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[marcosrodrigues]

Welcome, Marcelinho.

Try a Rick Wilsons "pathcopy.rb" at Smustard: http://www.smustard.com/script/PathCopy

[Marcelinho]

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?

[marcosrodrigues]

Well, there's a 'Copy to Path Nodes' option...not so 'automatic' but can save a lot of time.

[Marcelinho]

How to create defined nodes at a path?

[Marcelinho]

That exactly what I want. Defining the multicopy function by a formula...

[plot-paris]

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).

[Marcelinho]

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 ???

[Marcelinho]

Is there a possibility to move automatically all selected objects to x=0 ?

[plot-paris]

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...

[Marcelinho]

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.