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    • jason_marantoJ Offline
      jason_maranto
      last edited by

      Absolute accuracy seems to be something that would be pretty easy since we know all of the measurements, including the first diagonal -- I would just rotate a copy of the diagonal around the midpoint to make the second diagonal, thus giving all 4 ending points for the shape... but I would need to calculate the specific degrees for the rotation, and I'm not well versed in that level of math.

      Definitely seems a plugin to make this is a need after all... if absolute accuracy is required.

      Best,
      Jason.

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

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
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        @gaieus said:

        Is this "close enough"?

        Measurement.png

        Very close - but surely it should be possible for full accuracy..?

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

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        • GaieusG Offline
          Gaieus
          last edited by

          I also noticed that if I crank up the decimals, I get an inaccurate measurement for that thickness (although a different one) 😕

          Now the very interesting thing is that I did not do any shearing but only worked with the rotate tool. So there could be inaccuracy but then it's Sketchup's tolerance when it merged two endpoints so close that I could see the electrons spinning. But then yes, I was indeed relying on this "tolerance" (just did not know how it will work).


          PinkBoard-BlueBoard.png

          Gai...

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          • jeff hammondJ Offline
            jeff hammond
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            @thomthom said:

            So how do you calculate it?

            the way i calculate it in the DC :

            mini4.jpg

            you can find all the info of the hypotenuse (green) in a variety of ways .. (for instance, a^2 + b^2 = c^2 to get its length.. you'll know a & b in this case… then trig for the angles)

            that hypotenuse is also the the hypotenuse of the un-trimmed board (red).. so you know the board width and the length of its hypotenuse which means you can get all other angles and lengths..

            the rotation of the original hypotenuse minus the long angle of the board's hypotenuse give the correct rotation angle..

            here's the DC i use (after i use 'component options' to enter the dimension of height, board width, and the space in between the two poles, i'll then trace the results and copy/paste it into my actual drawing.. not entirely ideal but it works..)

            DC_Xbrace.skp

            for whatever reason, i still think there might be a way to do it in sketchup itself.. maybe jean L can come up with something 😉
            so far, it's looking like true-tangents may be the key.. i haven't tried it yet in this circumstance but i imagine it will work.

            dotdotdot

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            • Dave RD Offline
              Dave R
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              Excellent, Jeff.

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              • pbacotP Offline
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                @unknownuser said:

                @ecuadorian said:

                @andybot said:

                ... thus - for best accuracy, draw it in ACAD and import into sketchup 😒

                Amen. Trimble, if you're reading this, we need actual arcs and curves in SketchUp.

                i'm not quite sure they could give us true arcs in sketchup without entirely changing the way sketchup works.. (how would a cylinder be drawn if there were no segments in the arcs? a nurbs surface? )

                what they can give us, i feel, is 'guide arcs' …which would also allow us to rotate this thing and snap it into place very easily.

                .

                Someone at Trimble is saying "What? There aren't real circles? Oh crap! What have we done?"

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                • pbacotP Offline
                  pbacot
                  last edited by

                  OK, what's wrong with Mac 1's version. Can the reference point from the tip to tip dimension be accurately placed on the horizontal guideline to give a marker for snap rotation of the board? I think it is the same problem, requiring math calculating length parallel to board tip to tip.

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                  • jeff hammondJ Offline
                    jeff hammond
                    last edited by

                    @ecuadorian said:

                    @andybot said:

                    ... thus - for best accuracy, draw it in ACAD and import into sketchup 😒

                    Amen. Trimble, if you're reading this, we need actual arcs and curves in SketchUp.

                    i'm not quite sure they could give us true arcs in sketchup without entirely changing the way sketchup works.. (how would a cylinder be drawn if there were no segments in the arcs? a nurbs surface? )

                    what they can give us, i feel, is 'guide arcs' …which would also allow us to rotate this thing and snap it into place very easily.. basically, a smarter rotate tool.

                    .

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                    • jeff hammondJ Offline
                      jeff hammond
                      last edited by

                      @pbacot said:

                      OK, what's wrong with Mac 1's version. Can the reference point from the tip to tip dimension be accurately placed on the horizontal guideline to give a marker for snap rotation of the board? I think it is the same problem, requiring math calculating length parallel to board tip to tip.

                      i'm still working through the thread.. checking mac's version next.. i'll report back 😄

                      dotdotdot

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                      • jason_marantoJ Offline
                        jason_maranto
                        last edited by

                        The DC is not working for me for some reason -- I see it and formulas, but no interactivity.

                        This is a variation on few similar solutions here -- but they all have a minor (or not so minor) variance -- it just does not make sense to me why 😕

                        challenge_alt.jpg

                        I mean the rotate tool should be accurate since it is not tied to polygons (like arc or circle), right?

                        Best,
                        Jason.

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

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                        • bmikeB Offline
                          bmike
                          last edited by

                          maths, gotta love it. nice problem to post jeff!
                          tricky little problem, hitting opposite corners on that board. especially when graphically, you can't quite get there with sketch up.

                          i've been working on a DC to sort of automate hip and valley creation in timber.
                          in order to get this far i've built a dc (both hip and valley) with sub components that are planes that rotate about with in the 'container' component. there are guidelines at the peak where this would potentially miter. the foot condition changes too much - so i usually do some solids work or intersecting with the model down there.

                          here's a snap of the attributes (runs off the bottom of the window):
                          Screen Shot 2012-04-30 at 1.29.59 PM.png

                          and the component:
                          Screen Shot 2012-04-30 at 1.28.44 PM.png

                          mike beganyi design + consulting llc

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                          • jeff hammondJ Offline
                            jeff hammond
                            last edited by

                            @unknownuser said:

                            @pbacot said:

                            OK, what's wrong with Mac 1's version. Can the reference point from the tip to tip dimension be accurately placed on the horizontal guideline to give a marker for snap rotation of the board? I think it is the same problem, requiring math calculating length parallel to board tip to tip.

                            i'm still working through the thread.. checking mac's version next.. i'll report back 😄

                            yeah, that version doesn't work either.. when rotating the guide point downwards, there's no actual snap to the top of the board..

                            many of these methods would work if we could just rotate and snap to a random point along a line.. but we can only snap to a line's endpoints etc.. (in other words, a lot of people see what needs to be done.. it's just that we can't do it 😉 )

                            dotdotdot

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                            • jeff hammondJ Offline
                              jeff hammond
                              last edited by

                              @jason_maranto said:

                              The DC is not working for me for some reason -- I see it and formulas, but no interactivity.

                              use 'component options'.. not 'component attributes'..

                              dotdotdot

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                              • thomthomT Offline
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                                last edited by

                                @unknownuser said:

                                you can find all the info of the hypotenuse (green) in a variety of ways .. (for instance, a^2 + b^2 = c^2 to get its length.. you'll know a & b in this case… then trig for the angles)

                                that hypotenuse is also the the hypotenuse of the un-trimmed board (red).. so you know the board width and the length of its hypotenuse which means you can get all other angles and lengths..

                                I was suspecting something like that - but my trigonometry knowledge was all too poor that I dared place bets on it.

                                @unknownuser said:

                                for whatever reason, i still think there might be a way to do it in sketchup itself.. maybe jean L can come up with something

                                I also wonder this - but I also fear it might - due to lack of true arcs.
                                Where is Simon Le Bon btw..?

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

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                                • jeff hammondJ Offline
                                  jeff hammond
                                  last edited by

                                  @thomthom said:

                                  @unknownuser said:

                                  you can find all the info of the hypotenuse (green) in a variety of ways .. (for instance, a^2 + b^2 = c^2 to get its length.. you'll know a & b in this case… then trig for the angles)

                                  that hypotenuse is also the the hypotenuse of the un-trimmed board (red).. so you know the board width and the length of its hypotenuse which means you can get all other angles and lengths..

                                  I was suspecting something like that - but my trigonometry knowledge was all too poor that I dared place bets on it.

                                  SOH CAH TOA 😄

                                  that's one of the things that seemed to stick with me after leaving school..

                                  Sine = Opposite/Hypotenuse
                                  Cosine = Adjacent/Hypotenuse
                                  Tangent = Opposite/Adjacent

                                  dotdotdot

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                                  • Dave RD Offline
                                    Dave R
                                    last edited by

                                    That stuck with me, too. I can't remember who I took to prom, though.

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      @unknownuser said:

                                      Sine = Opposite/Hypotenuse
                                      Cosine = Adjacent/Hypotenuse
                                      Tangent = Opposite/Adjacent

                                      Trouble is that I don't even remember what to use of this. I'm really annoying - I always have to look up this stuff, reading for a while, whenever I need to do such work with my plugins. ...which, when you place plugins for 3D software... ...I really should be knowing this... 😳

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

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                                      • thomthomT Offline
                                        thomthom
                                        last edited by

                                        @jason_maranto said:

                                        Well, I figured out some of the accuracy issue on my last approach -- a bit of user error on my part since I was rotating the guidepoint to the wrong place and also the accuracy setting of the rotate tool was not set high enough... actually this still isn't exactly accurate (rotated to 45.6085) but it's pretty close now.

                                        Try with the posts further apart - then you'll catch accuracy issue much easier. When it's close to 45 degrees it's harder to spot.

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

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                                        • jason_marantoJ Offline
                                          jason_maranto
                                          last edited by

                                          Well, I figured out some of the accuracy issue on my last approach -- a bit of user error on my part since I was rotating the guidepoint to the wrong place and also the accuracy setting of the rotate tool was not set high enough... actually this still isn't exactly accurate (rotated to 45.6085) but it's pretty close now.

                                          challenge_alt2.jpg

                                          @Jeff - I checked every aspect of interacting with a DC, it shows nothing for me.

                                          Edit -- Gotcha, you have to actually open the model instead of bringing it in as a component.

                                          Best,
                                          Jason.

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

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                                          • jeff hammondJ Offline
                                            jeff hammond
                                            last edited by

                                            @jason_maranto said:

                                            @Jeff - I checked every aspect of interacting with a DC, it shows nothing for me.

                                            oh man.. that reminds me of some problem with sharing dynamic components.. are you directly opening the file i posted or are you bringing it in to an existing model?

                                            you have to just open the file i posted then the options should be available..
                                            (or something like that.. ❓ i remember having problems with bringing in DCs from the warehouse into existing models and none of the options were available.)

                                            dotdotdot

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