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

Select the group instance
Open the Ruby Console
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:

Select the group instance

Open the Ruby Console

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