Hi Guys I got a model today with plenty of layers and scenes in it. As I was going through this model I noticed some heavy clipping going on. This I imagine this was because the model origin was far from the sketchup origin. I moved them together and it seemed better. BUT… now all the scenes are s…

I’ve seen this in the past with models that I’ve been sent and it is a pain to fix. Although I haven’t tried it, I wonder if you could mark the camera locations for the various scenes and move them with the model to the origin. Then use those camera positions to set up the views. Update only the Cam…

I also don’t know if there is a existing extension that does so, but it would be pretty easy to create one that would move model contents and scene cameras by the same amount so that scene appearance would be unchanged. It would get more complex if any rotation (orbit) was needed, but still seems f…

That would be cool to have a one step process.

Here’s an outline of the concept: User picks a point in the model that should be moved to the origin. Extension calculates the vector from that point to the origin Extension creates a transformation for that vector and applies it to each Entity in the model Extension adjusts the camera eye positio…

Thanks Dave. This is interesting. If you were able to set cameras relative to the model in the scenes so they would move with the model as opposed to being set to an absolute “Sketchup space.” I’m pretty new to this but it does sound as it maybe useful.

There isn’t a native way to connect the cameras to the model but I seem to recall an extension that marks where the cameras are with guidepoints. My thought is you’d move the guidepoints with the rest of the model and then go through the scenes placing the camera at the guidepoints again. I like Ste…

I posted code to move page cameras to origin with the model… couple of weeks ago… john

You sound pretty clued up on this. That’s getting a bit above my skills. Thanks for the info. Now I need to go and try and figure out everything you said. LOL

Why didn’t I see that? Don’t answer that.

How or where one find such code? Asking for a friend.

Interesting Issue With Origin

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DanRathbun October 28, 2019, 2:51pm 12

I was also involved with that convo. But it was about moving the model so it was centered on the world origin. Close. The code could be adjusted.

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Interesting Issue With Origin

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