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hi,

thank you very much, that is exactly, what i needed ! great! thanx again for helping!

stan

@sdmitch said:

Stan, I have a "Spline" plugin on my blog. It does a spline fit interpolation through the end points of selected edges and creates a curve.

hi, thanx, could not download for some reasons from your site...
stan

one for the wishlist:

a shadow override function, so regardless of scene setting saved per scene

shadow can be switched on and off for working in scenes and saving pictures and videos.

regards stan

hi everybody,

idoes anybody know a script, which makes copying in 3d (stair) and turning by a defined angle possible at once or step by step?

input like : distance / angle / amount ...

thanx
stan

hello everybody,

my script "extrude along path"

TURNS the selected profile around along the path

is there a script, which is able to draw an extruded profile in a continuous angle (like the original) ?

so with a rectangle a continuous ramp would be drawn?

example attached

thanx stan

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02c-test extruder.zip

hi, i need a tip:

when i want to define the axis system by x,y,z and i have only 1 line in space (free angles in all directions)

AND i would like to define the BLUE axis to be the vector of the line, i simply can't get it, since the blue axis is not available for the first click.

am i wrong?
is there a shortcut for changing the first axis to be defined (rotation) ?

thanx for ideas

stan

@unknownuser said:

Depending how are your segments of spiral
if then don't touch any other a simple double click is sufficient

Else look at Selection Toys by Thomthom

if each segment of the spiral is similar take look at
select line by length by Chris Fullmer

hi, yes , the thomthom - tool in quadfacetool does exactly , what i needen now.

the next search is an intelligent "follow-path" tool, i will start another topic for that

thank you very much!

stan

@tig said:

Thomthom's "QuadFaceTools" [see the Plugins Index...] lets you pick connected 'loops' like your spiraling paths.
I just tested it on your faced version [it needs the faces!] and I selected the spiraling edges quite easily...

hi tig, YEEEAAHHHHHH! that's it, wonderful. works perfect.

thanx stan

ps: i will also check all other tips from the other guys, thanx forhelping to all of you....

@unknownuser said:

Depending how are your segments of spiral
if then don't touch any other a simple double click is sufficient

Else look at Selection Toys by Thomthom

if each segment of the spiral is similar take look at
select line by length by Chris Fullmer

thank you, i will check this. for my job the plugin must be a sort of intelligent to be able to decide, which direction the string goes, it's rather tricky. because of the geometry of a spiral a simple selection by rectangle or anything else does not work.
regards stan

YES, of course, thank you very much......

i prepaired an example , so let 's try...

regards stan

testfile for spiral-string-copying

hi skp-experts,

i am looking for a really special function.

please imagine a mesh , even turned in 3d-somehow, where you switch off all softening and can see the mesh as a grid of lines in 3d. with the selector one can delete the planes, so only a line grid remains....

now, i would like to pick up ONE line going from 1 end of the mesh grid to the other.

my mesh is 500 m high, a spiral and it is absolutely impossible to do that by hand.

so, is there a ruby, which is able to pick up one "string" of a mesh from start to end?

this would help a lot...

thanx stan

hello,

has anybody a skp-ruby-script, which is able to smooth a polyline (circle / ellipse of edges) inserting more edges by interpolation while keeping the geometric form?

i have sections threw a cylinder ( = ellipses of certain amount of edges, no radius), which i would like to make smoother for further boolean operations.

thank you a lot.

stan

YES! thank you a lot. the x-coordinate was somewhere near to alpha centauri.......

thanx a lot, the show goes on!

regards stan

hello everybody,
in my sketchup the "styles-window" is not visible anymore (switching on/of in the window menue does not effect it).
even hiding and making visible again (window>hide dialogs) does not help.
in the window-menue it is marked as visible, but it is not on both of my screens.
so it is probably somewhere "outside" of the screens.

is there a way to reset the position of those windows in sketchup? any idea?

opening sketchup / new file : no effect
opening old projects : no effect
opening sketchup 2 x on 2 screens : no effect

all other "windows" like layer / fog etc work well.

please help!

thanx stan

hi, thanx a lot,
i used this method for a long time, until i found a great script (ruby) exporting only active scenes (scene setting > video on) and giving the jpg's it's scene-name ( very helpfull with 200 different views printed etc. for some sorting etc.)

but right today i found this problem with the fixed text (which is helpfull for sinple logo-infos) not working in this script somehow.

anyway, we keep on looking for a way..

thank you
regards stan

hello everybody,

i already tried some ruby-scripts for a batch-jpg-export of the scenes, but all of them does not respect the "view-based" text type.

does anybody know a script, which:

-only export the active scenes (scene manager including)
-use the particular setting of each scene (shadow etc.)
-shows correctly the "view-based" text
-uses the name of the scene for the export - name of each jpg
-eventually gives you an opportunity for fixing the jpg-settings, like width/length
-eventually creates a new folder for he jpg's in the active project folder of the skp-file

any other nice ideas?

thanx a lot for helping

regards stan