Plug In - Copy to Path troubles

[arcaterra]

Hi
Everytime I scale a component down, and then try use Copy to Path > Copy to Spacing, what get's copied is the component at its original insertion size, and the scaled down version remains untouched. Is there something I am doing wrong?
Thanks

[thomthom]

the copy to path doesn't take into account the scale. Scale Definition before you Copy to Path.

(I'm moving his to the Developer section)

[TIG]

... so, Scale the contents [i.e. during an Edit of an Instance] of a 'made_unique' version of that Component before using that with Copy to Path - then it'll work as wanted...

[thomthom]

@tig said:

... so, Scale the contents [i.e. during an Edit of an Instance] of a 'made_unique' version of that Component before using that with Copy to Path - then it'll work as wanted...

If you edit the content of the component you'll affect all other instances. What if you have instances of different scvale?
If you Right-Click and choose Scale Definition then it won't affect the rest of your component - it just redefines the default size.

[TIG]

@thomthom said:

@tig said:

... so, Scale the contents [i.e. during an Edit of an Instance] of a 'made_unique' version of that Component before using that with Copy to Path - then it'll work as wanted...

If you edit the content of the component you'll affect all other instances. What if you have instances of different scvale?
If you Right-Click and choose Scale Definition then it won't affect the rest of your component - it just redefines the default size.

That's why I suggested using make_unique on a version so that the original is unchanged by any Scaling you do to that...

[nikusknx]

Is it possible to do the "right-click scale definition" with Sketchup api?

[thomthom]

@nikusknx said:

Is it possible to do the "right-click scale definition" with Sketchup api?

Take the scale of the instance, scale the definition by this scale - then scale the instances by the inverse scaling transformation.

[nikusknx]

@thomthom said:

@nikusknx said:

Is it possible to do the "right-click scale definition" with Sketchup api?

Take the scale of the instance, scale the definition by this scale - then scale the instances by the inverse scaling transformation.

Ok its seems to work but the position of instances are not good : I do this to scale the instances by the inverse scaling transformation :

 
      definition.entities.transform_entities(t,self.entities.to_a)
      inv = t.inverse
      definition.instances.each do |instance|
         instance.transform! inv
      end

Any idea?

[nikusknx]

Ok I get the good position with a translate:
definition.instances.each do |instance| originBefore = instance.transformation.origin instance.transform! inv tr = instance.transformation vectorTranslate = originBefore - instance.transformation.origin translate = Geom::Transformation.translation(vectorTranslate) instance.transform!(translate) end

but when the axes changes (y axes become z axis for exemple) the scale are not good and switch...
I try to get the model.edit_transform , manualy I can get it but with the API it's always the same problem : I can't do the right click Component edit...
Any Idea to get the local axes?