[Plugin] DrawHelix14
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This is a enhanced version of Peter Brown's DrawHelix13 script.
Main improvements are:
- Input box now uses the current model units.
- Previous values are saved between each use.
It is meant to replace the drawhelix13.rb file, but both can be installed without conflict.
Download (right-click, select Save As)
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Works fine - thanks, Jim! -
Thanks Jim!
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Thank you Jim, useful improvement!
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Thanks for the improvement!
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+1 Jim... simple is best!!!!!!
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You're welcome. The small things can make all the difference.
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Small is beautiful
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@jim said:
This is a enhanced version of Peter Brown's DrawHelix13 script.
Main improvements are:
- Input box now uses the current model units.
- Previous values are saved between each use.
It is meant to replace the drawhelix13.rb file, but both can be installed without conflict.
Download (right-click, select Save As)
drawhelix14.rbThere must be life in my old dog yet if someone thought to improve it.
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Hi Peter,
Sure, it has plenty of life - I just made it a bit more friendly. Hope you don't mind the update.
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Thanks, Jim.
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@jim said:
Hi Peter,
Sure, it has plenty of life - I just made it a bit more friendly. Hope you don't mind the update.
You have my blessing to improve it in what ever way you can.
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Excellent!
Thank you Jim (and also for your revisited Didier's Double Line )simon
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Hi nice tool but is it possible to draw a helix that is not a whole number of turns for example 1.5 I have tried and nothing is drawn.
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Yes you must enter an "Integer" number
So cut your volume at the end of the processMake 3 turns and cut at the middle
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@unknownuser said:
Yes you must enter an "Integer" number
So cut your volume at the end of the processMake 3 turns and cut at the middle
It's easily fixed by adjusting the code in the .rb file... on line #23 [edit with Notepad.exe or equivalent plain-text editor - NOT a wrodprocessor]
change
values = [300.mm, 300.mm, 100.mm, 5, 24]
into
values = [300.mm, 300.mm, 100.mm, 5.0, 24]
then save.
Now you can enter decimal values like 1.5 ...
The original code froze it as an 'integer' [default=5] and therefore prevented 'partial turn' values being entered... BUT since the rest of the code doesn't rely on it being an 'integer' there's no problems with making it a 'float'...
I already had that tweaked in the previous version in my installation... -
Better and more generalist indeed
And always amazing as just 2 signs can change something!We are few things in the univers, all is inside decimals
By Francesco de Comitรฉ
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@ TIG
I am in V6
Curious
I have an old version Draw Helix 13
make your 5.0 changment inside : works fineI load the new DrawHelix14
nothing is drawing (same result with your changment)
I have this in the Ruby consoleError; #<ArgumentError; wrong number of arguments(2 for 1)> C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/drawhelix14.rb;68;in `start_operation' C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/drawhelix14.rb;68;in `drawhelix' C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/drawhelix14.rb;78 C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/drawhelix14.rb;78;in `call'
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@tig said:
It's easily fixed by adjusting the code in the .rb file... on line #23 [edit with Notepad.exe or equivalent plain-text editor - NOT a wrodprocessor]
change
values = [300.mm, 300.mm, 100.mm, 5, 24]
into
values = [300.mm, 300.mm, 100.mm, 5.0, 24]
then save.
Now you can enter decimal values like 1.5 ...I'm very proud to annouce that this
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added, is my very first rubby scripting (and may be also the last )
And then Oh! the problems begin1)With or without this new code, I discover that DrawHelix14 doesn't work with my Su6
2)DrawHelix14 works fine with my Su7 but the new code (.0
) doesn't work! (if a decimal value is entered, no helix is drawn_ if an Integer value is entered: works fine)
3)If I come back in Su6 to DawHelix13_fr and add the (.0
)code, this time the helix is drawn.
4.5 rotations
Ouf! Hard time for new developper
simon
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