[REQ] Plugin "Scale1000"

[cotty]

It would be nice to have a toggle button which scales the whole model temporarily:

• toggle off -> normal scale
• toggle on -> whole model scaled up with factor 1000
• hidden geometry, ... too
• maintain selection
• maintain position after toggle
• ...?

I think that would be a great help with the well-known small face problem!

(I have attached an example icon)

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[TIG]

This was made a couple of years ago http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=321441#p321441 unfortunately its name doesn't convey what it does very well

[jeff hammond]

@TIG

just curious.. do you have the ability through ruby to sort of trick sketchup in a sense of:

I can enter 1mm in the vcb but sketchup actually draws it at, say, 1cm?

I know it's not difficult to do this yourself in metric but imperial users have a much harder time

[cotty]

@tig said:

This was made a couple of years ago http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=321441#p321441 unfortunately its name doesn't convey what it does very well

YES! and yes
Thank you for the hint!

[TIG]

@unknownuser said:

@TIG

just curious.. do you have the ability through ruby to sort of trick sketchup in a sense of:

I can enter 1mm in the vcb but sketchup actually draws it at, say, 1cm?

I know it's not difficult to do this yourself in metric but imperial users have a much harder time
I'd say it's pretty much impossible in '&", but in metric the temporary 'rescaling' tool [to x1000] could reset your model-units from 'mm' to 'm' [also setting unit suffix 'off'] and then when you draw something 1.2 long as if you were still in mm it's actually adding it 1.2 meters long. On a 'descale' back to how it was it could then reset from 'm' to 'mm'. and reset the unit suffix if appropriate... BUT since it'll only work in metric then no one has bothered much about this...

[jeff hammond]

yeah.. i see what you're saying.
(and fwiw, i can't remember a time when i, personally, ever had a small faces problem.. i just don't have a need to draw that small.. so i'm just talking here for the sake of talking )

i guess i was imagining a scenario where the measurement box was automatically multiplying everything by 100 (or whatever).

but since we can't enter something like _ 3/16 * 100 _ in the box, i guess i can see how it's highly unlikely for this to be automated some by eliminating the need for _ * 100 _..