Copy components in place

joeyp7784

Curious result!

Try this one!

Rename it in "ComponentReplace.rbz"[/url] so you can install it directly from SketchUp!
(Maybe you must restart )
It will named "Pilou Relative" in the Extension Menu SDM Tools/CorG!
Disable Random(if you don't want a same order) & Relative (if you have same size Source / Target)

PS I have find the trick!
All "targets" rectangles must be at start the same "copy" component before select all them and named "Target" !

As you have before use the plugin all different "target components"
So use the Thomthom ComponentComparaison!

@unknownuser said:

Compares components for geometric similarities - replaces the instances of similar definitions to use the same definition.

oooooo no I thought we were so close! haha. Yes you are right they must all be the same component, furthermore the faces to components script does not allign the axis to the component, so even if SDM CorG did work on different components, it would allign to the targers of their repective axis', and not to the rectangles themselves:

Not alligned

However it is a moot anyway because if they were all the same component then I could simply build the house on one of the components and they would all build anyway

BUT at least this narrows down our question to this: "is it possible to swap components to faces that share the same dimensions while rotating the axis in the process?"

joeyp7784

@pilou said:

Curious result!

Re-Found the trick!
All "targets" rectangles must be at start the same "copy" component before select all them and named "Target" !

As you have before using the plugin all different "target components"
So use the Thomthom ComponentComparaison!

Correction! Sorry I just saw that the THomthom plugin you suggested WAS pretty much exactly what I was looking for great!!!!

It wasn't perfect here is the result below (all same components with reverse face showing)

Thomthom component comparison result

As you can see didnäy work on all of them but did more than half, which at this point, I would consider more or less a success! Maybe I can put the others in a different model and try again etc. But its definitely going to be a time saver!

Thanks!

pilou

Why not makes all faces in the same reversing before launch the Thomthom plugin ?
Automatic Face Reverser by Didier Bur

Select faces : Right Click / View-Based Face Reverser / Scan Model

joeyp7784

@pilou said:

Why not makes all faces in the same reversing before launch the Thomthom plugin ?
Automatic Face Reverser by Didier Bur

Select faces : Right Click / View-Based Face Reverser / Scan Model

Because it wasn't me I promise! It was Thomthoms plugin that did it for some reason, heres the before and after:

All individual components

Thomthom plugin result (grey ones are now all the same component)

pilou

You wish all rectangles white or all grey?

I don't see why you can't have them with all that is said above!
(if all rectangles has same size)

Can you send the file skp? (saved in v6 for a more large audience)

rv1974

Mate, have you tried the link I posted above?

rv1974

watch his promo video. you should mouse click axes to scatter precisely. use s4u Scale to reset possible distortions 'en mass'.
P.S. BTW, it's not a crime to do it semi-manually. with align (by 3 points) script.
say, you've got 200 plots. it takes ~10sec to align 1 (shortcut is a must!). ~30min to all of them. You've burned already much more time in this thread

pilou

@unknownuser said:

plugin would create two different components no?

No! Only one!

You can increase the tolerance inside the Thomthom plugin...
but your problem is that you have not exactly the same module every where!
And sometime overlapsed!

pilou

You can make more speed if you copy / draw manually a same diagonal (component) inside each rectangle
then use the Sdmitch plugin Maybe 10 minutes!

You've burned already much more time in this thread!
But learn many funny things!

joeyp7784

@rv1974 said:

Mate, have you tried the link I posted above?

Hi yes I did have that plugin (sorry I thought your first post was regarding .rb files in general!)

Tried but it has rather unexpected results:

S4U plugin

@pilou said:

You wish all rectangles white or all grey?

I don't see why you can't have them with all that is said above!
(if all rectangles has same size)

Can you send the file skp? (saved in v6 for a more large audience)

Its not a problem if they are reversed faces or not; I was just highlighting that only half of them were made to components. HOWEVER, upon closer inspection it looks as though there are in fact TWO different sized rectangles in this model , but one would think that Thomthoms plugin would create two different components no? Here's the model:

Model file

joeyp7784

@pilou said:

You've burned already much more time in this thread!
But learn many funny things!

@rv1974 said:

You've burned already much more time in this thread

Haha no doubt you're both correct! Still I feel I have learned useful things from both of you in this thread that I will experiment with, maybe I can find the perfect solution in the end, I do a lot of this plans so I think its on of those worth it once you learn how type things.

Thank you both!