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    [Plugin] (TIG) Rotate Plan View v1.1 20110316

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    • BoxB Offline
      Box
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      You might find the pluginstore useful. And it would be nice if your profile version matched your problem version. SU2014 in your profile but SU8 in the question.

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      • Dave RD Offline
        Dave R
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        Ah, I see. It's no wonder, then. You should be using Install Extension, and the SCF plugin store.

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        • the_slothT Offline
          the_sloth
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          @box said:

          You might find the pluginstore useful. And it would be nice if your profile version matched your problem version. SU2014 in your profile but SU8 in the question.

          You bring up a good point. In profile you can only choose one version. I use SU 8 at work (network license), 2013 at home (personal license), and occasionally SU2014 Make when there are no licenses at work. I would bet there are others who use multiple version of SketchUp as well.

          I will read this later today: http://sketchucation.com/resources/tutorials/108-installing-sketchup-plugins

          Thanks for the help.

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          • BoxB Offline
            Box
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            I was referring to this
            http://sketchucation.com/resources/plugin-store-download

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            • the_slothT Offline
              the_sloth
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              This is very cool. Thanks for sharing. I haven't used SU for some time in a serious fashion and am excited to be getting back into it

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              • J Offline
                jimmylomax
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                This is great! Many thanks. Is there a known way to achieve this from another perspective (e.g. I'd like to make an ISO image)?

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
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                  Look up my iso axo script...
                  https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=axo_iso

                  TIG

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                  • D Offline
                    db11
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                    A very useful little plugin.

                    @TIG: Is it possible to provide the same capability for the other ortho views? I'd like to be able to rotate front and side views in the same way.

                    I searched for another extension that could do it, but didn't locate one.

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
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                      @db11 said:

                      @TIG: Is it possible to provide the same capability for the other ortho views? I'd like to be able to rotate front and side views in the same way.

                      It's a very very old, but [perhaps overly] simple script.
                      If you read the code it resets the Plan-view camera's 'UP' to be the Z_AXIS [Top view], and then transforms it around that axis by the specified angle.

                      To make a version to say look 'Front' along the green axis you'd use the Y_AXIS and so on...
                      Just try copying the RB file ../Plugins/Rotatefrontview.rb***, editing it and substituting the Y_AXIS for the Z_AXIS [in two places]...
                      Use a plain-text editor like Notepad++ on PC or TextWrangler on MAC.
                      ***Name these new RB files logically e.g. Rotateplanview.rb==> Rotatefrontview.rb and also remember to change the other parts of the code to match - e.g. ' Class' name and associated lines of code setting up the cmd to suit, each time replacing [Pp]lan with [Ff]ront etc.
                      Change the Toolbar [copied] PNG names too...
                      BUT don't worry about the Toolbar code otherwise, because it only kicks in when there PNG images for the buttons exist.
                      Unless you recreate the PNG files inside the ../Plugins/TIGtools subfolder there will be no matching Toolbar buttons made - but the View menu items will always get created...

                      To make all 5 other possible ortho views, just substitute the Z_AXIS [Top] for X_AXIS [Right], Y_AXIS [Front], and their .reverse equivalents [Left & Back] + Z_AXIS.reverse [Bottom]...

                      TIG

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                      • D Offline
                        db11
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                        Thanks TIG for taking the time to describe the proper approach. Sounds fairly straightforward, so I'll give it a try this weekend.

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                        • D Offline
                          db11
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                          I made the modifications and produced 'Rotate____view' for the various views. Saved me a lot of trouble of rotating viewports in LayOut for a bunch of parts on a material list. So thanks for the directions β€” it was even simpler than I thought.

                          But it did make me think: wouldn't it be possible to make a single plugin "RotateCurrentView"?

                          If there a way to auto-poll for the current view, then wouldn't it be relatively simple to use a CASE statement to assign the correct axes relative to the current view?

                          The produced versions do the trick fine, but it would be cool to consolidate multiple plugins (and their corresponding menu items) into a single one.

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                          • D Offline
                            db11
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                            ...I should add that it would be fun to try to make those modifications myself (assuming the approach is valid).

                            A fair while back I had started teaching myself Ruby and made a couple of super simple plugins for my own use. Then I got busy with paid work and dropped the effort. I've probably forgotten much of what I had learned, but I have been meaning to get back to it β€” and this might be a fun re-entry (especially since most of the work is already done).

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