Hello, Pixero!

Recently I had a thought:
Would you consider adding STEP functionality to your plugin? I mean setting minimum increment for any transformation, e.g. rotate every 15 degrees from 0 to 45 degrees. Or move any 10m from 0 to 50m. Or scale every 2x from 1 to 6x etc.
I think this could be done with two parameters:

1. step/ increment value, e.g. 2m (move every 2m)
2. multiplier for scope, e.g. 1x - 3x, which will result in 3 possible transformation results: 2m, 4m, 6m.

This would be very useful for "semi-randomization", when you want your groups to randomly rotate every 90 degrees roughly, in order to retain sense of orthogonality (sorry if there's no word like this ).

And one more suggestion, if I may:
Is it possible to link this thread under plugin's main page? I mean this page:
https://sketchucation.com/plugin/2254-chaos
so that people could instantly access the discussion when seeing the plugin.

Hello!
I'd love to have a version of this plugin which respects group's local axes over world's (model's or global axes or whatever it's called).
Currently, if I select nested geometry and try to align it, it will align according to world's axes. In my opinion, more logical (and useful too!) would be relying on group's axes, because right now, if the whole group is rotated (so its axes don't match world axes) and I open it and align nested entities, they will be aligned incorrect in relation to group's bounds.

Also, when aligning groups it would be nice to have choice whether aligning takes geometry into account (current behaviour) or just origins of groups.

This plugin also has a problem with losing selection after performing UNDO.

I know this is an old script but perhaps somebody would take it and include any of these improvements.

@fredo6 said:

Here it is....

The option is in the Default Parameters.

Fredo

Thank you reeely much! You are fantastic

@fredo6 said:

The calculation of the report may take time, in seconds.

So, an automatic recalculation on any change of a selection could be counterproductive, as you may want to select several objects in a row.

That's why currently ReportArea just highlight the Refresh button in Red when a change of selection takes place.

Still, I think this could be an option. Not a default one, but an available setting. I personally use this tool for low number of faces and with fast computer. Auto-recalculation would not be counterproductive for me. But it's just a suggestion

Hi!
Is it possible with Report On Areas to auto-refresh calculation when selection is changed?

Hello,
I have a problem with importing Blend files. There is a model in Blender containing one object with all faces touching each other, so the object is "water-tight", "3D-printable" and there are no "border edges" (every edge is connected to two faces).
When I import it to SketchUp, some faces stay connected but some disconnect, leaving doubled vertices living nearby but not touching each other. This basically makes a broken mesh.
Can something be done with this issue - either manually, or within the plugin?
I tried exporting from Blender to OBJ, then to SketchUp. It fixes the issue if I use ThomThom's QFT OBJ importer but introduces another issue - missing some faces.

The BLEND model is in the ZIP archive because SketchUcation won't let me post BLEND files.

not all faces stick together.skp

CruiseShip old big.zip

If this could be done in the future as an option/ toggle/ alternative, cuz really not everybody may want this, it would be super, super cool!

Hello,

I got two questions.

First one is:
Is there any way/shortcut to force scaling box align to group's/ world axes?

Second one is a request:
When we use shear tool for specific edges/faces, not for entire groups, it kind of "pulls" any edges/faces attached to transformed part of mesh. This is very nice behaviour because we can not only shear groups/ components but also fragments of meshes and they will keep continuity - they will stay "glued together" as they were originally. On the other hand, taper tool doesn't behave that nicely. Do you think you could change the plugin a little (if you have time) so that taper behaviour would be similar to shear tool?
Here's a screenshot:

Hello,
Would it be possible to support importing loose edges from Blender? When a mesh contains faces, it imports properly but if there are only edges, they don't get imported.
It would also be cool if separate Blender objects would be imported to separate SketchUp groups. But I'm aware this can be a lot of work to code.

@tuna1957 said:

Go back to page 20 of this thread. There’s a short video posted that goes over the cool new stuff. A lot has been added

Just a thought for the admins... maybe this thread could be split ? One for all the existing and new Vertex1 questions and a new thread for Vertex2 starting with Thomas’s Vertex2 announcement ?

tuna1957, I am asking exactly about the latest version 2.0.3, not 2.0.0. The changelog is not very accurate.

Sorry then, I didn't know that

Hello,
I found no better column for this thread so forgive me if it should be placed somewhere else.
I got a problem that my message got stuck in Outbox. I guess it hasn't been sent. Sent messages are placed in "Sent messages" tab, right?
Thing is, I want to change my nickname to "Michal.p" and I posted a PM to Gaieus asking him for doing it. Perhaps someone else could do it for me?

Also, I would kindly have a suggestion for improving the forum. Currently, we can only post image attachments up to 1600x1600 px. Who uses such resolution these days? What about increasing max. res. to FullHD, as almost everybody uses at least this screen resolution, and we wouldn't have to make extra steps downscaling or cropping our screenshots? This wouldn't make a huge difference to servers, I guess.

Thank you

What was added in v2.0.3?

What was added in v2.1.6? I cannot find an accurate changelog.

If you only bought Vertex Tools 1 licence, it doesn't work with Vertex Tools 2. 2nd version is way more elaborate tool and I guess that's why the Author charges more for VT2.

I actually DID delete contents, not just hide layers. Though, it stayed hidden somewhere in the file! I'll do some googling about cleaning up CAD files.

Well, the result are, little to say, interesting. At first glimpse it actually imported more text than the source file contained. I know, I know, this is not possible. Thing is, I saved DWG, then removed most of the text, then saved DXF. Looks like AutoCAD didn't really remove stuff from the file, just obscured it from view. I also have problems with scale but this can be my fault.
I need more time to test the new version carefully. Lotsa errands to run these days but I will let you know.
Thank you very much for the update!

Well, I didn't do any kind of sorcery over that text It is simply AutoCAD text and dimensions.
I would be very thankful if you could resolve it but don't bother if you don't have time.

If I only import text, without any other stuff, is it still relevant that DXF native and your import options must match?

I now removed most of the text before saving to DXF, to do a little, easy test-drive.
Console closed.
I used the same units - first saved DWG in AutoCAD in millimetres, then saved DXF, then imported to SketchUp as millimetres.
Still no success.
Where are the import options settings? Do you mean regular DXF import?

Should it work with SU 2020?
Because it doesn't work for me. I saved from AutoCAD as old version of DXF as possible (2000/LT2000 DXF) and imported the file into SketchUp. All relevant layer were ON.
SketchUp only imported an empty layer on which I had my dimensions but did not import a layer on which I had text. In statistics it shows no entities.
CTRL+A results in empty selection. Also there is nothing to unhide.

Could you please take a look at the DXF, maybe try to import it and help me track the issue?
I have no other version of SketchUp to try.

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