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

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@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.

Fredo has solved this for me - I had a " : " in the sequence name, removed and it worked. Thanks!

thanks

Extensions > Clothworks > Manual menu is your friend. Artificial Intelligence is naturally stupid.

Actually a better plugin for someone who writes plugins would be a UI that shows all current .dwg layers and next to each layer is a tag selection box. this would allow me to move thru reassignments with ease. But even better would be that every piece of geometry then gets grouped and tagged with the new SKU tag and the geometry within is assigned to "untagged".

@Rich-O-Brien said in 3D terrain scanning/point cloud import: 3.6gb mesh is a lot to handle for many apps. But SketchUp is not meant to be a platform for such a use case. I'd import that into Blender and try using either a Decimate or Remesh modifier to reduce the point count to get something usable in SketchUp. You also may have many duplicate points in that mesh which would cause chaos in SketchUp so some cleaning would be needed in that area too. I tried importing a 64,000kb monochrome .dae into Sketchup and that was completed within 30 seconds or so, but working with it was pretty much impossible. I tried running both a cleanup and converting triangular mesh to quad, but both failed. I've previously imported a small 3D scan of a room complete with textures as a .glb from an ipad and that worked great, but anything beyond that is a world of pain.

Did you restart SketchUp? Are there any errors in the Ruby Console?

I don't know. That's all i could get from them. I can't risk trying to install again to see if it would happen again. VERY STRANGE!!!!!