I see this free business as a way to create new business activities for yourself. An off-the-wall example - if you wanted to get into publishing (a very long time ago) you would have needed to invent the alphabet or suchlike. Obviously, you could not charge for this at the beginning because no one had any idea what to do with it nor later because it had already been freely copied and integrated. But it had served your initial purpose establishing your name and fame in the new highly competitive and expanding market you created. Like Ford or Kodak perhaps. Moreover always one step ahead you were able to invent new-alphabet based ventures that people were only too happy to pay for. Isn't this what Google are doing with free search and advertising. Could this be the basis for free Sketchup - models as the means of communication. The new hieroglyphs? This pay-for premium services is all well and good but rather weak-kneed - a bit of a side show really. PS great 'where's the coffee story'!

@thomthom said: And my impression is that they already have this software package - they just needed the keyboard shortcut controller for the scenes... This is correct.

No Bugsplats at all.

Note that the method doesn't transform the point itself - but returns a copy.

We have one here at SCF: [Code Snippets] ... although it doesn't have the word "cookbook" in the title.

I think that the default-layer is now called 'Layer0' in all locales... BUT there was a time that it was named differently for each locale-version. So entity.layer=nil WAS [still is] the safe and correct way to default the object's layer, without recourse to using a 'name' at all... Similarly entity.material=nil and face.back_material=nil will also default those, without recourse to using a 'name' at all...

[image: 1pMs_2011-12-3002.08.07am.png][image: Vxb8_2011-12-3002.08.28am.png][image: UIBX_2011-12-3002.08.41am.png] This is my actual selection and the resultant output file ready for playback in SU.

@boris vaisman said: Hi everybody, I'm working on a plugin which exports all the components in a csv file and i need the property that gives the level of the component. Hi Boris Your English is great however I can think of at least four meanings for the english word "level" that you might mean. If Davids answer doesnt help perhaps you could indicate which(if any) of these you mean? In a building : "level" can refer to the floor or story of a multistory building. Example "The entrance is on level one, the kitchen is on level two." means the entrance is on the bottom story and the kitchen on the second story/floor. In a hierarchy : "level" can be used like David has to refer to the how far "up" the hierarchy / tree your object is. In ?physics/geometry/building : "level" can mean "flat" or perfectly horizontal/vertical. Example "That window ledge is not level" means the window ledge is not perfectly horizontal. 4 In CAD programs : "level" might refer to a "layer" . Example "Draw your house floorplan on level 0 and then draw 3D elements on other unique layers eg level 1 - 20". cheers Paul

Your welcome. The example is very basic.. and only adds one item to the menus. The user can expand it to add more than one item to the menus within the same file. You need not have a separate file for each menu item. Just add additional methods into the Proxy class section, and additional context_menu.add_item calls into the context menu handler section.

@unknownuser said: i don't learn that way.. i wish all those api things had some examples in there (i.e.- type this and watch what happens The API entry for Entities#add_edges() has a straightforward and simple example to add edges to a Sketchup::Model object. (My point of number 1, in the previous post, is that only Sketchup::Entity subclass objects, can be added into the model's DOM (Documnet Object Model heirarchy.) Sketchup::Drawingelement is a subclass of Sketchup::Entity, and the Sketchup::Drawingelement subclass objects are what you "see" in a model, such as Edges, Faces, etc. @unknownuser said: the api documentation probably makes a great reference for someone that already understands the basics (which i don't) see and follow: Ruby Newbie's Guide to Getting Started

@jim said: I do not think there is an infinite loop - the repeating output is because the validation proc is being called by SketchUp very frequently. frequently as much they MF_check, MF_unchek toolbar items. As long as CustomToolbars are open i guess they are repeading output. @jim said: Sure. I like the idea of disappearing toolbars. Mercy, Jim. I'll post free for noel. I hope you customize it as you like it. All yours. I'll drop item.cmd validation from code. sry that.

@gultekinmg said: inject that into your code..at "icon_observer.rb" Code for the validation of the icon. def self.obs(id) # ID = Id of your Icon action >> p "This is SU Bug.." and watch them scroll all the way eternity.... NO do NOT do this ! ONLY determine if the return value of the validation proc is MF_CHECKED, MF_GRAYED or MF_ENABLED. Keep conditional evaluations (and any other,) at the bare minimum. ALL visible toolbar validation procs are called by the Sketchup application's main loop, each time the user interface needs to be redrawn (including each time the mouse is moved !!) Menu validation procs are called when a specific menu needs to be displayed.

Just looking for a shortcut way to get vertex normals. I know it can be done in Ruby, but was hoping SketchUp did it faster when using a PolygonMesh.

Thanks, that's very helpful (and I was also wondering why such observers don't exist, good feature request). I'll have to consider this for my webdialog callbacks.

sweet! exactly what i was looking for. thank you sir

An easier way is to make menu macros for the context menus (the right-click popup and the Edit menu's selection submenu.) FYI: I posted a boilerplate sample

You already know how to add objects to an '.entities' collection [i.e. for model/active_/definition/group]. Make a new definition, then use defn.entities.add_instances of the other three [already made] components as you wish... OR make the containing definition, then make gp=defn.entities.add_group() and add geometry etc to gp.entities, make the group into a component and then adjust its definition name etc as needed - repeat three times for the contained instances...

Thank you very much TIG for your work. Your ShadowProjector is great and I'll try to do some reverse engineering on it

ah.. ok.. i see @driven said: the easiest way to load individual plugins is to click add, and under a new Plugins menu there's only Plugin Loader, submenu load single plugin. as you add them your menus grow and the work as normal. yeah, i want to set skindigo up to do this (it messes with the new windows so i can't close them super easily).. can you also turn an individual plugin OFF with this? [ie- load skindigo when i want but easily prevent it from loading on my next launch?] that said, i do have a request in to whaat to make skindigo an extension or try to fix the mac error.. this would work well until that time.. i'm currently renaming skindigo in the plugins folder to keep it from loading when i don't want it.. kind of a hassle..

Did you read ThomThom's: WebDialogs - The Lost Manual — R1 2009NOV09 specifically the section on "Async vs sync Communication"