[Plugin] Three Line Tools (Updated March 9th, 2009)
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A Tool Idea I've been toying with is a Drawing Plane tool. A tool that let you define a virtual plane to which drawing tools can be used on, allowing you to draw geometry in empty space. Not quite sure how it'd be implemented though...
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Just a reminder, the profile builder is a great tool but it's commercial and not for everyone who don't need profiles a lot. This should be an easy step for the follow me tool. Let's see if there is a solution
To set up a plane to draw onto for follow me rotations is one tip I always suggested to my people when they are lost in free space. Yep, nice ideas here
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Well, its coming along nicely. I've got it mostly working for a single square face right now. Then I'll add a circle ability since many times we use plain circles. Then lastly will be a way to first select a face, then activate the tool and click onto a line endpoint and it will add that face to the end of the line perpendicularly. Once I get the face one working all the way, the others will be pretty straightforward. Hopefully I'll have it all done by late tongiht.
I think I need to create a single clf tools menu item and then add all my scripts under that single menu item. I feel bad clogging up people plugins menu with these small, but useful scripts.
Chris
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Chris
Super and much needed script-eteA Move / Copy option like in Didier's Align script so one can keep the profile if needed would be nice to have.
On a workaround (no ruby)that I cobbled up it worked to use a group/component and just explode when it was properly located as moving a plain face if attached to path will just drag the endpoint along with it.
My work-around alignment solution is attached for what help it may be.In any case thanks a bunch for even giving this a shot.
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sorry if this is a little off, but i have to know what this is:
Jim, maybe you could move this to a more appropriate place.
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No worries, that is free-form deformation.
Chris
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@chris fullmer said:
No worries, that is free-form deformation.
Chris
sorry to keep going here, but. how did you manage to get a toolbar for it?
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I believe that it was bundled with the SCF power tools toolbar. I don't that is available right now, but will probably be coming back in time after some copyrights get worked out. It was provided by Cad Father. I believe he made the icons.
Chris
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thanks, sorry for the off topic, just curious.
it would be sweet if someone would write a snippet of code that someone like myself could use to make our own toolbar. we could just add buttons, and link them to the ruby's we have.
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Ahh, I see. Ok, I have some ideas how to set this up. It might just be a new tool altogether. Something like Perpendicular Face Tools.
Chris
EDIT: From this conversation, I have since made Perpendicular Face Tools
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Does it possible to have the "line" as a component in the native plug?
Like this any difficulty to replace it by anything!
PS a simple line can't make a component but if draw 2 lines, select both, make component
Then edit component, kill the second line, close component = you have a simple line as component!
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Yeah, its possible to make each line be a separate component. I think I could get all lines to be an instance of a single componeont too.
As for makeing a component of a single line - it still works if you use the keyboard shortcut. On my computer it is defaulted as g. Select a single line and hit g and it will become a component.
Chris
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@unknownuser said:
Yeah, its possible to make each line be a separate component. I think I could get all lines to be an instance of a single component too.
As you want
@unknownuser said:
As for makeing a component of a single line - it still works if you use the keyboard shortcut. On my computer it is defaulted as g. Select a single line and hit g and it will become a component
Yes there is 4 manners to make that! THX Gaieus!
- with the make component button in the Principal toolbar;
- from the Make component command from the Edit menu;
- through a shortcut (the default is G); (yours)
- finally from the context (right click) menu. That is don't work for a line or a curve !
Unfortunatly I just use the Right Click the only one that don't work!
It's my DuhDuh of my day
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Hi Chris, hi all. I’m new to this forum so be patient with me and with my english…
Thanks for this nice plugin. I have only a little question for you Chris.
I’ve noticed that the “vertical lines by elevation” command only works with the original 0,0 location as reference. It be possible to add an option that calculate the elevation from a surface that you click on?
I mean select “vertical line by elevation”, input the elevation and then click on a surface. The length of the line is now calculated from that surface (and not from the original 0,0 location) which becomes the new reference for the elevation of the other lines.
That would be very useful, for example, when you have to put a series of pillars of a bridge on a hilly terrain.
Thanks again.
Massimo -
Does anyone to know this tools
and then where I can download
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The Line Normal Tool reminds me of this guy
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HI Piyanan, that was the SCF Power toolbar. It took some of the more useful plugins and created icons for them. It is currently not available. But hopefully will be coming back in the near future. The icons and toolbar were made by CADFather.
Massimo, the tool is designed to work the way I think your describing. You should be able to click on an entity of any elevation and it should draw a vertical line to the specified elevation. I've included a video that shows it in action. Please let me know if it is not what you are expecting, or if your's is behaving differently.
[flash=510,495:23xflexj]http://www.chrisfullmer.com/forums/by_elevation_working.swf[/flash:23xflexj]
Chris
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@jcdb said:
The Line Normal Tool reminds me of this guy
See, he's not weird, he's merely trying to explain what on earth a "normal" is. And I thank him for it
Chris
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I meant that when I click on a surface that is, for example, at + 100 cm over the 0,0 original plane, and i type 200 cm for that line, the line will be long 100cm and not 200 cm, because the reference is the original plan and not the surface that I clicked on.
Massimo -
Hmm, yes the script is set up so that the groundplane is essentially sea level. If you want a line that goes to elevation 200cm, then you type in 200cm and it creates a line that endsw exactly at 200cm elevation.
If you want a line that is 200cm long, then use Lines by Height. And it will create a 200cm tall line from wherever you click.
I do not have a tool that allows you to specify a new 0,0 level. Is that what you are asking for?
Chris
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