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Overview of ToolsOnSurface

Tools on Surface 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
• 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

All shapes have in addition the option to draw Rings, that is, the same contour offset by a negative or positive distance. And of course, all generated contours can be later edited by the Contour Edition tool.

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.

Discussion forum

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Installation of ToolsOnSurface

IMPORTANT: Make sure that you have first installed LibFredo6 v14.3 or above.

ToolsOnSurface is released as a regular RBZ extension file on the Sketchucation Site.

To download the RBZ file, use the red button on the right side of this page:

• Download If your are already logged in.
• Log in to get it! otherwise, in order to log in or to register to Sketchucation as a new user (this is FREE). Then you will be able to download the RBZ file.

Then, you can install the RBZ file from within Sketchup, via the Sketchup Extension Manager

If you are not familiar with the installation of Sketchup extensions and Sketchucation, it is advised to watch the video LibFredo6 installation.

IMPORTANT: Whatever way you choose, you MUST quit and restart Sketchup to get ToolsOnSurface (and LibFredo6) properly loaded.

After the installation, you should have the following footprint in the Sketchup Plugins directory:

Documentation in English: Quickcard ToolsOnSurface- English - v2.0.pdf

Documentation in French (slightly outdated) Quickcard ToolsOnSurface - French - v2.0.pdf

Links to Sketchucation Forum: Main Post   Latest Release

Release History

ToolsOnSurface 2.6a - 01 Apr 24: Future compatibility

Tools on Surface 2.5a - 22 Apr 21: Performance contextual menu

Tools on Surface 2.4a - 01 Nov 18: Maintenance release

**Tools on Surface 2.3a - 06 Oct 17 **: Maintenance release for SU2017, high DPI monitors and OSX Sierra