This “plugin” works as an alias for toggling EndPoints on and off, with the intent to be able to chain it into a keyboard shortcut. It can be accessed under Tools → Toggle EndPoints.

I write Javascript and PHP, but Ruby seems quite an untamed beast to my eyes. However I had to hack and slash some simple plugin (thanks stitcher.rb), look around SketchUcation a bit, and get this plugin done with so that I could put it into my workflow.

I hope it proves useful for others as well. Next up, studying Ruby and the SketchUp API; I'm of course open to all suggestions and corrections.

endpoints.rb

Great work! I can now peaceflly remove making that exact plugin from my TODO list

I was wondering, could this plugin be converted easily to take the length of a line then rotate and scale a component (along its z axis as boilingsnow noted) appropriately to it?

Duh! Just needed a push towards the right direction, it was right in front of my eyes after all.

Thank you Pilou!

I am in need of a plugin that creates a centerline, average, median line from two given curves on the same surface, like the illustration above, where I drew an approximate one manually.

I did search everywhere, using any keyword I could think of, but I couldn't locate such a plugin; if it does exist, I'd be grateful if you could point it to me.

Please pardon me in case this thread is out of topic in this subforum.

That's great then, you should advertise it as "click the text and the checkbox is magically selected"
Keep it up mate :]

Not sure if it's the proper thread for this tip, but here goes.

@unknownuser said:

Wow, it looks promising. One suggestion, though: you could use big buttons instead of radio buttons and check-boxes. Such elements need more precision to click them (because they are small) and when using such plugin several times it can come more handy.

This was a request about v3 in another thread, that is very easily solvable by just using some proper HTML and keeping the radio buttons / checkboxes too.

Just make use of the <label> tag like this:

<label for="idname">Descriptive text here; <input type="radio" name="whatever" id="idname" /></label>

and that should keep everyone happy

I see, seems like the idea has hit a hard wall
Thanks for looking at it though :]

Hello SketchUcation crowd, I've been a lurker for a while but this is actually my first post here.

I'd first like to send a big THANK YOU towards all of you dedicated plugin writers without the work of whom our modelling time would be count in multiples.

I wanted to keep this plugin idea as practice work for my leap into ruby scripting, though since my time is limited untill I get my diploma in February, here goes, hoping someone is kinn enough to give it a try, further enhancing our productivity:

description: User selects geometry, enters command (shortcut/menu), a naming dialog pops up (thus if that group is later converted into a component, it retains the name) then the groups axes are re-oriented automatically but the user is given the option to choose an edge to align the geometry box, exactly like how scale with orientation of scaling box by Freddo works.
In case the selection does not exist, enter group editing mode (I find working inside an empty group very convenient at times as lines don't intersect etc).

I also tried to make a simple logic diagram for a clearer illustration of the above:

I just hope it's all do-able, and somebody has free time to spare on this, otherwise I'll have it a go as my first script in March