TIG, still getting problems here. On more complex production files, the routine ends up bogging down hard, prompting the option to abort the script. On "nested" layers geometry is butchered so that solids are not retained, only bringing in line segments. At least named components in layers do work. I am attaching a "simple complex" file that does work as far as finishing the routine, however, on a large scale file, the process bogs down to untenable, and I have yet to sit through a full cycle of the script running...

"Simple Complex" base file

Broken Nested Layer file

Assuming you have installed the .rb into your Plugins folder [somehow] and restarted SketchUp...

Then please reread the tools instruction son the first post in this thread...
It is NOT an Extension, just a simple tool.
IT only works from the context-menu, and only appears if you have selected two lines that are suitable...
I have reprinted the key paragraph below:
@unknownuser said:

Usage:
Select two edges that are not parallel and that could intersect if they don't
already share a vertex.
Right-click to get the context-menu 'Divide Angle...'
Note how this context-menu item is only available if the selection is appropriate.
In the dialog enter the number of divisions + OK [default is '2'].
It must be a positive integer [2 NOT 2.0]; otherwise you are prompted to retry.
Also it must be 2 or more; otherwise there's an error message and it exits.
Guide-lines are now drawn through the two selected edges and the division[s] as
you have specified.
The angle between the edges that is less than 180 degrees is always divided.

Don't forget the free plugin... Gk Postscript Plot which Dave R talks about on his blog...http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/47135/printing-patterns-for-templates

This is a delayed response and slightly off topic (now..;-), but I wanted to clarify my earlier post about the “mutiny” of sorts I suggested with G-SkUp and this forum.

My thought was that most of what is really valuable about SkUp comes from the original core code in the very earliest versions of SkUp plus the plug-ins and adjunct programs produced by third party providers. We’ve even tweaked SkUp for our purposes with plugin overlays to this code – thanks to Brad Schell’s farewell gift to his users with V5 updates before the @Last departure -- and we're admitted light-weights compared to some of you guys....

When you think about it, that code sits as a virtual open source and is exactly what Google and Trimble find so valuable -- and paid handsomely for (see Trimble SkUp? Good Enf, < http://insitebuilders.wordpress.com > )

Mucho gracias 👍

I just tested it in SU2019 and it works as expected. Perhaps if you share your model we can give you some help to tell you what the problem is. You could also try it with a very simple shape and see if you get a different result.

Thanks very much 👍 ! Really was looking for a tool like this for easy floor customization...

Is there a similar plugin to force align ALL selected component/groups AND nested subgroups/subcomponents local Y+ axes to world Z+?
That would be extremely handy when preparing models for game engines and similar stuff..
I'm searching everywhere with no luck.. 😢

Hello TIG, thank you. Can we divide a randomly drawn or trapezoidal surface into a number of equal areas? Thank you.

value your limited time- use profile builder.

Thanks for the tip. Profile Builder is very powerful for interior work with moldings. Split Tools should work fine for standalone furniture. For the infrequent curved molding, just has extra hidden lines to tend to.

This tool was combined into SplitTools with other similar ones...
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TIG_splitTOOLS

I believe it's back edges...

BackEdges.png
If it's always on, turn it off, update your current style and save an empty model as template under File... Use this template as your default (if you do not like this new feature).

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She's very easily entertained isn't she? 😒 💚

At least a kitten would try to hit the arrow with her paw.

No Bugsplats at all.

So I know this is an old topic but maybe someone can help me. I have a solid entity with 1440 cu ft of volume shown when I check on entity info.

I need to adjust this volume along a specific axis maintaining relative dimensions so slicer seemed like a perfect tool to do this. It worked great slicing up the volume along the axis in 2" slices.

I then wanted to get the volume of each slice. No can do. All the slices are grouped as a component so I exploded that component. I clicked on one and no volume information. So I thought, well maybe it's got to be a group. I exploded the individual slice and then grouped it. Still no volume info. So one more try I exploded once more, selected all connected and grouped again. Still no volume information.

Am I missing something?

Some of the clever proofs for the original Pythagoras Theorem didn't involve 'mathematics' at all, but were done by drawing geometry, often in fine sand with pointed sticks and dividers, and using simple rearrangements of the parts around the right-angled triangle's sides to show the equivalence of the sum of the areas of the two smaller squares to the area of the largest square [i.e. not calculated at all]...
Here are just three of them... ML6.10.gifPythag_anim.gif220px-Pythagoras-2a.gif