[Plugin] Pivot Around Axis

thomthom

Overview
Quickly wrote a tool to rotate components around their axis.

Access
Tools -> Pivot around Axis
(Supports ThomThom's Menu)

Usage

Select an Component
Activate the tool
Click an axis and drag up/down to rotate about that axis

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Jim

Awesome, Thomas! Simple to use and extremely useful for positioning. (Thinking positionable figures and lego.)

thomthom

I'm not happy about the controls, up and down. I want the position of the cursor in 3D space to affect the rotation.
But it's one for later, this one was a quicky.

honoluludesktop

Thomas, Nice. Having wrote a very limited "point a component" plugin (limited to pointing the zaxis), I am amazed at what you consider a "quickie". Thanks!!!

Rich O Brien

Thanks Thom

Very useful

At this rate you turn into.........

pilou

So add a move, & scale function and you will have an universal manipulator

No possible to adapt the mouse movement after the axe clicked with the arrow keys?

mitcorb

Yeah--what Pilou says--universal manipulator.

Chris Fullmer

I started that plugin once, but ended stopping because I don't like to use the universal tool. Is that something that people all really want? Thom is on his way there with this one!

Chris

bagatelo

Why we cannot enter number for rotation by keyboard?
The files above make me very happy too, because I set
keyboard keys... but "Pivot Around Axis" may be useful.

rot1.rb

rot45.rb

thomthom

@unknownuser said:

So add a move, & scale function and you will have an universal manipulator

This plugin does that: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=20346
But it does not default to the component axis unfortunately. (which was what I needed)

@unknownuser said:

No possible to adapt the mouse movement after the axe clicked with the arrow keys?

Good idea.

@bagatelo said:

Why we cannot enter number for rotation by keyboard?

Another good idea.

I might just come back to this plugin and improve it. Though currently VertexEdit is my top priority. This pivot plugin was one I needed at the office.

@chris fullmer said:

I started that plugin once, but ended stopping because I don't like to use the universal tool. Is that something that people all really want?

Me for instance. I like universal gizmos. They are present in many 3d modelling packages.
But the object of this plugin was to manipulate components while anchored to their axis, something I really miss in SU.

thomthom

I wanted to test what happened if I tried to pivot a 2d cutout component...

SU just accepted it. And the face it was stuck to appeared to deform as well, without any edges appearing.

But of course when you run Fix Problems:

snowflake

Nice work, mate.
All those cookies, you might seriously consider a dental plan coverage.

thomthom

@snowflake said:

Nice work, mate.
All those cookies, you might seriously consider a dental plan coverage.

No need! This book is all I need:

Besides, virtual cookies are low on sugar.

Jim

It's just very natural to want to enter the exact angle in the VCB after rotating the component.

thomthom

Yup. I added a couple of things today, like being able to rotate groups. And click on other instances to adjust another object without existing the tool. Will hook up the VCB shortly.

hsjzyangbin

It'S pity it Can not enter values

bagatelo

I was thinking about a new possibility for this tool. It would be like this: we selected the object, we activated the tool, and they appear in the screen a circular menu around the object with possibilities of we can rotate the object in predefine angles , as for instance, in 45 degrees. In the image example, only the dog house is geometry, the rest is the menu. For rotate the object, we chose desired arrow.

thomthom

Have you installed "ThomThom's Menu" ? If you did - then the location is different than the default Tools menu.

alfort

I new to installing plug-ins to sketchup. I've installed your script into the plugins folder but nothing is showing up in the tools menu after restarting sketchup. I'm using SU 7.1.

jason_maranto

Thank-you -- fits a need I've had perfectly.

Best,
Jason.