Section cutters with marker flags
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Ruby Gurus...
I am wondering:
When you place a section cut plane, is there a way through ruby to attach a text bubble (text box that you can enter info like 1/ax.x) that could have a user entry for the section # and page? I don't think it would need to be printable, but if there was a way to label section cuts so you could reference cuts after you have made a few too many to remember their exact location. This idea would be useful if you turned on your section cuts and could see a reference at the direction arrow so you could place your own tag at plan view or elevation view etc. -
Interesting idea... My SectionCutFace script finds the selected section cut plane and then fills in a section face, BUT it can't link to it for later use... so I expect that if we wrote a script that 'marked' each current section AND put it onto a layer you could switch off etc, then it'd fall over IF you moved the section plane later on... IF you can add an observer to a section plane then it'd work... I'll look into it over the holidays...
EDIT: After some brief delving into methods... it seems that although sectioncut planes have few methods listed under the SUp API, you CAN give them enduring attributes and observers... Thus we can link section cuts to tags and also faces to section cuts etc... exciting new ideas for 2008...
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Hank,
Great suggestion, I have been using a method in one form or another like the attached .skp.
Simply inserting/rotating a directional component imediately after placing section slice/make unique/label/place on layer.
I would welcome an easier method.............TIG...... :~)
BTW/ Thanks TIG for all your prior hard work, I for one much apreciate it!Charlie
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Hi Guys,
apart from TIG's future (and ever wonderful) solutions as for now, can you just use his section cut face ruby (with wich though section cuts remain static) they are actually turned into a group to which you can attach a text label easily.
Or do I miss something now (again - as usually
)?
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