Draw line by color

boofredlay

Is there a plugin that allows you to draw a line "in color" rather than drawing it and painting it?

I do quite a bit of stucco joint lines. I sometimes place them in a group and color the group but most of the time I will draw them directly on the surface then paint them individually. It all depends on the model makeup. For the second option it would be nice to be able to draw the line already painted.

Thanks.

boofredlay

Ooooo, found it!!!
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=ChrisP_ColorEdge_EN

Hmmm, seems an old plugin with problems.

pilou

Yes that is by a French guy!

boofredlay

OUI

boofredlay

Well unfortunately it does not perform as well as expected.
It won't draw lines inside a group or component. While in edit mode it will draw the line outside the group or component, then you have to copy paste it back in. Not too efficient.

Maybe there is another that works as expected?

pilou

Ask to Sdmitch or TIg for a more precise tricky plugin!

CadFather

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not sure if this can help.. the below routines will paint all selected edges with random colours
perhaps you can integrate it with a keyboard shortcut

this will paint each edge differently

@m = Sketchup.active_model; @s = @m.selection ; @mt = @m.materials ; @st = @m.styles
@m.rendering_options["EdgeColorMode"] = 0
@s.grep(Sketchup;;Edge).each{|m| 
mat = @mt.add("edge")
mat.color = rand(255),rand(255),rand(255)
m.material = mat }
@s.clear

this will colour the surrent selection set with the same colour

@m = Sketchup.active_model; @s = @m.selection ; @mt = @m.materials
@m.rendering_options["EdgeColorMode"] = 0
mat = @mt.add("edge")
mat.color = rand(255),rand(255),rand(255)
@s.grep(Sketchup;;Edge).each{|m| m.material = mat }
@s.clear

boofredlay

Thanks CadFather. I am looking to draw a line already in color but I will look at this.
I posted the issue in the plugin thread for ColorEdge.

CadFather

ok, and that should be possible using observers, meantime if you were to use 'model._active_edges', instead of a selection - you could capture all edges in the current context - this can be quick.

below is a better example (will use existing material if already used) - right now colour set to orange

@m = Sketchup.active_model ; @ae = @m.active_entities ; @mt = @m.materials ; @mat = nil
@m.rendering_options["EdgeColorMode"] = 0
if @mt.to_a.include?(@mt['edge'])
@mat = @mt['edge']
else
@mat = @mt.add("edge")
@mat.color = 255,128,0
end
@ae.grep(Sketchup;;Edge).each{|m| m.material = @mat }

Frederik

This could be very interesting...
Would colored lines remain colored in LayOut...?

Edit: Just to answer my own question, the answer is - YES...
Colors are remaining in LO even when converting to vector...!

boofredlay

Nice.