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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
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      Can it be done? In SU itself or with the help of an extension?

      I've used to model in 3DSMax and there's a tool there that let you do this and it's such a great timesaver.

      Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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      • GaieusG Offline
        Gaieus
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        Tom,

        Have a look at the SU Guide here (go down to about 2/3 of the page to see "Linear arrays").
        Also, "Radial arrays" are worth to have a look at here (somewhere in the middle of the page).

        Then here is a tut by Eric about similar issues and finally if your path is neither a single line nor a circle (arc) but something irregular, there's "pathcopy.rb" by Rick Wilson (RickW here) that you can download either from their site, Smustard.com of from Didier Bur's Ruby Library Depot.

        Cheers

        Gai...

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          Howard leslie
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          Thomas,
          I've produced a quick tutorial for you here:
          http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=2073
          Hope this helps
          ...
          Howard L'

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            Thanks for your responses. Sorry that I wasn't very specific with my question, but I was referring to copy along an irregular edge. I was aware of the linear array copy.

            I tried the ruby plugin, however I can't get it to work as I expect. The path is a set of connected lines, but the plugin won't let me select all the elements when it asks me to pick a path. It only uses the first segment I click on. preselecting the path doesn't do it either. Grouping the path segments is also a no go. Are they meant to be joined somehow? I've not found any command in SU to join connecting lines.
            Any ideas?

            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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              Marek Badzynski
              last edited by

              Thom,
              try the WELD ruby for "welding" line pieces together. Then you can select a whole(long) path for your copy-along-path

              Weld.rb is free - I think smustard has it

              Marek

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              • GaieusG Offline
                Gaieus
                last edited by

                Tom,

                again a nifty little ruby; "weld.rb" will be of your help. You can download it from Didier's site here again.

                It will (well) weld any segmented lines back to one polyline. You can also use it for re-welding exploded arcs, curves etc. Just pre-select what you want to weld and run it. In this particular case of course don't check "close curve" etc.

                Gai...

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
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                  Just what I needed! Thank you very much!

                  Is there a way to set where it begins the first object?
                  ...maybe I can just break the spline..? I need to play around with this.

                  Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    Got it working as I want now. Thanks again for your help.

                    Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                    List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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