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    • pilouP Offline
      pilou
      last edited by

      My 1.8 live only 10 minutes 💚
      I don't very well understand the interest of the first center point but as I can rescale all the plane no problem 😄
      mire.png

      I abuse but a Polar Grid will be also fine if you have some free times ☀

      http://www.utc.fr/tsibh/public/tsibh/08/rapport_stage/laurent_neuge/CQ_radiologie_conventionnel_fichier/39_Mire_de_Wellhofer.jpg

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

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        DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ
        last edited by

        tig, really thank you very much.
        to hear any suggestions on this tool. thank you very much.
        I found only one bug. does not draw the rectangle tool on inclined coplanar faces.

        I use sketchup8

        Draw rectangle inclined coplanar workplane
        versions work : 1.5 or lower
        versions does not work : 1.6 or higher


        Sin título-1.jpg

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        • CadFatherC Offline
          CadFather
          last edited by

          Tig, you are so fast even you can't keep up with the versions as you make them!

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          • jeff hammondJ Offline
            jeff hammond
            last edited by

            @diego-rodriguez said:

            tig, really thank you very much.
            to hear any suggestions on this tool. thank you very much.
            I found only one bug. does not draw the rectangle tool on inclined coplanar faces.

            i'm thinking this is some sort of glitch with sketchup itself regarding the orientation of the bounding box.. you can recreate this behavior without using WorkPlane.. see attached skp


            planes.skp

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
              last edited by

              You gave Susan a tophat? Classy! 😄

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

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                DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ
                last edited by

                @unknownuser said:

                @diego-rodriguez said:

                tig, really thank you very much.
                to hear any suggestions on this tool. thank you very much.
                I found only one bug. does not draw the rectangle tool on inclined coplanar faces.

                i'm thinking this is some sort of glitch with sketchup itself regarding the orientation of the bounding box.. you can recreate this behavior without using WorkPlane.. see attached skp

                yes. and if it works the other tools (circle, polygon, arch)
                However,
                if the geometry is generated as a group or component directly from ruby, SI can draw shapes on inclined planes.
                if you later apply any modification to this geometry (move, scale, ungroup, etc. ..) this property is lost.

                Le adjunto imágenes de dos plugins que probé.

                polar zonohedron

                http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/2558/52784550.gif

                work plane 1.5

                http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/3791/94618514.gif

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                • EarthMoverE Offline
                  EarthMover
                  last edited by

                  Diego, the "Rotated Rectangle" tool works well on sloped planes. (Even after it's been manipulated)


                  Rotated Rec WP.gif

                  3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
                  Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
                  Content Creator at Skapeup

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                  • EarthMoverE Offline
                    EarthMover
                    last edited by

                    😄 I had her out partying last night and she forgot to take it off! 😳

                    3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
                    Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
                    Content Creator at Skapeup

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                    • pilouP Offline
                      pilou
                      last edited by

                      Little problem 😄
                      Rotation from the context menu is not on the Coplanar plan of the Work plane (when this one is inclined) 😉
                      it would have been too simple 💚
                      rotation.png

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

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                      • CadFatherC Offline
                        CadFather
                        last edited by

                        you're right Diego, and that's quite a nasty one

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                        • TIGT Offline
                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by

                          The glitch where you can't align a 2pt-rectangle [or sometimes a circle] onto a sloping face if it's a group/component-instance and its plane doesn't pass through the origin and is not axial on the x_axis [ 😒 ] is a known problem with both v7 and v8 - it's logged with them and hopefully a fix might appear in a maintenance release...
                          The problem isn't specific to this tool - it's general and is easily reproduced by making objects manually and trying to snap 2pt-rectangles to their sloping faces in different orientations... [however, a 3pt-rectangle will work OK as it's not 'built-in' and its code is in fact the starting point for my WorkPlane's tool itself] 😲 😢

                          TIG

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                          • jeff hammondJ Offline
                            jeff hammond
                            last edited by

                            @diego-rodriguez said:

                            However,
                            if the geometry is generated as a group or component directly from ruby, SI can draw shapes on inclined planes.
                            if you later apply any modification to this geometry (move, scale, ungroup, etc. ..) this property is lost.

                            really, i think it's beyond wether or not the shape was created via ruby..
                            also, you can move a group and still have it accept the rectangle tool IF you move it along the green axis.. it's a su glitch..

                            look at this video for more weird behavior.. depending on the xy orientation, the rectangle may or may not work..

                            tig can probably fix this but it's gonna be him fighting the su bug instead of fixing a bug in his script..

                            [flash=660,405:vu38m2u3]http://www.youtube.com/v/4ZFhL-rD2PM?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&border=1[/flash:vu38m2u3]

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                            • CadFatherC Offline
                              CadFather
                              last edited by

                              ..seems worse in su8

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                              • D Offline
                                DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ
                                last edited by

                                strange.
                                I have reported this error:
                                http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=bug

                                and his response was:
                                "Hi Diego:

                                Thank you for your message and attach particular image capture.
                                We've been very helpful!

                                Answering your question: the behavior you encountered is a
                                normal behavior.
                                Geometry within a group or component does not relate to the same
                                so
                                geometry itself.

                                If you want to draw a rectangle, tilted in one of his drawings, you
                                suggest you draw the geometry and twist it to match the
                                plane. Another option is to do it without going to the group.

                                I hope these tips have been helpful!

                                Regards,

                                The Google Team


                                any programmer can tell google about this problem?
                                probably have more success than me.

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                                • jeff hammondJ Offline
                                  jeff hammond
                                  last edited by

                                  [all this glitch talk aside...]

                                  it might be nice if tig could make a 3point rectangle tool (or does one already exist?).. it would be able to draw properly on the work plane but it's use would extend far beyond that..
                                  there are plenty of instances where the normal fails and a 3pt version would easily accomplish it..

                                  it'd basically be just like the first steps of WorkPlane so most of the coding is already done anyway (well, it at least seems that way for someone that doesn't write code 😉 )

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                                  • jeff hammondJ Offline
                                    jeff hammond
                                    last edited by

                                    3pt.jpg

                                    [edit - lol.. it's almost already in 2D tools] 😉

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                                    • EarthMoverE Offline
                                      EarthMover
                                      last edited by

                                      Jeff, check here. That is what I'm using in the last video I posted - http://download.sketchup.com/downloads/downloads/rubyscripts/rectangle.zip Shows up as "Rotated Rectangle" in the Draw Menu.

                                      (It's also included in CadFather's CD Draw tools)

                                      3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
                                      Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
                                      Content Creator at Skapeup

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                                      • BoxB Online
                                        Box
                                        last edited by

                                        Another excellent Tig Tool.

                                        Just one question/suggestion, is it possible to have numbering added to the grid.
                                        When I'm putting together a ship I have over 300 frame references set at .64m, to have those frame numbers automatically on the grid would be a godsend.

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                                        • jeff hammondJ Offline
                                          jeff hammond
                                          last edited by

                                          @earthmover said:

                                          Jeff, check here. That is what I'm using in the last video I posted - http://download.sketchup.com/downloads/downloads/rubyscripts/rectangle.zip Shows up as "Rotated Rectangle" in the Draw Menu.

                                          (It's also included in CadFather's CD Draw tools)

                                          hahaha

                                          i've wanted that tool since i started using sketchup.. looks like it's been around at least that long 😳

                                          [diego, i'm thinking this is the best solution at the moment for drawing rectangles on the workplanes.. '⇧R' seems to be a perfect shortcut (that is if you're used to 'R' for ]

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                                          • kenK Offline
                                            ken
                                            last edited by

                                            Well, this plugin started out as a reliable, jeans wearing working plugin. Now it is a $20,000.00 “Say Yes to the Dress” wedding gown.

                                            Thanks TIG

                                            Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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