Rotating component

lolpallo

Hello!

Is there any way to rotate my component by writing like this to somewhere


axis; x,y, or z
amount; 90

I hate the rotation tool and its so awfull to rotate model with it.

Chris Fullmer

Hello and welcome! A couple of things, there are probably plugins out there that let you specify an x or y or z axis rotation for a component. Or could learn some Ruby script yourself and type it into the console (might be overkill for what you want though).

But lastly, I would say spend some time to learn the rotation tool (it won't take long). Its is much more powerful than it seems, and it is more functional and capable than any other modeling software out there. Here is the trick

It takes a little aligning and 3 clicks to use it. Activate the tool. Then align it to the plane you want to rotate on. If you want to rotate on the z axis, align the tool to the ground and it will turn blue. Hold shift to lock to that axis. Now click on the point you want to use as the rotation point and you can let go. The click on the 2nd point to rotate by. Then click on the point that you want the 2nd point to match to. And done. ok, it sounded long winded. There are videos that show its really simple on youtube. Check those out

Chris

Jim

At the most basic, a rotate method would look like the following. It rotates the selected Group or Instance around a vector by an angle.


def rotate(axis, angle)
    sel = Sketchup.active_model.selection[0]
    o = sel.transformation.origin
    tr = Geom;;Transformation.rotation(o, axis, angle.degrees)
    sel.transform!(tr)
end

To use, you would create a file with a .rb extension in your Plugins folder, then select a group or instance and type in the Ruby console:

rotate(Z_AXIS, 45)

MartinRinehart

@lolpallo said:

I hate the rotation tool

Try the material starting here:

http://www.martinrinehart.com/models/tutorial/tutorial_04.html#qrotate

It's about two pages. Pay a lot of attention to the "six-step" process part. Get that right and you get Qrotate working for you.

daiku

I wrote this one a while back:
http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubylibraryDepot/Ruby/EM/rot90.rb

Rotates by 90 degrees around your choice of red|green|blue axes with a right click selection (can be mapped to a shortcut key). CB.