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    [Plugin] Three Line Tools (Updated March 9th, 2009)

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    • EdsonE Offline
      Edson
      last edited by

      @unknownuser said:

      Suggestion : just enter one time the measure
      then at each click a vertical is drawn
      Esc = Escape for choose another type and measure πŸ˜‰

      good suggestion. this would make the tool even more agile to use.

      edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre β€’ brasil
      http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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      • Chris FullmerC Offline
        Chris Fullmer
        last edited by

        @unknownuser said:

        Suggestion : just enter one time the measure
        then at each click a vertical is drawn
        Esc = Escape for choose another type and measure πŸ˜‰

        Oh yeah, that was another feature I wanted to implement. Thom even gave me a starting point. I've got a little bit of time today, maybe I'll get it worked out during that. Thanks for the comments and compliments everyone. And yes, I am really really enjoying coding.

        Chris

        Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
        All my Plugins I've written

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        • pilouP Offline
          pilou
          last edited by

          And if you can make the same for the Greeble that will be also a super crazy cool plug! β˜€
          Ergonomic must be the first thing to think for a plug! πŸ˜‰
          Keep the good work! 😎

          Frenchy Pilou
          Is beautiful that please without concept!
          My Little site :)

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          • Chris FullmerC Offline
            Chris Fullmer
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            Hey Frenchy, I know you have issues with too many plugins cluttering your menus. Would it be helpful if I tried to make all my plugins register themselves with the extension manager, so you could disable them or enable them as needed? That way you wouldn't have to have all my plugins showing in the menus until you need them. Would that be useful?

            Chris

            Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
            All my Plugins I've written

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            • EdsonE Offline
              Edson
              last edited by

              definitely, yes.

              edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre β€’ brasil
              http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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              • pilouP Offline
                pilou
                last edited by

                Yes that can be helping, but it's not possible to create a new Menu something like "Plugins2"?
                Then it's easy to put inside this new menu some numerous plugins πŸ˜„

                Frenchy Pilou
                Is beautiful that please without concept!
                My Little site :)

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
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                  @unknownuser said:

                  Yes that can be helping, but it's not possible to create a new Menu something like "Plugins2"?
                  Then it's easy to put inside this new menu some numerous plugins πŸ˜„

                  Nope. No way to create new top level menus in SU. 😞

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

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                  • P Offline
                    Panga
                    last edited by

                    Chris you rock !! This tool'll help a lot. Thanks again !!

                    Panga.

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                    • T Offline
                      Teezer
                      last edited by

                      Nice extension! Very useful. Thanks... πŸ‘

                      Real life is just another website, albeit a rather boring one.

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                      • W Offline
                        watkins
                        last edited by

                        Dear Chris,

                        I have just viewed your video tutorial. The plugin is much, much more than I was expecting. Excellent work! It is going to be a very useful construction tool. Perhaps CADFather, or A.N. Other, could make a small toolbar for the three options and one could be selected/deselected either in View>Toolbars or Window>Preferences>Extensions.

                        Thanks once again.

                        Regards,
                        Bob

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                          Ben Ritter
                          last edited by

                          Always grateful to those who share their plugins, and you're no exception.

                          Thank you very much.

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                          • Chris FullmerC Offline
                            Chris Fullmer
                            last edited by

                            Thanks for checking it out folks. Thanks for normals idea Bob!

                            I would like to implement the toolbar in the next release, or maybe the one after that. This would be a good tool to have in a toolbar I think.

                            Right now I am working on making be registered with SU extensions so it can be turned on and off easier. Also I am working on the VCB input. Its going pretty good. Currently it works like this:
                            (Note: this is in development and is not the posted version yet).
                            Run the plugin for the first time (per SU session).
                            Prompt box asks for initial height
                            Then click anywhere to create lines of that height.
                            Type a new height (into the VCB) and hit enter
                            All new lines will be made according to that size. (this also resizes the last line drawn)
                            Keep going until a different tool is activated.

                            Chris

                            Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                            All my Plugins I've written

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                            • thomthomT Offline
                              thomthom
                              last edited by

                              You can do it with no prompt at all, just use a default value until the user inputs anything. (Can you tell I'm not a fan of prompts? πŸ˜‰ )

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

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                              • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                Chris Fullmer
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                                I thought about that option, but I couldn't decide on a starting value. I'm having some VCB display issues which are making my VCB experience rather trying. Hopefully I'll get it worked out (I feel a new newbie ruby question thread coming on shortly).

                                Chris

                                Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                All my Plugins I've written

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                                • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                  Chris Fullmer
                                  last edited by

                                  Oops, I think that I don't have it set up to accept clicking on nothing. I think it gets confused and does whatever it feels like doing. Thanks for finding that John, look good πŸ˜„

                                  Chris

                                  Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                  All my Plugins I've written

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                                  • JClementsJ Offline
                                    JClements
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                                    Chris, keep it as a "Feature".

                                    John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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                                    • JClementsJ Offline
                                      JClements
                                      last edited by

                                      Chris, I got this unexpected "cool" result.

                                      I drew a cone-shape and turned on hidden edges.
                                      Used the draw vertical line to Normal.
                                      After doing a few lines I started clicking on white space and and hitting the Return Key.

                                      Since the cursor is clicking on white space its registering to elevation zero on the X-Y plane and drawing a line back to a common vertex [Edit(the end-point of the last line drawn as a "normal")[/Edit]]. See red lines.
                                      jNormal drawing.png

                                      Try it and see what happens.


                                      Normal drawing.skp

                                      John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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                                      • pilouP Offline
                                        pilou
                                        last edited by

                                        @unknownuser said:

                                        Nope. No way to create new top level menus in SU.

                                        😞

                                        Frenchy Pilou
                                        Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                        My Little site :)

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                                        • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                          Chris Fullmer
                                          last edited by

                                          SCRIPT UPDATED
                                          All right, I got the VCB integrated now, and it is soo much better! No more prompts, just click click click. When you enter a new value into the VCB and hit enter it will change the length of the previously drawn line.

                                          I also updated the video to reflect these changes (but if you're already familiar with the tool, it shouldn't be that hard to get working).

                                          Thanks for the suggestions.

                                          Chris

                                          Oh yeah, there is a known bug where the undo counts every line change as a separate undo command. So if you use the vcb to change the length of a line multiple times, each change will get its own undo. Sorry, its turned out to be trickier than I thought to fix this in this script but I have some ideas to fix it if its a big problem.

                                          Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                          All my Plugins I've written

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                                          • pilouP Offline
                                            pilou
                                            last edited by

                                            Seems quasi perfect πŸ˜„

                                            Frenchy Pilou
                                            Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                            My Little site :)

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