Arc center point Plugin?

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Hello,

I will get models from other people that have arcs that I need the center point for. Are there any plugins for this where I can select the arc and then use the ruby to place the center point?

Thanks,
Jeff

sdmitch

Try AddCtrPoint plugin on my blog.

cotty

Or Exploded Arc Centerpoint Finder (Chris Fullmer)

mwm5053

Or maybe this http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=18963

you can also right click arc an context menu has find center.

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Thanks guys!!! As always, the forum to the rescue....
Cheers

pbacot

@mwm5053 said:

Or maybe this http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=18963

you can also right click arc an context menu has find center.

Yes, I've seen this mentioned. I don't have that as my basic SU. Wonder why.

TIG

'Arc-Center' part of the shipped_with_Sketchup scripts that need activating from Preference > Extensions before they'll appear in any menus etc...

pbacot

Thanks TIG.

I looked at that before, but nothing there does that for me.

TIG

If you activate the Preferences > Extension > 'Ruby Script Examples' you get a right-click context-menu item "Point at Center"... but only IF you have an Arc/Circle already selected.
The advantage of using one of the other 'arc_center_point' tools is that activating 'Examples' also loads several other tools you might never need...
If you have an Exploded Arc then you'll need Chris Fullmer's tools to deduce where its center would have been...

pbacot

TIG,

Thanks! Sorry I didn't actually try those, because the included scripts are listed and this one isn't mentioned.

Peter

TIG

I noticed that lack too

thomthom

Me too! Me too! I got a plugin!
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=30506

sketch3d.de

@tig said:

If you activate the Preferences > Extension > 'Ruby Script Examples' you get a right-click context-menu item "Point at Center"... but only IF you have an Arc/Circle already selected.
The advantage of using one of the other 'arc_center_point' tools is that activating 'Examples' also loads several other tools you might never need...

Attached a stripped down version of only the "Point at Arc/Center" context menu command derived from the Ruby script examples of SU8 and condensed to one file.

Thus the function cannot be disabled/enabled via the "Preferences > Extensions" dialog, just drop to the "\Plugins" sub-folder, restart SU and you're gone.

If someone of the Ruby programming gurus here likes to enhance for the configuration via the extensions dialog, just go ahead.

[Update 12.05.14]Converted to an extension which now can be enabled/disabled via the Extensions dialog and saved in RBZ-Format sothat installation can be done via the Extensions dialog too.[/Update]

hth,
Norbert

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