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    • thomthomT
      thomthom
      last edited by

      Well well well - Rich is becoming a scripting monkey. πŸ˜„

      I'll congratulate you by making a feature request: πŸ˜‰
      Tool that draws normal Edge.
      The difference from the native Edge Tool: Doesn't auto generate faces. It can be bloody annoying at time that SketchUp keeps trying to generate faces for each edge created.

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

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      • Rich O BrienR
        Rich O Brien Moderator
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        @unknownuser said:

        Well well well - Rich is becoming a scripting monkey

        I wanna live the rock'n'roll life you enjoy

        Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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        • mitcorbM
          mitcorb
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          Congratulations, Rich.

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

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            SketchUpNoobie
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            Useful tool Rich. πŸ‘

            --

            SketchUpNoobie: the complete noob in all things SketchUp.

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            • Dave RD
              Dave R
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              Good start Rich. You'll need to get some shades like ThomThom has. πŸ˜„

              So now the requests begin. If you enter a length for the line in the VCB, the line is drawn but the tool continues from the start point rather than the end. Is it possible to fix that so it behaves like the native Line tool? And you only get one shot at entering the length of the line so if you change your mind or make an error when typing the length, you have to Undo and start over. Can that be fixed to operate like the native Line tool? Maybe both things go hand in hand?

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              • Rich O BrienR
                Rich O Brien Moderator
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                @unknownuser said:

                shades like ThomThom has

                what shades?

                @unknownuser said:

                possible to fix that so it behaves like the native Line tool?

                Yes, feel free to do so

                @unknownuser said:

                Maybe both things go hand in hand?

                Like peanuts and gum Dave

                Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                • Dave RD
                  Dave R
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                  @unknownuser said:

                  @unknownuser said:

                  shades like ThomThom has

                  what shades?

                  Those things over his eyes. What are those things anyway?

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                  • Rich O BrienR
                    Rich O Brien Moderator
                    last edited by

                    Eyebrows?

                    There's a fix coming on the VCB issue and an extra Edge Draw mode that doesn't create faces

                    Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                    • jason_marantoJ
                      jason_maranto
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                      Very cool idea -- thank-you! β˜€

                      Best,
                      Jason.

                      I create video tutorial series about several 2D & 3D graphics programs.

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                      • Rich O BrienR
                        Rich O Brien Moderator
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                        Little update with Thom's and Dave's suggestions [not Eric's πŸ˜• ]

                        Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                        • GaieusG
                          Gaieus
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                          Well, Rich, congrats, really. I remember when Remus also wrote a plugin - now "non-scripters" are slowly becoming a minority here... πŸ˜’

                          I remember a wise man once answering this question:

                          @unknownuser said:

                          Do you build or have you built any SketchUp Ruby Scripts?

                          like this...

                          @unknownuser said:

                          There are so many talented and generous ruby scripters out there that it would be a waste of resources to start playing with it and keep hindering them in their work with my basic questions...

                          And sorry for not having been able to me of more help - I have just come back home.

                          Nice icons, too!
                          πŸ˜‰

                          Gai...

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                          • Rich O BrienR
                            Rich O Brien Moderator
                            last edited by

                            Thanks Csaba, there are still some little gremlins [not Mike] to iron out

                            Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                            • Dave RD
                              Dave R
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                              Thanks Rich.

                              Out of curiosity, is this what I should see when I open the ZIP file?


                              Plugin.jpg

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                              • Rich O BrienR
                                Rich O Brien Moderator
                                last edited by

                                try again

                                Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                                • Dave RD
                                  Dave R
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                                  Cool! 😎

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                                    hebeijianke
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                                    @unknownuser said:

                                    try again

                                    There something wrong

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                                    • Rich O BrienR
                                      Rich O Brien Moderator
                                      last edited by

                                      Bit more info?

                                      Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                                        hebeijianke
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                                        @unknownuser said:

                                        Bit more info?

                                        Weld Draw is not work well

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                                        • kenK
                                          ken
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                                          I use rollers, wheels and axles that I wish to add a guidelines though the center for alignment that will be part of the group. It would be nice, if I could draw a guideline between two points, maybe only 12" apart, and have the guide line that is drawn be the size as indicated in the measurement tool bar. So if I wanted to add a guideline to a wheel that is only 12" wide, however, I wish to have the alignment guideline to be 10' long, I could enter the 10' into the measurement tool bar, draw the line between the two center points that are only 12" apart, and have the guideline be drawn 10' long.

                                          So thank you for you plugin.

                                          Ken

                                          OOPS. Didn't see that I could add the length to the guidelines in the VCB. My bad. So disregard the above.

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

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                                          • Dave RD
                                            Dave R
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                                            Weld Draw is working fine for me. It all works fine except my second request. But, beggars can't be choosers so I'm not complaining.

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