Created geometry on auto-move mode

lekonna

Greetings all,
This is my first post to the forum, what i've read here so far, seems like an excellent forum, good work guys!

So to the question at hand:

I've impleneted a small script that prompts for values and creates a window element from the values input, the problem is that the element pops into existance at 0,0,0 which in case of modeling a large house for example is not very handy. Is there a way to activate the move tool from ruby and set the grab point as one of the corners of the just created group? This would make my life a lot easier

Br,
Janne

[lekonna]

Jim

Ah, this one took me a while to find too.

The method you are looking for is a method of the Model class called place_component. It attaches a ComponentDefinition to the mouse pointer for placement.

lekonna

wow that was a fast reply, thanks jim!

Now i'll just have to dig out how the ComponentDefinition class works, as my geometry is at the moment only a group.

[lekonna]

Jim

@lekonna said:

wow that was a fast reply, thanks jim!

Now i'll just have to dig out how the ComponentDefinition class works, as my geometry is at the moment only a group.

Nah, just try it with the Group, it might work. But if not, you just create a new ComponentDefinition instead of a new Group and use the Defs entities. You shouldn't need to change but one line of code (maybe.)

lekonna


Error; #<TypeError; wrong argument type (expected Sketchup;;ComponentDefinition)>

dang model.definitions seems to retrieve the list of component definitions in the model, but how do i go about creating one and assigning this group to it?

[lekonna]

Jim


cdef = Sketchup.active_model.definitions.add("Component Def Name")

Oh, you already have a Group. I forgot about Group.to_component !

lekonna

alright. the documentation seems to be bit incomplete on that method.

what i tried was:


  component = group.to_component
  status = model.place_component component

and what i got was


Error; #<TypeError; wrong argument type (expected Sketchup;;ComponentDefinition)>

so it would seem that it doesn't return a componentdefinition

[lekonna]

lekonna

haa gotit!

the to_component returns a componentInstance which has the
definition method returing just what i needed.

Thanks a ton Jim!

[lekonna]

lekonna

hmm it seems that now i get double geometry, the one i place with the place_component and one created at 0,0,0 duh.

[lekonna]

lekonna

Geez it seems i'm lost with this coding business, well it's been like 5 years, thats what managering stuff does to you i suppose.

Can you guys point a good way to get rid of the double geometry for me? If i just go ahead and upload the script here. Though i have to appologize for the code since the variables and texts are in finnish. Was bit too sure i could pull one simple script off by myselfs

So the problem being on how to get rid of the double geometry thats not folling the place_component.

Thanks in advance, should be no-brainer for you guys.

-Janne

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/sas/Ruby/windower.rb

[lekonna]

Jim

You want to create a ComponentDefinition from the start. Try these changes:


33; definition = Sketchup.active_model.definitions.add("New Def")
34; entities = definition.entities 
...
113; (removed)
115; (removed)

lekonna

perfect, thanks Jim!

[lekonna]