[Request] A plugin that makes sketchup remember...
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Sketchup has an the option of typing fancy commands into the measurement box: such as "/" or "X" etc. This can be done in most built in commands.
However lets say you have to an operation continually. Make sketchup Ctrl/move and then Divide ("/7"). This simple array stuff becomes tedious. Much like any other command that requires you to continuously type in commands in the measurement box. In an ideal scenario I would toogle a option and do the command once, and then sketchup would remember to "/7" instead of making me type it for the hundredth time.
I just really wish sketch up would remember what I typed in the measurement box and do it automatically.
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Will be cool with the recall last function by Matt666
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Will be cool with the Recall Last Tool by Matt666
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Recall last tool doesnt remember the last entered dimension. I'm not saving hardly any time, its a good plugin but its not really made for this.
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SU does remember things, a double click with push/pull will move the same distance again, for example.
An image of what you want to do might help us give you some better workflow options. -
@box said:
SU does remember things, a double click with push/pull will move the same distance again, for example.
An image of what you want to do might help us give you some better workflow options.Its not about moving the same distance, the distance always changes so you have to do it manually, however the command in the mesasurement box applied after doing "Ctrl move" always stays the same. Meaning I just want sketchup do remember to "/7" after the copy.
Different distances, same command in measurement box "/7". Imagine you have to this hundred of times.
This potential plugin would not only work on copy/paste senario but on all senarios where the user would have to continuallsly input the same command into the measurement box. -
Yes it's a pity that the measurement box don't accept a simple Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V!
Maybe a Plugin will an make that! -
@unknownuser said:
Yes it's a pity that the measurement box don't accept a simple Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V!
Maybe a Plugin will an make that!Ahh.. someday
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@unknownuser said:
Yes it's a pity that the measurement box don't accept a simple Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V!
Maybe a Plugin will an make that!
works on Mac, cmd+c cmd+v
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type cntrl v or /7, what's the advantage?
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@ Gilles
@unknownuser said:
works on Mac, cmd+c cmd+v
Damned! Works not on a PC!!!
Works on the Infos Entity but not on the VBC!!!
Or I miss something!@unknownuser said:
type cntrl v or /7, what's the advantage?
In this case if you have a numeric keyboard it's the same: 2 keys to press
but you must release the mouse if you are right handed!
but.../77 will becomes more longer!
It is more speedy as soon as you have some long numbers or a complex formula,etc...!
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There are many ways to do what you want, a bit of planning and knowing your final result helps you decide what method is best.
Just one possible solution....
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I use a keyboard with a standard numeric key set on the right. I learned to use that area quickly without looking at it. Typing /7 each time wouldn't take me any longer than activating a plugin.
Path/Copy would make sense for the specific application, though.
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I agree Dave, which is why I asked for an explanation of what he wanted to do. There are so many ways to do things a generic, I want to do this, doesn't really help.
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@pbacot said:
type cntrl v or /7, what's the advantage?
I was more hopeing it would require using Ctrl+V or anything and it would do it automatically after you tick an option box or something.
Generlly what I showed is a simple example, more complicated examples could involve me rescaling every single component or rotating it after I do an array. So this plugin would record your actions and repeat them automatically after you do CTRL Copy/paste.
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I think what you're after is Repeat Command.
EG -
Select an object, move it 18', then array it 5*
Now if you use Repeat Command on the next selected abject it will perform the previous set of commands.
Similar to a Photoshop Action.
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@box said:
There are many ways to do what you want, a bit of planning and knowing your final result helps you decide what method is best.
Just one possible solution....
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@rich o brien said:
I think what you're after is Repeat Command.
EG -
Select an object, move it 18', then array it 5*
Now if you use Repeat Command on the next selected abject it will perform the previous set of commands.
Similar to a Photoshop Action.
Yeah something like that.
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it's a choose your poison type of scenario..
the move tool in sketchup is really sweet in the way it puts many operations on one tool without cluttering it up.. it's Move, Copy, Multiple linear array, divisible linear array, and a rotate tool all in one..
on other apps, those will likely all be separate commands in which yes, they will more likely remember the last variable entered.. they'll likely be more powerful as well in individual command form but there is a tradeoff in overall program simplicity and the way sketchup's move tool works fits right in with the rest of the sketchup concept..
with a single tool stacking multiple options, you can't necessarily expect it to remember the last entry.. because what happens if i want to use it to array an item then the next time i want to use , i want to simply move an item?
that would be a problem..pretty much the solution, as i see it, would be to program a separate array tool which will remember it's last state.. but to me, if using sketchup, i'd rather just use the move tool and enter measurements on a per use basis.
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@jeff hammond said:
it's a choose your poison type of scenario..
the move tool in sketchup is really sweet in the way it puts many operations on one tool without cluttering it up.. it's Move, Copy, Multiple linear array, divisible linear array, and a rotate tool all in one..
on other apps, those will likely all be separate commands in which yes, they will more likely remember the last variable entered.. they'll likely be more powerful as well in individual command form but there is a tradeoff in overall program simplicity and the way sketchup's move tool works fits right in with the rest of the sketchup concept..
with a single tool stacking multiple options, you can't necessarily expect it to remember the last entry.. because what happens if i want to use it to array an item then the next time i want to use , i want to simply move an item?
that would be a problem..pretty much the solution, as i see it, would be to program a separate array tool which will remember it's last state.. but to me, if using sketchup, i'd rather just use the move tool and enter measurements on a per use basis.
ymmvIts either a separate array tool, or an tool which runs parrellel to all other tools which you can simply activate with a checkbox or something.
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