Sphere Tool

Update 2010 Dec, 13 (Internal version 1.4)

• Menu: Draw/SphereTool
• Code cleanup, and generally tried to make it behave like a native SU Tool.
• Press the Tab key to switch between draw by radius and draw by diameter.
• Fixed clipping on tool startup.
• Added line thickness when inference locked.
• Made VCB and Statusbar texts consistent, accurate.

Due to inconsistent file names for past versions, this file (jf_spheretool.rb) is meant to replace any of the following files in the Plugins folder:

• spheretool.rb
• spheretool1.1.rb
• spheretool1.3.rb
• jf_spheretool.rb
• (You get the idea.)

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Download jf_spheretool.rb

Here's a quick tool for drawing spheres. It creates a Sphere option under the Draw menu.

Download the script and move it into your Plugins directory.

A group is created to hold the sphere. You can enter the number of segments you would like to use. It defaults to 24. Even-numbered segments work best, odd one cause unpredictable results.

Spheres are drawn with the poles along the Z axis.

Regular Polygon Blog

Regular Polygon is a new Sketchup blog with the goal

to design and write creative Ruby plugins for SketchUp -- for free.

Regular Polygon currently has 3 drawing plugins available: Ellipse, Superellipse and Sphere. They do pretty much what their names suggest, although each plugin allows for customization of the geometry through dialogs.

The plugins are free, although donations are accepted.

Keep an eye on [ Regular Polygon ]