I'm not sure I understand your problem, that plugin creates lines in a group that can be edited in any normal way.

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RE: Sine waves and Fourier series
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RE: Business Card stack.
You'll find Component Stringer here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=23616
Watch the vid and look through the posts and you'll quickly understand how it works, very simple and useful.As to exactly what I did,
I made one card.
I measured a card I had here, it was 85mm X 55mm and looked like about 1/3 of a mm thick.
I Scaled up by 10,
so I drew a rectangle 850mm X 550mm and push/pulled to 3.3mm.
added the card texture.
Made that a component.
Shifted the Axis of the component to a point roughly on the diagonal between the corner and the centre.Drew a line on the blue Axis 33mm (being 100 X 3.3mm) and divided it into 100.
Selected the line and the component and activated component stringer.
Chose Scaling/None and Component Rotation/ 0.2
Then hit OK, and you have a stack of 100 each rotated around the moved axis point by .2Deg.Then with the tape measure I resized the model back down to 85mm.
You can do smaller sections if you want the stack to move around more, or even use a curved line.
Hope that helps.
I'm sure there are still better ways to do this but that is how my beginner mind worked it out.I've added the model below if you want it.
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RE: Sketchup User Help
Your thread title might be slowing down viewers, or perhaps it's just late at night.
What you are wanting can certainly be done by people on this site.
It might help if you gave a little more information, things like
When do you need it?
Is it serious or does it have a bit of humour to it?
What sort of feeling are you after/is it a booth for a trade show where everyone's in the business and knows your Logo or should it be eye catching to new customers.
Is it something you would like to use more than once?
Do you know the Fonts used in the Logo?
Should your figure be working hard or is he so skilled it just slips into place?
Is he alone, or is he working as part of a team?
Are there any specific tools or symbolism that might work well with what you want?I did a very quick model to help with your thinking, the wall/image/structure you are pushing the logo into, does it have some significance?
Does the CMA tie different groups together, is it a cornerstone or does it dovetail in nicely? (Hence the cutouts in the Logo.)
In other words, what sort of structure would be significant to the people visiting your booth?Anyway, that's just me pushing your post to the top of the page for you.
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RE: Business Card stack.
I believe he is talking about Fredoscale, as mentioned above.
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RE: Business Card stack.
I've not a lot of experience, so I'm sure there are faster and better ways to do this but,
I created one card with some thickness and made it a component.
Then copied it 20 times, roughly rotated them from the corner, copied and rotated that stack and you have a stack of 40. -
RE: Business Card stack.
Thanks Jean, I have no problem doing that, was just looking for more of an automation.
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RE: Business Card stack.
This one intrigued me, so I had a bit of a play. The type of structure is useful for me in other things so I was curious about a quick way of doing it.
Baz, I was trying fredoscale when you posted, but I wasn't really able to get the desired result.
I was probably using it wrong, but I found it sloped the edges of the cards in the twist.So I asked a quick question, which was immediately answered by rclub24 who pointed me to Chris Fullmer's Component Stringer. Wonderful plugin!
So a little play with that to work it out and then I jumped on my bike and roared off to my Doc appointment, a short 100mile loop, it's only about 20 in the car.
So to cut a long story short, too late I hear you say, with a freshly cleared head I sat down and made this 100 card stack in about 15min.
Basically, make your one card component, do a few calculations to get the spacing right, move the axis of the component to the point you want it to rotate from, draw a line the height of the stack you want and use Component Stringer to create the rest and rotate them.It's a little too smooth but it gives a nice effect and is very quick to make.
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RE: Rotate and Move at same time?
A few clicks and the "thanks" is on it's way.
And a verbal thanks too Chris.
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RE: Rotate and Move at same time?
Interestingly, component stringer does exactly what I described perfectly. A brilliant way of making spiral staircases. But
My only problem with it is it ....... hang on, just going back to my test........
Nope, no problem, just dawned on me to move the axis and it does what I want.
Excellent!! Thanks once again.
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Rotate and Move at same time?
I know how to rotate and copy, move and copy etc but it seems there must be a way to Rotate and Move and Copy.
For example I have watched several videos about making spiral stairs, they rotate and copy then lift and copy which creates a cylinder of sections.
Is it not possible to Rotate and Lift and Copy then 10x so that it just makes a spiral of treads.I use the stairs as reference so you know what I mean, but I see it as being very useful for many things.
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RE: Making Curve Coplanar
Thomthom's Vertex tools will do it for you too.
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RE: [Plugin] Torus 1.0
That is thanks to you, it's one of your Toruses/Tori/torum.
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RE: How Steve Job found the time to be successful!
Does he use one of those tight fitting rubbery cases for his zip antenna, and if so does he find the textured ones provide greater sensitivity in his reception?
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RE: US Architects: Do You Use the Word 'Plant'...
The plant term brings back many childhood memories for me.
In Australia we also call diggers, road construction vehicles, things of that sort "Plant" and often "Heavy Plant".So you can imagine a kid sitting in the back of the car being driven through the countryside seeing a sign saying
................. Dad Dad, don't go this way there are Triffids!!!!
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RE: ViewBuild - challenging Sketchup
I think he is producing something seriously 3Dimensional.
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RE: Question about music?
VLC http://www.videolan.org/ is another very good free player, plays nearly every format.
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RE: Scenes within scenes?
Jean, thanks for the suggestions, I had looked at it that way already but I'm really wanting to be able to work with one file. The size may be prohibitive but I'll get to that eventually.
Chris, Namesets looks very good, I've had a little play with it with my morning coffee. I'll delve into it further later and I'm sure I will have some questions for you.