[Plugin] 3d Shapes Tool (was: Pyramid Tool)

Macs

Sorry for the title.. now it's correct.

@tomot: it's nothing, this is just my first experiment.. I'm happy if it could be of some help to others programmers.

JClements

Good job and thanks!

CPhillips

Hello,
During my experiments with ruby programming for SU I've produced
this tool for drawing pyramids based on rotated rectangle tool.
Maybe it's useful to someone...

usage:
Menu->Draw->Rotated Pyramid

I think it's easy to use, but suggestions are welcome.

Nice job! I think modeling tools like this are sorely missing from the basic Sketchup functionality.

Do you have any interest in expanding this to support other shapes? If so I would give you any support you need and I could provide a good head start on some of the other shapes (box, cylinder, cone, sphere, capsule).

Chris

Macs

I've done some more work on it, completed a cone tool
and added a toolbar. I'm progressing with work, soon a new release
with more 3d shapes.

Well it's a sort of toolbar for newbies
who don't know how to draw more complex shapes in few steps.
I'm sure expert modelist know well how draw these shapes,
perhaps it will help when there are many to draw.

urgen

@macs said:

I've done some more work on it, completed a cone tool
and added a toolbar. I'm progressing with work, soon a new release
with more 3d shapes.

Well it's a sort of toolbar for newbies
who don't know how to draw more complex shapes in few steps.
I'm sure expert modelist know well how draw these shapes,
perhaps it will help when there are many to draw.

...Marcs, it is very good and useful idea! I thought of it and wished to ask about it Chris ... Success to you... It is necessary not only to beginners... really !

Gaieus

Macs,

Before you invest much time in this project, have a look at shapes.rb (by @Last) downloadable from Didier's site here:
http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/em_geo_page.htm

It will create an item in the Draw menu.

I'm glad however that there are more and more ruby scripter around soo keep up the good work!

Macs

I've seen that script, mine is a little different, but it was useful to learn from it.

Gaieus

OK then, I just wanted to let you know...

urgen

////MMMMM ...... shapes rb.- table skript ... SK-FIZ (shapes)-it only drawing tool, but it

does not work with the keyboard... Let's make that the keyboard there worked! It will

be excellent and very useful tool!

CPhillips

In case you haven't seen it. Here is a demo of the shapes that are in the Solids toolbar of SketchyPhysics. It should probably be split out as a separate plugin. But I have too many plugins as is.

Macs

Ok! This is almost identical at what i'm coding...
I've missed this in SketchyPhysics.

I've seen there is some difference in how the shapes are drawn,
and I've inserted support for VCB input.

however here there is the new script, now "3D Shapes Tool"

3DShapesTool.zip

CPhillips

Looks like you are doing great. But feel free to copy anything you want out of SketchySolids. It is also based on the rotated rectangle code.

urgen

... don,t stop this work ,please!

JClements

Macs, nice work.

Is there any way to allow the tools to respond to a User Defined Axis?

Jim

Hi Macs,

Thank you for working on this. It is a needed and important plugin, don't stop now!

CPhillips

Loving the plugin dude!

Suggestion. Once you place the shape it is hard to set the height. You need to have something to infer the height and if nothing is available it is frustrating. My solution was to add a construction line to the center of the shape after the second click.

Try adding the following line to the the ConeTool::increment_state() function.


def increment_state
	@moved = false
	@state += 1				
    case @state
    when 1
		@ip1.copy! @ip
		Sketchup;;set_status_text "Click to set the radius"
		Sketchup;;set_status_text "Radius", SB_VCB_LABEL
		Sketchup;;set_status_text "Move mouse", SB_VCB_VALUE
    when 2
        @ip1.clear
###################        
        Sketchup.active_model.entities.add_cline(@pts[0],@normal)
###################        
        Sketchup;;set_status_text "Click to set the height"
        Sketchup;;set_status_text "Height", SB_VCB_LABEL
        Sketchup;;set_status_text "Move mouse", SB_VCB_VALUE
    when 3
        self.create_geometry
    end

end

Getting rid of the cline and having it work right with undo is a bit tricky, but if you are interested I can walk you through it.

Chris

dylan

This is really nice macs and very useful.

Thanks

Macs

@cphillips said:

Loving the plugin dude!

Suggestion. Once you place the shape it is hard to set the height. You need to have something to infer the height and if nothing is available it is frustrating. My solution was to add a construction line to the center of the shape after the second click.
[CUT]

Chris

Strange.. on my system my tool works differently
when you do the second click with the cone tool it goes up
and down with the height without being locked on the surface.
I have to review the code to see if I made some mistrake invocking
some method without "self.".

thank you for the suggestion on the costruction line, I'll think about it.

CPhillips

@unknownuser said:

Strange.. on my system my tool works differently
when you do the second click with the cone tool it goes up
and down with the height without being locked on the surface.
I have to review the code to see if I made some mistrake invocking
some method without "self.".

thank you for the suggestion on the costruction line, I'll think about it.

I figured this out. In my case I build a lot of shapes on a big floor plane. When I draw a cone it infers the height from the floor. I don't think this is a flaw in your plugin. But the construction line is still useful in many cases.

urgen

....Please wait ....will be OK! ..