately crashed. When I reverted back to the previous version installed, LibFredo6 v12.9a and removed thrupaint2, restarted, then thrupaint1 and sketchup worked fine.

I am going to try your suggestion and remove the subfolder manually and then reinstall LibFredo6 as suggested.

Thanks!

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I did the manual removal (as suggested) and then the reinstallation of LibFredo6 along with the other updated plugins and that seems to have done the trick!

All is working again without crashes –

Thanks so much for the suggestion!

Unrelated, I have a plugin suggestion for something that I have not been able to find: a plugin that allows one to copy a group in one sketchup file and paste it into another sketchup file with its tag folder structure in place–not just the tag layers. Currently, if you copy a group, it is copied with its tags but without the tag folder structure–this is problematic if the group has multi-layered tags in numerous folders and sub folders as is often found with more complex groups. This way, it would keep things organized and not require one to recreate the folder structure which is a pain in large, complex models–this would be a real time and organization saver. (I have not been able to figure out a way to do this within the app or find a plugin that does this – but it possible I am not doing something correct or am not aware of an app that does this.)

I am sure you get lots of suggestions, so I apologize for pushing another your way.

Thanks again for creating the wonderful plugins that add important, missing features to sketchup.

Regards,

Ken

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This looks rather like a request to the Trimble SketchUp team.

I don’t see a plugin doing that ‘on the fly’.

There probably exist plugins copying the Tags and their hierarchy from model to model. But this has to be done before copy/paste.

In addition the Ruby API used by plugins does not give access to the Copy and Paste events and content.

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Got it.

Thanks!

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Hello, Fredo,

SketchUp frequently crashes after installed ThruPaint2.

System: MacOS 14.5 (23F79), SketchUp 24.0.554

After installing Thrupaint, SketchUp frequently crashes. Here are the complete Problem Details and System Configuration documents as well as the operational video. Could you help me identify the cause of the problem and find a solution?

Thank you.

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Does it crash with both the new and classic graphics engine ?

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It’s very difficult to follow on the video.

ThruPaint does nothing special when you open a model. The only observer is about changing tool (when it is the Bucket tool). It might be that on Mac, some model open with the paint bucket tool activated and that could create a messy situation.

The first question is whether the bugsplat happens with ALL models, or just one or a few models.

What I would suggest is that you look at the material list (built-in and custom) and see if they have weird names (arithmetic characters in particular, and possibly chinese characters). Try to eliminate the materials to see if this helps.