Timber framing: I can no longer make shop drawings from a sketchup model

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Hi everyone, I’m having an issue that is unique to one model I am currently working on

Ordinarily I can control click on a component in a sketchup model of a timber frame project and select make shop drawings. This will break out that component into a separate file where I can apply values to the distances between selected points and joinery or pegs etc.

On a model that I’m currently working on “make shop drawings” will add another two tabs to the top of the page labeled “2d shops” and “3d shops”. These tabs each contain another seemingly identical version of the original model.

There are a few new options if I open the timber framing extension like “make shop drawings (batch)”, but this doesn’t do anything.

I don’t use layout to make my shop drawings as my crew is already comfortable laying out joinery using the method I described.

This model has gone back and forth between a few different versions of sketchup, I am wondering if it once having been backsaved to ’17 could produce the errors (or maybe misunderstood features) I’m experiencing.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why “make shop drawings” has started behaving this way?

Thanks in advance,

Stephen

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This sounds like you are using Clark Bremer’s Timber Framing Extensions? If so, have you tried contacting the author?

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Do the other functions of the plugin work - make tf list, etc?

Are your timbers still components?

If they are and it still doesn’t work:

Start a new file.

Copy paste your current frame into the new file.

Try to ‘make shop drawings’ in this new model.

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Hi Stephen. Sounds like the extension is stopping partway through the “make shop drawings” process. Please open the Ruby Console (Extensions | Developer | Ruby Console), and then try making a shop drawing again. Then copy the output from the console, and paste it here. Alternatively, you could email me a copy of your model, and I can try to duplicate your issue. CB.

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This did it! thank you!