Moving a curved face/surface

[Frankn]

As the title says, how do I move the curved face/surface? I'm able to iterate and get the individual faces and I tried

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face[0].pushpull distance

within the loop but the faces take off in different directions.

I tried

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face[0].transform!(Geom::Transformation.new([0, distance, 0]))

but that doesn't work.

I also tried adding the faces to selection and doing something with that but I can't get anything to work.

Thanks...

curved face.jpg

[Frankn]

Found this post which helped me find the solution...
https://forums.sketchup.com/t/transform-a-model-vertex-by-vertex/38771/7

Here's the code I'm using with some notes... if something can be improved or changed please let me know? I can also add the code to iterate the faces if needed?

Basically you need the vertices of all the faces you want to move and each vertex needs a cooresponding vector to be moved to. That way you can pass the 2 arrays to

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transform_by_vectors(vertices, vectors)

. Andif you're using sub components like I am, make sure you're in the correct entities context (not sure I'm using all the proper terminology here) oe else you get a mess as a result.

Like Tig explained in the post I shared...

... if every vector has a separate vector-transformation you need to pass two full arrays - in one go!

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vectors=[]  //array of position to move vertices
vertices=[] //array of face vertices from the individual faces that make up the surface

vertices.flatten!  //in my case I need to flatten the array
vertices.uniq!     //make sure there are no duplicate vertex

vertices.each{|vector|
  position=vector.position.clone   
  position.x +=distance
  vectors.push vector.position.vector_to(position)
}
                               
component_entity.transform_by_vectors(vertices, vectors)


Hopefully this helps others out because it wasn't easy to find or understand... but it works!