[Plugin] Q JS ALIGN TOOLBAR

[thomthom]

@unknownuser said:

Can you show me an example where the center of the Group's bounding box is dissimilar from the geometric one?

Unless the content of the group/component is a box the boundingbox centre will never be the geometric centre of the content.

[CadFather]

Hi Coen - yes try with a grouped triangle, the centre differs from the bounding box

(thanks all for the feedback)

EDIT: Coen you got 3 answers in one go - watch your servers..

[Daniel S]

Thankyou Cadfather!!!

@unknownuser said:

Can you show me an example where the center of the Group's bounding box is dissimilar from the geometric one?

Quick example:

(centroid is the geometric center)

Daniel S

Edit: another example:

[CadFather]

there are two issues i think merit attention: centroid reference and spacing/distribution of objects

we could have icons or a small dialog, sort of this

actually i have looked at the centroid script by Alex Schreyer, but have not been able to implement it into the align script yet (it's going to take me some time)

in fact if any of the great masters can help, might be better!

[Chris Fullmer]

EDIT: THis is wrong, I was looking at his shape wrong.

Thom I think on yours the bounding box center is the geometric center or centroid. Your face runs the diagonal of the bounding box, so placing a centerpoint on that face is just like placing a centerpoint in the middle of a diagonal line of the bounding box.

Chris

[thomthom]

The bounding box' centre point is not the centre of that extruded triangle.

[CadFather]

@thomthom said:

The bounding box' centre point is not the centre of that extruded triangle.

Chris, it's the background colour throwing you off.. (must have been on purpose!)

[Chris Fullmer]

@thomthom said:

The bounding box' centre point is not the centre of that extruded triangle.

OOooohhh! I get it. Yes, Cadfather is right, I could not see a 3d object there at all. I just saw the front, bright face.

So yes thom, you're right. That construction point is not the center of the geometry.

Chris

[thomthom]

thehe
messing with your head!

[ideas_arte]

Nice...!

Thank you very much...!

[Bob James]

@cadfather said:

(tested only on PC - unzip the contents to your plugins folder)

Works on Mac except the toolbar doesn't "stick" - have to use View/Toolbars each time SU loads.

[CadFather]

thanks Bob - i hope someone with a mac will be able to fix this

[BTM]

Just add this:

case gp_quarr_jsalign_tb.get_last_state when 1 gp_quarr_jsalign_tb.restore when -1 gp_quarr_jsalign_tb.show end

[utiler]

Thanks Coen, good tip. Could have used it last week while trying to flatten some survey dwgs....

[CadFather]

That's great Coen, thanks..and it is really fast as well

[opla457]

A big thank for this plugin, so great - the function sketchup messed !!

[jason_maranto]

Thank you both for this wonderful script -- something I've always wanted in Sketchup.

Best,
Jason.

[bagatelo]

I change the plugin to show menus in "Plugins" Menu. Now we can set keyboard keys, is very useful to me.

I thought about a function of "smart drop" for all of the possible directions of the axis, like this, the aligned objects if they would not fix in the most distant part of the object of alignment reference, but they would collide in the surface. Look image example. It would be as the plugin drop, but it would work in all possible directions by axes(9 possibilities, or 6, if we not consider middle). Maybe some keys like SHIFT can change this behavior.

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jsAlign.zip

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[bagatelo]

Two years later I had another idea. Could someone modify this script to reposition the axes of the selected objects? Maybe by pressing a modifier key on the keyboard, such as alt or shift.

[Vicspa]

very useful plug-in, thank you