@pilou said:

So...Move along!
Axis's Cylinder Component are middle bottom
but even anywhere Plugin takes middle circle as base cliked!

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Thanks pilou, "Move Along" did the trick!

@pilou said:

@unknownuser said:

Add align Component

That is the name of the script by SDmitch to use!
And luckily, it's also the first of the list!

I can't make more!
Maybe just to tell you how install a plugin ?
Load the plugin, as it's a file ".rb" and you have a Windows System says your profil
Compress it for have a ".zip" file (if you have not http://www.7-zip.org/ but use Zip format)
Rename the zip file ".zip" in ".rbz"

Now From Sketchup Menu Window/ Preferences/ Extensions / Install Extension/ load the
"add&Allign Component.rbz"
Close SketchUp
Re launch SketchUp

Plugin will be Menu Plugins (or Extension, I don't remember)
SDM Tools / CorG Tool / add&Allign Component

Have fun Modeling!

[highlight=#ffff00:1o8gz9a7]Thanks Pilou,
I have installed it correctly now and reloaded SU and when I click on the object I get a Ding sound so something is obviously wrong. Is the plugin compatible with SU 2017?[/highlight:1o8gz9a7]

PS
@unknownuser said:

What exactly do you mean by that?

That is more easy method for align any volumes (Components with tricky axis - not only a cylinder)
in any alignment in the 3D space to a Guide line or line o 2 clicks in any position in the 3D Space!
So a dream for the user! Just 5 clicks!

@pilou said:

It was writed!

@unknownuser said:

Add align Component by Sdmitch must be the more easy for any volume!

[highlight=#ffff00:1tk3c4yp]What exactly do you mean by that?[/highlight:1tk3c4yp]

@pilou said:

With the Sdmitch one!
Carreful : the axis' components can play on the result! So put them following you wish!

• Call the Plug
• Click the Component
• Click 2 point on the Component
• Click 2 points anywhere on the Guide line, repeat on the Guide Line for another copy...
  et voilà!

Here the axes are at the middle bottom of the cylinder

Click Image for see Animation!

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PS For put easilly axe you can use Axes tools by Thomthom

[highlight=#ffff80:2e106vqd]What is the name of the plugin? Sam D Mitch has several plugins.[/highlight:2e106vqd]

I'm trying to align a piece of tube to a guideline which is at an angle to the X, Y and Z axes. How do I do it in a simple way?

@box said:

Sounds like you have made it a glue to component.
Right click on it and see if the option UnGlue is in the context menu.

Yes, the Unglue is in the context menu. I clicked it and now I can move it up and down. I have to find out what this Unglue is, never seen it before. Thanks!

I have created a dynamic door component and I am trying to align it with the door post. I need to move slightly up and whatever I try it won't move upwards. I try with inference and holding down the Shift key or using the Arrow Up key but nothing works. When I try to move it up it moves away and trying to move it down it moves towards me. I was wondering if there is something with the way I created the dynamics of the component that causes this. Any ideas?

@pcmoor said:

Hi

Checked DC, correct and works fine. could you check the axis 0f the model you have inserted it and see if it changed the DC axis?

I checked the axes and they are OK. I tried to import the DC again into my project and it appeared as in the picture although the DC doesn't look like that. I then tried RELOAD on the DC and it corrected itself. I think that I have imported the DC before, scaled it and got this wrong form and the saved it by mistake. Could it be that my project 'remembers' what my DC looked like before? Now it all works but I don't understand what's happening behind the scene in SU.

@pcmoor said:

LenZ "
=15.1 cm" indicates an error, which can stop the DC from working (=15.1 would be correct without the "cm")

could you upload the DC?

otherwise open and check the axis of the DC, this can be corrected (right click a part of the axis and place) and then close and save it as a component (use right context menu)

Here is the DC

Corrugated metal roof

Strange things happen with my corrugated sheet metal roof DC. The attributes look like in picture 1. If I import it into an empty project the repeating function works but the attributes now look like in picture 2. If however I import it into my house project it doesn't work anymore. The 'creases' multiply but they become elongated. The attributes look like in picture 2. Is it normal not to see the sub-component in the attributes? It is very confusing. Can someone tell me what's happening?