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    [Plugin] Quick Camera Rotate 90º (Roll)

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    • J Offline
      Jim
      last edited by

      It just rolls the camera around the line-of-site by 90 degrees each time the button is pressed. Image 1 is a normal Front view. Image 2 is still a Front view, but with the Camera rotated about it's direction vector (and zoomed in.)


      front1.png


      front2.png

      Hi

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      • mitcorbM Offline
        mitcorb
        last edited by

        Well, now, this is excellent!

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

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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
          last edited by

          @jclements said:

          What a great, basic tool.

          Thanks, Jim.

          It would be kind of cool if you could hook it into the Protractor Tool to make it interactive.

          Yea - that's exactly what I had in mind. A click drag to define an angle displayed on sceeen as the protractor tool, and where you can use the VCB to input a specific angle.

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

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          • mitcorbM Offline
            mitcorb
            last edited by

            ThomThom:
            I can see that your concept would have relevance for tight box selections in a busy model. I was trying to do this yesterday while selecting a series of end connected edges between other parallel edges in a mesh for scaling that one series. Being able to roll the camera will enable me to make a tall thin selection box with the select tool to isolate.

            What would be nice is a selection tool that can use circular or polygonal selection areas, but I guess that would be for another thread, and I suppose this is not addressable in ruby.

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

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            • JClementsJ Offline
              JClements
              last edited by

              What a great, basic tool.

              Thanks, Jim.

              It would be kind of cool if you could have a similar script hook into the Protractor Tool to make it interactive.

              John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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              • D Offline
                danbig
                last edited by

                @thomthom said:

                @jclements said:

                What a great, basic tool.

                Thanks, Jim.

                It would be kind of cool if you could hook it into the Protractor Tool to make it interactive.

                Yea - that's exactly what I had in mind. A click drag to define an angle displayed on sceeen as the protractor tool, and where you can use the VCB to input a specific angle.

                ... I'll add a third vote for this feature.

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                • S Offline
                  supersketcher
                  last edited by

                  Thanks Jim.

                  I like it: simple but effective!

                  It indeed deserves a dedicated icon.

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                  • J Offline
                    JGA
                    last edited by

                    Thanks for this plugin, very useful!

                    Regards,
                    JGA

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                    • L Offline
                      langloisl
                      last edited by

                      Hello,

                      your plug-in to roll the camera is great 👍 , but it does not meet my need 😞 . What I look for, is being able to rotate my camera precisely 90 degrees in the direction I want, either left, right, up, down.

                      This is in order to be able to create a cube to six or rendered with Kerkythea or Twilight Render and then assemble them with GoCubic.

                      Plug-In "cubicpanoout.rb" does not create six scenes, he does that exporting 6 cubic views. If you have the solution to my problem, it would be much appreciated!

                      Greetings ! 😄

                      Ludo

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                        dylanwoods
                        last edited by

                        very very helpful. thanks

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                        • P Offline
                          PaulfromtheNorth
                          last edited by

                          EXACTLY what i was looking for!

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                            SamUK
                            last edited by

                            Hi Jim

                            I realise this is an old thread but here's hoping...

                            Could you tell me if this plugin would work with 2013, it sounds really useful and I would love to be able to use it however, I have put it in the plugin folder to no avail....

                            It would be good to know if it would be compatible or not, so I can try harder or give up....

                            Thanks

                            Sam

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                            • Dave RD Offline
                              Dave R
                              last edited by

                              It works fine in SU2013. Perhaps you could describe what you are seeing or not seeing?

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                                db11
                                last edited by

                                I use this great little plug-in a lot, especially to orient from the standard Top view for plans.Now I have a house whose grid is at 45° and I'd like to be able to use this to align the view (as a Parallel Projection).

                                Is there a simple mod to make this work for 45°? I took a quick look at the script, and it wasn't obvious to me, which variable/value to change.Maybe someone who actually knows what they're doing could help me out?

                                Thanks.

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                                • TIGT Offline
                                  TIG Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  Perhaps this does what you want?
                                  http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=Rotateplanview

                                  TIG

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                                    db11
                                    last edited by

                                    Perfect! Exactly what I was looking for... I guess I just didn't scroll far enough down the page when I searched 'rotate camera' in the plugins forum.

                                    Thanks TIG

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