[undoc] Camera info window

tbd · 29 Apr 2008, 11:05

Sketchup.send_action 10624

tested in SU 6.4.112

undocumented feature that allows realtime information about the camera position (eye,dir,up) and view size. good when you are playing with camera and need quick debug info.

ilay7k · 29 Apr 2008, 13:22

Thanks for this tip!

Pixero · 2 May 2008, 08:35

Great tip!
Question: How do you find these if they're undocumented?

tbd · 2 May 2008, 08:48

Pixero: trade secret
it is an item from Debug menu - I just made it more easily accessible

a4chitect · 3 May 2008, 15:59

I wonder how many Sketchup.send_action ##### numbers do something useful?!
thanks TBD, keep them coming!

tbd · 3 May 2008, 16:58

see this post for other send_action numbers

ilay7k · 3 May 2008, 17:39

thanks

21513: display a tree of the model with selectable items !!!

i can't see anything in outliner...sorry, understand

21245: display a Polygon Offset Factors dialog box (?)

more flexible offset tool?

a4chitect · 3 May 2008, 19:02

does someone understand this dialog?: Sketchup.send_action 21245

tbd · 3 May 2008, 21:16

some were undoc in previous version, now are part of toolset

21513 is Outliner
21406 Fog
...

some don't work anymore

21082 Macro

some are development tools

21560 and up Bugsplat tests

have fun discovering things. and post the results here

urgen · 4 May 2008, 11:07

@unknownuser said:

have fun discovering things. and post the results here

.....ok,let,s discover ...use 6.0.515 version

21591:?

21593:?

21597: display import

21598: display open

21542: display import 2d grafic

21599: display import 2d grafic

21588: display scenes

21581: display scenes

Pixero · 4 May 2008, 17:44

Sketchup.send_action 10627
Sets camera to two point perspective.

Sketchup.send_action 10629
Perspective.

Sketchup.send_action 10630
Parallell projection.

thomthom · 1 Apr 2009, 11:49

Hey! That window lets you set the Angle of View in the Horizontal plane. Once I've unticked "Fov = H" I can use the Zoom tool and type in an angle and it still affects horizontally. can this be set somewhere in ruby?

thomthom · 1 Apr 2009, 12:05

What's this 2D, with the cx,cy and scale values?
cx and cy seems to offset the camera taking values 0-1. Scale appears to Zoom, less than 0 zooms in, more than zooms out.
But the 2D checkbox and the "2d->3D" button still puzzles me.

jiminy-billy-bob · 13 Feb 2017, 10:50

Guys... Guys!
Through this dialog we can now force the near clipping plane! It seems to have been added in SU2017.

OMFG

Pixero · 13 Feb 2017, 12:01

Yeah, it's really cool. One has to reset it after use though or there might be issues with other views.
I just wish there was a way of accessing that parameter through ruby for simpler handling.

JQL · 13 Feb 2017, 13:47

That is cool JBB!

Pixero this values can be saved per scene so you should be able to have several different clipping planes per model, depending on which scene you start from.

Einstein · 7 Jun 2020, 13:24

An oldish thread but I'll poke in and let you know about 2 plugins that can easily access camera dialog box:

S4U Camera Clipping - https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=s4u_Clipping_Camera - a rather new plugin
Legacy ThomThom's Camera Tools - https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=43290. You access it via Camera > Advanced (and it has nothing to do with ACT).

Have fun and never ever struggle with clipping!