[Plugin] AreaTextTag

atelierpaar

Hello TIG
I am in need of some additional Information on my plans. So I come back to my question from 2015:
Is it possible to have a multi line Text-Tag, possibly with alignment Options (left/right/center) ?
For instance :

Name 1 Entrance
Name 2 Tiles
Area 25 m²
Circumference 20 m

Thanks for looking into it
Uli

TIG

Text is always centered. it could have options but that needs considerable recoding...

You need to include a new-line marker in the string to get multiple lines.
So in the example you offered...

@unknownuser said:

Entrance
Tiles
25 m²
Perimeter 20 m

needs to be entered thus:

Entrance**\n**Tiles**\n**<>**\n**Perimeter 20 m

The \n tells it where to add a new-line.
The <> is the formatted current area part.
Note that using <-> would add the area without a units suffix.

It's not possible to report the perimeter [easily] without major recoding, but it's easy enough to manually select the face+edges by a double-click on it, then immediately Ctrl+Shift+click it again to leave only the edges selected, when Entity Info will report the length in current units.
This 'perimeter' can then be added to the text by an edit...

PS: I assume you mean 'perimeter' - as that's the edge length of any face, in English a 'circumference' only applies to circular [and perhaps oval] faces...

TIG

Here's v3.0
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TIG_AreaTextTag

It includes the following enhancements.

a. The settings dialog now allows you to specify the Text's Alignment:
Center [default]
Left
Right
These only affect multi-line entries which have used \n to signify a newline.

b. The reserved character combinations to locate a formatted area for the face:
<> with units & <-> without units
are now complemented with character combos to locate a formatted perimeter length for the face:
|| with units & |-| without units

The associated perimeter length is displayed using the same units as the area [using the same dp].
For Acres it uses ft, and Hectares m.

atelierpaar

Hello TIG, thanks so much for such good work.
You're right - I mean 'perimeter', not 'circumference'
I tried your advice using a new-line marker and I got what I was looking for.
A small drawback seems to be, that the editing-textbox is very small and one can`t see the hole text string.
Another issue is that the 'perimeter' doesn't get updated if the area changes (which happens quite frequently).

How could I help to recode this? - let me know if there way.

Anyways, thanks a lot for your work
I really appreciate
Ulrich

TIG

At the moment the Area ONLY update does the area ?

The text-box is the width that SketchUp gives us...
You can pick in it and drag left/right or use the arrow keys <- -> to get to the start/end ?

I'll look at a tweak...

TIG

I rechecked everything.
If I update a tag and its face's area has changed, then it does update the <> area. AND the || perimeter ???

Can you provide an example where it fails ?

atelierpaar

Hello TIG, oh yes, the perimeter does work superb now
I just didn't get it right the first time - my fault- I`am awfully sorry
in Terms of changing the texblock it's not too much work either if one copy /paste the text string and then just change the names
[highlight=#ffff40:22w4wmcs]Entrance[/highlight:22w4wmcs]\n[highlight=#ffff00:22w4wmcs]Tile[/highlight:22w4wmcs]\n<>\n||

using arrow keys to move inside the editing-textbox works fine

thanks a lot for your great work and support
Ulrich

Ben Ritter

TIG,

Thank you so much for your work in writing this and sharing.

Is there a way to update the text to an new text height, or would I have to re-do each one with new text height settings?

Thanks.

srx

Thanks for the another useful plugin. My question would be - Is it possible not to hide lines? What to change? My problem is that Scalp section style "doesn't see" tags.

Oxer

When I try to make the Report it appears this message in Ruby Console:

Error; #<NameError; undefined local variable or method `area2ever' for TIG;;AreaTextTag;Module>
/Users/Oxer/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Plugins/TIG-AreaTextTag/TIG-AreaTextTag.rb;1537;in `report'
/Users/Oxer/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Plugins/TIG-AreaTextTag/TIG-AreaTextTag.rb;254;in `block in <module;AreaTextTag>'
SketchUp;1;in `call'

OSX 10.11.6 & Sketchup 2017

TIG

@Oxer
Thanks for the error report.
Seems that that variable 'area2ever' was declared inside a {} block and not accessible later on in several circumstances !
So it was an error waiting for a disaster for ~six years ! ...
Anyway here is a corrected version 4.0
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TIG_AreaTextTag
PS: @srx
Also added an extra option in the Settings to hide the Tag's text's edges [Yes|No]: defaults Yes - choosing No will show the edges [remember that if there are any existing Tags you will to use Update...]. That new Setting is remembered with each model...

srx

Thank you very much TIG.

BarbaraD

Thank you so much TIG, it makes me beleave in SU again.
Great job.

mills690624

Hello TIG

Can you help me add a Area units: "pyeong"?
1(pyeong)=3.305785(m²)

thanks so much

TIG

You'll need to do some editing of the RB file in the subfolder TIG-AreaTextTag.rb
Use a plain-text editor like Notepad++ or TextWrangler, with line-numbering displayed...

Note that this will break the signing hash, so it will only load in newer SketchUp versions if the Extension Loading Policy is set to be Unrestricted.

Here are the changes...
#nnn is the line number after which you add the new code, remember that it will change as you insert lines !
The @units checks assume you insert new lines of code after the "m2" ones...
I assume that dividing the m² value by 3.305785 turns it into 'pyeongs' ?
If I am wrong, then just swap the / for a *

#444 insert:
when "pyeong" area=area*0.00064516 / 3.305785 perim=perim*0.0254 punit="m"
You might want to change the meter perimeter too ?

#732 + 4 ? insert:
when "pyeong" area=area*0.00064516 / 3.305785 perim=perim*0.0254 punit="m"
You might want to change the meter perimeter too ?

#881 + 8 ? insert:
"pyeong",

#1079 + 9 ? insert:
when "pyeong" area=area*0.00064516 / 3.305785 perim=perim*0.0254 punit="m"
You might want to change the meter perimeter too ?

#1295 + 13 ? insert:
when "pyeong" area=area*0.00064516 / 3.305785 perim=perim*0.0254 punit="m"
You might want to change the meter perimeter too ?

#1510+ 17 ? insert:
when "pyeong" area=area*0.00064516 / 3.305785 perim=perim*0.0254 punit="m"
You might want to change the meter perimeter too ?

Sjors Verhaar

Hi Tig,

Thank you for this great plugin. It works fantastic.
Only when I use it in a slightly bigger appartmentbuilding it becomes really slow.
Do you have any suggestions what might be the problem?

Thnx

barsaglini

tig, the fact that the plugin does not report objects within groups leaves the report unused, since in sketchup we have the group of everything, imagine creating a floor report, with each room having a group.
That value used by the plugin to write the area, can you put it in a variable in the component? So it would be possible to create a report of everything.

TIG

I think that Fredo has a similar tool in FredoTools - start here https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=653927#p653927

Hopper69

Hi Tig.

I am looking to add a dynamic area text in a 2d layout

I have tested the tagging on a surfaces of a 3D model but on a flat 2d surface i get a message " Pic a face in the active entries"

If i raise the surface are it works.

I did look at your 2d Tools but can't see a txt to enter area size.

Can you help ?

thanks

P

TIG

An area-text-tag has to be added into the same entities context as the face - you pick the face.

It's telling you that.

Edit the group/component containing the face[s] and add the area-text-tag[s] while you are in that edit-context...

It should then work OK...