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    thomthom
    last edited by 10 May 2010, 20:56

    ๐Ÿ˜„ Glad you liked it. It came about because I realised I was repeatedly drawing guidelines offset from and edge, draw an edge, erase guideline. Wanted to merge this into one operation. I often do this while working on faรงades.

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

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      pilou
      last edited by 10 May 2010, 21:13

      Very practical for have your own grid! ๐Ÿ˜Ž
      Here with Protrude by Jim Foltz and Random Painter by Chris Fullmer
      edgetools.jpg

      @ Thomthom : have you in your Selection Toys or other plugs something that select only oriented faces external? (with any orientation ("White faces")

      for this object for example โ“
      external.skp

      Frenchy Pilou
      Is beautiful that please without concept!
      My Little site :)

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        thomthom
        last edited by 10 May 2010, 21:28

        hm... no...

        this one is a thinker...

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

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          gavvy
          last edited by 11 May 2010, 04:47

          ๐Ÿ˜ž oh no .....
          what a XX tool ๐Ÿ‘

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            gavvy
            last edited by 11 May 2010, 04:49

            ๐Ÿ˜ฒ
            Tomtom ,can i have your msn-account-name??

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              pilou
              last edited by 11 May 2010, 07:22

              @unknownuser said:

              hm... no...
              this one is a thinker...

              Because after this will easy to have a uniform object well oriented! โ˜€

              Frenchy Pilou
              Is beautiful that please without concept!
              My Little site :)

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                thomthom
                last edited by 11 May 2010, 07:38

                @unknownuser said:

                @unknownuser said:

                hm... no...
                this one is a thinker...

                Because after this will easy to have a uniform object well oriented! โ˜€

                If the purpose is to orient all faces, then right click a face and choose Orient Faces.

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

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                  pilou
                  last edited by 11 May 2010, 07:49

                  No, it's not so simple ๐Ÿ˜‰
                  Try with the object linked above!
                  You must select by hand all different aeras and make different Reverse before Orient ๐Ÿ˜ฎ
                  Easy with this object but for a more complex, it's a mess! ๐Ÿ˜’

                  Frenchy Pilou
                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                  My Little site :)

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                    thomthom
                    last edited by 11 May 2010, 08:00

                    Ah, yea, I see now that there are a couple of problem areas. The problem here is knowing programmatically what is "outside".

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

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                      pilou
                      last edited by 11 May 2010, 08:56

                      "Outside" is not given by face's sign of a normal?

                      Frenchy Pilou
                      Is beautiful that please without concept!
                      My Little site :)

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                        arjunmax09
                        last edited by 23 May 2010, 11:52

                        http://media.freeola.com/images/user-images/4366/u2closeup.jpg

                        Awesome!!! Awesome!!!Awesome!!!Awesome!!!Awesome!!! Thomthom you rock...that's why a rocking cake for you ๐Ÿ˜„ btw..do you listen to u2??

                        when you fail at something....you haven't really failed...you've found one way the thing will not work out

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                          mitcorb
                          last edited by 23 May 2010, 13:35

                          Sketchup would have to decide what is outside, what is inside. What if it would have something to do with faces facing camera? Or, if the model is a closed volume somehow Sketchup would check for this and assumes all outside faces should be white, all inside faces should be grey. But what would it decide on an almost closed volume?

                          I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                            TIG Moderator
                            last edited by 24 May 2010, 09:36

                            That is why with some of my tools - like EEbyRails - it makes the mesh and asks if you want to reverse the faces - it tries to double-guess which is inside and which is out, BUT only you know which way round you'd like it...

                            TIG

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                              thomthom
                              last edited by 24 May 2010, 10:19

                              Problem arise when you have meshes with internal faces.

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

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                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by 24 May 2010, 10:34

                                If an edge has more than two faces it is impossible to have all of those faces oriented the same way.
                                A simple fact of geometry - therefore trying to orient meshes with 'internal' faces is futile...

                                TIG

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                                  mitcorb
                                  last edited by 24 May 2010, 11:30

                                  This must be due to Sketchup being a surface modeler?.
                                  I'm not sure what Blender is classified as, but it has ways to deal with face orientation, internals and duplicates. I wonder if some analogous form of these concepts could still be applied to Sketchup?-- that is, short of exporting to Blender and back.

                                  I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                                    thomthom
                                    last edited by 28 May 2010, 12:38

                                    Update 1.1.1
                                    Important bug fix in my Ramer-Douglas-Peucker implementation of the curve simplification.

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

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                                      Ben Ritter
                                      last edited by 28 May 2010, 15:32

                                      Thom thom, thank you for the great plugin. I don't seem to understand how to get the colinear function. I see the rest but not this one.

                                      Ben

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                                        notareal
                                        last edited by 28 May 2010, 15:36

                                        Nice!

                                        Welcome to try [Thea Render](http://www.thearender.com/), Thea support | [kerkythea.net](http://www.kerkythea.net/) -team member

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                                          thomthom
                                          last edited by 1 Jun 2010, 18:01

                                          Sorry about replacing the Divide Face video is a poorer quality YouTube video, but I ran out of bandwidth on Screencast and I did not have the original video.

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

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