[Plugin] Work Plane

TIG · 3 Oct 2010, 18:21

Why rectangle tool doesn't draw on the WorkPlane?

It's a known issue with Sketchup itself - it occurs on all faces in groups/instances that are not axial or planar through the origin - not just this tool.
There is a 3pt rectangle tool that will work - see the earlier thread...
We await a fix from Google...

dedmin · 3 Oct 2010, 18:27

Sorry

pilou · 3 Oct 2010, 22:38

Maybe Hide in the Context Menu
Adjust Protractor
and why not a protractor "rectangular"

That becomes the Rolls Royce of Work Plane

ken · 3 Oct 2010, 22:48

TIG

The new "Protractor" option is implemented better than I could even image. Again thanks so much.

Now, I will be quite as a mouse as I will be using the brand new tools.

Ken

CadFather · 4 Oct 2010, 06:00

there may be a glitch in the adjust menu on disk - it worked once, then i got the settings for the rectangular grid instead

TIG · 4 Oct 2010, 08:22

Here's v2.3 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=274345#p274345
Glitch when 'Adjust'ing a 'Disk' more than once is now fixed,
A new 'Hide/UnHide All' toggle option added to context-menu/tools-menu.

CadFather · 4 Oct 2010, 08:30

TIG, at least give me the time to finish writing my post!

TIG · 4 Oct 2010, 08:50

@cadfather said:

TIG, at least give me the time to finish writing my post!

The cause of the 'Adjust Disk' glitch was obvious to me as soon as you reported it - a line of code was not copied between the normal 'Disk Maker' and the 'Adjusted-Disk Maker' methods - thus the newly 'Adjusted' 'Disk' wasn't given its 'disk' attribute, and therefore the 'Adjust' tool thought it was a 'Plane' and so it 'Adjusted' it accordingly [wrongly!]. Note that 'Adjust' might still fail on older 'Disks', that were made before the recent updates and that don't have a 'disk' attribute - if so you need to re-make them and they will then be OK.

Pilou's Hide/UnHide [good] idea was also very simple to do - just a few lines of code switching the 'WORKPLANE' layer on/off...

CadFather · 4 Oct 2010, 09:18

..i see, that actually makes sense.. still that was fast..
[speaking aside] ..and the day hasn't even started..!

Thanks!

pilou · 4 Oct 2010, 10:44

Seems this default will be a must
(Toggle with Tab Key ?)

simon le bon · 26 Dec 2010, 13:20

Dear Tig,

I'm just trying this new tool which seems to me very interesting, first to build something multileveled, and else to build a part of the drawing with peculiar axes: "non orthogonal",or perpendicular to the screen with the model twisted in some obscure direction.
Additionally it seems also to me that Your
TIG_Flatten to Plane v1.1
and also
Fredo_Tools On Surface - v1.2 (with Contour Editor)
can help a lot..

I don't know if the problem I encounter with Tapper Tool which won't align guide lines with the WorkPlane grid is already referenced or not. But this kind of malfunction is diminishing the tool IMo

[flash=720,480:2yk2jx2w]http://www.youtube.com/v/ByD0mjaPnIk[/flash:2yk2jx2w]

My best wishes for the festivities,

simon.

guanjin · 28 Dec 2011, 15:01

Not see how the other icon

TIG · 28 Dec 2011, 17:22

@guanjin said:

Not see how the other icon
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What other icons ?
You can get additional tools' icons, but only IF you have those other scripts loading too...

guanjin · 29 Dec 2011, 17:38

@tig said:

@guanjin said:

Not see how the other icon

What other icons ?
You can get additional tools' icons, but only IF you have those other scripts loading too...

To see pictures, there are four icons! Thank you!

TIG · 29 Dec 2011, 18:54

The other two icons only appear if you also have clinesaxes.rb loading.
Get it here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=273671#p273671 if you need them...

guanjin · 30 Dec 2011, 13:40

@tig said:

The other two icons only appear if you also have clinesaxes.rb loading.
Get it here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=273671#p273671 if you need them...

Thank you TIG, find you, always quick to solve the problem!

mmm-sued · 20 Jun 2012, 16:17

Sorry, but I can't get your plugin "Work Plane" working correct (Windows 7, Sketchup 8 - NOT Pro, only the free version). If I create a "New Plane" or a "New Disk", they always disappear, when I then try to use the pencil tool or any other drawing tool. Only the "New Protractor" works correct. What can I do?

TIG · 20 Jun 2012, 21:25

@mmm-sued said:

Sorry, but I can't get your plugin "Work Plane" working correct (Windows 7, Sketchup 8 - NOT Pro, only the free version). If I create a "New Plane" or a "New Disk", they always disappear, when I then try to use the pencil tool or any other drawing tool. Only the "New Protractor" works correct. What can I do?
When you make the new WorkPlane you pick points in 3d to define it, then the final prompt tells you to "press <Enter> OR to Double-click to Confirm the new WorkPlane" - otherwise you will exit without saving the change ! So you are not confirming the WorkPlane but you are selecting another tool which then skips making a WorkPlane !!!

mmm-sued · 21 Jun 2012, 09:35

@tig said:

@mmm-sued said:

Sorry, but I can't get your plugin "Work Plane" working correct (Windows 7, Sketchup 8 - NOT Pro, only the free version). If I create a "New Plane" or a "New Disk", they always disappear, when I then try to use the pencil tool or any other drawing tool. Only the "New Protractor" works correct. What can I do?
When you make the new WorkPlane you pick points in 3d to define it, then the final prompt tells you to "press <Enter> OR to Double-click to Confirm the new WorkPlane" - otherwise you will exit without saving the change ! So you are not confirming the WorkPlane but you are selecting another tool which then skips making a WorkPlane !!!

Thanks a lot! Great Tool!

jim smith · 10 Nov 2012, 16:30

TIg,

just wanted to thank you for the work plane plugin. I missed seeing it in 2010 and ran across it accidently while viewing a you tube tutorial.. Very very usefull timesaver.