I bought “2DXY SlickMoves 3.0.0” through the Extension Warehouse.
I first used the Trial version (it was fantastic!), and after it expired I went to buy it.
I get the messages that say it’s installed, but yet nothing appears in any menu, and the new toolbar does not appear…
I contacted the developer, who was very helpful, but it seems the problem is not with the extension itself, and more with SketchUp. I have since contacted Customer Support, and am waiting for a callback.
I tried downloading one of this author’s other extensions and had a licensing issue. I’ve installed a number of other commercial scripts today with no problem. At this point I think the fix will be to wait for Customer Support to do their job.
The author has reported in other topics that he has suddenly started getting reports of licensing issues when he hasn’t touched the code . He’s trying to get the Trimble EW team to investigate.
For what seems to be a feature included in just about EVERY other major program – aligning objects to each other, or evenly distributing them in a given space – I am surprised it’s not included in SketchUp as part of the program.
While I wait for some resolution to this one, do you know of any other extensions with an “Align and Distribute” function – that works well and installs correctly?
I guess I’ve never had any problem aligning and evenly distributing components with the native Move tool.
A quick look in the Sketchucation Plugin Store turned up 2D Align and 3D Align as well as JS Align, S4U Align, Components Placer, and Components to Grid. In the EW there’s nz_Scale&Align, Align, Curic Align and probably more.
If you’re distributing objects along a linear or polar array, those functions are built into to SU natively. You should make the objects you’re distributing a component and check to set or or reset the component axis to where you want it so when they’re arrayed or copied along a path, etc, they line up where they’re intended to.
2DXY slickmoves is the only extension I’ve found that truly does spacing properly.
Curic Space just distributes the center points of the objects evenly (if you’re distributing objects that aren’t all the same width then the space between the objects won’t be equal when you use this method).
2DXY slickmoves will give you the correct equal spacing between any number of objects and all of those objects can have different widths
Native SketchUp tools will let you distribute objects evenly at the time of creation using the copy and divide method but it doesn’t work for a bunch of existing objects and you can’t space a bunch of objects that have different widths
I think I see what you’re talking about at 0:48 in that video but that’s still not really what I was referring to. In your video you’re setting a specific spacing between the objects and then that spacing gets applied. But what I was talking about is if you were to have a left-most object (green) and a right-most object (orange) that are a certain distance apart, and then imagine there are 2 objects (that each have different widths) in between those ones (yellow and blue); a plugin that’s able to calculate the widths of all the objects, calculate the space between the left-most and right-most, and then apply equal spacing between all the objects (so the plugin calculates the necessary spacing instead of you having to specify a spacing). I often have to do that but 2DXY slickmoves is the only plugin I’ve found that does it properly.
