[Plugin] Scale2Face.rb

TIG

At long last version v1.2 is now available.
Link: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=173374#p173374

It Scales any Selected Component-instances/Groups up in Z to Selected Faces above them. It works for curved Surfaces, but remember that it Scales to all Selected Faces... so if you select a horizontal cylinder its whole curved Face gets Selected (which is actually Face facets) and therefore it Scales to the lower [nearer] Faces and then the upper Faces - if you want to Scale to just the lower [nearer] Faces you must first switch on Hidden Geometry and them Select just the lower Face facets required and it then Scales things just to those...

Feedback please

olishea

nice plugin, thank you

rv1974

Tig it doesn't work within groups
And maybe clicking 3 points instead of face would be better solution?
Thank you (I mean it!)

TIG

Here's a Ruby that'll do it [please change the original post's title to [Plugin]...]

. scale2face.rb

Usage:
Select face(s) & group/component-instance(s) located below face(s).

Unacceptable selections produce error dialogs.

Pick 'Scale2Face' off the Plugins Menu
or type scale2face in the Ruby Console.

The selected items will be
scaled upwards [in the Z] until their CLs meet the face or faces.

Any intermediate faces etc are ignored; the scaling passes through them.

It has a one step un-do.

To Do: Alternative orientations to just the UP in Z.
E.G. down and in XY

Version: 1.0 20090717 First Release.
1.1 20090721 Tweaked to avoid height glitches.
1.2 20090811 Multi-face support added. Error msgs disabled.
1.3 20090819 Now works within groups/component edits.

Put in Plugins Folder...

TIG

@rv1974 said:

Tig it doesn't work within groups
And maybe clicking 3 points instead of face would be better solution?
Thank you (I mean it!)

It does work inside groups etc now !

See here for v1.3 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=173374#p173374

Easy fix ray[1] .last gives face if in group/component edit mode...

xrok1

don't know how i missed this one
Thankyou!

xrok1

@j_forrester said:

Great Plugin btw,
Just wondered if there are any developments of a version that takes into account a sloped surface instead of a flat plane?

Many thanks

it would be awsome if the scaled face matched the shape/angle of the scaled to face. any plans?