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    ken28875
    last edited by 27 Sept 2010, 03:50

    @thomthom said:

    Ken - what kind of machine are you creating there?? ๐Ÿ˜ฒ ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

    Hi Thomas,

    I am working on a time traveling machine. I will go back 15 years ago when I was an architecture student and will create Sketchup so I can do crazy stuff instead of using pencil, markers, spray paints, and tracing paper. ๐Ÿ˜‰

    Just kidding. ๐Ÿ˜„

    It is for a contest I am doing that is due next month. http://news.deviantart.com/article/128272/

    You can see some of the WIP here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=27030

    Have a nice week!

    _KN

    Follow Your Dreams.

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      thomthom
      last edited by 27 Sept 2010, 06:10

      Ooh, sweet prices. I don't really pay attention any more what goes on at dA...

      Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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        watkins
        last edited by 27 Sept 2010, 09:33

        Dear David,

        My usual method is as follows:

        a) Find the centre of the broken circle, and mark with a cpoint.
        b) Using the cpoint, draw a circle over the broken circle and delete any unwanted face so formed.
        c) Use move+copy to move copies of the reconstructed circle entity up/down to recreate other broken circles.

        For point c), think of a simple circular flange and copying the top outer edge to the bottom outer edge (same diameter)using move+copy.

        The above method reconstructs the circle and re-assigns the entity 'circle' to the feature, but it takes time and one has to be careful to delete unwanted faces.

        Yes, I could use weld, but the resulting feature has the assignment 'curve' rather than circle, which excludes the use of 'point at centre', which I use frequently for alignment. Chris Fullmer's Arc Centrepoint Finder has helped enormously, but it would be nice to revolve a shape and have circles formed. Thank you for considering my request.

        Kind regards,
        Bob

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          thomthom
          last edited by 27 Sept 2010, 09:44

          So simply drawing an arc or circle over an broken acr/circle mends it? hmmm

          I already have the code to find the centre of exploded curves...
          http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=30506&p=267835&hilit=[Plugin]#p267835

          Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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            winooo
            last edited by 28 Sept 2010, 20:39

            Awesome,thx

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              horizon
              last edited by 3 Aug 2011, 06:32

              I have managed to install your select curve on my laptop running xp but it will not load on my desktop running win 7... i wonder if there is an issue with it being a 64 bit machine?

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                thomthom
                last edited by 3 Aug 2011, 20:26

                64bit is no issue. I run 64bit Win7.

                Do you get any errors or anything?

                Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                  Orthogon
                  last edited by 25 Jan 2014, 18:56

                  Excellent, works cleanly. But wondering why it isn't added to the right-click context menu, where one usually looks for such things -?

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                    Mythos
                    last edited by 12 May 2014, 09:13

                    Thank you very much for this plugin. I like a lot! I want to propose a little improvement: Would it be possible to let the user even click on a face to automatically select all edges by this tool?

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                      Dave R
                      last edited by 12 May 2014, 21:32

                      Although the "improvement" might be possible, since you'd already have the Select tool active, why not just double click on the face? That would select all of the bounding edges of the face without the added step of activating a plugin.

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                        Mythos
                        last edited by 12 May 2014, 22:02

                        @dave r said:

                        why not just double click on the face?

                        Certainly you are right, but then you have to press SHIFT wait a second (to avoid tripple clicking) and then you have to click again to deselect the face (since you only want the edges be selected). It would be much more convenient to have a curve-only selection tool that even can select the edges of a clicked face.

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                          cotty
                          last edited by 13 May 2014, 06:04

                          @mythos said:

                          Thank you very much for this plugin. I like a lot! I want to propose a little improvement: Would it be possible to let the user even click on a face to automatically select all edges by this tool?

                          A quick way for this: select outer edges (Chris Fullmer) with a shortcut assigned

                          my SketchUp gallery

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                            thomthom
                            last edited by 13 May 2014, 07:45

                            I use Selection Toys to quickly filter out entity types. I have Edges on Ctrl+1 and Faces on Ctrl+2, Groups and Components on Ctrl+3 and Ctrl+4.
                            Then I have Ctrl+Shift+n to deselect. Those shortcuts are easily accessible to my left hand which is always on the keyboard while I model. Quite flexible setup.

                            Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                              Mythos
                              last edited by 13 May 2014, 09:05

                              @thomthom said:

                              I use Selection Toys to quickly filter out entity types. I have Edges on Ctrl+1 and Faces on Ctrl+2, Groups and Components on Ctrl+3 and Ctrl+4.

                              Nice, I change my hotkeys to use this setup too. But I think it would be very intuitive to have the normal select operation (which selects the face first) and a curve-based select operation (which forcly grabs the edges even if applied on faces). Since the "Select Curve" plugin currently doesn't operate at all on faces it would be just a nice addition that makes the "Select Curve" tool a little bit more powerful.

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                                Iltis
                                last edited by 9 Jun 2019, 09:08

                                Hello @thomthom, thank you very much for this very usefull plugin.

                                Is there a way to add a modified cursor? (I can draw it if you tell me the specifications.)

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                                  KropocLeckor
                                  last edited by 19 Nov 2020, 07:12

                                  Hello, thomthom. I used Select Curve mainly on SU2015 and 2016 before I migrated to 2019. I use SelectCurve with a shortcut (Shift+C). But in 2019, when I pressed it, other tool pallets will pop up. Never SelectCurve. Changing Shortcut doesn't change anything. Same tool pallets still pop up. I remove/uninstall that particular plugin. And press again..another tool pallets will pop up. Why this happening? ๐Ÿ˜•

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                                    Iltis
                                    last edited by 24 Jun 2022, 09:23

                                    Hi @thomthom and folks,

                                    I just managed to insert custom cursors to this usefull plugin.
                                    Attached are the .png files.
                                    The images are in the same folder than "core.rb"

                                    And this is the code :

                                    def initialize(settings)
                                          @settings = settings
                                          
                                    		folder_path = File.dirname(__FILE__)
                                    		
                                    		cursor_name = 'cursor_select_curve.png'
                                    		cursor_select_curve_path = File.join(folder_path, cursor_name)
                                    	   @result = File.file?(cursor_select_curve_path)
                                    	   unless @result
                                    		  msg = "Can't find the 'cursor icon' path"
                                    		  UI.messagebox(msg, MB_OK)
                                    		  return
                                    		end
                                    		
                                    		cursor_name = 'cursor_select_curve_plus.png'
                                    		cursor_select_curve_plus_path = File.join(folder_path, cursor_name)
                                    	   @result = File.file?(cursor_select_curve_plus_path)
                                    	   unless @result
                                    		  msg = "Can't find the 'cursor icon' path"
                                    		  UI.messagebox(msg, MB_OK)
                                    		  return
                                    		end
                                    		
                                    		cursor_name = 'cursor_select_curve_minus.png'
                                    		cursor_select_curve_minus_path = File.join(folder_path, cursor_name)
                                    	   @result = File.file?(cursor_select_curve_minus_path)
                                    	   unless @result
                                    		  msg = "Can't find the 'cursor icon' path"
                                    		  UI.messagebox(msg, MB_OK)
                                    		  return
                                    		end
                                    		
                                    		cursor_name = 'cursor_select_curve_plus_minus.png'
                                    		cursor_select_curve_plus_minus_path = File.join(folder_path, cursor_name)
                                    	   @result = File.file?(cursor_select_curve_plus_minus_path)
                                    	   unless @result
                                    		  msg = "Can't find the 'cursor icon' path"
                                    		  UI.messagebox(msg, MB_OK)
                                    		  return
                                    		end
                                    		
                                    		@cursor_select        = UI.create_cursor(cursor_select_curve_path, 9, 5)
                                          # @cursor_select        = TT;;Cursor.get_id( ;select )
                                          @cursor_select_add    = UI.create_cursor(cursor_select_curve_plus_path, 9, 5)
                                          # @cursor_select_add    = TT;;Cursor.get_id( ;select_add )
                                          @cursor_select_remove = UI.create_cursor(cursor_select_curve_minus_path, 9, 5)
                                          # @cursor_select_remove = TT;;Cursor.get_id( ;select_remove )
                                    		@cursor_select_toggle = UI.create_cursor(cursor_select_curve_plus_minus_path, 9, 5)
                                          # @cursor_select_toggle = TT;;Cursor.get_id( ;select_toggle )
                                    		
                                          @ctrl   = false
                                          @shift  = false
                                        end
                                    

                                    (I'm not good in Ruby, sorry)

                                    Hope this helps.
                                    Renaud


                                    cursor_select_curve.png


                                    cursor_select_curve_minus.png


                                    cursor_select_curve_plus.png


                                    cursor_select_curve_plus_minus.png

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