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    • GaieusG Offline
      Gaieus
      last edited by

      Hm... Is your plane that I see (and on which those original guides are) not slanting by any chance? I mean not on the blue plane for instance.

      Gai...

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
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        The quidelines you see, which I try to make paralell guides of, is lying paralell on the red axis on the same plane as the textured pavement.

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        • GaieusG Offline
          Gaieus
          last edited by

          Hm. I have no problem with creating parallel guides when the original is on the ground plane but if I rotate the group which contains the guide, I get funny results, too.

          Gai...

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            xrok1
            last edited by

            is it possible that the groups axis is moved, and it following that?

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
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              @gaieus said:

              Hm. I have no problem with creating parallel guides when the original is on the ground plane but if I rotate the group which contains the guide, I get funny results, too.

              I only have SU7 to try on, does this happen in SU6 as well? I can't ever recall having problems with this.

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              • daleD Offline
                dale
                last edited by

                I have had this happen to me a few times in the last little while. It is almost like the guide is trying to snap to hidden geometry,more like locked on, and just won't let go to readjust correctly.

                Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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                • GaieusG Offline
                  Gaieus
                  last edited by

                  @thomthom said:

                  I only have SU7 to try on, does this happen in SU6 as well? I can't ever recall having problems with this.

                  I definitely will.

                  Gai...

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    I've recreated the bug successfully. If the Guideline you pick from is inside a rotated group/component you can't create parallel guidelines from it.

                    Attached is a testcase.


                    Bug - Paralell Guidelines.skp

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                    • thomthomT Offline
                      thomthom
                      last edited by

                      Just installed SU6. Same thing happens there as well.

                      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                      • GaieusG Offline
                        Gaieus
                        last edited by

                        Okay, so what I found out (at least that's how it works for me) is:

                        1. If I create the group after adding the guide to it, everything works fine (see Group and Guide1 in the example file)
                        2. If I rotate the group (with the inside guide included), the outside guide line will be drawn by the exact double value of rotation as I rotated the group - see G2 in the file where I rotated the group by 30 degrees around the red axis but the secondary guide is "rotated" at 60 degrees (measured to the green axis; see from the side).
                        3. If I only group the rectangle and the guide AFTER rotating them first, the secondary guide is drawn parallel again.

                        NonParallelGuides.skp

                        Gai...

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          @gaieus said:

                          Okay, so what I found out (at least that's how it works for me) is:

                          1. If I create the group after adding the guide to it, everything works fine (see Group and Guide1 in the example file)
                          1. If I rotate the group (with the inside guide included), the outside guide line will be drawn by the exact double value of rotation as I rotated the group - see G2 in the file where I rotated the group by 30 degrees around the red axis but the secondary guide is "rotated" at 60 degrees (measured to the green axis; see from the side).
                          2. If I only group the rectangle and the guide AFTER rotating them first, the secondary guide is drawn parallel again.

                          Ah. That's good info. I couldn't work out what determined the direction of the mis-aliged guide. Hopefully this should be enough info for the SU team to terminate this bug.

                          ...what's the most reliable channel to report a bug?
                          (which SU had a bugtraker system)

                          Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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