new project with last rayscaper version and light upscale [image: 1757628815272-rascaper-web3.jpg] [image: 1757628815292-rascaper-web4.jpg]

now? you should be free to chat and post

Now a week to recover. And off the to the shop with intricate cuts to stress about.

@ashraf I'm sorry, my post did not come across as I intended. The plugin is intended for pro use rather than hobby. You have to charge the Goldilocks price or you lose out. Too much, you lose custom, too little and you go broke. IMHO, you are charging the Goldilocks price so "You know how to charge". Power to you folks.

Try Skimp to import as its importers are better than the native I find. Or Sam's Universal Importer: https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=universal_importer

Hey mgash, What version of Rayscaper did you download? We only support SketchUp 2025 since version 0.9.44 and higher. [1] Regards, Thomas [1] Refer to https://rayscaper.com/faq/installation/#method-2-via-the-sketchup-extension-manager on how to check your version number.

ah thanks rich - ill give it a try

I reported about this problem but the developer has hard time to respond

I hope there's going to be an updated version soon, I miss this plugin

The Gemini AI says: The term "gobbledygook" was coined in 1944 by Maury Maverick, a congressman from Texas. During World War II, Maverick was the chairman of the Smaller War Plants Corporation. Frustrated with the excessively long, vague, and pompous language of bureaucratic memos, he issued a memorandum to his staff telling them to "stay off gobbledygook language." He defined it as "talk or writing which is long, pompous, vague, involved, usually with Latinized words." Maverick explained that he came up with the word by thinking of the sound a turkey makes—a "gobbledygobbling" sound. He felt that the pretentious and convoluted language of officialdom sounded just as ridiculous as a turkey's gobble.

@i5963c I would say it is a bug, although it is likely been this way forever. Check the SketchUp API tracker at GitHub to see if it has been reported yet. The GUI 3D Text tool puts the resultant text geometry within a component context. This way it can be moved around, rotated, etc. The API use of Entities.add_3d_text should also be inserting into a component or group context. This context can also have subgroups. So the workaround is to apply a transitional transform to the "g" subgroup and align it. Unfortunately, the vertical text alignment constants are for drawing text to the view for tools and overlays. So they will not apply to 3D text.

it was " without restriction" I selected ‘approve unidentified extensions’...and it works. Thank you for this information.

Precisely. The bug should be fixed in v15.4c.

@Mike-Amos This is a great idea. Always love that it's something so simple

@pierrejean Just mention his name in a post - e.g. @fredo6 Mentionnez simplement son nom dans un message, par exemple @fredo6

@Rich-O-Brien Thanks for the suggestion. I noticed this tool few weeks ago and this would be perfect for "tracing roads" because you can define the road width separately. Unfortunately I have not found a way to include coast line in this tool and the water/sea areas are not properly defined. Hopefully this tool will be even further developed.

OK, I'll try meters next 3D printed model. Again, thanks for the help and advice. jgb

I don't believe there are any extensions to do that. You could use 3D text and drawn 3D dimension and extension lines to create the geometry. I find it's simper and faster to combine a couple of image exports; the render and a dimensions-only image direct from SketchUp. This is a quick 10 second render to show the idea. The render: [image: 1751736869218-vise-render-resized.png] The dimensions-only image export from SketchUp: [image: 1751736887769-creasman-moxon-vise-dimens-resized.png] And after combining them in an image editor: [image: 1751736926906-creasman-moxon-vise-render-resized.png] The layer for the dimensions is set to Multiply in the image editor.