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    • U Offline
      unearthed
      last edited by

      Hi all, I want to joggle the positions of a lot of symbols that are on a radial grid - see jpg attached. I thought there was a script that would joggle the positions of many objects according to simple parameters (like my example in the enc. jpg), but it mustve been a false memory!

      Does anyone have a script that will at least randomize a rectangular or square grid?

      The case is an experimental acoustic planting based on sonic crystal theory. The original rule this came from was:

      "each tree is moved from its regular position, and placed randomly in the zone equal to 1/5th of the distance in between the trees". That was written for a square grid though.

      Either my rule or the one above would be great.


      WTG.189_forRAND.skp


      Randomize grid of symbols.jpg

      Growplan - People ∩ Plants ∩ Place

      windows 7 64b, 4GB RAM, SU 8.0.16846
      Gimp, QGIS, Vectorworks 12, Bricscad 11

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      • BoxB Offline
        Box
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        One sort of manual way would be to use random select, then move those selected, rinse and repeat.

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          pilou
          last edited by

          Seems you can make something with Make Fur!

          And for radial gride Work Plane by Tig

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          • PixeroP Offline
            Pixero
            last edited by

            You could try with my plugin: https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=JS_Random_Move

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            • U Offline
              unearthed
              last edited by

              Thanks everyone for your ideas - sdmitch kindly sent me a short script which did the trick.

              Interesting looking plugin Pixero but I couldn't get it to move anything, I'm using su8.

              Growplan - People ∩ Plants ∩ Place

              windows 7 64b, 4GB RAM, SU 8.0.16846
              Gimp, QGIS, Vectorworks 12, Bricscad 11

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              • PixeroP Offline
                Pixero
                last edited by

                @unearthed

                See PM.

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                • PixeroP Offline
                  Pixero
                  last edited by

                  I have updated the script to 1.1 now with support for older SketchUp and some new features.
                  https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=JS_Random_Move

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