[Plugin] WireTool (Catenary) (1.4.1) – updated 06.03.2013
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Thanks very much for this. It produces a really lovely result for drawing thin arches.
I noticed a small problem when I move the endpoints of an existing catenary around - gravity seems to veer away at an peculiar angle. All plan-plane moves seem to work just fine though. -
Hi,
the resulting curve is just SketchUp geometry, and does not expose physical behavior of a wire. When moving one end point of an arc, it shows normal SketchUp behavior (ie. SketchUp tries to squeeze or stretch the arc to fit to both end points).
But a wire that really (physically) moves with attached objects would be a cool feature. The plugin would need observers to watch all the time on all these arcs, and recalculate an arc once an endpoint is changed. -
I cannot get the plugin to work with specific inputs. It creates a the same curve no matter what I enter.
Can you help?
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Never mind, I figured it out. You have to press Enter after entering the distance, etc.
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Nice Plugin Aerilius , very usefull. Thanks a lot
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Very nice and useful !
One question: shouldn't be better suited under DRAW menu, instead of Extensions?
There is a uncanny tendency to put the plugins under Tools or Extensions menus... leaving all others with too little entries, even if the plugin in cause should better fit in other menu.Cheers.
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Nothing is preventing you from editing the .rb file and changing it to appear in the draw menu.
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@dave r said:
Nothing is preventing you from editing the .rb file and changing it to appear in the draw menu.
Unless the author comes with a update at one point and the old (modified) script is replaced... that was my point. I already edited several of the plugins I use.
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Hi,
I'm confused.
I can see this plugin had an update recently [Version Updated: 2021-04-12 09:26:24]
but it's been version 1.4.1 since 2013. Why was it updated now while it's still the same version and no changes were introduced? -
The current version is v1.4.1
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=ae_WireTool
Perhaps the author [ae] finally decided to re-sign it to suit the newer SketchUp versions, but the code was otherwise unchanged ?
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