Hi,
I am a medium level sketchup user (not newbie, but not as expert as people on this forum). Anytime I am doing something extremely tedious and mindless, I think "there must be a plugin for that." So I am in a situation like that, but cant find the right plugin. I would be greatful for anyone's advice. Even partial solutions which get me half of the way there.
Basically, I am looking for a more complicated version of memory-copy or path-copy, where I can take values from tables (or from drawn curves?) for various transformations.
For instance, a simply array of objects might be created by reading from a table for x positions:
x-offset: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
A more complicated array might allow the spacing to be selected from a non-linear function, like exponential:
x-offset: 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128
Now, I might want to do two transformations simultaneously on different functions. Here x-offset is exponential, but rotation is linear:
x-offset: 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128
rotation-degrees: 10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80
I have been doing this manually for a set of designs, but I am now doing 100s of elements, with various linear and non-linear transformations on a range of variables (rotation, spacing, scaling), that are not in-sync with each other (they dont share the same period, so it never repeats). Its taking hours!!!
I can imagine it might be possible to take some of these values from drawn curves instead of tables.
Any ideas?
Mike