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    [Plugin]Throw_to.rb(Mar 31,2013.)

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    • T Offline
      tak2hata
      last edited by tak2hata

      Hi
      I upload Sketchup Plugin"Throw_to.rb" to here.
      Throw the entity to collide other.
      Throw the entity to Plane(Face).
      #General disclaimer
      #I MAKES NO GUARANTEE OF VALIDITY about this script.
      #Please use this script at your own risk.

      DOWNLOAD
      Get the latest version from the PluginStore:
      http://sketchucation.com/resources/pluginstore?pln=throw_to
      or AutoInstall from within SketchUp using the SketchUcation Tools

      Enjoy!


      by TAK2HATA

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      • J Offline
        jpalm32
        last edited by

        Very interesting! Maybe better examples would help me understand.
        Maybe "Drop" RB like but ....

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        • ElibjrE Offline
          Elibjr
          last edited by

          Wow this is a perfect 3D alignment tool. It's like drop in three dimensions and the plane doesn't even need to be flat! Great for cars on hills and landscape! Thanks!

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          • Chris FullmerC Offline
            Chris Fullmer
            last edited by

            That's awesome! Very cool plugin tak2hata!

            Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
            All my Plugins I've written

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            • massimoM Offline
              massimo Moderator
              last edited by

              Looks great, thanks. 👍

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              • kenK Offline
                ken
                last edited by

                Thanks for this plugin. I do use it as a 3d positioning plugin. I also have, Rick Wilson's 2007, rotate3d.rb v 1.0, and with these two plugin, I can move an object and then rotate around a point to make the final alignments.

                Notice, that I can't get the infinity throw to work until I have used the "throw to plane". Also, sometimes the infinity movement, does not move the required distance. It takes a few steps to get it to move the total distance.

                Thanks for the plugin.

                Ken

                Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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                • mitcorbM Offline
                  mitcorb
                  last edited by

                  Can you shove a sofa with this? 😆

                  I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                    laudhi
                    last edited by

                    woooowwwww...this is soooo cooollllll........thanxz tak2hata 😍

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                      unearthed
                      last edited by

                      Thanks Tak2hata, this saves so much time - no more turning things on their side (and other silliness to align things in x and y)

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                        rv1974
                        last edited by

                        Perfect as usual. Thank you.
                        P.S. Much better than 'drop at intersection'- here we have one step undo.

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                        • EarthMoverE Offline
                          EarthMover
                          last edited by

                          Thanks! Perfect for projecting components like doors and windows from a CAD section view onto the model. 👍

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                            tak2hata
                            last edited by

                            @earthmover said:

                            Thanks! Perfect for projecting components like doors and windows from a CAD section view onto the model. 👍

                            Wow. It is interesting!
                            Very nice idea! 😉


                            by TAK2HATA

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                            • ElibjrE Offline
                              Elibjr
                              last edited by

                              Thank you Tak2hata! Your plugins are are always useful!

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                              • mitcorbM Offline
                                mitcorb
                                last edited by

                                Hi, tak2hata:
                                I Autoinstalled this plugin from the Sketchucation Store to test.
                                I used 3 simple boxes each Grouped and positioned randomly.
                                The infinity option worked sporadically, but mostly did not work.
                                I do believe I followed the process in the video properly, but maybe not. Select entity, activate Infinity option, click 1,2 vector direction. The object should move/align to nearest surface.
                                [By the way, any face on an ungrouped mesh will respond to this plugin, when/ if it works.]

                                I thought then to open the Ruby Console to observe. The console remained blank. However, after doing this, and testing again, the Infinity option worked on a path non orthogonal. But then, did not work on ortho path.
                                In fact, during all of this, the console remains inactive.

                                Another strange occurrence: if I extend the directional vector too far in the scene, it is clipped.
                                Does that mean that the outer bounds of the objects in the scene define the maximum extent of "infinity"? and clicking "beyond" the objects is why the vector is clipped? I know you need only to establish the direction with some small distance.

                                I am now going to uninstall, then reinstall and test.

                                I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                                  tak2hata
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi,mitcorb.
                                  I think that is bug.
                                  This plugin check the collision between vertices and faces(plane).
                                  So the collision between faces and faces is not valid.
                                  I all improve this problem in future version.
                                  Thanks!


                                  by TAK2HATA

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                                  • mitcorbM Offline
                                    mitcorb
                                    last edited by

                                    Ok. I did not see, or pay attention, that this script addressed vertices and not faces. I figured if you select a face, the vertices were understood.
                                    Keep in mind that I was throwing Groups. It just so happened that I did have an exploded group in one of my attempts and one face of that was selected. That volume was "extruded" or flattened as I repeated the vector clicks randomly. I was simply watching the behavior.
                                    Thanks for your attention to this.

                                    By the way, this script wouldn't have any issues with other plugins that may use a projection method(?), would it? Such as perhaps Didier Bur's Projections, or Fredo's Joint Push Pull by Vector?

                                    I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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