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

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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
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        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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                • B Offline
                  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
                        last edited by

                        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
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                          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
                            last edited by

                            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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                                    • J Offline
                                      jmmad
                                      last edited by

                                      Thxs a lot Chris for this plugin
                                      Really usefull

                                      Get Upa !

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                                      • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                        Chris Fullmer
                                        last edited by

                                        UPDATED (again)
                                        Just in case you were'nt sick of updating this script, I thought I'd make yet another update to it today!

                                        This is the new Visual Graphic User Interface Edition. Or in other words, I added a toolbar.
                                        line_elev.pngline_length.pngline_normals.png
                                        These are (1)Vertical lines of the same length. (2)Vertical lines with the same elevation. (3)An N (for Normal) and 3 lines coming off of its normals.

                                        Also, I made it so it registers with the extension manager. (Go to Preferences>Extensions and you'll see "3 Line Tools" listed. You can uncheck it and it won't be in your Plugins menu the next time you run SketchUp.) Hope these frequent updates aren't obnoxious.

                                        Chris

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

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                                        • L Offline
                                          linea
                                          last edited by

                                          Superb.Thanks

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                                          • Jean-FrancoJ Offline
                                            Jean-Franco
                                            last edited by

                                            Thanks so much Chris.
                                            What a plugin !
                                            And how fast you are in updating it in order to follow our needs and demands !
                                            Seen this way Ruby scripting seems so easy ...
                                            Unfortunately it's not. Or at least for me. πŸ‘

                                            Jean-Franco

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