[REQ] Plugin Multi-View Elevations

renderiza

Very clever idea!

Ok I think I got it but just in case...

You want to place that decal that have arrows with A, B, C, D and plugin will recognize its position and place camera origin on center of that to capture elevation from there?

This is a Brilliant idea!

Krisidious

yes, exactly... 4 elevations or even better if I could choose how many, because this symbol is used with 1,2,3,4 or even more directions. but normally no more than 4.

Krisidious

@renderiza said:

Very clever idea!

This is a Brilliant idea!

I can't take credit for it... some guy way back in drafting history came up with it... or maybe his wife.

renderiza

I gotcha...going to my lab an will report to you soon!

Krisidious

wrings hands and waits with bated breath...

Box

One thing to keep in mind while making this. If the scene order is right it should make a good basis for a standard animation.

I just had fish for dinner, so mine is baited breath.

Krisidious

@box said:

One thing to keep in mind while making this. If the scene order is right it should make a good basis for a standard animation.

I just had fish for dinner, so mine is baited breath.

renderiza

Hi,

Any ideas on what will be the name of this plugin?

Cheers!

Krisidious

The name of the symbol is an Elevation Marker. Perhaps "MarkerMaker"?

renderiza

The name is important since it will give a hint as to what the plugin do.

"Marker Maker" - Is good

"Elevation Maker" - Maybe good as well?

Anyways no hurry for this but its nice to start exploring ideas.

Krisidious

Elevation Maker would be good if you can also make the exterior elevations... which would be an inversion of directions. The same marker is used for exterior parallel elevations.

Easy Elevations?
Interioriza?
Elevation Tools?

CadFather

sectionist

Box

Multi Elevation Set Point

TIG

Late to the party...

ElevTag - 1 direction == outside elev marker...
ElevTag4 - 4 direction == room elev marker...

That's what mine is called...
Unpublished for personal use...

CadFather

camera samurai

Krisidious

You already have something that does this Tig?

renderiza

Maybe TIG already have this but just in case here is some initial progress into making this plugin happen.

The following code is only purpose is to position camera to the center of a group (in this case the marker with arrows). The way the code filters other groups is by name so in this case I am naming the group "Camera".

model = Sketchup.active_model ;
sel = model.selection ;
ents = model.active_entities ;	
groups = ents.grep(Sketchup;;Group)

groups.each do |e|
  if e.name == "Camera"
    boundbox = e.bounds ;
    @center = boundbox.center ;
  end ;
end ;

view = Sketchup.active_model.active_view ;

x = @center.x.to_f ;
y = @center.y.to_f ;
z = 50 ;
newEye = Geom;;Point3d.new(x,y,z) ;

targetX = 0.0 if !targetX ; 
targetY = 0.0 if !targetY ; 
targetZ = 50.0 if !targetZ ; 
newTarget = Geom;;Point3d.new(targetX,targetY,targetZ)

newUp = Geom;;Vector3d.new(0,0,1)

newCamera = view.camera
newCamera.set(newEye,newTarget,newUp)

view.camera = newCamera
view.invalidate()

There is still a lot of things to but just want to post some progress code. This is just testing code that you may use with "Ruby Code Editor" to see results.

Cheers!

CadFather

woudn't it be more useful to actually click on the position required? (cheddar walls)

Krisidious

@cadfather said:

woudn't it be more useful to actually click on the position required? (cheddar walls)

yes that will be necessary. like 5 or more of these will be needed per plan... and rooms will never be in the same location.

renderiza

What you suggested can be done no problem but having the ability to place a marker will provide visual reference which is good. Maybe you can click where you want to position camera and also place markers at the same time.

Cheers!