[Plugin] DrawAlong - v1.2a - 12 Oct 14

cotty

Another great power tool!

Rich O Brien

Epic. Thanks Frederic

function

fredo is on fire! moveAlong, now this! thanks fredo

rv1974

truly outstanding!

pbacot

Looks stupendous!

pilou

Again a new French hit!
This time video is not bilanguage!

Pixero

Wow! Another amazing tool from the master.
I'd like to be able to draw freehand on a plane without inference. Would that be possible?

Bob James

I know for sure what's going to happen to my shortcut "L"

fredo6

@pixero said:

Wow! Another amazing tool from the master.
I'd like to be able to draw freehand on a plane without inference. Would that be possible?

It should. That's the intention.

Fredo

Pixero

Am I missing something?
I meant like the freehand tool but without inference and on a plane.
Would be great for drawing outlines to trees and such on image planes.

fredo6

@pixero said:

Am I missing something?
I meant like the freehand tool but without inference and on a plane.
Would be great for drawing outlines to trees and such on image planes.

DrawAlong does not work in freehand mode, but rather pick and drag.

But FreehandOnSurface does support both modes, with and without inferences.

Fredo

cotty

@fredo6 said:

But FreehandOnSurface does support both modes, with and without inferences.

Video:

Ben Ritter

Super cool Fredo!!. A big thank you.

Ben Ritter

@ben ritter said:

Super cool Fredo!!. A big thank you.

Fredo, I can enter model units (inches)for a line length, but as soon as I add a unit (feet), it gives me an error message.

Ben Ritter

@ben ritter said:

@ben ritter said:

Super cool Fredo!!. A big thank you.

Fredo, I can enter model units (inches)for a line length, but as soon as I add a unit (feet), it gives me an error message.

Disregard Fredo. I tried entering 5' as length and couldn't. I realized I have to enter it as 5'-O".

fredo6

That's definitely a bug, which by the way existed in other plugins based on my VCB parsing.

I fixed it and will republish.

I am not familiar with the architectural notation, so I assume that the syntax is

<x_in_feet>' <y_in_inch>", with or without a separating space.

So the general case could be for instance: 10.5' 4.2" (which is roughly 3.31m).

Where I don't know what to do is the fractional notation, because the / may clash with the divider. I understand you can enter something like 3' 1/4, but they may be extra syntax. I would need a crash course there.

Fredo

pbacot

In other instances of using SU the / in fractions is not a problem Simplest you can type 5'2 1/2 and it should work. The space between numbers is important of course.

There is another plugin TT Edge tools "divider" tool where the fraction divider is a problem and the tool adds multiples instead of the correct distance. The SU way is to wait for the return key then look for a multiplier input.

I have become used to typing any simple combination of measurements and having it work both in CAD and SU. My CAD app will do simple arithmetic in the input. It's nice where the apps allow some switch hitting (say decimal feet instead of feet and inches--and short hand: leaving out unecesary or obvious key strokes) without worry.

fredo6

If I understand the syntax, I think I can make it.

For instance what does mean 5'2 1/2

Is it 5 feet and 2 inch and half an inch?

Fredo

[EDIT] I made some test in the Ruby console, and I am lost, because 5'2 does not look to be 5 feet and 2 inches!!


"5'".to_l
60.0
"5'2".to_l
138.74015748031496
"5'2 1/4".to_l
148.58267716535434

pbacot

That's right. The long hand version is usually 5'-2 1/2", but the hyphen is often dropped. So Ruby treats it differently?

fredo6

@pbacot said:

That's right. The long hand version is usually 5'-2 1/2", but the hyphen is often dropped. So Ruby treats it differently?

Less and less clear
in the Ruby console


a = "5'-2 1/4".to_l
-8.8976377952756

Anyway, whatever is the notation, I still don't understand why 5'2 1/4 = 138.74 inches, whereas 5' is just 60 inches.

Fredo