Sunday, March 02, 2008

Plugin: Construction Line Tool

I can't take any credit for this one. It is the linetool.rb that comes with SketchUp. All I did give it a toolbar, a menu entry, and packaged it up.

I must also admit that the cursor does not always show up, although the tool still works. Fixed.

2/14/08 - Added a Toolbar button for convenience.

2/22/08 - Fixed small bug ($exString undefined)

3/2/08 - Added a better Toolbar icon. Added a 'clinetool' folder for the images.

clinetool.zip

8 comments:

Daniel S said...

Hi Jim...
If i put the clinetool.png in the plugins folder it dosen´t show up... but if i put the icon on the desktop it works every time.

Daniel S

Jim said...

Ah, thanks Daniel! I have made a small change and will upload in a bit.

Jim said...

Ok done. I found and fixed another small annoyance too. Thanks.

Daniel S said...

Thank you!! Now is working fine here :)

Baker518 said...

Jim, I really like this little gem with one request. I dont usually ask for someone to change something they wrote, but I like to use the right click to do things such as this. How easy would it be to change or add to the right click?

Jim said...

I added a Toolbar button to activate the tool. Enable it in the View > Toolbars menu.

Baker518 said...

Great job on the tool bar add. I love it already and have only looked at it. Far better than my right click idea. Cudo's on the excellent work as usual.

Nathan said...

I noticed it doesn't auto-start a new line after a line is made (the way the official Line tool works).

In some ways this is actually nice to have. For consistency, it'd be cool to have it match the Line tool method.

Now if that method is make the Const. Line tool auto-start or remove the auto-start from the Line tool is up for debate :)