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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      Yea - I've wanted a plugin that allows you to set custom joints and would also moved linked instances when moved.
      Weren't you working on such a system? Or am I confusing it with the concept you showed where things snapped to each other?

      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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        errror404
        last edited by

        Pretty cool plugin!!... If I could add anything, it would be a 4th option: (Front, Back, Center, or leave it unchanged)

        Lets say I'm working on a component like a window... and I modified the window to be twice as long in the red axis. I want to center the red axis, but I don't want to change the green axis (it has a cutting plane and it's not located either Front, Back, or Center).

        thanks!

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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
          last edited by

          Another good idea! ❗ 👍

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

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          • demD Offline
            dem
            last edited by

            Excuse me, how can I create a button with
            "cmd = UI::Command.new () {}", for this tool? 💚

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
              last edited by

              @dem said:

              Excuse me, how can I create a button with
              "cmd = UI::Command.new () {}", for this tool? 💚

              <span class="syntaxdefault"><br />cmd&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">UI</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">;;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">Command</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.new(</span><span class="syntaxstring">'Set&nbsp;Insertion&nbsp;Point'</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)&nbsp;{<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">self</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">set_insertion_point<br /></span><span class="syntaxkeyword">}<br />&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault"></span>
              

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

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              • demD Offline
                dem
                last edited by

                @thomthom said:

                <span class="syntaxdefault"><br />cmd </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> UI</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">;;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">Command</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.new(</span><span class="syntaxstring">'Set Insertion Point'</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">{<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  self</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">set_insertion_point<br /></span><span class="syntaxkeyword">}<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span>
                

                I just tried the same way, but did not work 😢

                <span class="syntaxdefault"><br />cmd </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> UI</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">;;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">Command</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.new(</span><span class="syntaxstring">'Set Insertion Point'</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">{<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  self</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">set_insertion_point<br /></span><span class="syntaxkeyword">}<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">cmd</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">small_icon </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxstring">"ICONS/axisC_sm.png"<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">cmd</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">large_icon </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxstring">"ICONS/axisC_lg.png"<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">cmd</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">tooltip </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxstring">"Set Insertion Point"<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">toolbar </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> toolbar</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">add_item cmd<br /></span>
                

                Excuse me, but what I do wrong?

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  Does the toolbar appear?

                  Do you get any error messages?

                  Did you put the code inside the TT::Plugins::AxesTools module? If not, then you must use TT::Plugins::AxesTools.set_insertion_point

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

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                  • demD Offline
                    dem
                    last edited by

                    Oh. Thanks!!! Very useful plugin, that saves a lot of time!

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                    • sdmitchS Offline
                      sdmitch
                      last edited by

                      ThomThom, I have been trying to redefine, from a plugin, the axes of a component instance that has been rotated and made unique to the default left,front,bottom location without any luck. This is an easy manual modification but seemingly impossible from code. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

                      Nothing is worthless, it can always be used as a bad example.

                      http://sdmitch.blogspot.com/

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        @sdmitch said:

                        ThomThom, I have been trying to redefine, from a plugin, the axes of a component instance that has been rotated and made unique to the default left,front,bottom location without any luck. This is an easy manual modification but seemingly impossible from code. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

                        This plugin won't do it??? 😕

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

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                        • sdmitchS Offline
                          sdmitch
                          last edited by

                          @thomthom said:

                          This plugin wonæt do it??? 😕

                          I can't seem to come up with any combination that makes it work. I want to be able to copy and rotate a component around one or two axes then make it unique so, when I place it again, it maintains that orientation. Now when the the new component is selected for placement it returns to the orientation that it originally was. Using your Axis Tool doesn't change that no matter where I define the insertion point. Right clicking on the component and doing a Change Axes is the only thing that works but how do you code that?

                          Nothing is worthless, it can always be used as a bad example.

                          http://sdmitch.blogspot.com/

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            It's exactly what this plugin is suppose to be doing... ...but testing a simple cube now, and there seem to be a bug here...

                            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                            • thomthomT Offline
                              thomthom
                              last edited by

                              ...and when I try it again - everything works fine... 😕

                              got a sample model? because I cannot reproduce it again..

                              Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                              • sdmitchS Offline
                                sdmitch
                                last edited by

                                The attached model contains two not so "simple cubes". The one at the origin is the original cube. The one on the right is a copy which has been made unique and rotated 90 degrees. When the copy is selected, Change Axes show the insertion point of the copy at the back right corner as you would expect. Using your Axis Tool and choosing right,front,bottom does move the insertion point but the axes orientation is un-changed so, when it selected for placement, it appears un-rotated.


                                Insertion point and axes orientation

                                Nothing is worthless, it can always be used as a bad example.

                                http://sdmitch.blogspot.com/

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                                • utilerU Offline
                                  utiler
                                  last edited by

                                  Thom, I've got an idea to add.

                                  see here:
                                  http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=43404&p=387027#p387027

                                  Would be nice to be able to context click on a group or component and reset the Axes orientation to global.....

                                  I'd be interested to see if it is possible.

                                  Cheers,

                                  Andrew

                                  purpose/expression/purpose/....

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                                  • thomthomT Offline
                                    thomthom
                                    last edited by

                                    What would expected behavior for nested components be?

                                    Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                    • utilerU Offline
                                      utiler
                                      last edited by

                                      Rest all I reckon..... 👍

                                      purpose/expression/purpose/....

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                                      • utilerU Offline
                                        utiler
                                        last edited by

                                        @utiler said:

                                        Rest all I reckon..... 👍

                                        'Re-set' all I meant to say.... 😳

                                        purpose/expression/purpose/....

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                                        • bac9-flclB Offline
                                          bac9-flcl
                                          last edited by

                                          This plugin is absolutely awesome, thanks a lot! 😄

                                          I'm exporting models to CryENGINE3, which is limited with FP16 vertex coordinate precision, so moving the pivot point to the center of a bounding box to utilize the whole range of available values on each axis is a very important thing to do. Your plugin just saved me tons of time otherwise wasted on doing this manually. 😄

                                          And yeah, the possibility to disable the centering for vertical axis (and using e.g bottom of the bounding box) is awesome too - especially for more or less flat models where I can sacrifice some excess precision in exchange for ease of object placement. Or also, it's very useful for small props, like furniture or natural clutter, which can be placed in hundreds - digging each object from the ground would have been quite bothersome). 😄

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            👍 😄

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

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