Exporting from Sketchup Pro 2019 gives me this error “Cannot assign image material to model entities” every time i try and move my model from sketchup to the desktop editor.
My coworker was able to upload the model in Sketchup 2018, but i need to be able to edit the model on my machine with my licence. Any suggestions why the export isn’t working? Corrupted material file?
@leescobar, we are able to successfully export models from SketchUp 2019, so the issue seem not to be related to SU 2019 in general, but to this particular file in SU 2019.
Could you send us (support@shapespark.com) the SU file for analysis, eg. using https://www.wetransfer.com ?
Thanks for the response. Uploaded the sketchup file.
We have been ubable to reproduce this issue so far - the file is successfully exported from SU 2019 to Shapespark in our tests.
Have you tried closing SketchUp and opening the file again?
If the error occurs again, could you send us a problem report from the Help & support tab of the main Shapespark window. This will send us the log files of the Shapespark exporter, which will give us more information about the problem.
Better late than never: I believe that this is caused by a change that was done in SketchUp 2019.2 (so it might work, say, in 2019.0 but not in 2019.3 or 2020).
The change is Class: Sketchup::Material — SketchUp Ruby API Documentation . The result, for me, is that Ruby code that tries to take the material belonging to a Sketchup::Image and apply it to a normal entity like a Sketchup::Face now gets an exception “Cannot assign image material to model entities”. Maybe you’re doing something different but with the same result.
@arigo, thanks a lot for dropping in to share your findings. You are right, this bug started to appear with SketchUp >= 2019.2 and in the same context as yours: when a material belonging to Sketchup::Image was applied to a Sketchup::Face.
In Shapespark 1.15 we changed our code making this whole material assignment operation no longer necessary, so the bug has gone.