Drop.rb script upgrade suggestion

a4chitect · 12 Dec 2007, 19:40

dear TBD - your script is perhaps my most-used extension to sketchup, but sometimes (urban scenery) I want the dropped entities to match the slope/angle of the surface on which i'm dropping them, is it possible to identify the surface by your intersection finding "Sketchup.active_model.raytest(position,dir)", then get its slope and apply this to the dropped entity? would such a feature be hard to implement? i'm toying with the idea of trying to add this myself, or is anyone else interested ?

anyways - thanks for the 'drop'

tbd · 12 Dec 2007, 19:52

unfortunately I dont have time right now to implement it, but you are free to add it. hope that you will share the modifications so I can add it to drop.rb.

thanks for the suggestion

a4chitect · 12 Dec 2007, 20:11

came up with a trick - the upgraded script could look for intersection not only from the component center but also from the four bounding points of the lower bounding plane - these 4 intersection would easily allow to compute the rotation needed for the original component...

to further illustrate, default Drop (v1.5)

proposed functionality

a4chitect · 12 Dec 2007, 20:13

TBD thanks for your encouragement, will share for sure, it's fairly easy with the bounding box proposal from above - will get to it tomorrow, hope that method works

stay tuned