[REQ] Tool to reset AND align group/component axes

MrWip

Hi everyone,

Working more and more with complex BIM models export, imported into sketchup, I'm regularly facing the same issue : All the build elements are groups (sometimes components), which are fine to work with, but their axes are always set relatively to the world axes, and not along there respective most logical direction, which make them really hard to use (textures projection is not right, scaling is impossible...)

So, my question is the following : could there be a plugin allowing an automatic axes reorientation, of a selected amount of object, along their most logical axes ?

Working regularly with the great FredoTool box scaling, I noticed that this tool was able to orient itself automatically really well, along what i called previously "the most logical axes".

sketch 2.JPG

So, could it be possible to use a similar method to reorient each group axes ?

... In fact there is maybe a plugin allowing that already, but I couldn't find it. The closest thing was ThomThom axes tool, but it's not reorienting the axes, just reseting their origin...

Thanks in advance.

Rich O Brien

Rest to best fit bounding box. There was something that did that Maybe it was on the Ruby Depot?

I do remember it though.

rv1974

Thanks Rich, never saw it before. But I can't find this tool after inserting into Plugins folder though.
http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=335

Pixero

Looking at the code it doesn't seem to have a UI or menu.
Try typing resetAxis in the ruby console.
Maybe someone can make a menu for it?

Edit: Nope that didn't work. I get a:

Error; #<ArgumentError; wrong number of arguments (0 for 1)>
C;/Users/31jsa/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Plugins/reset_axes_to_bounding_box_center.rb;2;in `resetAxis'
<main>;in `<main>'
SketchUp;1;in `eval'

rv1974

Interesting, whether it treated multiple items (before get broken). It'd be awesome to get it back.