Hello Oscar,

I forgot to mention that if possible,you should be able to exclude a part of a face from triangulation (this is not possible in mobilecad ,and thats the reason I cant use it)

Greetings, Bep

part excluded from triangulation.skp

And fly-out toolbars would be great.

Bep

Hallo Oscar,

I to have only the German Demo version.
One of the great advantages of the Mobilecad program for trilateration is that it triangulates the sketch of the floor-plan for you, and you can toggle trough the different triangulation options until you find the one that is right to you.
Although I think you should also be able to triangulate it yourself.
Than you just fill in the real size of every (blue) line, the colour chances afterwards to indicate that it has been scaled to the right size and it automatically locks this line-length.
The program scales the floor plan after every input, so you are visually warned if you fill in a really wrong dimension.
One of the key words in this process is over- and under-constraint warning.
Ill try to explain that as far is I think to now : for example a four sided figure from which only the four sides are known can not be drawn and is called under-constraint ,whereby as one diagonal is also known it can correctly be constructed, but when you try to incorporate the second diagonal in the drawing the figure is called over-constrained meaning that mathematically there will always some sort of rounding (or there has been made a small measuring error ) difference, the math solver will normally not allow that, and so a over-constraint warning will pop up.
Please look at the video
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=2zHtGCoki3c
(excuse me for the bad image =first time)
By the way I am doing a posting about a little bit similar issue at http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=9718

Bep

Hi,

Ma bey the sketchy physics joints could help in buildingg a skeleton?

Bep

Didier,

You are much faster than I am.
I think that we come up with the same sort of solution.

Bep

possibility 1.skp

where can i buy one?

On my to-do-list[/quote]

Thank you Didier, that you are taking up an interest in developing this Ruby.
I am very happy
I can now rest asure knowing that it will be made.

Greetings,

Bep van Malde

Hi Oscar,

At last!
I am very glad that you are taking a real effort in making a Plug-in or ruby that could
Make Surveying with trilateration possible.
My big-wish for a tool like that is very old.
See http://groups.google.com/group/Ruby-API/browse_thread/thread/9a853979f28f4c46/dab01f684101c6e4?lnk=gst&q=bep+van+Malde#dab01f684101c6e4
From these links please try out the Mobile cad Demo to get inspired.
See also my request from last week. http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=9718
The Sketchright program is not available anymore but is as a good example ,so I will try to PM you , to find a way for you to explore the program.
(I am glowing from anticipation .)
Oscar you are one of the Ruby hero’s.

Greetings Bep van Malde

@unknownuser said:

Hi Fletch

@fletch said:

that is, if the room were an L you could select faces to 'lock' and the rest would be able to move (assumed that floor and ceiling would automatically be 'locked'.

Actually, I am confusing what I am doing now, is it Resizer or Paramatric?
I maybe wrong, I think that what you descript is more to paramatric geomatry. If I am not wrong, parametric needs formular to make constraints to geometry.( similar to my old script "OSCarcase" )
I will rewrite the OSCarcase to make it easier !

@fletch said:

of course, the next step would be the ability to link this to an excel file and have it build the spaces automatically from that file.

I thought there are some ruby scripts regarding this idea already !
May I know what is the data or format in the excel file,please ?

I need more idea about paramatric geomatry, please!

Thanks
Oscar

Hi Oskar,

Could this be of any help to you.
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=4705&p=25369&hilit=sketchflat#p25369

Greetings Bep van Malde

@watkins said:

Dear Bep,

You can make an equilateral triangle of known side length using the following method:

Use the polygon tool with the number of sides set to 3
Draw a triangle
Double click to select all the entities and make a group
Double click to edit the group, and when in edit mode use the tape measure tool to measure
one side
Type in the desired length
Type yes when asked about resizing group
Explode group

Regards,
Bob

Thank you Bob for responding,

But the ruby i request could help to contruct all types of triangles ,scalene if no sides are equal;isosceles if two sides are equal;equilateral if three sides are equal.

greetings ,

Bep van Malde

@remus said:

You can sort of do this with the polygon tool, just set the number of sides to 3...

If you need irregular triangles, you could then just alter it with the move tool, and with some simple maths you could have pretty much any triangle that takes your fancy.

Yes Remus i know it is possible this way and probebly some other ways ,but they are all to cumbersome doing this many-many times ,or to complicated.
I realy would like to skip the math and let the ruby do all of that time after time.

Dear Ruby programmers,
Sketchup is still missing a very simple basic tool that would be very useful to many users.
There is no way to precisely draw a triangle with known side-lengths.(= Trilateration).
A Triangle ruby could do that.
It could function as follows.

You first activate the triangle ruby.
You would be prompted to draw the first line of the triangle the normal way.
Then the sticky sort of help-line at your cursor with its origin from the first line should appear to let you choose the plane the triangle should be drawn on.
At the same time you should be prompted to fill in the value control box with the two remaining side-lengths of the triangle (counter clockwise?) probably separated with ; .
After the Enter command these lines would be drawn.

Could some of you please make this ruby?

Greeting,

Bep van Malde

Welkom Oskar,

Please tell us what your are planning to do with your resizing ruby,

Greetings,

Bep van Malde

And of course ,this new technic (stil beta)
http://www.pixdim.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=120&Itemid=55

Bep van Malde

Hello Sketchuppers,

Read this articel about video tracing in development ,its maby the next step for the Photomatch technic.
http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/.

Greetings,

Bep van Malde

(To the moderator:If this is not the right place for my post ,please put it on the right subforum)

Hi,

Try Turbocad ,i am working with the pro 11 version at this time its about $50,- now.
Version 14 is already out.
It has a very helpfull user forum,its easy to learn ,yet it has great potential.

Greetings,
Bep van Malde

Guten Nacht ,Schlaf gut.

Bep

Hallo Azuby

• einen Kreis erstellen
• dann eine normale Fläche erstellen
• durch bloßes Drüberfahren über den Kreis versuchen, den Kreismittelpunkt zu ermitteln - ging bei mir nicht

Geht bei mir schon,Ich hab auch noch nach das erstellen von die Flächen erst mahl Sketchup beëndet und wider hochgefahren und dan ehrts bemast und den Mittelpunkt erfast um eine Linië zur erstellen vom Mittelpunkt.

Gruss Bep

kreiss.skp

Es muste schon in Sketchup gespeichert sein das es mit den Kreis-tool erstelt ist,
Denn auch nacher kan Ich einen wie einen Kreis mit Diameter bemassen ,und auch den mittelpunkt zuruckfinden.

Gruss Bep

HAllo Azuby,

Vieleicht kan man sobald eine Fläche einen "center" Mittelpunkt hat ,diesen al Kreis zu akzeptieren.

Schönen Gruss,

Bep van Malde