Dynamic box with divisions

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I have a simple box as a dynamic component with a user selection for how many divisions it should have. Then the division is copied this many times and spaced appropriately inside the larger box, no problem.

Now I would much rather have the user type in a “layout” or what you’d call it. Like typing “10,5” would create a 15cm long box with one division, one part being 10cm and the next 5cm.

In order to do this I would want to split the input “10,5” into parts, like [“10”, “5”] and then create copies on number of items in this split. But SketchUp doesn’t seem to support text splitting. and find() only finds the first occurance.

Any ideas?

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Not sure if you want a Ruby fix here or a DC formula fix? It would also help if you could post the model?

I would create a series of attributes exposed to the user that get totalled for a full length, and drop divisions at their specified intervals. Use an IF statement to filter out the ones that are blank or 0.

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this can be done using a series of attributes, I place a ready-made set in a scaler / swatch which I usually hide, then refence that, saves having to rebuild the code again

There is an example here

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you find the position of each based on the position of the last search
pos1 = find(“,” , code, 1)
pos2 = find(“,” , code, pos1)
…posN = find(“,” , code, pos(N-1))

where code is the value you entered plus some amount of safety to stop an error return if find fails

code = input & rept(“,0” , 10) woud allow for 10 searches even though input = 315 (one value)

you split the code using

val1=mid(code, 1,pos1-1)
val2=mid(code, pos1+1,pos2-pos1-1)
…valN=mid(code, pos(N-1)1,posN-pos(N-1)-1)

you can check if within the original string

=if(posN<=len(input),1,0)

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