Topics created by Builder Boy

Post in Sketchy Physics forum - it's their bug not Sketchup's... or PM its moderator, to tool's author...

@builder boy said:

@tig said:

http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/edge.html#split ???

This will only split a line into 2 segments with controllable proportions, I am looking for something more like this:
edge.divide(5) # for 5 equal-length segments

It'd be easily enough to make a custom 'divide' method that works as you want - you know the edge's starting length and therefore the length of one divided part. So simply iterate through the edge the number of divisions-1 nibbling off the appropriate proportion as another edge until you are done. I don't recommend extending the Edge class but more like this...
self.divide(edge,5)
calling this

def divide(edge=nil, num=nil) return nil if not edge or edge.class!=Sketchup;;Edge return nil if not num or not num.class==Fixnum or num<=1 len=edge.length bit=len/num.to_f num.times{ begin nedge=edge.split(bit/len) if nedge edge=nedge len=edge.length end#if rescue puts 'Divide Error' end } end

Which splits the specified edge into the specified parts...

@pichuneke said:

Perhaps you could make clouds with this plugin... at least the typical ones from anime, or a comic.

I can also see my plugin making lightning. ☀

I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve...
This might help [a bit] - it traps errors ..........

class MyEntitiesObserver < Sketchup;;EntityObserver def onChangeEntity(entity) width = entity.bounds.width.to_f model = Sketchup.active_model entities = model.active_entities pts = [] pts[0] = [0, 0, 0] pts[1] = [width, 0, 0] pts[2] = [width, width*2.0, 0] pts[3] = [0, width*2.0, 0] begin face = entities.add_face pts face.add_observer($mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm) entity.edges.each{|i| i.erase! if not e.edges[1]} rescue puts 'error' face.remove_observer($mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm) face.add_observer($mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm) end end end model = Sketchup.active_model entities = model.active_entities pts = [] pts[0] = [0, 0, 0] pts[1] = [1, 0, 0] pts[2] = [1, 2, 0] pts[3] = [0, 2, 0] face = entities.add_face pts $mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm=MyEntitiesObserver.new() face.add_observer($mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm)

I suggest you rename your observer as something less obvious... i.e. others might have used it !

@unknownuser said:

The reason I want SketchUp to work this way, is because I have so many plugins, SketchUp takes FOREVER to load. And with this plugin, I don't want to wait for 20 seconds before I can edit my component.

Also, why should I buy a $25.00 plugin when this is free?

I would pay $25 for multiple windows in one instance of SU and I didn't know about that component editor window... that is sweet I'll have to get that.

It's kind of plain. Some streets would look good.

It does not work properly, or else I am doing something wrong.

It does not preserve the orientation of the textures, especially on horizontal surfaces. They are not mirrored to the back face. They are merely painted with random orientation. Often they repeat numerous times.

We seem to be getting a real variety here with group-naming plugins: 😄

We have Thom's basic group-naming plugin at http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=23582
and Jim's plugin at
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=9318 which adds the drop-down list capability

This one makes the layer name the same as the group name.

Cool, sounds like something fun to do late at night while listening to some heavy trance music or something hehehe.

...and where the driver?...virtual? 😄

OK, thanks. I have not tried it yet but then I will! I hope you do not mind my question

The reason I ask is because I'm very new to sketchup-ruby scripting. I enjoyed making pipe sculptures, so I got the free version of 3SKENG when it was avalable. (it's not available for a free download anymore :evil: ) So I said why not give myself a challenge and try to make 3SKENG myself. I just wanted the plugin to create the geometry, without any mouse gestures or vcb. I allready knew how to use UI.inputbox, so I decided to just use that. (does anyone know how to redefine the defaults to match the last usage?) I was hoping someone knew a simple lathe tool. So far I'v got it to make all the circles in the curve, but I don't know how to connect them.

PS. Sorry I yelled. :ashamed:

Google, you should also read this!

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/iPad-Avatar-autodesk-Maya-3ds-Max,news-8838.html

@unknownuser said:

Autodesk has been around for a long time, offering well-known platforms including AutoCAD, Maya, 3ds Max and many others. The company also provides iOS version including AutoCAD WS, Inventor Publisher Mobile Viewer, Fluid FX, and SketchBook Mobile. While Bass didn't provide numbers regarding the SketchBook app, he said it was a "big hit."

"We've been in the business for 28 years, and 10-12 million copies of our software have been purchased to date," Bass said. "That's a lot, but it's only an average of 11 million over all the years, and all of a sudden half a million people bought the software at the application store. This was the cheapest project we ever did, which reached more people than any other project. It surprised me."

☀

Thats great...
Thank U very much and keep up!

Now I'm left wondering who Builder Boy?

@unknownuser said:

Well, for start, you could type in lowercase 😄 Because if your variable name starts with capital letter, ruby takes it as CONSTANT. You are lucky that ruby lets to redefine constants, most of programming languages don't allow 😄. This is why you get the warning.
use something like this, it's easier to read and those are local variables, not constants:

> x_size = input[0].to_f > y_size = input[1].to_f > z_size = input[2].to_f >

Thanks! it works perfectly now!

I've got a plugin that lets you manipulate the camera differently than scenes really allow. Rick wilsons also has a few camera tools. So there are ways to improve over just scenes, which is why I was asking if that was of interest here. But its looks like probably not the genre you are looking for.

Martin Reinhart was working on a plugin of some sort to help with moving objevts, though I never quite got into it.

Jim had a version of Mover at one point [EDIT: I see Jims is actually listed above arleady, great!)

Dynamic components are also a ruby script, and they allow some animation.

And Chris Glasier has also been working feverishly on a machine that plugs into SU and can help animate objects, though its scope is amazingly larger than just that. But you have to conatct him directly about it I think. I don't know if he's posted the source to it yet?

Sorry, not terribly helpful without direct links. But I just don't have the time to track them down right now.

Chris

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Check this out: It starts from a component but does allow you to name a layer from the component name and places that component on that new layer.

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=183&t=30750

2D Tools - Adjust Tool = extend line(s) by TIG can help too! (multiple selection possible)
Just Draw with the Offset tool a rectangle external from a face (with wished size)
Then call the plug all extensions are made just by one click + drag ☀