@teknoel said:

Try Tig's Free Rotate for this. It's Sweet!

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=30380&p=274784&hilit=free+rotate#p274784

Thanks a lot. it looks very helpful

Thanks for that!!! There's a helix appearing in the plug-ins,-----and DrawHelix13 is right there in the draw dropdown.
the dialogue comes right up.

Muchos gracias

thank you thomtom

TIG and Chris
Thanks for the replys!
I did not make myself very clear sorry. 😐
I have created a spread sheet that solves the problem for my use but did not put the logic for the five cases in it. I am not a ruby programmer and thought a plugin would be more useful for the number of folks who have posted this question in the past plus thinking this is a capability any 3d model program should have. Given the fact the ref URL has c, lisp, etc code examples I thought it may be easy to create a plugin. I'll leave it up to your expertise if that is a reasonable thing to do. If have found doing this manually and using the interpolation scheme Jeane Lemire ( I think ) gets problematic for this case because one winds up trying to interpolate in two dimensions.

TIG:
The five cases are from the ref and the only ones I can ID also. The range of solutions for solving the quadratic equation in the ref give you the info( sign and magnitude of u) to make a decision on where the line segment lies and if there are intersections and how many.
One wants to keep the line segment for L1 the same and you can either rotate or do an x,y,z move of L1's vertex as I did in the skip. I tried solving the problem for rotation( theta and phi) using the standard form of the line in space( intersection of two planes ) I get a trig equation in two variables I cannot reduce by the standard approaches.
Thanks again !!

I know Thea, Shaderlight, hypershot can do it, not sure about Twilight, Podium or Vray.

I have heard of the 1001bit I'll investigate further. thanks very much 😄

That did the trick. Thanks

Right-Click Edge/Circle > Divide

Use Copy Along Path to insert component at each vertex: http://www.smustard.com/script/PathCopy

well, this will do,.. for now. Thanks for the reply 😉

Hi TIG
I was so eager for this wonderful tool that I
have not finished reading !!! 😄)
Thank you!

ok, tanks

¿has probado con Line2tubes? Es gratis

Have you tried with Line2tubes? It is free

Wish I'd thought to tell you that but I've never had Randor installed so I wasn't aware of that tidbit.

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=20485&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=round+corner

Try the link above and you should be able to download the file

Check this out: It starts from a component but does allow you to name a layer from the component name and places that component on that new layer.

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=183&t=30750

Got it, thanks. The relationship between faces, and edges are not as obvious as I thought they are.

Polyline after weld

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Shaderlight webinar last week. For those of you who missed it, the videos are now online.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJfp2k4iXfE
Youtube Video

This is the first in a series of online tutorials we will be running over the coming months so if there are any particular areas of rendering with Shaderlight you'd like to know more about please do get in touch.

Thanks
Kate

Small snippets like this is a nice way to learn - small task, but still something you can make use of.

Lets take your first post as an example:

<span class="syntaxdefault"><br />def top_view_zoom_extent<br />  </span><span class="syntaxcomment"># Some variables for easy reference<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  model </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> Sketchup</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">active_model<br />  view </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> model</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">active_view<br /><br />  </span><span class="syntaxcomment"># Orient camera top down and zoom<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  new_camera </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> view</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">camera</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">set</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> ORIGIN</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> Z_AXIS</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">reverse</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> Y_AXIS </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  view</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">zoom_extents<br />end<br /></span>

Note - there are some extra steps to make it into a plugin with menus and making sure it doesn't interfer with other plugins. But as you can see - it doesn't take much code to do simple things.

We do have a thread somewhere with links to where to get started with the concepts of scripting/programming and Ruby. I'll see if I can dig it out.

Wowsers, many more than I had expected! It is not talked about all that much around here. I guesed people used it, but that is a pretty big number.

I was looking for the left shape, Fredo. I just got it with Extrude Edges by Faces. What tool did you use?

Jim