Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Elbows and Channels and Flanges! Oh, my!

Posted by Chris Dizon, SketchUp Guru

If you happen to fall under the Engineering, Construction or Facilities category, then please read on. We just found a new website that could be useful to you. Engineering Toolbox is a website dedicated to providing relevant basic information and data to the engineering and designing community. The best part about this discovery is the ruby plug-in for Google SketchUp; you can download standard and customized components like pipes, elbows, tee sections, lumber and beams. Download the Engineering Toolbox plug-in and use that welding neck flange you've always wanted.

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4 comments:

  1. gerrrgJuly 17, 2008 at 1:52 PM

    u know, it's a very nice attempt, but steel is rolled, and the engineering toolbox's shapes do not reflect this.

    and actually, SU already has a lot of these components constructed properly, albeit flat (but that's not really a problem).

    engineering toolbox's system of components is nice, just not quite detailed enough for accurate depiction on close-up details, which is what i use it for.

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  2. Edson MahfuzJuly 17, 2008 at 2:07 PM

    all i get from it is a message: "method not allowed".

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  3. timJuly 18, 2008 at 2:25 PM

    I sent the following message to the author -
    "I just downloaded and tried your plugin on my iMac 10.5.4 system; I get an error from the http connection -
    "Method Not Allowed
    The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /index.html.

    Apache/1.3.39 Server at sketchup.engineeringtoolbox.com Port 80"

    I see no messages in the console log."
    to which he responded quickly (and perfectly reasonably) that he would try to investigate after his holiday.
    Since Safari can see the target page ok, I'm guessing some interaction between the ruby code that supports webdialogue and Apache.

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  4. AnonymousAugust 8, 2008 at 3:46 AM

    The application works well on Windows computers but testing shows there is a problem with the Sketchup -Ruby - Safari implementation of Webdialogs with external urls on Mac computers.

    Unfortunate since this is a problem in the underlying Sketchup application it is out of reach for the ToolBox developer, and I hope the SketchUp team will address this problem in the next release of SketchUp.

    Until then - please use a Windows computer if available.

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