Groove or ridge maker from selected line/lines extension

SketchUp Feature Requests
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To create a cabinet from a block, I will draw the dividing lines onto the block face to define the cabinet doors. I will proceed to duplicate the line to both sides before pushing the center surface to form a gap (grooves). It quickly gets tedious when the cabinet contain many doors.
Hence I will like to request a extension for this process. It is very similar to double line except it need to work on a surface. Operation should be 2 buttons:

Button 1

  1. ui box to select base = Left of Line / Right / use line as center
  2. Faces = Check boxes (create face left, right, front, back, top and base.)
  3. Group = On/off
  4. Gap Thickness = user input
  5. Gap height/depth = user input (positive for protrusion, negative for groove)
  6. Always remember last change value

Button 2 (so that user do not need to select input values every time it need the tool)

  1. Select line/lines and groove or ridge is made

Beside being a excellent and speedy groove/ ridge maker, it can be use to draw walls from single line floor plan trace.

2

If you draw the doors as separate components and position them as required, the gaps should be created automatically.

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3

You might look at the Double Line extension in the Extension Warehouse.

Are you still using SketchUp 2020?

4

Click in sequence on the scenes tabs of this SU file for ideas.

Cabinet doors.skp (229.5 KB)

5

Thank u for the reply. Yes I have checked it. It so close to what I want except that it does not work for lines on the surface (only work on orphan lines). Wrote a request for tweaks on the author SUnation link.

Work mainly on SU 2024.

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Awesome work. Prove my point exactly. It take 7 steps to create doors for cabinets. And most of the time I would not need the top and bottom gap.