How to get current active axis?

[Pixero]

As the title says. How do I get the current active axis?

[jolran]

Tjena.

Let say you get a face normal called new_z.
You could say new_z is the upvector, if I remember correctly.
Anyway. new_z must be a vector. That you use as current Z-axis.

x_axez, y_axez, z_axez = new_z.axes

[Pixero]

Tjena!

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I should have been clearer, I'd like to get the axis of the current component beeng selected.

[TIG]

Use component_instance.transformation.origin to get its location in its container and then
component_instance.transformation.zaxis etc for the axes...
See here: http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/transformation
These API notes are full of typos , BUT you should get the gist...

[jolran]

OT

@unknownuser said:

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Nej! Ska genast kolla. Tack

@unknownuser said:

I'd like to get the axis of the current component beeng selected.

Do you mean the Transformation.origin ?

I mean it depends on how the component is built ?
It could be a gluing component or face me.

You could check out this topic.
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180%26amp;t=57623%26amp;p=524693%26amp;hilit=get+component#p524693

Edit TIG was faster.

[Pixero]

@tig said:

Use component_instance.transformation.origin to get its location in its container and then
component_instance.transformation.zaxis etc for the axes...
See here: http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/transformation
These API notes are full of typos , BUT you should get the gist...

Oooh, I feel rusty.
And if I want to use this within a selection. Check to see if it's a group or component and get axis and if it's not, use world axis? or parents axis if that is a component.
Am I making sense?

[AdamB]

In general, to get the worldspace axes, you'll need to chase up the hierarchy to the top, applying each parent.
Its kind of a pain..

[tomasz]

To get the current hierarchy you can use:

path=Sketchup.active_model.active_path

http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/model#active_path

[tt_su]

If you are in the root context then you can't. If the user has set a custom axis then there is no Ruby API method to obtain that. We have that logged as a feature request.