Setting camera eye

Brett McAllister

Hi there
I want to set my camera eye at the equivalent of zoom extents, would anyone know what array values to use?
By the way superb forum, have learnt so much through the people who post here.

Regards
Brett

TIG

You can directly invoke zoom_extents with a send_action see http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/sketchup.html#send_action ( Sketchup.send_action("viewZoomExtents:")). You could then reverse engineer the Sketchup.active_model.active_view.camera.eye from that if you still want it ?

thomthom

View.zoom_extents
http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/view.html#zoom_extents

@unknownuser said:

The zoom_extents method is used to zoom to the extents about the entire model, as if the user has selected the zoom extents command from the menu.

From the docs it seem to be identical to View.zoom... Either the methods are aliases or the docs is wrong about one of these methods...

TIG

model.active_view.zoom_extents zooms to the model's extents
model.active_view.zoom(2.0) zooms in x2
model.active_view.zoom(0.5) zooms out x2
model.active_view.zoom(model.selection.to_a) zooms to the extents of the selection
model.active_view.zoom([group1,group2]) zooms to the extents of the two groups specified in the array
model.active_view.zoom(group) zooms to the extents of the group or one entity

thomthom

So the arguments that the docs claim for .zoom_extent is incorrect?

TIG

@thomthom said:

So the arguments that the docs claim for .zoom_extent is incorrect?

The linked doc has NO arguments for view.zoom_extents in the text - it only gives them for view.zoom() - where it's either a float for the amount to zoom in/out >1.0/<1.0, OR an entity or an array of entities to zoom to the extents of...
The wrong examples are given for zoom_extents - they have been copied down from view.zoom in error !!!

thomthom

I was looking at the example - didn't notice the example under View.zoom_extents said View.zoom.

snicolo

Should be fixed soon, I have submitted the change and it needs to be picked up by the servers.

thanks for the report.
Simone.