With the help of a wall cutter, you can incorporate any component and create an opening in the wall. It would however be great if there was some way to get both extensions to work as they were intended when used together. In this sketchup video tutorial, Justin Geis demonstrates the functionality of a useful sketchup plugin called FlexTools that can be used for generating. Wall cutter is the newest extension added in Flex Tools. In the absence of a fix, the latter approach is still worth doing in my view, as being able to use Flex Tools ability to cut multi-layer walls combined with Profile Builder’s fast creation of the walls (after the profile is built) is fantastic. 2K views, 29 likes, 0 loves, 7 comments, 48 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from FlexTools for SketchUp: We just released a significant, much requested feature for WallCutter - Exclude sub-component. This works but then the Profile Builder geometry is no longer editable with the dialogue and becomes ‘dumb’ geometry. Flex tools do not recommend this approach and I would agree.Ĭonversely I’ve also tried converting the Profile Builder groups into components (Thom Thom’s Convert Groups to Components is best rather than Flex Tools doing it as I’ve found as the resultant naming is better). I’ve tried simply ignoring the Flex tools warning and inserting into groups but it is erratic and odd behavious can result. Is anyone using Flex Tools with Profile Builder? How do you get round the issue that Flex Tools strongly prefers the walls to be components if adding a window for example, whilst Profile Builder uses groups?

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