Topics created by ninomayda

@rv1974 said:

If job must be done solve it brute way:
I'take what you've RoundCorner created and manually purge and stitch problematic areas and then soften back. In your specific case it'd take ~15 min.
There's an alternative to bend the orthogonal 'wall' containing filleted hole (see Flowify or CLF Shape Bender) but it could be less accurate.
P.S. I'd recommend to contact Fredo6 and show him your case may be he'll refine his filleting algorithm in the future.

Thanks for taking the time to look at this. Brute Way is the path I know. Wanted to see if there's a newer manner with a bit more finesse.

Don't want to bother Fredo with this. He's doing a SUPERB job. This challenge gets down into a Level Of Detail that, in my opinion, goes beyond the Scope on his Magnificent Scripts.

Again; Thanks
Nino

Yes, the Save_As in the CAD app could go back, even to r2000, the DWG's geometry/layers etc imported into SketchUp will be unaffected by that... but newer things like DC's, which could break it, are not supported in those earlier DWG formats, so they are avoided...

SketchUp/OpenGL can't cope with very large distances, it's designed for nothing much bigger than groups of buildings [conversely very small sizes have issues too].
You will get inaccuracies, 'clipping planes' and all manner of problems otherwise.

I assume you are importing CAD data ?
The Import dialog's Options let you choose to ignore the CAD origin, and it will then place the imported geometry inside a component located at the SKP origin - not miles away.

If there is one common 'point' in the CAD and SKP you can then easily Move that component and snap it into place [then lock it].
Your issues might not be over...
If the CAD file contains blocks that become components when imported there is no issue if the blocks origin is placed near its geometry, but if the block's origin is at the CAD origin and the geometry miles away then similar clipping issues etc can still happen... to fix it explode these groups, or if you want to keep the separation select it and use the context-menu 'change-axes' to relocate the component's axes near its geometry - you can see components' axes if you set it under Model Info.
Another rarer glitch is with blocks imported into the CAD file, initially using the wrong units, that are then scaled down by say 1/1000 in the CAD file, rather than their geometry scaled down by that, so when they become SKP components they are actually in the database 1000x bigger that expected, so a CAD-house-block >> SKP-house-component that measures 10m in the model might actually be 10km inside its definition ! To fix that you can rescale the definition in the context-menu...

I am a ,I have a question for SketchUp 2013. when I install this FAK Follow Me And Keep it doesn't work. So how can I install?

You simply right click on one of the axis lines (over empty space otherwise you do not get the context menu of the axes but that of the entity under your cursor). There is the "Reset" menu item if the axes have been moved from the original world axes during any modelling phase.

The standard views always follow this original world axes, no matter how you move your axes around. This is why a box modelled according to a (temporary) working axis system, will be out of axis.

QWhen setting a temporary axis, one needs to be careful not to change the red/gree plane (if it is for such a model) otherwise the building won't be vertical. This is why it's best to align these temporary axes to something already "flat" and horizontal in the model (like the GE Snapshot)

@daredevil said:

There is no problem to enter the value in a text box in the Component option windows AND let the user manualy scale it.
If you have a problem to do that, send us the file to understand the problem.

Is it that simple? It is more complicated when you want to put constraints on the value such as snapping to whole numbers, or making minimum length.

@daredevil said:

@daredevil said:

Same with RAND()...
If the formula is the same, the result is the same.

@jim said:

Here's what I did. 3 identical formulas, 3 different values between 1 and 5.

I was intresded with your video : all the opposite to my experience !!
So... I tested and tested again, and finally I understand why !!! 😄

If you type in uppercase (RAND() or RANDBETWEEN(1,5)) or use the help to insert function (that write it in uppercase), same formulas produce same result.
But if you write in lowercase (rand() or randbetween(1,5)) each folmula produce a different result, the random is "realy" random !

If you use mixed case, Rand() produce same result as other Rand(), but different to RaNd() that produce same as other RaNd()...

I used to type in uppercase in DC, but now, I will always use lowercase, like in Ruby 😆

Thanks Jim for you exemple 👍

If anybody was going to provide an answer . . . . it was shure to be SketchUcation. THANKS.

It's OK 😉
A friend of mine says "computers ? it's easy : just work with 0 and 1... but sometime there are many mysterious thinks between them..." 😉