Jim, it does works like a charm - fantastic - Thank You!

EDIT: ok, it seems to suspend 'while using' the space navigator: when you fly, the pages are not saved, as you stop flying, they start saving again..

Thanks Jim... i will try not to move from the chair..

Hi Jim - yes, we already talked (and tried) that script (recorder)
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=5870&p=37034&hilit=+navigator+cadfather#p37034

it doesn't really work - i think if i can get a view saved every sec, i could do a 30 second journey with the space navigator and my prediction/hope is that the scenes would be much better than any other process so far tried..

is it possible to automatically save a scene every second?

haven't got the right gratitude icons for this magnificent gift: Thank-You-and-Many-Blessings Mr Fredo!

Sketchy Panner has been in my mind for sometime..

here's the idea: sketchy styles are great but they are not detailed.

when i have had big plans so far, i have been using this trick:
i zoom in close in plan view (no perspective) > save the scene > move a little > save the scene > move a little > save the scene etc etc etc - later of course i join all the bits together and get a really great detailed sketched effect (sorry i can't post the sample).

if i was a ruby master i'd go about it this way:

1 - get the extents of the model
2 - set a definable grid to contain the model
3 - find the top center of each square (like the vertex of a pyramid)
4 - save a scene in top view

at this point one can apply the preferred style and batch export the jpg scenes via animation.

if the ruby could get the extents of each grid properly, alignment in PS/Gimp would be a matter of minutes - if not it would stil save many hours (at least at my speed).

the look of the style changes slightly as you move the model but for the sketchy effect it is not a great problem...

what do the masters think?

Thank you TIG - i'll give it a try - it's a plug in i've been thinking about for some time..

that's it Frederik, just let me know and i'll fix you a meeting with the cadfather! - it can be a very inspiring place and Gai you are right, lots to enjoy for the historian. if you ever need a guide, i have revisited many places but never mind doing it again. (EDIT: e.g ..where the athenians were kept prisoners by the syracusans - or paleolithic graves carved high along the walls of a canyon)

btw if people don't mind the bullets (they're filled with freshly crushed melon ice cream)
i can help sorting it out - just need to write a couple of paper notes...(seriously)...

yes, but only if you already have extruded faces..

Didier's projections also does that - it also extrudes by random heights..

Sicily. warm, great food, not expensive, and best sights in the world.

i'm sure you all have the right tools for the trade but i found this to be a great little friend - notepad 2

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/NewReleaseOfNotepad2UpdatedAgainWithRubySupport.aspx

..time we had floating shorcuts!

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Thanks Whaat - i have the feeling you will come back to it again if only as a module for something else.. very interesting!

well..if it's ever in london - you can count on me with all sorts of issues.

why not poll a number of locations around europe to see the distrubution as well?

(sicily for me )

Fredo, here's some icons - see if you like them...

i noticed that the draw line cursor is the same as the draw line icon on the toolbar.

this is not good because the sizes differ (toolbars are 24x24 - cursors 32x32)
so i created a cursor called 'ofs_draw_Dline.png' - you just need to tweak the script to fit this update and then the tip of the pencil will fall right on the line as you draw.

cheers

OFS_Dir.zip

fantastic, i used to get some persistent error message at times - end task being the only way out - i'll report if any.. Thank You

now i bevel just about anything..

THIS IS INSANE!

ah..not so easy then..

to clarify: once you install the FS plugin, you assign it a key shortcut - [K]

you click on K and SU is waiting for you to type a second key (as if you were in preferences > shortcuts) - SU knows which tool you are using and will use this knowledge to assign the command to a second key.

..this second key is always the same key - it would be useful even with one floating key (doesn't have to be a function key), # for example.

hope someone can...it would be a real useful feature,

here's the idea (which should really be in any program)

• select a tool [say mirror]

• press a key [K]

• sketchup waits for you to choose a new key [F2 or F3 or F4]

• you press F2 and that becomes the temporary shorcut key for mirror.

• now you do something else, say you select 'pipe along path'

• press K

• sketchup waits for you to choose a new key [F2 or F3 or F4]

if you choose F2 you will overwrite the shorcut key for mirror
you can still choose F3 or F4 so having a system of three floating shorcuts

still one bug though, needs someone to write it!