[Plugin] Extended Views v1.2 UPDATE May 23, 2013
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Chris, have you got any ideas on the post I made a few weeks ago...?
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*Chris, another great plug-in....!I have often wondered for sometime if another view somewhere between Wireframe and Shaded could be developed..... Quite often i have wanted to export a view to Layout in black and white with only edges showing. the problem is I'd like it to appear as a line drawing only, no faces that covers other linework on the page.... something like wireframe but without the internal linework!!!
What do you think?*
Cheers, look forward to hearing your ideas...
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Try this on one of your models and tell me how close it is to what you are thinking of.
Load the style I attached here. Then go to your shadow settings and turn the light and dark sliders both to 100% and turn on "Use Sun for Shading". You might also put the sun at noon-ish just to make sure it is bright.
Does that begin to get at what your thinking of?
Chris
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Thanks Chris, not realy what i was thinking about....
This is what your style gives me.
What I was thinking was a style that only showed visible edges but with no faces. Like I said, a wireframe type of style where there were not faces visible but also only visible edges...
The real benefit of such a style is in Layout where imported images overlapping would appeap more blended or seemless... -
That is odd, there are quite a few things about that picture that aren't quite representative of how the style was working on my machine - but I was using very simple models. Any chance I could test it out on that model and see if I can get it to do what I had in mind?
Chris
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Sure, Chris. PM me your email address and I'll send it to you....
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Hi Chris
im having a problem with this script, if i try to undo a set of actions where i had used ur extended views in it, i get a very annoying little box with construction points being "unbuilt" as i go through the undos, its like your script uses it to align the axis and u havnt got the script group (or whatevr you ruby guys call it) where it can undo with a single undo, then i tried to just open a blank page, draw a quick block then hit T (for top view), then try to undo the block, then u see the construction points
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@unknownuser said:
Hi Chris
im having a problem with this script...use my version
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=19323
...it does not have this failing.
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Heh, yeah sorry. I apparently forgot to make it not have an undo show up. I'll fix that.
But you might be best off just to use Alex's script. It is more complete. I wrote mine before he had published his. didn't know he also had a similar script in progress.
Chris
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Hi Chris:
Not sure if the following is as designed or something related to changes in 7.1.
If, for example, I click on the Top View icon, the the camera is oriented properly; however, it zooms to the model extents rather than the current display as is the case with SU's native View Toolbar.
My work around is to preselect geometry in the display, use Extended Standard Views, then zoom to the selection extents.
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I like that you found a way to use the User Defined Axis. Do you think other scripts could utilize your code, such as Todd's Nudge script?
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Hi John, I'll have to look into the zoom extents vs. zoom current context. THat indeed was an issue while testing 7.1, so perhaps their fix messed up ruby script methods. I'll try to look at it today.
And yes, and script could implement the ability to use the user defined axis, but it only works in SU 7.0 and higher. 6.0 does not support it. And it is a bit of a hack. It would be nicer if they built a true method into ruby to access the user defined axis. But yes, it could be incorporated into plugins for sure, like nudge.
Chris
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Thanks, Chris.
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Hi Chris, Hi everybody,
@chris fullmer said:
EDIT: Confirmed, it doesn't work with version 4,5,6 or earlier. Just version 7. Sorry Pilou and any other SU6/5 devotees!
(Am I SU6 devotee ? Not sure. I just still use it mainly. Why? May be because I'm not found of the actual way of SketchUp development.)
Thank you ++ for this new plugin!! I don't need it for I'm still with Su6, but I Keep it in mind for future.
@unknownuser said:
... Also, how to you embed Jing videos in the forum????? I've been trying to forever!
Cool to mention my How can i attach a Flash (Swf) video to my posts
but You can better follow this simpler way by Ecuadorian.
Easy way to embed Youtube video in SketchUcation that I mentioned at the end of the thread.. 
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Any way of making the standard views also force a Parallel Projection switch to the camera ? I've been looking everywhere for a plugin that would do that, but i haven't found anywhere.
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@ermethic said:
Any way of making the standard views also force a Parallel Projection switch to the camera ? I've been looking everywhere for a plugin that would do that, but i haven't found anywhere.
Thank you very much in advance...
It's easiest enough to add a shortcut key combo to toggle between parallel and perspective camera settings. That way the tools suit everyone and pressing a key to change from one format or the other is no great hardship
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I know, that's how i am working at the moment. Although the things i'm working on require constant changing from various parallel projection viewpoints to perspective and back, and it's kind of a hassle to press several keys each time i'm changing the view, and i was wondering if there is anything i can add to the script to force changing to parallel each time i switch to a standard right/front/top view, and to perspective when i switch to iso.
Coming from 3ds max, it's very easy there to switch fast between named views with just a single shortcut, and i'm kind of missing that -
brilliant!
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works perfect it was exactly what I was looking for, thank you.
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works perfect and really improves sketchup possibilities to draw 2D while everything is represented 3D but working with several axes views I realize that it could be interesting to have a way to save the axes position.
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@wodur said:
works perfect and really improves sketchup possibilities to draw 2D while everything is represented 3D but working with several axes views I realize that it could be interesting to have a way to save the axes position.
Set the view as a scene-tab and then revert to it as needed... -
@wodur said:
works perfect and really improves sketchup possibilities to draw 2D while everything is represented 3D but working with several axes views I realize that it could be interesting to have a way to save the axes position.
Didier BUR made UCS manager plugin to do exactly that, but i don't find it anymore on the web
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