[Plugin] Smooth Zoom 2.1.0 - 24 October 2021
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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.
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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!
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@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. -
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.
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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.
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Hi Anton,
Is there any way you could update this to work with 2019?
Thanks!
Chris B.
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Hi Chris,
I updated SmoothZoom for SU2019 compatibility.
Anton
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@anton_s said:
Hi Chris,
I updated SmoothZoom for SU2019 compatibility.
Anton
Awesome! Thanks Anton!
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Merci Anton!
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are you planing on making a mac version? I think the accelerometer could be very useful and smooth with this plug in
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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.
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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!
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Same here.
It was working on 2020 but it isn't anymore on 2021..So sad!
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Announcing version 2. This one should not interfere with any tools. The way this works is it suppresses existing mouse wheel messages with deltas of 120 and in turn sends multiple subsequent mouse wheel messages with smaller deltas, yielding smoother transition effects. Let me know if this works, so that I can decide how to proceed with this. Options to adjust zoom intensity will be added soon. Thanks!
By the way, this is still Windows only, for now (SU6-SU2021). I only tested this with SU2020 and SU2021 though. Also, AMS Library is not longer needed for this, so this is an independent plugin.
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Wonderful!!! Thanks Anton!
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Hello. Thank you very much for the useful plugin. It is very convenient.
After the update, the option menu disappeared. Please return it to adjust the speed. Thank you very much!
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@anton_s said:
Announcing version 2. This one should not interfere with any tools. The way this works is it suppresses existing mouse wheel messages with deltas of 120 and in turn sends multiple subsequent mouse wheel messages with smaller deltas, yielding smoother transition effects. Let me know if this works, so that I can decide how to proceed with this. Options to adjust zoom intensity will be added soon. Thanks!
By the way, this is still Windows only, for now (SU6-SU2021). I only tested this with SU2020 and SU2021 though. Also, AMS Library is not longer needed for this, so this is an independent plugin.
Hey Anton, thank you so much for the update! For me personally I utilize this plugin in order prevent having to scroll a lot to get in and out of my models. I'm not necessarily particular about how smooth the zooming is. I just do a lot of large scale models, mainly floor plans for schools and office buildings and to get in and change a wall I have to scroll in a lot. I got around it temporarily by changing my Logitech mouse to treat one scroll wheel movement as 3 which was ok except when I had to use the save or open dialog box to scroll through files lol.
Again thank you so much for continuing to offer this capability. I can't wait until you add back the dialog to set the scroll distance as this helps so much.
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how to regulate the smoothnes sof the zoom in SketchUp 2020 - 21 ?
option command are not available -
Announcing 2.1. This version allows adjusting single-notch duration and frequency.
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Thank you very much for sharing
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