Thanks Steve. This looks very useful.

Links, or it didn't happen. 😛

You will find the download here:
https://sketchucation.com/plugin/2106-sb_trilateration

Steve,

Just sent you a PM about all this.

Fredo

We have just published v6.0 of this extension on the PluginStore. This release adds support for additional languages, improves handling of text placement in many cases, and fixes some minor bugs.

For anyone else who sees this, I just uploaded the corrected version to the plugin store. Sorry about the error!

Indeed! And no wasted wood. 😉

Version 0.3 now available on the sketchUcation Plugin Store adds leg vs box type to allow planes to be located more usefully for compound miter joints vs legs.

Oh, right - yes I noticed that there's a bug under OSX. Sorry, I mostly use PC so I'd forgotten. I think there's an issue for it, but I'll check again and bump it.

@sdmitch said:

Perhaps but then you have the added burden of figuring out what is horizontal and what is vertical. Creating a group for each edge seems to work every time and does so fairly quickly.

The trouble is that entities.add_group becomes very slow after a while. Nevertheless, I've attached my final version. It divides the edges into classes based on orientation, and these classes are then further divided into groups of max 250 edges. All examples seems to merge correctly. There is also some verification built into the code.

I encountered this problem in flowify where the (extended) projection grid intersects the geometry and even though distributing the edges over many groups alliviated the problem it did not fully solve it, so I'm quite happy to have found a better way.

As a general observation, intersection is really two distinct problems, the first is to find the intersection edges and the second is to merge the geometry. My biggest problem with intersect stems from the first part. A face in Sketchup does only have to be almost flat while the intersection between two faces is computed from two exactly flat mathematical planes. This means that the intersection edges may fail to merge with the not-exactly-flat face due to tolerance issues. I've found that the following procedure produces a more robust intersect, especially for complicated surfaces:

1) Transform the geometry to a gigantic scale
2) Check all faces by computing a plane form the vertices and then check that all vertices are on that plane. If they are not, then triangulate the face.
3) Intersect

Complicated grids..

GridTest.rb

Last I knew Mac only worked with string arguments for actions.

@dacastror said:

when opening sketchup 8 will not get a notice to upgrade to 2013 version (because of this, they will lose millions of users)

It does update. Unless you have a firewall that blocks access.

@dacastror said:

in "Sketchup 2013 free" entities transformations performed more slowly than "Sketchup 2013 pro" and "Sketchup 8". These things are really serious errors

Got a reproducible sample case for this?

@dan rathbun said:

Would it easier to use the LocalStorage interface instead of cookies ?

Dan,

Thanks for the tip! I tried it, and it not only works more portably, it is cleaner code.

Steve

won't be here for long
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Install Visual Studio Express (free). Then you can either attach it to SketchUp's process, or inject debugger; statement in your JS code to make the system prompt you to debug. You can then set breakpoints in Visual Studio and inspect variables and call stacks.

I sometimes use a catch-all code like this to trigger the debugger on errors without having to inject debugger; around in the code:

window.onerror = function(message, location, linenumber, error) { // Trigger an request to attach debugger. debugger; return false; };

@tdoolittle said:

How do I remove this extension from Sketchup2016?
Since it's a simple Plugin [rather than an Extension which would also have its own subfolder], you can simply find its RB file ' dimension_utilities.rb' and delete it.
Look in your Plugins folder...
This one-liner copy+pasted into the Ruby Console +<enter> will open your Plugins folder for you [it is in a folder-path that is hidden by default]:
UI.openURL("file:///#{Sketchup.find_support_file('Plugins')}")
Alternatively if you have the SketchUcation Toolset installed you can use its Plugins-Manager dialog to Disable any listed plugin-file that is being Loaded/Enabled - when SketchUp restarts it won't load, but you could always reinstate it if you so desired, OR in the same toolset - use its submenu item to 'Uninstall' that plugin in which case, thereafter it won't load or even appear in any of its Manager dialogs, but it could still be Reinstalled later, if desired - by using the same dialog...

@pntch06 said:

Hi! I don`t know if someone else has issues when launching sketchup after installing the pluging. It is freezing the program 😕
Please help

That's a new issue that hasn't been reported previously. I haven't been able to reproduce it.

The code hasn't been modified since 2015, so this isn't due to any recent changes by me. Have you tried uninstalling the plugin to see if that makes the problem go away? It doesn't do anything during SketchUp startup that would explain freezing the program, so I unless some other plugin is interacting with it, I am at a loss as to what may be going on.

As @DaveR mentioned, Angular Dimension 2 is the successor plugin to this one. It uses 3D text in the plane of the angle instead of leader text floating on the screen. That avoids issues where the leader text punches through or hides behind objects in the view. It also provides a lot of format customization options that the original Angular Dimension did not have.

@jclements said:

Here are links to PutOnLayer
http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=315

And PutOnCurrentLayer
http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=312

@jclements said:

I combined the two into one.

Where ❓