[Plugin][$] FredoScale - v3.6a - 01 Apr 24
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Hello there!
First I want to thank Fredo6 for the awesome plugin, but I've hit a problem with scale to target tool.
I'm trying to scale a small filled arch (1m by 10m) along the flat to hit an edge near it. Once I doubleclick the correct corner to activate the target scaling, I can't select any point for origin.
The funniest thing is, that if I scale the arch bigger by other methods, I'm able to select some points to use as origin.
Is there some sort of minimum size requirement for the scale to target tool? What am I doing wrong here?
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SketchUp doesn't handle very small units very well. 1mm is getting very close to the minimum.
SU's tolerance is 1/1000" -
The arch is 1 meter by 10 meters, not 1 millimeter by 10 millimeters.
And I don't think it's the scale that matters, nor that it's 2D. I started a blank sketchup and recreated the same arch at the same size, 1m by 10m and the scale tool refused to use any point as origin except points in a direct line above the selected handle.
Then I copied and scaled the same arch by a factor of 10, so it was now 10 by 100 and the scale tool behaved exactly the same.Then I made a rectangle of the same size and the scale too still didn't work, so I extruded it to a box and tried to pick the corner handles for the scale tool, but again the scale tool didn't work.
However, if I shrink the same arch/rectangle/box so that it's ratio of edges is more close 1 by 4 example, the tool allows me to pick some points below the selected handle, but not all the way down.
As I see it, it should not matter for the scale tool where I choose the origin and target points, since all it needs is the distance and direction between to translate it to a scale factor for the selected entity.
I've attached an image that better shows the problem I'm experiencing. The yellow area highlighted is the zone where the tool refuses to work. Every point outside this zone is operable. The rectangle is about 35 by 22 meters in size. The invalid zone border is about 4 meters.
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Scale to Target imposes to have the origin in a valid area. For some reasons, I have put the a tolerance of about 10% due to problems I have found, which I don't remember very well).
In your cases, why do you want to use the Scale to Target mode, not the regular mode?
Fredo
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Well, I need the corner of the bottom edge of the shape (the arch, in my case) to touch a line.
Of course I could measure the ratio by hand, but it won't give accurate enough results so that the corner is exactly on the line. That's why I was hoping this tool would do it for me. When I tried the scale tool in normal mode, it does not snap correctly to the other edge, even if I put a guide point or an endpoint there. The little yellow box does snap to an endpoint, but it doesn't correlate with behavior of the scale tool, ie. it ignores the snap target completely and scales in freeform.
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@icchan said:
Well, I need the corner of the bottom edge of the shape (the arch, in my case) to touch a line.
if that's an arc (as in, SU will say it's an arc in entity info), then just use the move tool
don't select the arc first.. just place the move tool cursor on the end of the arc, click and move it to the end..
if it's an arc, it will scale accordingly.[actually, that should work with polylines or welded lines as well]
[edit] yeah, forget the bit about it needing to be an arc..
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Thanks for the tip, it does work as I needed with arcs, but the problem remains for rectangles or other non-regular shapes.
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@icchan said:
Thanks for the tip, it does work as I needed with arcs, but the problem remains for rectangles or other non-regular shapes.
You can do it with rectangles and odd shapes as well but it requires a little setup. There's another way to do this with a rectangle too.
I'm on a phone right now but when I get back to the hotel tonight, I'll post a little tutorial. -
if you weld the segments into a polyline, the scaling with the move tool will work..
with the rectangle, you weld 3 sides and leave the bottom untouched.. after scaling, select the 3 welded lines and explode if you wish..i also included an alternate method using guide lines to create an intersection which the scale tool will snap to..
[i use jim's cline tool for the diagonal]
http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2008/02/plugin-construction-line-tool.html[flash=800,475:m8lhsjxs]http://www.youtube.com/v/4Zx7dt58v7w?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&hd=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6[/flash:m8lhsjxs]
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Wow... I was at most expecting an explanation for the tool behavior, was not definitely expecting a detailed tutorial! Excellent job, I hope others with similar problems will find this also. Thanks!
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Getting this error now when I open SketchUp.
I thought I updated a bunch of Plugins... apparently something went wrong.
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@bmike said:
Getting this error now when I open SketchUp.
I thought I updated a bunch of Plugins... apparently something went wrong.I think it is not compatible with sketchup 8 yet. Is there a FredoScale for Skup8?
please update.... I looooooove this tool -
It's working with SU8.
Have you ensure you have installed the files correctly? -
I got it working now. it is WORKING with skup8. its confirmed. i just miss-copied a folder previously, thats all. (stuipd me
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fixed. cleaned up my plugins folder and went back / downloaded / reinstalled all relevant files.
loading now, and toolbars popped up.
will test later when i get into a model. -
stretching with orientation of scaling box
small error.
does not work "stretching with orientation of scaling box", with arcs and polylines
possible, correct this error?
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You could temporarily add another line between the arc's ends to form a face then scale the lot then erase the temporary line on completion...
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hi tig. Yes, I thought the same, but does not work
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Arcs and Curves applies constraints on transformations unless they are exploded.
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So Explode them, Scale and then re-Weld into Curves ?
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