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

cotty

Is there a way to add a guidepoint to the center of an exploded circle? I tired exploded arc and just circle tools, but neither of them worked on an exploded circle.

Did you try exploded arc center point finder (Chris Fullmer)?

kupono

Guide_tools aren't working for me under SU Pro 2013. I deleted it and all the other TT_Lib related tools, then reinstalled all. Still not working.

Dave R

It works for me with SU2013.

You'll need to be more specific about what happens when you try to use it.

thomthom

Any error messages? As Dave mentioned, we'd need more specific info to what "isn't working".

pilou

And seems this intersection don't work!
Or we can't name that Edge Edge Inetersection?

pilou

Dear Thomthom can you add a CD Point at Bounds "Top" Center ?
And a CD Point at Bounds "Bottom" + "Top" Center ?

I must make some acrobatics for have this result!

Projection by Tak2hata

jtri

Great plug in but I noticed if I intersect 2 components, then try and find the center of the circle that is left from the intersection the plug in does not find the center. Also if you add a face to the circle it also does not add the center point. Am I missing something?

Test.skp

Dave R

If you select the edge of the "circle" does SketchUp identify it as a circle in Entity Info?

jtri

No it is not a circle! But if I weld them it is now a curve, which is closer but not what is needed. Not seeing how to make it a circle, still missing something.
Thanks

Dave R

Unless SketchUp thinks it is an arc or a circle, the native inferencing won't be able to identify a center and neither will the Guide Tool. It's not a deficiency with this plugin. I think Chris Fullmer (or maybe Jim Foltz) did a plugin that can figure out the center of curves that aren't circles or arcs. A search of the Plugins index should turn up what you need.

jtri

Thanks for the help.

cotty

@dave r said:

I think Chris Fullmer (or maybe Jim Foltz) did a plugin that can figure out the center of curves that aren't circles or arcs. A search of the Plugins index should turn up what you need.

e.g. Chris: Exploded arc centerpoint finder

jeff hammond

can someone check this file just to see if we're getting similar results?

if i use cPoint at Arc Center on an arc then no cpoint.. if i use cPoint at Circle Center on a circle then no cPoint.

if i use cPoint at Exploded Arc Center then it will work on an exploded arc as well as an arc or circle.

guidetoolprob.skp

in reality, it's better (imo) to have the one command work on all scenarios.. i'm just curious if other are seeing the same thing
thanks

(TT_Lib 2.9.8 with guideTools 1.4)

Rich O Brien

@jeff

same result here in Windows 8

jeff hammond

interesting.

up til now, I've been using a couple of different plugins to accomplish the same thing as this one command.

@thomthom. are you aware of this behavior? and if you're just now becoming aware of it, don't fix it
(unless the simplification is removing some seemingly redundant and non-working items from the menu)

kupono

Using Guide Tools 1.4.0 with SU Pro 2013 on Win8
circle-- cPoint at Circle Center worked fine
arc-- cPoint at Arc Center worked fine
same arc-- Exploded Arc Center worked fine

Everything seemed to work okay.

jeff hammond

thanks for checking it Kupono.
I'll try it a little later in 2013 to see if it's a version issue.

tt_su

What version of SketchUp are you using it on?

thomthom

That was due to an SU2014 incompatibility. I've made an update and it's live on PluginStore and pending review on Extension Warehouse.

mariocha

I too would like to have a plugin that turns an exploded circle back to a real one with a center point, not just a curve.