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    [Plugin] Component Stringer UPDATED May 23, 2013

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    • ArcA Offline
      Arc
      last edited by

      very cool and powerful.
      thank you, Chris.


      stringer1.jpg

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      • C Offline
        Click Draw
        last edited by

        first attempt....! Thanks Chris.


        follow_path.jpg

        Have I mentioned how much of a laugh I get out of some of the Signatures on here!

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        • jeff hammondJ Offline
          jeff hammond
          last edited by

          crazy 😲
          nice one chris!

          dotdotdot

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          • N Offline
            notareal
            last edited by

            Thanks! I am sure meny will find this usefull. There is still some extra steps needed to make a chain... I wonder how soon some will make working SP roller chain with this

            Welcome to try [Thea Render](http://www.thearender.com/), Thea support | [kerkythea.net](http://www.kerkythea.net/) -team member

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            • C Offline
              Click Draw
              last edited by

              couple more....


              follow_path2.jpg


              follow_path3.jpg

              Have I mentioned how much of a laugh I get out of some of the Signatures on here!

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              • E Offline
                Ecuadorian
                last edited by

                And thus SketchUp became the easiest way to design a roller coaster.

                @unknownuser said:

                Would it be possible to have each component connect to the beginning of each line segment, but not scale.

                Right click > Reset scale. You have to do this for each instance. There must be a "mass reset scale" script somewhere. EDIT: It seems there isn't. Make sure to set a keyboard shortcut for "reset scale" so you can do this quickly.

                Hey, Jeff, how about something like this?
                antonio_gaudi_dragon.jpg

                -Miguel Lescano
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                • C Offline
                  Click Draw
                  last edited by

                  Wow!....did you draw that? Have you tried the script yet or is that your first try with it?

                  Have I mentioned how much of a laugh I get out of some of the Signatures on here!

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                    Ecuadorian
                    last edited by

                    😆 It's a photo, Jeff. This is a famous house by Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí. I'm just suggesting that this script will now make this kind of crazy things possible in SketchUp.

                    But I know you were just kidding. 😄

                    -Miguel Lescano
                    Subscribe to my house plans YouTube channel! (30K+ subs)

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                    • pbacotP Offline
                      pbacot
                      last edited by

                      Very cool plugin that ultimately should be very useful, for architectural modeling not just necklaces. Thank you Chris.

                      We have something like this in our CAD program. Some of the different things that CAD feature does is: place objects contiguously or at a user-set spacing, stretch/shrink and bend objects objects or not. rotate objects or not, rotate randomly, fill the length of a path with various "fudge" settings (gives different number/spacing of objects within path), offset objects from path. Just some options to think of possibilities.

                      MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                      • pilouP Offline
                        pilou
                        last edited by

                        Suggestion : a little rotation between each components? 😉
                        Ah damned that was yet in the Todo list 😳
                        So this one : change colors between each components (or according with the segment) 😄

                        PS We are listening crickets or cicida during the video plug 😉

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

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                        • C Offline
                          Click Draw
                          last edited by

                          I was gonna ask about the crickets too. Must have been a late night thought process that had to get you up and working.

                          Have I mentioned how much of a laugh I get out of some of the Signatures on here!

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                            MartinRinehart
                            last edited by

                            Blows me away, Chris. What was the inspiration?

                            Author, Edges to Rubies - The Complete SketchUp Tutorial at http://www.MartinRinehart.com/models/tutorial.

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                            • kenK Offline
                              ken
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                              @click draw said:

                              first attempt....! Thanks Chris.

                              Click Draw

                              How did you get the components to overlap? Seems to me, what ever you did could be used to make an anchor chain.

                              Thanks in advance.

                              Ken

                              Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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                              • TIGT Offline
                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by

                                @unknownuser said:

                                @click draw said:

                                first attempt....! Thanks Chris.

                                Click Draw

                                How did you get the components to overlap? Seems to me, what ever you did could be used to make an anchor chain.

                                Thanks in advance.

                                Ken

                                You make the component and string it along... then edit the component so it is longer or a differing shape and it will overlap etc. I outlined a chain making idea earlier...

                                TIG

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                                • simon le bonS Offline
                                  simon le bon
                                  last edited by

                                  Dear Chris,

                                  A lot of people are waiting for long a set of tools to make copy of objects along a path.
                                  With this Component Stringer, we get one of them. A cool one.

                                  It is very easy to do various necklaces with it.
                                  I have played it and threw an eye on some corners of it's possibilities.


                                  http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/clfCompntStringer007th.jpg


                                  http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/clfCompntStringer008th.jpg

                                  👍

                                  What it is not made for:

                                  It is not made to make chains when links are imbricated together.
                                  I have tried TIG solution (not exactly the same) with a rather poor result..

                                  @tig said:

                                  Make half chain link (U) and use this tool then edit that chain and copy/hand the U geometry into an O loop of say 2.2 the original length, now you have your links; us 'make unique' on one of the links, edit it and rotate its contents 90 degrees. Select every other link and replace with this rotated one... a chain... done.


                                  http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/clfCompntStringer005th.jpg


                                  http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/clfCompntStringer006th.jpg

                                  Also this tool is not made to mix more than one component on to the path. If we need to do that, we have to do another way.

                                  Thnk you again for this tool! you have a great talent to concoct easy but useful and strong tool..

                                  My respect, Simon.

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                                  • C Offline
                                    Click Draw
                                    last edited by

                                    Hi Ken,

                                    Like TIG said, make your component and then edit it and do what you like to alter the dimensions and shape and it will update as you do it. Very cool. You also have to make sure the axis is in the proper position on your component. Hope that makes sense. I'll be trying more shapes and posting here soon. Awesome script!
                                    Jeff

                                    Have I mentioned how much of a laugh I get out of some of the Signatures on here!

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                                    • MALAISEM Offline
                                      MALAISE
                                      last edited by

                                      Very efficient tool to create wood roofs, barrels ,boats and arches.
                                      Maybe Components axis should be shown
                                      PAM

                                      La Connaissance n'a de valeur que partagée

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                                      • JClementsJ Offline
                                        JClements
                                        last edited by

                                        If you could also give user options to also scale along the component's other axes:
                                        (1) axes A-B and A-C, or (2) axis A-B, or (3) axis A-C, then you'd have something similar to a blend-along-path.

                                        And if it could then "skin" the sides (vertices) of the components, it would be equivalent to a Scaled-Extrusion Along a Path.Idea for another Script.png

                                        Idea for another Script 2.png


                                        Idea for another Script.skp

                                        John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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                                        • W Offline
                                          wolfy
                                          last edited by

                                          Another gem for the jewel box! Thanks Chris ☀

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                                          • utilerU Offline
                                            utiler
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi Chris, thanks for this great work!!! It is very close to something i have asked questions about in the past....

                                            Like Pilou, I think it would be great to see some rotation options at each segment. Also the suggestion of nil scaling would be nice too so the component is think dependent on segment length.....

                                            I haven't played with it yet but I can say now that it's a BOMB!!!!!!

                                            purpose/expression/purpose/....

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