hi there together…
once every so often it happens that there is a problem i cant solve in sketchup…
this time i have an uneven roof surface where the ridge and the eaves are on the same height but one of the ridge points is moved back/forth…
in my simplified example the points ab and cd have the same height - only b got moved back along the green axies…
now to get a more subdivided organic surface i used curvyloft…
the last step would be to distribute/scatter the the roof tiles over this surface in a matter where they are dropped to the surface and then aligned with their object axies to the surface normal …
i have tried numeral “drop” plugins etc… so far smart drop is something that comes close but unfortunately this is a very unpredictive piece of code… as soon as the object that should be dropped is a component with modified axies it does noe behave as expected…
if anyone has another idea of how to accomplish the tast at hand, that would be super many many thanks guys