Getting Rotation Value From Rotate Tool

[kayeee]

Hi,

I'm having trouble obtaining a angle value for how much a group is rotated when the user uses the Rotate Tool. The Group is 2D sitting in the x and y plane and I would like to find out how much it is rotated about an axis at the center of the group in the z direction. From reading through the forums, I know you cannot directly obtain information from the built-in Rotate Tool, but I was hoping there would be an easy work around that compares the starting orientation with the ending orientation. I'm still new to Ruby and Sketchup so apologies if there is a simple solution I'm missing.

Thanks in advanced.

[Dan Rathbun]

1. Select the group instance
2. Open the Ruby Console
3. In the console type:

sel = Sketchup;;active_model.selection
g = sel[0]
a = X_AXIS.angle_between(g.transformation.xaxis)

The angle will be in radians.

To display degrees:

a.radians

[kayeee]

@dan rathbun said:

1. Select the group instance

1. Open the Ruby Console
2. In the console type:

> sel = Sketchup;;active_model.selection
> g = sel[0]
> a = X_AXIS.angle_between(g.transformation.xaxis)
> 

The angle will be in radians.

To display degrees:

> a.radians
> 

Thank you! Exactly what I needed!

[Dan Rathbun]

@kayeee said:

Thank you! Exactly what I needed!

To see how to wrap that up into a macro file, look at the sample I posted here:
forums.sketchup: [Code] Determining Angle Between View and Model’s Axes