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    • TIGT Offline
      TIG Moderator
      last edited by

      @unknownuser said:

      TIG
      Attached is the VCB during drawing an arc. Not sure, what VCB is displaying, however your help guide indicated that the VCB should be displaying the “swept-angle”
      Thanks for the plugin
      Ken

      Ken
      Clearly the 2d arc is 'working' and it's about 306 degrees (306993/1000) ! The reported angle in the VCB is calculated in radians, turned to degrees, made into a float, then into text... there's never a /1000 in it ! I can't see where the fractional info is coming from - do you have 'fractional' units set ? I don't get the nnn/nnn even with that set on my PC ? Can you give more details of your OS and model setup etc...

      TIG

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      • Dave RD Offline
        Dave R
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        Thank you TIG. That appears to have fixed the line style problem.

        Is there a way to edit the spacing of dashes or dots on the line style?

        FWIW, I tried the swept arc and got a decimal display of the angle and I do have units set to fractional.

        Etaoin Shrdlu

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        • EarthMoverE Offline
          EarthMover
          last edited by

          Thanks for your diligence TIG. I'm always amazed at your dedication...especially with no financial compensation. You are one of the many SU heroes!

          BTW - Everything is working fine now for me!

          3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
          Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
          Content Creator at Skapeup

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          • TIGT Offline
            TIG Moderator
            last edited by

            @dave r said:

            Thank you TIG. That appears to have fixed the line style problem.
            Is there a way to edit the spacing of dashes or dots on the line style?
            FWIW, I tried the swept arc and got a decimal display of the angle and I do have units set to fractional.

            The angle should display as decimal degrees to ~3dp e.g. 90.0 or 91.125
            The 'dashes and dots' space ~equal=line_width, but squash up to suit odd line lengths. You can write your own styles ! Just edit the code as needed !!! 😉

            Seriously, if there's another style you'd like that's not there, then give me an example and I might be able to add it ? 🤓

            TIG

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            • Dave RD Offline
              Dave R
              last edited by

              I wasn't complaining about the angle display. Just mentioning that it seemed to be alright for me. I didn't get the strange fractional display that Ken got.

              Thanks on the line styles. I don't have anything in mind at the moment. I was just curious. In some case the dashes or dots seemed too close together but that could be just me.

              Etaoin Shrdlu

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              • kenK Offline
                ken
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                TIG
                Here is my operating system and Sketchup info.

                XP Profession Ver 2002, Service Pack 2, Sketchup Pro 7.0.10247.

                The VCB apparently reads the cursor position, I can move the cursor without changing the angle and get a changing reading on the VCB.

                I have discovered that if I start the arc at the origin, the VCB will read 0 degree at the top, 90 to the right, 180 down and 90 towards the left at each axis. It appears to be able to snap to the axis.

                I used the protractor and made guidelines at 60, 45 and 30 degrees. If I stopped at any of the guidelines, the VCB read the correct degrees, but would not read the correct degrees between the guidelines. i.e Going CW, 60, 45, 30, 150, 135 and 120.

                Wish I could give you more help.

                Again, I want to thank you for this plugin. I find I can turn out small 2d drawing quicker with Sketchup than if I use any other CAD program. Not asking you to change anything, however, I would prefer when doing a 2d drawing to just have all the icons for all the different selections displayed. To me that would be faster than trying to remember what control to pick. I know that would take up a lot of space, but I would only load this menu when I have to do a 2d drawing.

                Also, V2.5 still says ver V2.4. Did you not change the Ver number or did you download V2.4 again?

                Ken

                Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
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                  Ken

                  The very first post in this thread contains a zip with the latest [currently v2.5] files in it. Some files might have not changed and say v2.4 in them - but for completeness they're all in the one zip...

                  I hope that the options aren't too cumbersome... Make a note and stick it on top of your monitor... 😉
                  They do mostly appear in the VCB bar too.....

                  Line:
                  Ctrl toggles Lines/ConstructionLines
                  Alt toggles Lines/Polylines
                  Type lengths in VCB

                  Rectangle:
                  Type Dimensions pt1+width or height

                  Freehand:
                  Type segment length in VCB

                  Arc:
                  Ctrl toggles 3-point/center+2-point
                  Alt toggles angles 0-180/180-360
                  Type NNs'egments at any time or length/radius between pt1/pt2 or swept-angle between pt2/pt3

                  Circle:
                  Ctrl toggle center+radius/3-point
                  Alt toggle center+radius/2-point(diameter)
                  Type NNs'egments at any time or pt1+radius/diameter etc

                  Fillet:
                  Alt toggles Fillet/Chamfer
                  Type NNs'egments for radius or radius, or chamfer/chamfer1:chamfer2

                  The other tools either have limited options or have dialogs [2DText] or you right-click in empty-space to open their dialog - e.g. Hatching and Line-Style
                  Selecting some 2DText or a Styled-Line gives special context-menus and then the editing dialog...

                  ☀

                  TIG

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                  • X Offline
                    xrok1
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                    😍

                    “There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”

                    http://www.Twilightrender.com try it!

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                    • M Offline
                      Matt666
                      last edited by

                      Hi TIG!
                      Great new tools, thank you!
                      Just one thing I've changed in your plugin... I don't like to put plugins in the plugins folder... 😳 So I made my script withs relative pathes.
                      If you want I can tell you where you pathes are absolute...

                      Frenglish at its best !
                      My scripts

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                      • TIGT Offline
                        TIG Moderator
                        last edited by

                        Here's v2.5 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=185760#p185760

                        Clipping fixed with Tool.getExtents thanks to NewOne's idea. 🤓 + 🤓

                        TIG

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                        • A Offline
                          agrazdi
                          last edited by

                          Tig

                          Any plans for a double line ?

                          agrazdi

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                          • EarthMoverE Offline
                            EarthMover
                            last edited by

                            The more I use this toolset, the more I love it. I had to do a quick cross section of a roof detail yesterday to apply for permits on an upcoming build. Instead of CAD, I was able to do it all in Sketchup using 2D tools. Putting the line style changes on their own layer to be toggled on and off, is brilliant. You can do preliminary plan view drawings with line styles, then shut them off and proceed with the 3D modeling. Another great thing about Line Styles......they are renderable!!

                            It would be nice to incorporate Matt's extend tool into the toolset. Also making an extend tool for an arc would be brilliant. So often I have to try and continue and existing arc to a line and it usually requires finding the center point, using TOS to draw a Cline Circle, then snapping the arcs bulge to it, as tangent snaps isn't always reliable. Another way is to explode the curve, find center point and rotate a section around, but if it could be streamlined into a Arc extend tool, that would great.

                            One other request would be the ability to have leader text that doesn't change size when your scroll in and out. Perhaps there is a setting to change this that I don't know about??? Perhaps an improved leader text tool for 2D tools would be in order.

                            3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
                            Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
                            Content Creator at Skapeup

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                            • PixeroP Offline
                              Pixero
                              last edited by

                              I cant see any snapping points when using the line tool. Bug?

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                              • M Offline
                                markozeta
                                last edited by

                                @earthmover said:

                                One other request would be the ability to have leader text that doesn't change size when your scroll in and out. Perhaps there is a setting to change this that I don't know about??? Perhaps an improved leader text tool for 2D tools would be in order.

                                Set your text size to be a value in inches, rather than point size.

                                Window > Model Info > Text > Font Size.

                                Set it for a value in inches and it will be constant. In points it will move zoom with the zoom.

                                BSME - Cal Poly Pomona
                                Sketchup Pipe Maniac

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                                • B Offline
                                  Ben Ritter
                                  last edited by

                                  TIG,

                                  Just started to use the tools and all I can say is that they are wonderful. Thank you so much.

                                  One problem I'm having is getting the hatching command to work. Does not want to initialize, no dialog box, etc.

                                  Ben

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                                  • TIGT Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    @ben ritter said:

                                    TIG,

                                    Just started to use the tools and all I can say is that they are wonderful. Thank you so much.

                                    One problem I'm having is getting the hatching command to work. Does not want to initialize, no dialog box, etc.

                                    Ben

                                    After hatching has been run once you should get it opening without a dialog, with the last set 'patt' reported on the VCB, right-click in empty-space to get the dialog up to change the 'patt'. Otherwise please run with ruby console open and report error messages...

                                    TIG

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                                    • TIGT Offline
                                      TIG Moderator
                                      last edited by

                                      @pixero said:

                                      I cant see any snapping points when using the line tool. Bug?

                                      There aren't any ! Might add some ???

                                      TIG

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                                      • TIGT Offline
                                        TIG Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        2D text has no 'leaders' - it's easy enough to add one as a 2D polyline between the text and the required point. If you want an arrow or 'dot' then add say a text 'point' at the end ?

                                        TIG

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                                        • B Offline
                                          Ben Ritter
                                          last edited by

                                          @tig said:

                                          @ben ritter said:

                                          TIG,

                                          Just started to use the tools and all I can say is that they are wonderful. Thank you so much.

                                          One problem I'm having is getting the hatching command to work. Does not want to initialize, no dialog box, etc.

                                          Ben

                                          After hatching has been run once you should get it opening without a dialog, with the last set 'patt' reported on the VCB, right-click in empty-space to get the dialog up to change the 'patt'. Otherwise please run with ruby console open and report error messages...

                                          TIG,

                                          I click on the tool and nothing happens. The ruby console says, "Cancelled 2d Hatching". That's all it says.

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                                          • facerF Offline
                                            facer
                                            last edited by

                                            Tig,
                                            Thank you for ruby, well done.

                                            Everything appears to work except for 2D Hatching and Text.
                                            I am unable to activate the 2D Hatching or Text.
                                            Operating system Windows 2000.

                                            Here is the ruby consule output for the attempts on Hatching and Text:

                                            Cancelled 2D Hatching.
                                            Cancelled 2D Hatching.
                                            Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method refresh_thumbnail' for #<Sketchup::ComponentDefinition:0x74ebee0>> C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/2Dtools/2DtextTool.rb:126:in activate'
                                            C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/2Dtools/2DtextTool.rb:343:in select_tool' C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/2Dtools/2DtextTool.rb:343:in texttool2D'
                                            C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/2Dtools/2D#loader.rb:130
                                            C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/2Dtools/2D#loader.rb:130:in `call'

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