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    • KrisidiousK Offline
      Krisidious
      last edited by

      Is it? I dream of nodes and auto-dimensioning (to an extent)... Smart dims that knew what we were doing, vertical, horizontal, 2D and 3D. Real symbol libraries and a direct connection to BIM info that doesn't have to have Layout open and go back and forth to check stuff as you go, not fix it work after modeling. Smart full vector hatches. This place has trained me to expect the impossible from Ruby and the Plugin Authors. Ok, back to Earth now... I think I flew too close to the Sun.

      By: Kristoff Rand
      Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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      • Dave RD Offline
        Dave R
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        If you look at where the development has been as far as dimensions are concerned, you'll nothing has changed in SU in years. In fact I don't think there's been any changes to it at least since before V3. LO has gotten many improvements though. I'm only guessing but I imagine we'll see other improvements in LO2016.

        There have been other improvements in text such as Auto Text which I leverage in every LO project, now. Most of the labels in that plan I posted the other day were auto-filled. Maybe we'll get radial dimensions and other cool stuff soon.

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        • KrisidiousK Offline
          Krisidious
          last edited by

          yeah I could handle anything really...

          By: Kristoff Rand
          Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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          • S Offline
            swasacase
            last edited by

            I use dual dimensioning all the time. I'm just starting to use LO more frequently, and starting to get away from Turbocad. I hope the developers make a dual dimension tool. Dimensioning everything twice over is very time consuming


            Dual Dim Sample.pdf

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            • sdmitchS Offline
              sdmitch
              last edited by

              @auchifai said:

              Recently I was requested by my client to put both mm and inch as the unit for all the dimensions. I tried to find some way to do it but eventually what I did is to use mm as the model unit and type all units in inch with 3D text. It works but of course it is not efficient. I just wonder if anyone knows how can I do it better? I am enclosing an image of my work here for your reference. Thanks!
              [attachment=1:2hchdrnf]<!-- ia1 -->temp.png<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:2hchdrnf]

              mod = Sketchup.active_model
              ent = mod.active_entities
              txt = ent.grep(Sketchup;;DimensionLinear)
              for t in txt
               dim = (t.text.to_f/25.4).round(1)
               t.text=t.text+"\n("+dim.to_s+"\")"
              end
              

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

              http://sdmitch.blogspot.com/

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              • Dave RD Offline
                Dave R
                last edited by

                Cool! How hard to make it go the other way with metric in the parentheses?

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                • sdmitchS Offline
                  sdmitch
                  last edited by

                  @dave r said:

                  Cool! How hard to make it go the other way with metric in the parentheses?

                  mod = Sketchup.active_model
                  ent = mod.active_entities
                  txt = ent.grep(Sketchup;;DimensionLinear)
                  units = Sketchup.active_model.options["UnitsOptions"]["LengthUnit"]
                  for t in txt
                   case units
                    when 2
                     dim = (t.text.to_f/25.4).round(1)
                     t.text=t.text+"\n("+dim.to_s+"\")"
                    when 0
                     dim = (t.text.to_f*24.5).round(0)
                     t.text=t.text+"\n("+dim.to_s+"mm)"
                   end
                  end
                  
                  

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

                  http://sdmitch.blogspot.com/

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                  • JQLJ Offline
                    JQL
                    last edited by

                    And is it very hard to put it in Sketchucation Plugin Store?

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                    • sdmitchS Offline
                      sdmitch
                      last edited by

                      @jql said:

                      And is it very hard to put it in Sketchucation Plugin Store?

                      No, the hard part is trying to anticipate all the combinations of units that will be wanted.

                      A new version that is accessed through the Context Menu. What makes the most sense?


                      Dual Dimensions.gif

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

                      http://sdmitch.blogspot.com/

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                      • KrisidiousK Offline
                        Krisidious
                        last edited by

                        Tig has written a dual dim tool for SU... does everyone here know that?

                        http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=62033

                        By: Kristoff Rand
                        Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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