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      romain210
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      thanks!

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      • TIGT Offline
        TIG Moderator
        last edited by

        Here's v4.4 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=185760#p185760
        Main change = LineStyle Tool, rare glitch, some dot patterns with 'spare' dot trapped:
        also a glitch in Edit fixed [inch v. mm].
        Some potential errors trapped in VCB input for some tools - these were so rare it was never reported.
        🤓

        TIG

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          altap
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          TIG, I discovered your plugin today & WHAT A GREAT addition to sketchup THANK YOU ...really

          hope to see more 👍

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            JClements
            last edited by

            Thank you, TIG.

            John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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              hsjzyangbin
              last edited by

              hi,tig
              I have a idea that 2Dtools could be used to XZ plan or YZ plan rather than XYplan

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                TIG Moderator
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                I decided to limit it to 2D in the Z-plane as that is it's primary use - a few tools like Fillet, LineStyle and 2Dtext work in 3D however...

                TIG

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                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  Here's v4.5 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=185760#p185760
                  Minor lingvo and db setup tweaks...

                  TIG

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                    alz
                    last edited by

                    I needed a way to change the color of a line -- then I found this plugin -- thanks!

                    Has the idea of using components instead of groups already been suggested? If the 2D Line Style created as components (or was an option), then the "Always Face Camera" could be used.

                    For wide lines, this helps the 2D Line maintain a thickness to it from any camera angle (and potentially the same color strength by not falling into shadow).

                    ?

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      These were primarily made as 2D tools...
                      But if you want it to be a faceme component d a Styled-Line then simply wrap its group in a component and make that faceme. That way the group inside the component's entities can be edited later - making the group directly into a faceme component probably would lose the attribute and it's edit-ability ?

                      TIG

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                        TIG Moderator
                        last edited by

                        Here's v4.6 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=185760#p185760
                        Didier Bur has reworked the FR lingvo file and a glitch with the Toolbar/Menu translation not db/deBabelizing has been fixed etc 🤓

                        TIG

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                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by

                          It is a 2D tool set - flat in 2D.
                          Draw group and rotate if you need 2D in a vertical plane ?

                          TIG

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                            brookefox
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                            Thanks, TIG. Ideally, for me, one could specify which 2Ds the 2DTools operate in, but I suspect that you would have implemented such were it feasible.

                            ~ Brooke

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                              brookefox
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                              Back to thomthom's earlier inquiry, and some others perhaps: it is not possible to set Z on any axis other than the default world blue (?), so one cannot, for instance, set the 2D Z in order to draw flat on a vertical section plane (which has not been copy-rotated flat)? I tried changing the blue axis (Z, vertical) to the original red as would allow me to do what I want here but the 2D Z did not follow.

                              ~ Brooke

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                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by

                                Try 'Tools on Faces' [by Fredo] - it does have several similar tools to my 2D ones, you could use them on a single vertical face ?

                                Note that some of my '2D' tools like Fillet, Text, Hatching, Line-Style etc do work in any plane in 3D, although they were initial implemented for 2D...

                                TIG

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                                  brookefox
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                                  Well, I can't get the 2DT text or hatch, for instance, to work on any other that the orig x-y (even on a tilted plane), though I can get SU to 'material' hatch or text a tilted plane. Indeed, once one has the non-standard flat plane created by whatever means, usually antithetical to strict model based-work (e.g., by making an vertical plane intersection with a model to produce a section), then SUf can handle drawing, texting etc., on it (even if the text is of the floating variety), and 3d text may be used for flat text. The charm of a 2D text able to be placed without the plane having been explicitly drawn, via the Z set, is the grail in my eyes.

                                  ~ Brooke

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                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    The very last option is on the 2D text dialog is Z-Plane OR All-Faces.
                                    They do what they say.
                                    The second one snaps to any face including sloping and vertical ones...
                                    😕

                                    TIG

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                                    • brookefoxB Offline
                                      brookefox
                                      last edited by

                                      OK, thanks. Sorry I missed that.

                                      ~ Brooke

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                                        caronte01
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                                        Hi Tig, I´ve taken the liberty of updating the icon images so that they have transparency. I did this because when placed on osx´s toolbar, they didn´t look right.

                                        If anyone wants to, all you need to do is replace the images in /plugins/2dtools/Icons with the ones in the attached zip file.

                                        Cheers, and again, thanks

                                        Santiago
                                        Archive.zip

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                                          Edson
                                          last edited by

                                          hi tig,

                                          soon after you released this great plugin you mentioned that there would be a guide for mac users in pdf and doc format. however, i could not find any of those files in any of the zip files for the several versions of 2DTools. would it be possible for you to post them?

                                          regards.

                                          edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre • brasil
                                          http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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                                            TIG Moderator
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                                            Edsom

                                            Doesn't the html 'help' file work on MAC ?
                                            You can open it from the ../Plugins/2Dtools/ folder if it doesn't open from th toolbar or menu [if it doesn't open what error messages do you get in the Ruby Console ?]
                                            😕

                                            TIG

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