Regular array
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Hi,
I am quite new to this forum and hope anybody can help me.
Is there any script to form an array of an component with an increasing distance between each component?
Like multicopy with different distances? Perhaps linear increasing?Thankyou for your help.
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Welcome, Marcelinho.
Try a Rick Wilsons "pathcopy.rb" at Smustard: http://www.smustard.com/script/PathCopy
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I have already treid this script, but it just produces equidistant components along a path.
How to produce them with distances depending on a formula or something like that? -
Well, there's a 'Copy to Path Nodes' option...not so 'automatic' but can save a lot of time.
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How to create defined nodes at a path?
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That exactly what I want. Defining the multicopy function by a formula...
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Marcelinho, that would be a great idea for a new Ruby script.
or even better: a direct implementation into SketchUp, with the following workflow
you move copy an object a certain distance (lets say 2 meters)
then instead of simply typing in 6* to get ten copies with the same distance, you type:
6 * y=x^2
the first number (6) defines the number of copies, the equation defines the change of spacing (here 2, 4, 8, 16... meters).
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I think I almost solved the problem,
just arrange the group along a graph made by grapheuation and then projet it to the y axis.
But how to project every group ( move to x=0 ) automatically with the projection tool ???
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Is there a possibility to move automatically all selected objects to x=0 ?
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I didn't really understand what you suggested. is "grapheuation" a ruby to create graphical representations of mathematical equations?
how to set all groups to x=0? well there is the "drop" ruby, that drops all groups at the next intersection in z a vertical direction. you could use this to drop all the groups to a plane...
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Yes, I ment the graph equation tool.
But the projected distance equation will be very difficult I think.So a script like you suggested would be great! Thankyou so far.
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