@jim said: ............ I use a C:\Plugins folder that is used by all the versions of SketchUp I have installed. It's much easier not to have to copy and paste an entire folder of plugins from one version to the next............ Good idea, even though there are exceptions.

I went from here: [image: xnH5_Temp02.png] to here by Geom::Transformation.new(pt, axis, angle): [image: bSkC_Temp03.png] then to here by ent.transform_entities(transform,ent1,ent2,ent3): [image: g0Jo_Temp04.png] But how do I do step 2 for a component rotated on all three axis?

@honoluludesktop said: Al, why didn't you ask the client who sent you the log? I almost always get more informed responses from the SketchUcation forum than my users. Also, I sometimes find that someone here knows a lot more about these things than I would have ever hoped for. If the file exists without a bugsplat, then I can look at it before I get a bug splat, and try to find a way to write to it from ruby. If so, it might be a clever way to keep track of what is going on before an unexpected bug splat I found a way to redirect ruby console output to a file. I was just hoping that this might turn out to be a better alternative, and to flush the output - which SketchUp does not do when it gets bug splat. But I am always looking for better ways to write some traces to something in case something goes wrong. See: Trace Ruby Messages (Actually these traces are only useful for other developers. Our software never has bug splats or other bugs )

@Tomasz: Great answer. This would be so great! I'm sure this will revive Kerkythea as an free alternative to Twilight. Amazing results would be possible.

dereeei, My intuition just knows that you are not trying to tell a talented programmer how to program:-)

@bizello said: ... I'll have to learn JS. JScript User's Guide (Windows Scripting - JScript) JScript Language Reference (Windows Scripting - JScript)

@dan rathbun said: No point in me releasing it, as you guys generally don't like these sort of mods, and also Google will not use "unsolicited code contributions" (which is why I now understand why Jim gave up on the SKX project.) I probably shouldn't have - it can still be a valuable project. I think if I/we had pushed through, people would have started to use it and we might have a quality piece of work by now.

@chris fullmer said: A components axis is where its 0,0,0 is and the orientation thereof. If you open the a component up as its own model, the world axis is in the same place as the component's axis when it is being used as a component. I don't know if that makes sense....sorry. Understood. @chris fullmer said: .............The insertion point is the point of the component instance thst sticks to the cursor when inserting the component from the component browser. It has little to do with the axis - except that it often is the axis location. But once you move a component by any other point, that point become the insertion point. .............. Didn't realize this, thanks again. Between this, and the post that tt helped me with, I should be able to polish the point component plugin, and show the code. While it worked before, it wasn't by design, but by cutting off access to where it failed.

In the script, it's just the time allowed to detect the double click

hmmm.... maybe URL encoding them is the way to go... I'll have to try that. That might solve another problem I had when I used system - it would not open non-ASCII paths.

works . thanks a lot.

@jhauswirth said: You need to use camera.height in parallel mode. Thank you, that works.

WOW Works perfect No problems at all, you are the meeeennnn!!! Thank you!!!

Try Sketchup.active_model.options["PageOptions"]["TransitionTime"] and Sketchup.active_model.options["PageOptions"]["ShowTransition"] returns the values - say 1.0 and true. You can rest them thus: Sketchup.active_model.options["PageOptions"]["TransitionTime"]=0.0 or Sketchup.active_model.options["PageOptions"]["ShowTransition"]=false

New update here with additional methods... http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293700#p293700

You could do this automatically by adding the above statement to the end of the Tools/dynamiccomponents.rb file (after the statement that registers the DC extension.) IF the extension is OFF then the extra class methods would be defined. IF the extension is ON, the file may get reloaded, but no harm should be done.

Here's an updated list of default plugins that ship with SketchUp 8. [image: d32m_0911.png]

Thanks.

Well, better late then never. Not as difficult as I thought. First point, then rotate: ` comp.transformation=Geom::Transformation.new(comp.transformation.origin,point_vector) comp.transform! Geom::Transformation.new(comp.transformation.origin,comp.transformation.zaxis, (Math::PI*3)/2)` Thanks everyone.

Sounds like the only way to check it, is to run the app on both platforms?