Components and instancing in 1.025

[smicha]

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[smicha]

TIG,
I DID IT !!! BUT your further help is needed

Look at screenshots.

Before running the script I moved one of the copy of components into the project origin, to make its axes overlapping axes of the project. Then selected it and type command for running the script.


The last (I hope) thing to input into your code is to make set axes of selected component equal to [0,0,0]. Is it possible?

Thank you again! So much!!!

[rappet]

TIG,
I DID IT !!! BUT your further help is needed

Look at screenshots.

Before running the script I moved one of the copy of components into the project origin, to make its axes overlapping axes of the project. Then selected it and type command for running the script.


The last (I hope) thing to input into your code is to make set axes of selected component equal to [0,0,0]. Is it possible?

Thank you again! So much!!!

Hi Smicha, congrats in reaching your goal.
Can you explain now what exactly you can do fromout Sketchup?
greetings

[smicha]

Can you explain now what exactly you can do fromout Sketchup?
greetings

Yes,
I am just preparing short tutorial.
Let you know soon.

[smicha]

TUTORIAL - COMPONENTS TO OCTANE INSTANCES
First beta version of Sketchup plugin (ruby file) exporting components as instances to Octane
The code of instances.rb is written by TIG, I added some changes to rotation matrix. TIG - thank you so so so much!


1. Download instances.rb file into C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins
2. Follow steps from pdf - screenshots.

[rappet]

TUTORIAL - COMPONENTS TO OCTANE INSTANCES
First beta version of Sketchup plugin (ruby file) exporting components as instances to Octane
The code of instances.rb is written by TIG, I added some changes to rotation matrix. TIG - thank you so so so much!


1. Download instances.rb file into C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins
2. Follow steps from pdf - screenshots.

I tried it and it works perfectly. This is great stuff !!!!
Thanx TIG, thanx Smicha.

I am perfecting an excel for making csv-files for general rows, matrices and scattered matrices.
I'll let know when I think it's usable for others when I have it working even betetr and tested for different things I am making it for. Dspite this fantatistic plugin I will finish the excel matrix, because I think it can be very helpfull for making general cvs and scattered matrices as a stand alone. i.e. to add trees to the ocs-scene.. or birds in the sky...
But this SU-plugin is great for stuff for what is very hard to make with only numbers in excell.. I can think of lot of things to do with it.... thanks so much for this.

[TIG]

Well done !
I knew you could do it.
Sorry I was too busy not to be of more help...

A couple of things.

If the .rb file is already in the Plugins folder when you startup Sketchup you can skip the load "instances.rb" step as it will have auto-loaded itself anyway.

Can I suggest you wrap the working code in a 'module' and run it thus:
SMICHA.instances
The module version becomes:

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module SMICHA
def SMICHA.instances()
  ### REST of method code goes here ###
end#method
end#module

Adjust the module name to your own taste...
That way it should never clash with anything else - after all a raw 'instances[_test]' is a pretty common name otherwise...

[smicha]

TIG,
Is it possible to set selected component's axes to [0,0,0] in the code ?

[smicha]

Can I suggest you wrap the working code in a 'module' and run it thus:
SMICHA.instances
The module version becomes:

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module SMICHA
def SMICHA.instances()
  ### REST of method code goes here ###
end#method
end#module

TIG,

1. What I am doing wrong:

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module SMICHA 
def SMICHA.instances()

require 'sketchup.rb'

	def octane_scatter_data()
		model=Sketchup.active_model
		instances=model.selection[0].definition.instances
		txt=""
		instances.each{|instance|
		  tr=instance.transformation.to_a
		  tt=[tr[0],tr[8],-(tr[4]),tr[12].to_m, tr[2],tr[10],tr[6],tr[14].to_m, -(tr[1]),tr[9],tr[5],-(tr[13].to_m)]
		  str=""
		  tt.each{|e| str<<sprintf("%.4f ",e) }
		  txt<<str+"\n"
		}
		path=File.dirname(model.path)
		file=File.join(path, model.title+"_"+instances[0].definition.name+".TXT").tr("\\","/")
		f=File.new(file, "w")
		f.puts(txt)
		f.close
	end

end#method
end#module

2. I also would like it to run it from a pull down menu in plugins:

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UI.menu("PlugIns").add_item("OCTANE scatter data from components") {
  UI.messagebox("......") 
}

How to add it into the code?

3. And what about my previous post and the question about setting axes of selected component into origin?

[smicha]

Rotation along red axes problem

The script works properly only for rotated along green or blue axes (and should work properly for joint rotation along vector in "green-blue space" - I didn't test it yet). I'll try to fix it.