Utility line mapping functions

Slusarenko · 22 Jun 2012, 18:52

Hello all from a newbie...

I am totally new to SU, but I am looking to use it to help with my utility mapping needs.

I have been learning the basic functions and have a couple of plugins loaded. One is the pipealongpath ruby tool and the other is the roundcorner toolset from Fredo6.

I am looking specifically for the answers to the following...

Is there a utility to replace the sharp angular bends on lines (something like round corners does with geometric shapes)? Perhaps roundcorners does this bit I couldn't get it to work for me on just lines...

Is there a utility to draw lines based on geocoordinates (latitude and longitude, or lat, long and elevation)?

I am hoping to be able to plot the start and finish of lines (or a number of points along a line or lines) using geolocation and have them drawn in my sketch with the appropriate bends depending on the parameters that I specify for a material. For example, if a 300mm plastic pipe is the specified material, then I would like to have a 300mm radius 90 degree elbow show where the line takes a 90 degree bend. I don't necessarily want to draw them as pipes, but rather just represent the centreline of the pipe so as not to us up too much bandwidth...

Thanks in advance and cheers,

Steve

sdmitch · 23 Jun 2012, 19:55

@unknownuser said:

Is there a utility to replace the sharp angular bends on lines

You are welcome to try my fillet3d plugin which you can find at my blog. You specify the radius and then pick the two intersecting edges.

@unknownuser said:

Is there a utility to draw lines based on geocoordinates (latitude and longitude, or lat, long and elevation)?

Not that I can find but would not be that difficult to create a plugin to either read from a file or interactive input. It seems that the latlong_to_point function returns a point that is an offset from the model's geo-location which by default is the lat,long of Denver, CO.

@unknownuser said:

if a 300mm plastic pipe is the specified material, then I would like to have a 300mm radius 90 degree elbow show where the line takes a 90 degree bend.

Again this would require a special plugin. In Sketchup, you can assign attributes so this should be possible.

Slusarenko · 24 Jun 2012, 22:13

Sam:

Thanks, I'll check it out...

Steve