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    • BoxB Offline
      Box
      last edited by

      Interesting bit of editing there. Nothing Freudian, simple sarcasm.

      If you filled in your profile we might know what system you are using, But I'm guessing you haven't moved to SU13 so you are either SU7 or SU8 if so.
      Click View on the top tool bar, move your mouse down ever so slightly till it hits the menu item, Toolbars,
      Move the mouse over and down the list till it hits the one called QJSALIGN and click it
      a new toolbar should have appeared for you to use. It has colour coded icons to show you which axis it will align to.

      If this isn't where it should be then you must not have installed it properly.

      As to your alignment question, I have attempted to explain how to you before and you only get upset so I politely choose not to get involved again.
      Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you.

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      • frascatiF Offline
        frascati
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        @unknownuser said:

        Interesting bit of editing there. Nothing Freudian, simple sarcasm.

        If you filled in your profile we might know what system you are using, But I'm guessing you haven't moved to SU13 so you are either SU7 or SU8 if so.
        Click View on the top tool bar, move your mouse down ever so slightly till it hits the menu item, Toolbars,
        Move the mouse over and down the list till it hits the one called QJSALIGN and click it
        a new toolbar should have appeared for you to use. It has colour coded icons to show you which axis it will align to.

        If this isn't where it should be then you must not have installed it properly.

        As to your alignment question, I have attempted to explain how to you before and you only get upset so I politely choose not to get involved again.
        Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you.

        Box, I did follow your video, and followed your advice, and (to my mind anyway) responded directly and respectfully to you with

        @unknownuser said:

        Thank you very much for the workaround. Sincerely.
        But it only works for objects with all 90degree corners. In fact I'm presently, and usually in these situations, dealing with more complex objects.

        ...which is true. Then I followed that thanks with a generalized outpouring of anger at yet not getting anywhere with this.
        To which you helpfully added
        @unknownuser said:

        Frascati: a fairly fullbodied whine from italy.

        Then you provide me one more video, thank you again by the way, and couldn't resist dropping a snide little "happy?" for me at the end.
        A few times now it's been me called childish simply for expressing outrage a little to volubly. Seriously?

        Neither of your examples works for me. I've said that quite clearly in that thread and here as well. What do you suggest by my edit? Just out with it for god's sake. Really. What's with all the fun and sarcasm here? I just backed off on the swearing. I edited no other content than those specific words. What do you find so "interesting"? Did it change, even one small bit, the context relevant to our exchange? Can you explain how for me? I started a fresh thread on this hoping to escape some of this nonsense so I'll just leave this alone and back out of it. Please BOX, do resist any temptation to make me any more miserable there.

        Or just petulantly ignore the thread. I'm just getting arguments and sarcasm on balance anyway.

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          micdidi
          last edited by

          CAN'T SEE THE ICON???

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          • Bob JamesB Offline
            Bob James
            last edited by

            This is one of my most frequently used plugins since Jan Sandstrom (Pixero) first created it in 2009 (and then with CadFather's welcome addition of the toolbar).
            I still wish there was some way to choose which one is the one you want to stay fixed 😎

            i7-4930K 3.4Ghz, 2x GTX780 6GB, 32GB DDR3-1600 ECC, OCZ Vertex 4 500GB, WD Black 3TB, 32TB NAS, 4x 27" Monitors, SpaceMouse Pro, X-keys XK-60

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            • pbacotP Offline
              pbacot
              last edited by

              This plugin works fine for me. Thanks! πŸ‘ πŸ‘ πŸ‘ πŸ‘ πŸ‘ Really speeds things up in some situations. SU should have this natively as does any CAD package.

              I am also looking for an align plugin that would work with the current context axes. For example if you are in a component it would use the component axes as reference.

              Also I wonder whether the plugin could be made to respect one locked object. Then the alignment would keep a locked object in place, and align the others to it. (It would have to reject operations with more than one locked object selected.)

              MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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              • CadFatherC Offline
                CadFather
                last edited by

                i will look into this, though i can already predict a higher climb than my skills might allow..

                meantime there are a few good scripts around: didier 2d align, su4you align and sd mitch A&D - and probably others i forget.

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                • C Offline
                  cesaro36
                  last edited by

                  Is it possible to make this align plugin to work within a component/group? I usually have nested components and frequently rotated, the align plugin doesn't seem to work when the container has been rotated, so I assume that it needs to work with local coordinates instead of global ones.
                  πŸ˜•
                  Thanks

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                  • pilouP Offline
                    pilou
                    last edited by

                    Try s4u8 Align Toolsby SuForYou πŸ˜‰

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                    Is beautiful that please without concept!
                    My Little site :)

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                      Milo
                      last edited by

                      Thanks you for this plugin πŸ˜„

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                      • C Offline
                        cesaro36
                        last edited by

                        If anyone interested, another tool for that matter.
                        http://www.eltallerconstructor.com/distribute-objects-sketchup-plugin/

                        http://www.eltallerconstructor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Captura_de_pantalla_012616_075350_PM-300x147.jpg

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                        • L Offline
                          Luisfon
                          last edited by

                          Don't see plugin folder just ifcplugin with DLL files, exe files and config files in it.

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                          • Dave RD Offline
                            Dave R
                            last edited by

                            Install it from here: https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=Q_JS_Align

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                            • MatteM Offline
                              Matte
                              last edited by

                              Hi All, before I spend many hours playing with this cool plugin.. Could someone with experience with it give me their advice if this plug in will "solve my problem"? My present problem is that I have hundreds and hundreds of rectangular faces (There all suppose to be at the same Z height). The problem is many of them are rotated ( + or - ) .01 degrees from each other (For Example). So when I make a rectangle that connects between the four corners of 4 different rectangles... It does not make a rectangle. Could I make one of these existing rectangles "Perfect" where all 4 corners are at the same Z height.... And then use this plug in to Pick "bad" rectangle and "say" align to good rectangle and all the corner Z heights of the "bad" triangle will now match the "good" triangle?
                              Thanks !!! Mattee
                              (PS right now the OCD has taken over and I am manually fixing each rectangle one at a time !!!!)

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                              • pbacotP Offline
                                pbacot
                                last edited by

                                It sounds like your rectangles are not all parallel to the ground plane?

                                If you are talking about 2d rectangles, yet rotated slightly in the z axis, you may want a plugin like "flatten vertices", I forget if that's the right name. But the objects would have to be ungrouped and they would not be true rectangles when flattened out.

                                If they are grouped rectangles, This tool will not change their orientation, It would only align top bottom or middle of each group.

                                If all the geometry is ungrouped, I don't see how this plugin would give a useful result.

                                MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                                • MatteM Offline
                                  Matte
                                  last edited by

                                  Thanks, you just saved me hours of time traveling down a dead end road!
                                  PS there are no blocks, all lines and surfaces are all on the same layer,
                                  so nothing to explode, just no consistent z height for all rectangles.

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                                  • ArckadiaA Offline
                                    Arckadia
                                    last edited by

                                    Thanks, works perfectly, πŸ‘ i test it on sketchup make 2017 to align 2 circles. I started a longtime ago on another 3D software so, maybe i am more attentive on this kind of tool.
                                    Q JS Align is definitely that you must have to be precise. I make a vase, an amphora : an object where circumference is necessary.

                                    Maybe i get lost a bit but i discovered by chance Sketchup when i was on Hammer, ( another 3D Soft). I would like to build house or something like that. But quickly i get started in a crazy project with 17 century architecture. I don't know if i'm gonna integrate it in a level design... etc... πŸ˜›

                                    Have a nice day users from Sketchup and thanks to CadFather.

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                                      Einstein
                                      last edited by

                                      Hello!
                                      I'd love to have a version of this plugin which respects group's local axes over world's (model's or global axes or whatever it's called).
                                      Currently, if I select nested geometry and try to align it, it will align according to world's axes. In my opinion, more logical (and useful too!) would be relying on group's axes, because right now, if the whole group is rotated (so its axes don't match world axes) and I open it and align nested entities, they will be aligned incorrect in relation to group's bounds.

                                      Also, when aligning groups it would be nice to have choice whether aligning takes geometry into account (current behaviour) or just origins of groups.

                                      This plugin also has a problem with losing selection after performing UNDO.

                                      I know this is an old script but perhaps somebody would take it and include any of these improvements.

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