[Plugin] Component Spray Tool 1.3.

[rangrstudio]

Hi I'm trying to install this on Mac with Sketchup 7.
The compo_spray.rb is in the Plugins folder, but I'm not seeing it in the plugins menu. Have reinstalled SKP 7 from scratch, then unzipped the zip file in the plug-ins folder per instructions but nothing.
Is it not mac compatible?

EDIT: I tried it on a windows machine (XP with SKP 7) and I couldn't get it to work there either. The zip contains "compo_spray.rb" and the pdf file. Is there something missing? Thanks for any help.

[TIG]

If you read the PDF help file you'd see that Component Spray Tool is accessed from a pop-out menu in Draw Menu NOT the Plugins Menu !

[rangrstudio]

@tig said:

If you read the PDF help file you'd see that Component Spray Tool is accessed from a pop-out menu in Draw Menu NOT the Plugins Menu ![attachment=0:2qfvuyqu]<!-- ia0 -->CStool.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:2qfvuyqu]

Thank you! I guess I should read the whole manual...

This is an amazing tool.

[Frederik]

This is a GREAT tool...
Would it be possible to make an option, where components sprayed don't intersect with each other...??
It's possible to prevent stacking, but I miss an option, where components don't intersect also...

Perhaps even an option, where I can define how close components can be to each other...
Could have both positive and negative entries...
Any ideas...??

[solo]

Yes please, I have the same issue where I need to mass some proxies but the boxes I'm using are all stacked and intersecting, maybe a collision checkbox?

[csolar]

I've just installed this (SU 7.1, WinXP), and I have a question about the spray pressure parameter. In the user guide it says that the # of components dropped is calculated as:

[area of surface]/[average area of component(s)]*[spray pressure]

In my case, the surface is a 10x10 square, and the component is a 1x1 square -- so the surface is 100 times the component area. If I select a spray pressure of 10%, I would expect 10 components to be dropped, but what I get is 100 components. Basically this calculation seems to be off by a factor of 10: if I ask for 100% pressure, then 1000 components get dropped, and so on.

Am I missing something? I ask because for my model I really need lower densities; i.e. in line with the calculation described in the guide.

Thanks,

Chris.

[csolar]

Another observation:

I select "random rotate", but when I look at the results it's clear that only 6 specific rotation angles are being used...actually more like 3 pairs of angles, 120 degrees apart, with the items in each pair being 8 degrees apart. Is this expected?

Thanks, Chris.

[Didier Bur]

Hi csolar,
Do you have set any angle snapping ?

[Frederik]

Hi Didier,

Any chance of adding what Solo and I have requested...??

[csolar]

@didier bur said:

Do you have set any angle snapping ?

I did, but the results are the same after I turned off angle snapping.

[Didier Bur]

@unknownuser said:

Any chance of adding what Solo and I have requested...?

Yes. The only question is: when ?

[Frederik]

@didier bur said:

Yes.

@didier bur said:

The only question is: when ?

Hopefully soon...

[thomthom]

Didier:

If you replace the native model.raytest with this method the rays won't stop on invisible entities:

  # Raytrace method that does not stop on hidden entities.
  def self.raytest(ray)
    model = Sketchup.active_model
    vector = ray[1]
    while true
      # Shot ray
      test = model.raytest(ray)
      return nil if test.nil?
      # Verify visibility
      point, path = test
      if path.all? { |e| e.visible? && e.layer.visible? }
        return test
      else
        # raytest stopped on a hidden entity - create a new ray from that point
        # and let the loop continue until it hits something visible, or nothing.
        ray = [ point, vector ]
      end
    end # while
  end

[Didier Bur]

Hi tt,

[inbal]

thank so much

[lapx]

Problems with component spray tool...Tool will not pick point after clicking.
Is anyone else have problems with the tool? All the parameters appear correct.
I'm placing byce on a simple plane is not working. Openig a new drawing helped but it always goes back to not working at some point.

I'm using in V6.

[charly2008]

Hi,

I wanted to try compo spray but I get a huge number of components at a small circle. What am I doing wrong?

Charly

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[Didier Bur]

Hi,
Did you draw a great circle (20m or so) or a small one (2m or so) ?
But don't worry, since FaceMe components don't really have a bounding box, the number of components to be created is wrong, if I remember well...
Regards,

[charly2008]

Hi Didier,

The circle was about three meters. I tried the whole day. If i use it at a single line or a point then i get very small copies.

Charly

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[charly2008]

For the above mentioned problem i found the solution. The values for Low and high scale where to less.

But now although Keep vertical is selected, the tree is horizontal. For this I could not find the reason.

Charly

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