SU Plugins

[Dave Richards]

Neil's question about the Bezier plugin prompted this.

If you are unsure of how to access a plugin after you've loaded it, open the RB file in a text editor and read the last few lines. As an example, here is a part of a script that calls the Windows calculator. The highlighted portion tells where the menu entry would be found. In this case "Calculator" would be found in the Plugins menu.

[Dwayne Payne]

Dave,

Are you saying that I can run the calculator from inside SU? I find myself pulling it up quite often because I have to calculate the Radius of something like 1.377584 blah blah blah. Do you know of any way to change SU to accept Dia instead of Rad?

Dwayne

[Dwayne Payne]

Thanks Dave, I will try it all now. Great tip about the D/2, I had no idea and I have never seen that in any instruction before.

Dwayne

[Dave Richards]

Dwayne, I just made it up.

Actually, I wasn't sure it would work but since enter fractions does for other things, I thought I'd give it a go.

I did find it doesn't work for all dimensions.

[Dwayne Payne]

Once again...Thanks Dave. I have already installed it and it works geat.

Dwayne

[Dwayne Payne]

I tried the d/2 and it does not seem to work. The calculator works great. I have been playing with more shortcuts lately and I like using them more and more.

Dwayne

[Dave Richards]

Dwayne, it does seem to work for me if the diameter is a whole number. It doesn't work for something like 3.5/2, though. I have enquired about this with the Google SU staff.

Glad the calc script worked.

[Dave Richards]

Dwayne,

Todd Burch has a 2 point circle script that would let you draw the diameter of a circle as a line segment. You could draw the line and enter the diameter of the desired circle in the VCB. Look at smustard.com

[Dwayne Payne]

I will take a look at that

Dwayne