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How to automate orient and scale a component

Use this snippit in the Ruby Console to “automate” the process mod = Sketchup.active_model ent = mod.active_entities sel = mod.selection sel.empty? ? ents=ent.to_a : ents=sel.to_a #assumes that edge vector matches components z axis cdn = mod.definitions.reject{|cd|(cd.group?||cd.image?)}.map{|cd|cd.name} inp = UI.inputbox(["Component:"],[cdn[0]],"Edge to Component") if inp cd=mod.definitions[inp[0]];cl=cd.bounds.max.z ents.grep(Sketchup::Edge).each{|e| tr1=Geom::Transformation.scaling(1,1,e…

set up your component with the z-axis as the length, and use the snippet…