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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

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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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