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@gilles said:
Very useful, I would love a rotated circle for years
Thanks a lot
OK, just how would you design this plugin, a circle through 3 points or maybe center, a point to define the radius, and a point to define the plane, or maybe the ends of the diameter and a point to define the plane. Please don't say "all of the above", pick one.
Updated to be SU 2014 compatible. Not tested in SU 2013
Fixed displacement some time caused by dimension entry.
In response to "draw box with 3 click"
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=45764
Version 1.2.1 The "@ent=@mod.entities" has been changed to "@ent=@mod.active_entities" so you can add boxes to any component or group that is open for edit. Is everyone happy now?
Version 1.2 If grouping is on, the axes are aligned to the group. MAC's use Alt key to toggle grouping.
Version 1.1 In addition to a few minor tweaks, grouping can be turned on and off using the Ctrl key.
Rotated Box is the natural extension of the long existing Rotated Rectangle with the 3rd dimension added. The Width, Depth, and Height can be defined graphically or keyed in. The plane is established by the three points that define the rectangle and a guide line is temporarily displayed to aid in the definition of the height. The resulting box is created as a group.
Yes, the railing and post system is premitive but I never intended it to be more and my intentions have not changed.
the.pjt,
Your English is alot better than my Arabic so no need to apologize. I usually prefer writing my on code rather than having to decipher someone elses then modify it. Since I was familiar with the existing Rotated Rectangle Tool, I did use it as the basis for Rotated Box and added the code necessary for the 4th point. In testing this plugin, I had the same problem with the display of the edges defining the box as it was being defined but it is only a display thing and has no effect on the final box created.
Get another copy of the previously posted Rotated Box plugin. It now operates on any plane.
Here is the beta version of Rotated Box. It now works above or below the plane defined by points 1,2, and 3.
The missing lines in the view is due to the current camera position and view aspect. Orbiting and zooming will solve this problem.
In your second post you specifically asked for a plugin that
@unknownuser said:
first click for base point , secound click for box X and Y and third click for its height (Z)
which is how I did it in my plugin. No mention of a rotated rectangle or faces or groups. Since it takes 3 clicks to draw a rotated rectangle, it is not possible to draw a box in 3 clicks.
If you refer back to my previous post, I asked if you wanted wireframe or faces. You didn't respond to my question nor have you ever mentioned that it should be grouped. Neither of which is any big deal but if you don't specify what you want then it is up to us to guess.
I made a modification so that you can now click and drag to define the base so now it is possible to draw the box in two clicks.
Are you looking for a wireframe box like the bounding box of a group or component or a solid box with faces?
I have never had a problem with File.open just the path string for the file regarding the use of "". The code I encluded in my last post was tested and worked in Ruby Web Console, Ruby Console, and a plugin.
It could be something as simple as trying to write a file to the root directory. Windows Vista says that I don't have access even from the admistrator account.
Try this
File;;open(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),'foo.txt'), 'wb') {|f| f.write $variablename }
which will create the file in the script directory.
Ruby uses the '' to quote the next character so in the script you either need to double the character '\' or use '/' instead.
'wb' ??? Sketchup uses Ruby 8.? version and this may not be supported. I don't find this context in my Ruby reference book.
@davecon said:
Thanks for the help so far everyone
I have got the hang of doing this on a straight line, now the complex bit is trying to do it on a spiral. Currently I am trying to turn the model on the left (spiral with even length lines) in the model on the right (spiral with lines increasing by XX per length)
[attachment=1:2ramdbm4]<!-- ia1 -->spiral lines.jpg<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:2ramdbm4]Ideally what I would like to be able to do is select the first line (red) and then the last line (green) and be able to input something like "starting the with the first line make all the others increase in XXmm increments"
Here is the file itself so far.
[attachment=0:2ramdbm4]<!-- ia0 -->spiral lines.skp<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:2ramdbm4]
Instead of going to the trouble of creating the equal length lines then extending them incrementally, I would make the "baseline", be it a flat spiral or a straight line divided into the desired number of segments, into a curve using weld and then you can create the lines originating from the curve's vertices.
The code to do this is as simple as this
mod = Sketchup.active_model
ent = mod.entities
sel = mod.selection
if !sel.empty? && sel.first.curve
vers=sel.first.curve.vertices
# d is initial length, i is the increment, and a is the direction vector
d=875.0.mm;i=87.5.mm;a=[0,0,-1]
for v in vers
p=v.position;pp=p.offset(a,d)
ent.add_line(p,pp)
d += i
end
else
UI.messagebox "select a curve"
end
It would be a monumental task to try to figure out the order of the equal length lines. When you select a group of anything, there is no guaranty that Sketchup will add them to the selection in the proper order. At least that has been my experience.
When I tried the plugin, I kept getting a canatnary drawn from the origin to my first pick point. Adding a @state = 0 to the def initialize method fixed this problem.
Unfortunately Stepping Stones doesn't work very well around "sharp" corners.
In Ruby, sub-routines are refered to as methods and are defined by "def method_name" as the first line and "end" as the last line. Modules contain any number of methods and are defined by "module Module_Name" as the first line and "end" as the last line. When a method is placed inside a module, it is normally coded def self.method_name where self. refers to the module containing it. Two modules can contain methods with same name but do different things and there is no conflict because the modules will have different names.
You should get a Ruby programming reference book if you ever expect to read and understand what the various code statements mean.
You can find a simple vertex counter of mine here.
My guess is no because you would have lost the relationship between the vertices that have been converted to construction points.
It needs to be included in a method and a module to identify and isolate it from the other plugins that may be loaded. I have made the necessary additions to allow you to copy the plugin to the plugins folder and have it appear in the plugins menu.
Please understand that this plugin, as written, applies to this single case only and the construction points near the model origin must be deleted before the plugin is run so that there are only the 2160 construction points that define the 6 rings.
What defines the 3rd ring?
I used this code to triangulate two of them after I figured out how they were ordered in the model.
mod = Sketchup.active_model
ent = mod.entities
sel = mod.selection
# collect the construction point locations in groups of 360
pts=[];ring=[]
ent.each{|e|
if e.class==Sketchup;;ConstructionPoint
ring<<e.position
if ring.length>=360
pts<<ring;
ring=[]
end
end
}
# triangulate the rings
for i in 0...360
ent.add_face(pts[0][i],pts[2][i-1],pts[2][i])
ent.add_face(pts[0][i],pts[0][i-1],pts[2][i-1])
ent.add_face(pts[0][i],pts[4][i-1],pts[4][i])
ent.add_face(pts[0][i],pts[0][i-1],pts[4][i-1])
ent.add_face(pts[1][i],pts[3][i-1],pts[3][i])
ent.add_face(pts[1][i],pts[1][i-1],pts[3][i-1])
ent.add_face(pts[1][i],pts[5][i-1],pts[5][i])
ent.add_face(pts[1][i],pts[1][i-1],pts[5][i-1])
end