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    • L Offline
      lorenzo
      last edited by

      Hi guys, I'm looking for a ruby to have in my SU, sessadecimal degrees (360Β°=400Β°) and others ruby for surveyors to put on SU my work by total station (zenith angle, azimuth angle, distance etc.)
      Thanks in advance to everyone!!!

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        remus
        last edited by

        i dont know if you know aobut it, but theres a point cloud script by didier bur that reads points form a .txt (and possibly excel) file and turns them in to points in SU.

        Perhaps you could process your data in excel first then plot the points into SU? i iamgine excel would be easir to use for manipulating data than a ruby.

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        • L Offline
          lorenzo
          last edited by

          I'll try it but I think it not allows to have a sessadecimal degrees in my SU (360Β°=400Β°).
          Anyway thank you very much... bye

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            Jim
            last edited by

            @lorenzo said:

            I'll try it but I think it not allows to have a sessadecimal degrees in my SU (360Β°=400Β°).
            Anyway thank you very much... bye

            Lorenzo,

            I don't understand what you are asking. What is sessadecimal?

            Hi

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            • jujuJ Offline
              juju
              last edited by

              πŸ˜’ Wikipedia doesn't have anything on it and a Google search reveals a total of 5 hits, none of which tells you exactly what it is.

              Looking at the above posts gives you some idea as to what "sessadecimal" is and its application.

              Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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              • CadFatherC Offline
                CadFather
                last edited by

                "SEXADECIMAL" is a common misspelling or typo for: hexadecimal

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                • R Offline
                  remus
                  last edited by

                  I think lorenzo's refering to grads.

                  "The grad is a unit of plane angle, equivalent to 1⁄400 of a full circle, dividing a right angle in 100." to quote wikipedia.

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                    marne
                    last edited by

                    intersting...
                    did you already try to multiply the values in the hexadecimal(degree) column (in excel or oOcalc) with 0.9? then afaik the point cloud script shouldn't have any probs πŸ˜•
                    please correct me if i'm wrong.

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                    • GaieusG Offline
                      Gaieus
                      last edited by

                      Well, Guys, "seesadecimal" is a kind of Italian version of what in Greeek is "hexadecimal". The original Latin word for 6 is sexwhile seiin Italian. so it means he wants 60 degrees instead of 360 (this 60 can be - and usually is - further divided by 1000 for better precision).

                      Just remember those action movies where the soldiers tell each other "missile at 15:00 hours". This would be in the same "sessadecimal" angle counting. 15 hours = 90 degree etc.

                      In other words, in this system, 1 "sessadecimal" degree is equal to 15 "normal" degrees.


                      Hm... FYI - as for why I am such a smart a** - I sereved in the army as an artillery scout which is rather something like a surveyor and we used the same system πŸ˜‰

                      Gai...

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                        Fletch
                        last edited by

                        thanks Gaeius! That was an EXCELLENT explanation!

                        Fletch
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                          lorenzo
                          last edited by

                          Usually people use degrees that are 360Β° for a full circle
                          I'm looking for a different system: a full circle is 400Β°
                          This system is used in Italy by surveyors because they can divide the circle in more units.
                          Our total stations use this system. So when I import a dwg in sketchup I would like to use it.
                          Anyway...thank you very much to everyone
                          Bye mates πŸ˜„

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                          • GaieusG Offline
                            Gaieus
                            last edited by

                            Well, maybe I have misunderstood then... πŸ˜’
                            I'm surely just an a** (and not a smart a**)

                            Gai...

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                              CadFather
                              last edited by

                              πŸ˜†

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                                Fletch
                                last edited by

                                but I STILL like the eplanation for hexadecimal... I always saw that on my calculators and wondered 'what in the world is that?' πŸ˜„

                                Fletch
                                Twilight Render Cross-platform Plugin for SketchUp on PC or Mac

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