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    [Plugin] Flatten and Extrude

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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      No worries! πŸ˜„ πŸ˜‰

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

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      • D Offline
        dtrarch
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        TT

        How about using TIG's Height/datum tool to set Z with your new tool.
        Hmmm?

        dtr

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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
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          @dtrarch said:

          TT

          How about using TIG's Height/datum tool to set Z with your new tool.
          Hmmm?

          dtr

          Set Z? What you mean?

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

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          • TIGT Online
            TIG Moderator
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            My Datum tool sets a 'Z' datum in your model [as an attribute] so when z=0 z_datum=123.456m or whatever. Then you use the tool to add text to refer to a point so that floors or points on an elevation etc are given their corrected height above 'datum', rather than z=0...

            TIG

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
              last edited by

              Ok - but how does that relate to this plugin? (I'm confused...)

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

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              • TIGT Online
                TIG Moderator
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                I surmise he means instead of flattening everything to z-o allow you to set it to flatten to z=123.456m. Easy done as it's in a group - flatten all to z=0 end with an option to enter a new z or pick a point and move the flattened group up/down to suit the desired z ???

                TIG

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  @tig said:

                  flatten all to z=0 end with an option to enter a new z or pick a point and move the flattened group up/down to suit the desired z ???

                  That would move the top above the lines it extrudes up to. But it's just as easy to just to flatten down to a given Z level.

                  Anyway - thanks for clearing that up. Will see if I'll be adding that in the future.
                  Btw, does your Z-Level plugin expose the Z Height publicly? Wondering if I can read the value and use that as default if present.

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

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                  • TIGT Online
                    TIG Moderator
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                    Frankly I'd keep them separate...

                    TIG

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                    • pilouP Offline
                      pilou
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                      Flat land 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:

                        Flat land πŸ˜‰

                        Someone's been snooping in the code, eh? πŸ˜„ It just so happened to be the last book I read. πŸ€“

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

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                          kwistenbiebel
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                          Nice idea thomthom. Things are busy now, but I will try the plugin in depth at the weekend.
                          For architects this is extremely useful!
                          Now I don't have to ask the Rhino guy to do it for me and to import it in SU πŸ˜‰

                          By the way,
                          I love the CookieWare idea! Whenever you're in Australia, please drop by for a beer... πŸ˜„

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                            dtrarch
                            last edited by

                            I yield πŸ‘Š
                            Just thought that muli-level flat and extrude might be a possible for structural elements and such.

                            tt many thanks in any case β˜€

                            dtr

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                            • utilerU Offline
                              utiler
                              last edited by

                              @kwistenbiebel said:

                              Nice idea thomthom. Things are busy now, but I will try the plugin in depth at the weekend.
                              For architects this is extremely useful!
                              Now I don't have to ask the Rhino guy to do it for me and to import it in SU πŸ˜‰

                              By the way,
                              I love the CookieWare idea! Whenever you're in Australia, please drop by for a beer... πŸ˜„

                              Some nice boutique breweries over there, kwist......
                              After you've had a few beers with kwist, Thom fly across the other side of the country and I'll shout you a few also!!! πŸ‘

                              Just Curious...

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                              • thomthomT Offline
                                thomthom
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                                @kwistenbiebel said:

                                Now I don't have to ask the Rhino guy to do it for me and to import it in SU πŸ˜‰

                                Rhino has a function like this??

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

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                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  @dtrarch said:

                                  I yield πŸ‘Š
                                  Just thought that muli-level flat and extrude might be a possible for structural elements and such.

                                  tt many thanks in any case β˜€

                                  dtr

                                  Multi-level flat and extrude? Could you care to explain more what you got in mind?

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

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                                    gavvy
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                                    thomthom
                                    πŸ˜’
                                    I tride this plugin .The groups in the group can't be faltten
                                    Is it a better idea to flatten the group in group,and hold the group of faces?

                                    to build a city ,i always use clf_greeble_2.rb πŸ˜„

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      Currently it doesn't dig into nested groups. It only works on the edges directly inside the selected group/component.
                                      Will change that later.

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

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                                        gavvy
                                        last edited by

                                        @thomthom said:

                                        Currently it doesn't dig into nested groups. It only works on the edges directly inside the selected group/component.
                                        Will change that later.

                                        πŸ˜„
                                        zorro tool is a good EXAMPLE

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                                        • GaieusG Offline
                                          Gaieus
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                                          Hm. My city has just stopped at 31% (and SU is unresponsive). But I gues there are limitations also (file size and edge count) so maybe I shouldn't be so eager and clean the file up a bit before I try.
                                          πŸ˜‰

                                          Gai...

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            @gaieus said:

                                            Hm. My city has just stopped at 31% (and SU is unresponsive). But I gues there are limitations also (file size and edge count) so maybe I shouldn't be so eager and clean the file up a bit before I try.
                                            πŸ˜‰

                                            Can you send me the model for debugging?

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

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