Ok. Thanks. I was afraid of that. Maybe I'll write a ruby to set them with one click.

Go to:

and download angle_between.rb

Put the plugin in your Plugins folder

Regards,
Bob

Dear Chris,

Go to:

and then download angle_between.rb

Regards,
Bob

@unknownuser said:

Chunky Bacon.

Ok. This is seriously out there. Seriously. Thanks for the reference.

While reading this little ditty, I found the Ruby Bride and the RDE, which I will try out.

Chunky Bacon....

chris

@rob d said:

Chris

Thanks for the hint on using the xref ruby. I hadn't realised you could xref components with it too. That's made my day! 😍

Well don't get too ecstatic. The tool is sort of broken. If you have a file with components which themselves are made of components you have to be careful. If you modify a component several 'layers' down and then open the top most file, the xref manager will want to update that component and it's parent component. Unfortunately this will send the ruby and Sketchup off into never-never land as it is evidently a circular reference.

I've asked TIG (the author) to modify the xref ruby to only show the components inserted directly in the file (not any of the 'children') but he has failed to respond.

You can work around this by setting the update on all the lower level child components to OK in the manager and only updating the highest level children.

In SolidWorks we call these parts and assemblies, but since that nomenclature is not present in Sketchup, I'm attempting to adapt ;>

I posted a file in the xref ruby discussion area. You can download it and see what I'm driving at. Perhaps if more people poke TIG he will fix the script.

Have fun,

chris

If the EULA says you cant redistribute it, i wouldnt get your hopes up for publishing it yourself.

Definetly worth gettign in comtct with the SU team to see wether theyd be interested or not, as this could add some major functionality to the program. I suppose the only caveat would be if you wanted to charge or not, which would be pretty reasonable as far as im concerned!

So i reckon, just talk to the SU team and see what they have to sya aobut it, im certainly gunning for you 👍

@bcoleman001 said:

Thanks Chris! I was looking on their main site. No wonder I couldn't find it.

Glad I could help.

cd