[Work-in-Progress] DC "Animate" record macro

[markozeta]

This was actually my suggestion to all for the google product page information. Then I realized that it should be possible to program myself. At least I think so.

I know how to do the math, but can't for the life of me figure out how to read attribute dictionaries. I read up on chris fullmer's tutorials on these things, and when I used webconsole with the attribute dictionaries, it didn't help.

So, bear with me while I work on this idea, but I think I can make it happen. This will be my first script that I'll do.

[thomthom]

What are the problems you're having with the attributes? Example?

[markozeta]

@thomthom said:

What are the problems you're having with the attributes? Example?

Well, I opened up the Sketchup Attribute Manager. http://code.google.com/p/sketchupattributemanager/wiki/Welcome. Using this, I made a simple dynamic component. When I loaded the attributes X, Y, Z onto the component, they showed up on the attribute manager. Then when I moved the block, reloaded the attribute manager, the new coordinates were not updated. This same issue happened when I scales and rotated the component, compelling me to believe the problem was most likely with the attribute manager not reading the dc (even after I hit redraw). I don't know of something similar to the attribute manager that will work with DC's, and that' my real difficulty. Without it, debugging this idea will be difficult without knowing exactly the formatting of the current functions.