[Plugin] Facewarp

[Builder Boy]

My original post was here. I still got tired of dividing edges(by the way, does anyone know how to do this with ruby?), then welding them back together, then filling out a lot of dialog boxes. So, I made my own plugin to do this. I give you:

Facewarp.rb

[Rich O Brien]

Lots of vanishing lines when drawing? And not all faces created?

[TIG]

http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/edge.html#split ???

[Builder Boy]

@unknownuser said:

Lots of vanishing lines when drawing? And not all faces created?

This plugin does not always work when 2 points have the same location. Also, may give unexpected results when 3 points are collinear.

@tig said:

http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/edge.html#split ???

This will only split a line into 2 segments with controllable proportions, I am looking for something more like this:
edge.divide(5) # for 5 equal-length segments

[Didier Bur]

@unknownuser said:

I am looking for something more like this:
edge.divide(5) # for 5 equal-length segments

You can do that with edge.split, just create a loop 0.upto(4) for instance to divide in 5 segments...

[TIG]

@builder boy said:

@tig said:

http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/edge.html#split ???

This will only split a line into 2 segments with controllable proportions, I am looking for something more like this:
edge.divide(5) # for 5 equal-length segments

It'd be easily enough to make a custom 'divide' method that works as you want - you know the edge's starting length and therefore the length of one divided part. So simply iterate through the edge the number of divisions-1 nibbling off the appropriate proportion as another edge until you are done. I don't recommend extending the Edge class but more like this...
self.divide(edge,5)
calling this

def divide(edge=nil, num=nil)
  return nil if not edge or edge.class!=Sketchup;;Edge
  return nil if not num or not num.class==Fixnum or num<=1
  len=edge.length
  bit=len/num.to_f
  num.times{
    begin
      nedge=edge.split(bit/len)
      if nedge
        edge=nedge 
        len=edge.length
      end#if
    rescue
      puts 'Divide Error'
    end
  }
end

Which splits the specified edge into the specified parts...