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    [Plugin] Center on Origin UPDATE May 23, 2013

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    • Chris FullmerC Offline
      Chris Fullmer
      last edited by

      The .rbz is just a zip file. Rename it to .zip and then unzip it. Inside there are regular .rb files that you can edit for your own personal use.

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      • charly2008C Offline
        charly2008
        last edited by

        Hi Chris,

        I installed the new update but now get an error message.

        Charly


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        • Chris FullmerC Offline
          Chris Fullmer
          last edited by

          Oh that's not good 😞

          I'll have to work on testing this one tomorrow. I'm not sure what has gone wrong, but I'm pretty sure it'll be easy enough to find. Thanks Charly,

          Chris

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          • charly2008C Offline
            charly2008
            last edited by

            No reason, I have to thank you. Another note, in Sketchup 2013 it works fine.

            He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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            • Chris FullmerC Offline
              Chris Fullmer
              last edited by

              Do you have any of my other scripts installed in 2013?

              Also make sure that you deleted the old version that is in SU 8.

              Chris

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              • charly2008C Offline
                charly2008
                last edited by

                I have to correct myself, even in "Sketchup 2013," an error message appears.

                Yes I have more plugins from you, see picture below.


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                • Chris FullmerC Offline
                  Chris Fullmer
                  last edited by

                  Hey Charly, the screen shots are useful, but it does not show clf_center_on_orogin.rb listed in the lower screenshot, which I would expect, since you have the folder loaded, and the errors seems to be pertaining to center on origin.

                  I wonder if you have plugins lost in the Compatibility folders sonwhere. In the plugins folder, at the top do you see "Compatibility Folders" anywhere? See the first screenshot in the following:

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                  If you have that, click on it, select everything there and MOVE it back into the actual plugins folder.

                  Then try to restart SU, if you still have issues, take screenshots again and let me see what you have.

                  Or if you don't have any compatibility folders, could you send me your copy of center on origin? Thanks,

                  Chris

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                  • charly2008C Offline
                    charly2008
                    last edited by

                    I have all the clf_plugins piece by piece deactivated and found out that the "clf_arc_centerpoint_finder.rb" caused the error. After reinstalling everything works perfectly again. Sorry.

                    Charly

                    He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                    • Chris FullmerC Offline
                      Chris Fullmer
                      last edited by

                      Oh good, glad you got it working. That makes sense to me. I had accidentally released a bugged version of arc_centerpoint_finder that was live for a few days. Looks like you got a copy of that one - sorry!

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                      • charly2008C Offline
                        charly2008
                        last edited by

                        Dear Chris,

                        I have now found that you are represented in the "Plugins menu" three times. Is that intentional from you?


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                        • Chris FullmerC Offline
                          Chris Fullmer
                          last edited by

                          Hi Charly, that is an unfortunate side-effect of my efforts to clean up my scripts. In your case, from what I can see, anything in the first and third menus are old scripts and should be updated. Unfortunately the updated versions are not yet published anywhere.....so for now you're stuck with the extra menu items - sorry about that! I'll let you know when I get all my updated scripts published. Thanks!

                          Chris

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                          • N Offline
                            nesh70
                            last edited by

                            Hi!

                            Thanks for creating so useful SU plugin!

                            BTW, is there a way to center a model or component like the image B (not like the original script do - image A)?

                            Best regards!


                            Original plugin behavior.


                            My intention.

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                              nesh70
                              last edited by

                              @nesh70 said:

                              Hi!

                              Thanks for creating so useful SU plugin!

                              BTW, is there a way to center a model or component like the image B (not like the original script do - image A)?

                              Best regards!

                              I found out how to achieve it, changing the line

                              vector = point.vector_to [0,0,0]

                              to

                              vector = point.vector_to [0,0,model.bounds.height / 2]

                              😄

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                              • TIGT Online
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                                last edited by

                                Why not use something like
                                vector = point.vector_to(model.bounds.center)
                                for the center, or
                                pt=model.bounds.center pt.z=model.bounds.min.z vector = point.vector_to(pt)
                                for the center-bottom

                                TIG

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                                • B Offline
                                  babak
                                  last edited by

                                  @nesh70 said:

                                  @nesh70 said:

                                  Hi!

                                  Thanks for creating so useful SU plugin!

                                  BTW, is there a way to center a model or component like the image B (not like the original script do - image A)?

                                  😄

                                  I use this plugin for centering an object while setting it's bounding box bottom at 0 :

                                  center_group_bottom.rb

                                  You can find it at http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=71321

                                  download link
                                  http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=10061&d=1310763814

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                                    nesh70
                                    last edited by

                                    @babak said:

                                    @nesh70 said:

                                    @nesh70 said:

                                    Hi!

                                    Thanks for creating so useful SU plugin!

                                    BTW, is there a way to center a model or component like the image B (not like the original script do - image A)?

                                    😄

                                    I use this plugin for centering an object while setting it's bounding box bottom at 0 :

                                    center_group_bottom.rb

                                    You can find it at http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=71321

                                    download link
                                    http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=10061&d=1310763814

                                    Thanks babak! It works perfectly! Just what I wanted!

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                                    • T Offline
                                      tsurfing
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi Chris,
                                      Tried to enter the patch script at the start of this thread, but the the ruby script is different than what you quoted:

                                      And here's another option. If you want it to reset the component rotation and scale, edit the ruby file in a plain text editor (like Notepad for example) and after the line:

                                      if comp.typename == "Group" || comp.typename == "ComponentInstance"

                                      add the two following lines:

                                      t = Geom::Transformation.new comp.transformation = t

                                      This is it now:
                                      sela.each do |e| if e.is_a?(Sketchup::Group) || e.is_a?(Sketchup::ComponentInstance) to_move << e end
                                      ...
                                      I need to zero out the components rotation/scale
                                      What's your thoughts?

                                      Terry

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