Architectural_Design_with_SketchUp

Chapter 6 Creating Geometry Using Ruby Scripting
Figure 6.23: Rendering of an entire building with attractor-based facade pattern
Scaling Objects by Proximity
Instead of coloring faces according to their proximity to an attractor, you could
instead modify their geometry, for example, by scaling them. In this example,
we take a wall that is made up of 4f × 4f slightly “bulging” wall panels and
let the attractors adjust the panels’ thickness.
The panels for this example are created from four edge lines using the
Soap Skin & Bubble plugin. The component axis is placed at the back of the
component definition, where the panels would be attached to a wall. (See
Figure 6.24.)
This code is very similar to the previous code, the difference being that
we now use groups as attractors (two small boxes) and component instances
as the objects that we modify. The only major change in the code is at the
end, where we apply the scaling transformation. See Figure 6.25 for the Figure 6.24: 4f × 4f Wall panel component
resulting paneled wall.
Paste this code into the Ruby Code Editor, select the necessary objects in your SketchUp
model, and then click on Run:
# Scale groups by proximity to component attractors
sel = Sketchup.active_model.selection
# Array with attractor center points
attractors = []
# Adjust this value to play with the scaling
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