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    [Plugin] Quick Camera Rotate 90º (Roll)

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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      In what direction in space?

      I just wrote a little snippet to roll the camera by a given degree, so it's not following the horizon. Maybe that's different from what you refer to?

      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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      • J Offline
        Jim
        last edited by

        About the same - just wanted to be able to export standard views only rotated. Yes, roll is the correct term.

        Hi

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        • mitcorbM Offline
          mitcorb
          last edited by

          Jim this sounds interesting.
          Could you illustrate, or elaborate?
          I think you mean the effect you get when orbiting and pressing the control button, and you have set it at specific angles, is that correct?

          I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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          • J Offline
            Jim
            last edited by

            It just rolls the camera around the line-of-site by 90 degrees each time the button is pressed. Image 1 is a normal Front view. Image 2 is still a Front view, but with the Camera rotated about it's direction vector (and zoomed in.)


            front1.png


            front2.png

            Hi

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            • mitcorbM Offline
              mitcorb
              last edited by

              Well, now, this is excellent!

              I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                @jclements said:

                What a great, basic tool.

                Thanks, Jim.

                It would be kind of cool if you could hook it into the Protractor Tool to make it interactive.

                Yea - that's exactly what I had in mind. A click drag to define an angle displayed on sceeen as the protractor tool, and where you can use the VCB to input a specific angle.

                Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                • mitcorbM Offline
                  mitcorb
                  last edited by

                  ThomThom:
                  I can see that your concept would have relevance for tight box selections in a busy model. I was trying to do this yesterday while selecting a series of end connected edges between other parallel edges in a mesh for scaling that one series. Being able to roll the camera will enable me to make a tall thin selection box with the select tool to isolate.

                  What would be nice is a selection tool that can use circular or polygonal selection areas, but I guess that would be for another thread, and I suppose this is not addressable in ruby.

                  I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                  • JClementsJ Offline
                    JClements
                    last edited by

                    What a great, basic tool.

                    Thanks, Jim.

                    It would be kind of cool if you could have a similar script hook into the Protractor Tool to make it interactive.

                    John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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                    • D Offline
                      danbig
                      last edited by

                      @thomthom said:

                      @jclements said:

                      What a great, basic tool.

                      Thanks, Jim.

                      It would be kind of cool if you could hook it into the Protractor Tool to make it interactive.

                      Yea - that's exactly what I had in mind. A click drag to define an angle displayed on sceeen as the protractor tool, and where you can use the VCB to input a specific angle.

                      ... I'll add a third vote for this feature.

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                      • S Offline
                        supersketcher
                        last edited by

                        Thanks Jim.

                        I like it: simple but effective!

                        It indeed deserves a dedicated icon.

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                        • J Offline
                          JGA
                          last edited by

                          Thanks for this plugin, very useful!

                          Regards,
                          JGA

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                          • L Offline
                            langloisl
                            last edited by

                            Hello,

                            your plug-in to roll the camera is great 👍 , but it does not meet my need 😞 . What I look for, is being able to rotate my camera precisely 90 degrees in the direction I want, either left, right, up, down.

                            This is in order to be able to create a cube to six or rendered with Kerkythea or Twilight Render and then assemble them with GoCubic.

                            Plug-In "cubicpanoout.rb" does not create six scenes, he does that exporting 6 cubic views. If you have the solution to my problem, it would be much appreciated!

                            Greetings ! 😄

                            Ludo

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                              dylanwoods
                              last edited by

                              very very helpful. thanks

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                              • P Offline
                                PaulfromtheNorth
                                last edited by

                                EXACTLY what i was looking for!

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                                  SamUK
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi Jim

                                  I realise this is an old thread but here's hoping...

                                  Could you tell me if this plugin would work with 2013, it sounds really useful and I would love to be able to use it however, I have put it in the plugin folder to no avail....

                                  It would be good to know if it would be compatible or not, so I can try harder or give up....

                                  Thanks

                                  Sam

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                                  • Dave RD Offline
                                    Dave R
                                    last edited by

                                    It works fine in SU2013. Perhaps you could describe what you are seeing or not seeing?

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                                      db11
                                      last edited by

                                      I use this great little plug-in a lot, especially to orient from the standard Top view for plans.Now I have a house whose grid is at 45° and I'd like to be able to use this to align the view (as a Parallel Projection).

                                      Is there a simple mod to make this work for 45°? I took a quick look at the script, and it wasn't obvious to me, which variable/value to change.Maybe someone who actually knows what they're doing could help me out?

                                      Thanks.

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                                      • TIGT Offline
                                        TIG Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        Perhaps this does what you want?
                                        http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=Rotateplanview

                                        TIG

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                                          db11
                                          last edited by

                                          Perfect! Exactly what I was looking for... I guess I just didn't scroll far enough down the page when I searched 'rotate camera' in the plugins forum.

                                          Thanks TIG

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