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    Drop.rb script upgrade suggestion

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    • A Offline
      a4chitect
      last edited by

      dear TBD - your script is perhaps my most-used extension to sketchup, but sometimes (urban scenery) I want the dropped entities to match the slope/angle of the surface on which i'm dropping them, is it possible to identify the surface by your intersection finding "Sketchup.active_model.raytest(position,dir)", then get its slope and apply this to the dropped entity? would such a feature be hard to implement? i'm toying with the idea of trying to add this myself, or is anyone else interested ? πŸ˜’

      anyways - thanks for the 'drop' πŸ˜„

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        tbd
        last edited by

        unfortunately I dont have time right now to implement it, but you are free to add it. hope that you will share the modifications so I can add it to drop.rb.

        thanks for the suggestion

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          a4chitect
          last edited by

          came up with a trick - the upgraded script could look for intersection not only from the component center but also from the four bounding points of the lower bounding plane - these 4 intersection would easily allow to compute the rotation needed for the original component...

          to further illustrate, default Drop (v1.5)

          http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/4958/drop15oa6.th.jpg

          proposed functionality

          http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/3960/dropfitzc1.th.jpg

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          • A Offline
            a4chitect
            last edited by

            TBD thanks for your encouragement, will share for sure, it's fairly easy with the bounding box proposal from above - will get to it tomorrow, hope that method works

            stay tuned

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