Move groups with different measures?

[Pilou]

Funny thing

[Pilou]

Some tests Put the code inside the WebConsole by Jim Foltz
Press "Eval" button and have fun
Veyron model is from 3Dwarehouse!

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model = Sketchup.active_model
entities = model.entities
selection = model.selection

xp=100  # Pivot Point (as you want)
yp=100
zp=100

q=50 # Measure of translation (as you want)

selection.each do |e| # update!
  # Skip all entities that aren't groups or components (replace follow "ComponentInstance" by "Group" if you have groups
  next unless e.is_a? Sketchup::ComponentInstance  # Now we process the component or group
 center = e.bounds.center #Center Point of the grouped object
   xc= center.x
   yc= center.y
   zc= center.z
   
xe=xc #End Point of the grouped object
ye=yc
ze=zc

if xc<xp
 xe =xc - q
end

if xc>xp
 xe =xc + q
end

if yc<yp
 ye =yc - q
end

if yc>yp
 ye =yc + q
end

if zc<zp
 ze =zc - q
end

if zc>zp
 ze =zc + q
end

  point = Geom::Point3d.new xe,ye,ze
  t = Geom::Transformation.new point
  # Apply the transformation
  e.transform!(t)
end

[thomthom]

Looking good Pilou!
Instant assembly drawings! This should come in handy.

[Pilou]

Instant assembly

Alas for the inverse, that must be more tricky!
Better is use the Undo

[thomthom]

hm... You could store the relative position you move the entities by in and attribute dictionary. Then perform the opposite when you want to reassemble.

though, that will fail if the user moves anything...
Maybe, you could store the original absolute position before you move stuff. Then you can reassemble back to that original position. That would allow the user to move things around as they please.

[Pilou]

In theory that must be more easy
Just select that you want and apply a "negative" translation : a deflation
Maybe my next
And the above is not yet perfect! The Pivot Point seems not have the wished result wanted
be continued...

Ps When Groups or Components are nested how to process automatically?
A plug for make each components individual is maybe existing?
Edit
one exist for group by TIG Explode2groups

miss now somethings transform Transform2goups or Explode2Components

[Chris Fullmer]

Store the original transformation in a dictionary attached to the group/component. Then to unexplode, just re-apply that transformation onto the group. It will go right back where it belongs.

I wrote that crazy scrambler script a while ago that does this and it worked very well.

Chris

[Pilou]

@Chris Any chance to see it somewhere?

PS
A plug for make each components individual is maybe existing?
Edit
one exist for group by TIG Explode2groups

miss now somethings for components Transform2goups or Explode2Components

[Chris Fullmer]

take the componentInstance, add it to a group, then explode the component instance.

And I posted my scrambler script here. I'll see if I can find the thread.

Chris

[Pilou]

@Chris thx for the Info
Fredo6 has inside the FredoScale something who transform any selection of groups or Components in "Unique" groups or componants! (each become individual)
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