Advanced polar array

[ninehundred]

that is amazing. thank you so much! however, i am working on version 7 im afraid so its not working

thanks anyway!

[ninehundred]

hey again,

I was wondering if there's any way to make the code that exports the images one by one(as well taking out the background so only the lines remained)into a desired folder for version sketchup version7? just that ive also just worked out that ill have 61009 images.

I know this is a lot to ask but if its possible or there's maybe some other way to do it any help would be of great importance!

ninehundred

[TIG]

Let me get this right...
You want only the 'ray' lines in the images ?
Everything else is to be 'hidden'...

[ninehundred]

Yes, just the ray lines. the idea basically is that ill take these lines later and overlay them onto a map so i can create a sort of time lapse of the lines building up until i have such a crowd of lines that the image area appears black. thing is though that if they all have a background then you wont see the build-up of the lines but rather a stream of individual images.
another thing is that since there will be a map below which will need to be seen underneath the lines. so in regards to this it would be useful to be able to put the images into a line editor and put them to scale 1:1000 at a size of 0.25. maybe it would be easier to have the images exported at a scale of 1:1000, each of them with the map underneith. i suppose that would mean it would be consistently exporting the map layer along with the lines at 1:1000 (again with no background)

[TIG]

This images lines only.

require('sketchup.rb');m=Sketchup.active_model;a=m.selection.to_a;p=[];a.each{|e|p<<e.bounds.center};m.selection.clear;v=m.active_view;w=v.vpwidth;h=v.vpheight;t=m.title;f=File.dirname(m.path);f=File.join(f,"Images");Dir.mkdir(f)unless(File.exist?(f));m.start_operation('x');k=m.entities.to_a;m.entities.erase_entities(k);j='000';p.each{|o|; j.next!; g=m.active_entities.add_group(); (p-[o]).each{|i|;  g.entities.add_line(o,i); }; x=File.join(f,t+"_Image_"+j+'.png'); Sketchup.status_text=x; v.refresh; v.write_image(x,w,h,true); g.erase!;};m.abort_operation;Sketchup.status_text='';UI.openURL('file;///'+f);

The 'scaling' of the images is another issue entirely - perhaps best left to a batch process in Photoshop or Gimp ? You might be better scaling the map to match the image overlays [they are all the same size] - then that's only one operation...

[ninehundred]

#<NameError: (eval):131: undefined local variable or method `d' for main:Object

this is what came up when i put the code in :S

also, am i to replace "images" with the address to the folder id like them sent to?

[TIG]

Sorry!
Stupid typo in the code... corrected now, I have edited my previous post...
Please retry it...

[ninehundred]

Error: #<NoMethodError: (eval):131: undefined method `refresh' for #Sketchup::View:0xa4d50c0>
(eval):131

Ok, so I put all the ray groups on one layer and basically started again. while a new folder called images was created there was still nothing in it and further to that all of the line groups except one was deleted.

[TIG]

IF you completed your user-profile in the control panel I might have realized you weren't using v8! view.refresh was introduced in v8 so v7 will fall over !
This code avoids that

require('sketchup.rb');m=Sketchup.active_model;a=m.selection.to_a;p=[];a.each{|e|p<<e.bounds.center};m.selection.clear;v=m.active_view;w=v.vpwidth;h=v.vpheight;t=m.title;f=File.dirname(m.path);f=File.join(f,"Images");Dir.mkdir(f)unless(File.exist?(f));m.start_operation('x');k=m.entities.to_a;m.entities.erase_entities(k);j='000';p.each{|o|; j.next!; g=m.active_entities.add_group(); (p-[o]).each{|i|;  g.entities.add_line(o,i); }; x=File.join(f,t+"_Image_"+j+'.png'); Sketchup.status_text=x; v.write_image(x,w,h,true); g.erase!;};m.abort_operation;Sketchup.status_text='';UI.openURL('file;///'+f);

[ninehundred]

thank you so much, this is great!