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@rv1974
I draw in Procreate on my iPad. The first book has sold well but not that I can live from it. Working part time and writing part time for now.

well . ..based on what you had shown in the past... they will be terrific.

Good luck!

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

I just stumbled upon this thread.
I'm really sorry you lost you job Jan!

You sure are one heck of an illustrator, be it 3D or 2D. These are amazing, I'd love to purchase your books for my kids! Let us know when they get published 😄

Thanks.
I’l let you know if or when any of them are published.

Very cool! Thanks for reminding me of the film. We watched all his films in college. Also all different European films.

~~Then I get:

{@myid}

I'm doing it inside a:

sel.each {|e| puts"{@myid}"; e.definition.set_attribute("A", "Id", @myid) }

~~

Edit:

Doh! 😳 It was all a small typo with a D instead of a d.
Works as it should now.

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:

step/ increment value, e.g. 2m (move every 2m) 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.

If the vector is given in world coordinates, then you need the total transformation from the top model to the component.

This is not something you can derive from the component itself. Usually it comes from

a picking process in an interactive tool or the knowledge of the chain of containers from the top model down to the component

v1.1.1 Small fix so that the plugin remember last used values.

Looks great!

A major drawback is that you'd be modifying the model entities with every change of the camera.

Currently changing the camera position or even the active scene does not set the modified? flag.

Thank you Pixero. Useful shortcut, not to think about UI.

What they actually said was:

@unknownuser said:

Large Area Imports for Add Location. You can now easily import large sites at full resolution. How can you take advantage of this new feature? Simply zoom out a bit, then select the level from which you want to import. Be aware that importing very large areas with lots of imagery can adversely affect performance in your SketchUp model. Note that this feature is only available to SketchUp Pro and Studio subscription holders.

This is still limited to a certain image quality level which is what you pay for as part of the subscription cost. Full resolution is the not highest resolution. Higher quality imagery is available for a price and it can be had via Placemaker.

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Ruby 2.x+ (SketchUp 2014+)

[String#start_with?](https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.0.0/String.html#method-i-start_with-3F)

ie ...

if e.definition.name.start_with?("MyComp")

... or ...

if e.definition.name.start_with?("Door","Window")

Thanks. Ill try that.

Thanks for clarifying it.
I had a hard time finding my own plugin in the menu and thought something was wrong with the code. 🤣

HI Pixero!
I can confirm its all working as it should!!
Fantastic

Would you permit a little feedback? maybe there could be a further addition to the process - the pull down menu is fine - could there be an extra function after it (or replace it with) - an arrow button that rotates the grp/comp? this degates repeating the process if one gets the axis wrong (or bad modeling in my case)

anyway Thanks again for a very useful plugin!!

Cheers
Chris

I am finding SU slow to load as well, too many plugins, I suspect.
I am in the habit of always having SU open, even if just a blank file.

'Containers' are groups or component-definitions, which 'contain' entities - they are usually referred to as 'entities-collections' - but 'containers' is synonymous...

Before the line starting angle...
Add in these to see what the arguments you pass are

out the possible obj_axis permutations and retest...

` p e
p tr

p a_vector
p obj_axis

p a_vector.to_a
p obj_axis.to_a`

If one or both of them are NOT vectors, then we've got somewhere...