Is there an existing plug-in to change the radius of polygons
FROM the apex points of the outer sides
TO being perpendicular to the line segments

This would be useful when attempting to draw the octagon in the 1st attached picture.

I am currently achieving the desired result by drawing an over sized octagon, rotating it 22.5°, then re-scaling it about the centre-point until it fits at a very zoomed in view.
or just reverting to maths on paper...

This would be very useful for the above use case (see attached pic)
but also, as circles are approximated by polygons, the current setting is stuck on showing the maximum radius of the approximated circle, though sometimes the minimum would be more useful. (again, better explained by the picture attached)

Thanks!
Mike

does this work for windows 10?

i'm using SU make 2015, but i have 2016 too just to be able to open and re-save in 2015 friendly format. Does anyone else do that? I can't be bothered to set everything how i like it from scratch every year... and i preferred autonomy of size and location of entity info and layers, etc...

i'm just a tad scared of anything in the registry as it's way over my head, so advice appreciated in advance of tinkering.

Thanks
mike

Hi,

Is there a plug-in (and if not, i reckon it'd be popular and simple to program) that helps one choose the best angle to export a jpg for then super-imposing on a photo background? i.e. import a photo background that stays static as model is rotated until both look right together.

No, I'm not talking about photo-matching...

Let me explain with an example:

I'm making an archway for a festival. I have a photo of the empty site. I've made a 3D model.
I now need to export a jpg of my model from the right angle so that when i super-impose it (in paint.net) it will look right on the photo.

Trial and error works eventually, but it would be so much easier if there was a plug-in or option that allowed me to import the site background photo (or a portion of it), and display it AS SKETCHUP'S BACKGROUND, that remains still irrespective of the orbit, pan and walk tools. This would allow me to place camera, walk, orbit, etc to get the right angle of the model.

That alone would be amazingly useful for me and i'm sure many others who use sketchup to make proposals. But some extra export options could be:

1. exports just the model from chosen angle on standard background (ie no change to current 2D export option, so standard background can be removed and the model can be superimposed manually in an external photo editor)
   OR 2) exports model straight onto the imported photo background, ie a screengrab
   OR 3) exports as .png with no background, and even possibly keeping semi-transparency info (ie of windows)

Cheers peeps