[Plugin] Smooth Zoom 2.1.0 - 24 October 2021

Anton_S · 3 Apr 2015, 18:52

Making an update is a piece of cake. I just wanted to include all the feature requests and fix bugs before uploading, but upon your request I'll upload 64bit version shortly.

Rich O Brien · 3 Apr 2015, 18:57

Thanks Anton.

Your tools are always killer!

Anton_S · 3 Apr 2015, 20:21

Thanks Rich

I made an update to work with SU 64bit. Note that it requires AMS Library. There are still feature requests to add and bugs to fix, such as making it work properly while Fredo tools are active. Maybe someday...

bharralure · 21 Apr 2015, 09:30

Bonjour Anton
Smooth Zoom v1.1.0 installé sur SU Make v15.3.331 64 bits, sous Windows 8.1 fonctionne parfaitement en mode camera réglé sur "Perspective" ou sur "Perspective à deux points", mais ne semble pas fonctionner correctement si mode camera réglé sur "Projection parallèle" : la molette de la souris provoque un déplacement latéral de la vue, et non un zoom. Mis peut-être est ce normal ?

bharralure · 22 Apr 2015, 16:49

Bonjour Anton
Smooth Zom v1.1.0 installé sur SU Make v15.3.331 64 bits sous Windws 8.1 fonctionne parfaitement en mode "Camera" réglé sur "Perspective" et sur "Perspective à deux points"
Par contre, il me semble ne pas fonctionner correctement en mode "Camera" réglée sur "Projection parallèle": la molette de la souris provoque un déplacement latéral de la vue de gauche et de droite, et non un zoom. Mais peut-être est-ce normal?

Anton_S · 25 Apr 2015, 07:16

Bonjoir, LANDRY Patric. That plugin with parallel projection is indeed pretty weird. I will look into this someday. Meanwhile, you can always disable smooth zoom when switching to parallel projection. Uncheck Plugins -> AMS Smooth Zoom -> Enable and you're good to go. Thanks for the report.

cgarcia_arq · 2 Sept 2015, 17:10

This is an excellent plugin! I've been trying to control the wheel speed since the first time i worked with sketchup and FINALLY now i can. Thank you so much!!!

i would like to propose a future feature: the ability to control the zoom-in and zoom-out parameters independently. It seems a have to scroll a little more when i zoom-out to get to the same place i was before zooming-in.

derei · 5 Dec 2015, 14:13

Just tested the plugin. I like the fact it makes the zoom smoother, but from what i could see, this plugin can't make the zooming factor smaller than sketchup's default, although it can increase the factor. Is fun to play with those inertial modes when the transition is sensibly longer.

Few suggestions:
-see if the zooming factor can be DECREASED, this would help in case of precision zooming needs.
-please consider moving it in Camera Menu, because everybody is putting their plugin in Extensions, as there is no other place in SketchUp. And that menu becomes longer than some screens height...

Good Luck.

Anton_S · 5 Dec 2015, 20:01

Derei, if I understood you correctly, you want to reduce the zooming intensity, right? You can decrease the zoom factor by going to Plugins->AMS Smooth Zoom->Options and reducing intensity, to say, 0.1. Thanks for your feedback!

derei · 5 Dec 2015, 21:13

@anton_s said:

Derei, if I understood you correctly, you want to reduce the zooming intensity, right? You can decrease the zoom factor by going to Plugins->AMS Smooth Zoom->Options and reducing intensity, to say, 0.1. Thanks for your feedback!

Factor 0.1 from what i could see, actually makes the zooming intensity equal to "sketchup default". Higher values will make zooming faster (in bigger steps).
I was hoping to go under sketchup's default. To have a smoother zoom in terms of precision, not only visualization.

davecoopstl · 14 Dec 2015, 15:23

Ever since the 12/5 update, Smooth Zoom causes errors when opening SketchUp 2015. See attached image.

The only way to prevent these errors is by disabling Smooth Zoom from loading. But then I can't activate it!

I'm using SU 2015. It worked fine, until the latest updated via the ExtensionStore 3.0.

Anyone else have this issue? Any suggestions?
Dave.

Anton_S · 14 Dec 2015, 16:51

Hello davecoopstl, based on an error, it seems that you don't have AMS Library plugin installed or your AMS Library copy has some components missing. Try reinstalling AMS Library and AMS Smooth Zoom and see how it goes.

awadrummer · 20 Feb 2019, 23:54

Hi Anton,

Is there any way you could update this to work with 2019?

Thanks!

Chris B.

Anton_S · 21 Feb 2019, 03:17

Hi Chris,

I updated SmoothZoom for SU2019 compatibility.

Anton

awadrummer · 6 Mar 2019, 17:55

@anton_s said:

Hi Chris,

I updated SmoothZoom for SU2019 compatibility.

Anton

Awesome! Thanks Anton!

zooen · 2 Jul 2019, 10:14

Merci Anton!

SKEMTHESAGE · 22 Sept 2019, 05:59

are you planing on making a mac version? I think the accelerometer could be very useful and smooth with this plug in

Anton_S · 23 Sept 2019, 18:23

Mac OS X has a completely different API. I do not know if there is a way to hack into a Mac OS X SketchUp window to take control of the the mouse wheel input. That is sure possible with Windows API but probably not with Mac OS X API, Carbon or Cocoa.

I know that zooming with laptop mouse pads already eliminates the bumpiness from zoom. Perhaps a better mouse wheel hardware is a solution.

awadrummer · 13 Apr 2021, 23:20

Hi, I just upgraded from Sketchup 2019 to 2021 and noticed this plugin doesn't appear to work for the new version. Is there a chance that it will be updated to work with the new version of Sketchup? Is there an alternative? Thank you!

pibuz · 14 May 2021, 06:44

Same here.
It was working on 2020 but it isn't anymore on 2021..

So sad!