A face-to-face command
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I helped out in a second grade class this week in which the kids were using SketchUp. They were all plugging along nicely with one exception, which was placing components downloaded from the warehouse. As I tried to help them I found myself reaching for the mouse (a teaching no-no) because it was just too difficult to explain how to move and rotate components into the positions they wanted them. Afterwards, as I thought about this, it occurred to me that a command that would allow you to select two faces and then have the component containing the second face automatically moved so the selected face on the component would be placed flush with the first selected face, would be a really helpful addition to SketchUp... and not just for elementary school kids. Maybe a ruby exists for this but I think it would be useful to enough people that it should be built into SketchUp.
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Sounds like a job for ruby. Now wheres chris gone...
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I haven't seen him around for a while.......
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OK, found what I was looking for. There is an align tool created by Didier. It is called align 1.1 (I think that is the newest one)
That might or might not help. Plus, like you said, its a ruby and not built into the SU user interface. But still, it might come in useful.
Chris
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Dear Fred and Chris,
Perhaps this might help
Didier's align tool is very useful when aligning awkwardly positioned components. The small alignment feature can be 'stored' as a component and called up when needed. A ruby to do this automatically would require the user to define the co-ordinate system (including the origin) on each part.
Regards,
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Remus, Chris and Bob,
Thanks for the help. I'll give Didier's align tool a try.
Fred
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