[Plugin] Guide Tools (1.3.0) — 21 October 2010

pilou

We can't follow a such flood avalanche!

majid

another great gift befor 2012 hope to be (after 2012) at the paradise for your generosity

snowflake

Xmas, more like the back to school offers that are around, but with greater added value.
Thank you once again for your amazing work and dedication.

MALAISE

Still great as ever

MALAISE

thomthom

Version 1.1.0

CPoint at Insertion Point.

watkins

Dear Thomas,

With AutoCAD one can change the guide point style, and then set the size to relative or absolute. Is this something that can be done with your plugin?

Further, when working with assemblies, I would sometimes like to select all the cpoints and then hide them. Again, is that possible with your plugin? Options like hide_all and hide_selection would be useful.

Kind regards,
Bob

watkins

Dear Thomas,

The attached images show the effect of 'cpoint relative'. It would be nice to set the cpoint to an absolute size, say 1 mm, so that the cpoints are only visible when one zooms in to the model.

Regards,
Bob

cpoint_relative.zip

pilou

And CPoint at intersection of Guides lines?
CPoint at intersection of selected?

thomthom

@watkins said:

With AutoCAD one can change the guide point style, and then set the size to relative or absolute. Is this something that can be done with your plugin?

No - the appearance of CPoints can not be changed in SU.

@watkins said:

Further, when working with assemblies, I would sometimes like to select all the cpoints and then hide them. Again, is that possible with your plugin? Options like hide_all and hide_selection would be useful.

There is a Hide/Show Guides under the View menu if I remember correctly.

@unknownuser said:

And CPoint at intersection of Guides lines?
CPoint at intersection of selected?

Isn't there plugins that do this?

pilou

Maybe but all in one package is more practical

caleidos4d

THANKS!!

EarthMover

Would there be a way to add an array copy to guides or cpoints?

pilou

Does it possible to have circular Guides line?

jeff hammond

hey adam.. didier's projections:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=20140
.. has some neat stuff in there regarding guide arrays and whatnot..

i like guides by division a lot & guides by interval is handy too..
maybe check that plugin out? (again?)

TIG

@unknownuser said:

Does it possible to have circular Guides line?

WorkPlane Disk!

Krisidious

you ROCK Thom!!!

thomthom

@earthmover said:

Would there be a way to add an array copy to guides or cpoints?

Other than the native Move+Copy array?

EarthMover

For some reason, the whole time I've used Sketchup, I thought array copy with the move tool didn't work with guides. Apparently it does! Learn something everyday. I think I tried it using the #/ to equally space copies between points which doesn't work and assumed forward array didn't work either. Dieders tools are great too and hence all my requests are instantly met.

(On a side note, can you implement a multiple copy array feature to your divide face tool? That would be very handy! )

jeff hammond

@earthmover said:

I think I tried it using the #/ to equally space copies between points which doesn't work

hmm.. that works with C_lines (and cpoints as well)..
maybe you didn't copy/move it to begin with and only moved it?

[edit] i was gonna say that you're supposed to type it like /# instead of #/ but i just tried it and they both work..

EarthMover

Jeff, you're right. I've always tried to make arrays with the tape measure tool by itself after pulling a cline off of an edge. Using the move tool works as expected. A truly "duh" moment for me!