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    • cottyC Offline
      cotty
      last edited by

      @unknownuser said:

      Align Tool 3D By Didier Bur ?
      Draw a Plane wished as second end Object
      and now just 5 clicks πŸ˜„

      πŸ‘ Didn't try this one but have to...

      @unknownuser said:

      use the move tool (at least in this particular instance)

      This will only work if the group was created before the rotations but if this is the case, it is very fast too.

      @solo said:

      In theory one should be able to use 'smartdrop'

      Didn't work for me in this case.

      my SketchUp gallery

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      • mitcorbM Offline
        mitcorb
        last edited by

        In case you folks didn't notice, Pilou has updated his post with a demo sequence.

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

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        • sdmitchS Offline
          sdmitch
          last edited by

          Using the Ruby Console

          Sketchup.active_model.selection.first.transformation=Geom;;Transformation.new
          
          

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

          http://sdmitch.blogspot.com/

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          • pilouP Offline
            pilou
            last edited by

            About the 3D Align tool by DIdier Bur above. πŸ€“

            And works also even the object is not a group or a component!
            So just a selection of something is sufficient! πŸ˜‰

            Frenchy Pilou
            Is beautiful that please without concept!
            My Little site :)

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            • cottyC Offline
              cotty
              last edited by

              @sdmitch said:

              Using the Ruby Console

              Sketchup.active_model.selection.first.transformation=Geom;;Transformation.new
              > 
              

              I will call it an expert solution πŸ‘

              Did I say that I love this forum? β˜€

              my SketchUp gallery

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              • Dave RD Offline
                Dave R
                last edited by

                As always, there's more than one way to do this. Some great options offered. Here's another one just for the heck of it.

                Rotate.png

                Assuming the cylinder is just loose geometry to start, make it a component, change it's axes so the bounding box is aligned to the geometry with the blue axis in the desired up direction. Bring in a copy of the component from the In Model Component library.

                rotate2.png

                Etaoin Shrdlu

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                (THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE)

                G28 X0.0 Y0.0 Z0.0

                M30

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                • T Offline
                  Trogluddite
                  last edited by

                  Easy - just open the previous version of your project that you saved before going nuts making the geometry all wonky! πŸ˜†

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                  • pilouP Offline
                    pilou
                    last edited by

                    In this particular start position Sketchyphics can also works! πŸ’š

                    Frenchy Pilou
                    Is beautiful that please without concept!
                    My Little site :)

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                    • Jean LemireJ Offline
                      Jean Lemire
                      last edited by

                      Hi folks.

                      If you want to practice with native tools, it takes only two quickly done rotations.

                      Don't forget this trick from the help:

                      http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=94897

                      See this SU file for ideas:


                      fastest_rotation - V6 - JL.skp

                      Jean (Johnny) Lemire from Repentigny, Quebec, Canada.

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                      • cottyC Offline
                        cotty
                        last edited by

                        @jean lemire said:

                        If you want to practice with native tools, it takes only two quickly done rotations.
                        πŸ‘

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                        • pilouP Offline
                          pilou
                          last edited by

                          Or 3 rotations if the volume was more bad oriented! πŸ˜„

                          Frenchy Pilou
                          Is beautiful that please without concept!
                          My Little site :)

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                          • utilerU Offline
                            utiler
                            last edited by

                            @jean lemire said:

                            Hi folks.

                            If you want to practice with native tools, it takes only two quickly done rotations.

                            Don't forget this trick from the help:

                            http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=94897

                            See this SU file for ideas:

                            What Jean said. Best tool! πŸ‘

                            purpose/expression/purpose/....

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                            • Jean LemireJ Offline
                              Jean Lemire
                              last edited by

                              Hi folks.

                              Another quick method based on Gerrit's (Wo3Dan's idea).

                              Two variants shown in the 2 scenes of this SU file:

                              fastest_rotation-2 - V6 - JL.skp
                              Just ideas.

                              Jean (Johnny) Lemire from Repentigny, Quebec, Canada.

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                                3eighty
                                last edited by

                                Use the rotate function in the Mover2 Plugin..

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                                • dukejazzD Offline
                                  dukejazz
                                  last edited by

                                  Hey
                                  One component already on the orgin plane this make it easy to do,
                                  if you have scaleGroupFloat_dj.rb loaded.

                                  target save and move meathod:

                                  step 1: Make one component unique. (right click to context list)

                                  step 2: 1-time left click of the component you want to change. Save target, via scaleGroupFloat_dj (press ok).

                                  step 3: 2-times left click set axes to component and 3-times more edit select the object of the component . Using the Move to target, via scaleGroupFloat_dj.(press ok), will auto aline component to orgin plain. Now select ouside of component now your done.

                                  All above steps is shown here

                                  Movie_0007.gif
                                  If both were non aline to orgin plain then do other with step two and three too.

                                  Advance woking of this; just add the axes tool into the mix. then turning object is just a breeze, for those tools that needs to be aline to x-y plain for z axis drops .

                                  examples usesages to
                                  [Plugin] Color by Z
                                  drop
                                  sandbox.rb
                                  smartdrop.rb
                                  TIG-drapematerials.rb
                                  TIG-Drop Material onto Instances
                                  tt_component_dropper

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