[Plugin] RandomPushPull v2.5 20110709
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Unfortunately when you PushPull a face it disappears - the face that is at the new location isn't the same face - that's been deleted by Sketchup...
So... it's not easy to get a reference to the new face...
BUT you could do it... you know the plane of the picked face, you know its pt0=vertices[0].position, you know the pushpull vector, so you can offset the pt0 and then test for the new faces added since the pushpull was done and find the one with the same/reversed normal, parallel plane and coincident vertex at the offset pt0 location...
BUT I'm not going to code it
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In this particular case same "top square"
I can use the Selected by aera by Sdmitch
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Except there might be faces with the same area that were not the ones you want - so then things like face.normal / plane becomes relevant too - BUT comparing areas IS a good 'outside-of-the-box' test idea
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@unknownuser said:
Except there might be faces with the same area that were not the ones you want
As I had started from a sphere and took a minimum measure more large than the big edges on the surface's sphere
that can't be arrived
It was a very particular case
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Here's v2.4 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=340452#p340452
The selection now passes to the newly pushpulled faces even though the original faces have been deleted by Sketchup... -
Seems selection are not keeping all the initial faces selected!
(tryed with some adjacents facets on a thick sphere )Does exist a Scale multiple ? (for each facets selected)
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As I explained, the original face is lost with a pushpull so I need to find the equivalent new face... At the moment it matches area, face normal and face plane [offset by the pushpull distance] - even the slightest variance in the figures that Sketchup calculates will result in a mismatch - so I suspect that's why some faces are being ignored
Any ideas on a better way to spot newly pushpulled faces is invited...
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you can add a random move tool?
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@tig said:
As I explained, the original face is lost with a pushpull so I need to find the equivalent new face... At the moment it matches area, face normal and face plane [offset by the pushpull distance] - even the slightest variance in the figures that Sketchup calculates will result in a mismatch - so I suspect that's why some faces are being ignored
Any ideas on a better way to spot newly pushpulled faces is invited...TIG,
Seems to work 100%, if you account for the tiny area difference of the new face. In line #64, I used "if face.area-e[0].abs < 0.000001" instead of "if face.area==e[0]".
Well, at least this worked on a 7 inch diameter sphere. Don't know if it will fail for other scales.
[Addition]
Ok, I had a chance to check if scaling would make the new area test fail. Looks ok so far. My sphere had 288 faces. Initially 7 inches in diameter. I've scaled it up to 70, 700, and 7000 inch diameter. And even with the larger areas, 0.000001 difference still worked to compare if the faces have the same area. The plugin still kept the selection on all 288 faces, in all the tests. -
Muchas gracias, me viene al pelo
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Here's v2.5 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=340452#p340452
Kyyu beat me to it with an 'area accuracy check', which now [hopefully] ensures that all of the selected faces that are pushpulled [and thereby get erased] now get their selection passed onto the the newly added face every time... -
Works like a charm
Again some requests- does it possible to keep the selection but separated like when you make a normal PushPpull with CTRL ?
- make a Scale on each face
This last must be asked also for Fredo Scale
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