This version fixes a number of critical bugs:
- the bug contributing to the menu gray-out issue.
- a bug introduced in 1.6b on inferencing for Line on Surface
As a bonus, TOS v1.6 includes a new feature allowing to draw shapes perpendicular to lonely edges or couple of edges (i.e. without a surface).
v 1.6 also includes a revised Spanish translation by Defisto.
Here are the main evolutions of versions 1.5 and 1.6:
- Button palette to view and access all options (also available from contextual menu and Short cuts)
- You can Switch to Any tool from within Any tool, with the side palette
- There is a generic icon button, keeping in memory the latest selected tool when used. Actually you can keep only this button in the toolbar if you have real estate problems.
- All parameters are preserved across Sketchup sessions (by default)
- The VCB accept formulas and unit specification for Length (for instance 3.2mm+0.4cm will mean 0.72cm). Angles can be specifed in degrees, radians, grades or % for slope.
- Rings for Shapes can be visualized in a special palette (but can still be entered in the VCB with offset folowed by 'x')
- Freehand On Surface now includes a Point & Click mode, in addition to the existing drag-over mode. You can mix up drawing with and without inferences (see video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdqsYAbUfTE)
- Line On Surface now generate faces
- Angular Shapes like Rectangle, Parallelogram and Sector are generated as discrete curves so that you keep the sharp angles as plain lines when doing a Push Pull
- The script comes with my ugly icons at installation, but you can switch to CadFather's ones, much nicer, in the Default Parameter dialog box, and also select the one you want to keep and discard.
- And it's good to know that ToolsOnSurface also works without a surface. There is a trick explained in the doc to select the plane (mouse over a face and just press SHIFT, without clicking)
I did not change the algorithm for computing contours on surface. So you'll find the same limitations, especially on closed surfaces. I'll do something in a next release.
Documentation -->
If you do not read it, it's a good idea to check out the tooltips of the button palette and the contextual menu.
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Tutorials
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see [urlhttp://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=28171&hilit=plugin#p244458][/url]
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ToolsOnSurface is a Suite of Tools drawing on curved surfaces, with lines, various shapes, offset and Freehand / Polyline. It provides an inference mechanism, a Contour Editor and a dedicated Eraser.
Shapes includes:
- Circle and Polygon (already present in v1.2)
- Rectangle, defined by its length and width
- Parallelogram, defined by its length, width and angle
- Ellipses, defined by axes
- Circle defined by 3 points
- Arcs (circular)
- Sectors, defined by origin, direction and angle
The inference mechanism tries to simulate some stickiness when lines are drawn along some remarkable directions. There is also a Lock inference mechanism to force drawing in a particular direction. A Protractor can help to pick particular angles.
ToolsOnSurface also works to draw lines and shapes 'without' a surface.
See videos in the tutorial
To install, Unzip the attached file, by doing a Select All, Extract to the Plugins Sketchup folder and Overwriting ALL files. See Documentation for details.
