a little IDL β no ruby but I am keen to explore and learn what is possible β Lots of resources on this site!
Latest posts made by vanderlm
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RE: Component spray
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RE: Component spray
the faces are outside of a group or component as 'loose geometry' does this change things?
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RE: Component spray
Thanks Chris,
Thats encouraging β and yes things wont be any more complicated than the posted example β do you know what method/attributes I should be looking at? to scale and orient the component according to the corresponding face. Or if there is an example plugin out there that has this functionality? -
RE: Component spray
Good point xrok1,
I guess I should elaborate,
This plugin works excellent for placing components on the face 'centroid' and 'normal' to the face. I was hoping there might be a way to also auto rotate (perhaps even scale) the component according to face?- Going through chris pine's ruby tutorial and thinking this might be a little complicated
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Component spray
Hello all,
I have found a couple interesting plugins that can distribute objects to faces ( http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=17306 + http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=33908 ). I was wondering if anyone knows of a similar plugin that can distribute components but also auto-adjust components according to face orientation? Is this a possible through attempting to extend one of these scripts?
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RE: Face area - DC or ruby ?
wow - just tried out the rb and it was exactly what I was looking for! I will follow up with any extensions I can incorporate from the suggested post - hugely helpful starting points!
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RE: Face area - DC or ruby ?
Fredo and Jim -Thanks - very useful info and links! - I will explore and feedback
mike -
Face area - DC or ruby ?
Hello all,
Thanks for all the great resources they have been very helpful as I start to learn the world of ruby and dynamic components. I was wondering how to best approach a problem - whether through dynamic components or rubyscript...I have seen several examples of face area calculators but have yet to see one that digs into components. End goal: generate a report that summarizes face area according to material in each component (sensitive to scaling). Can this be done in DC? I noticed that the facearea function does not adjust if the component is scaled. Or am I better off trying to loop through components expanding on one of the ruby script snippets posted on this forum? any help would be much appreciated!
mv