not much you can do apart from the angle parameter - try scaling the contours way up otherwise extrude the contours into faces (using didier's projections), then use fredo's round corner to smooth, bevel the angles.. then get rid of the face and should be left with the contour hope that makes sense (EDIT: just realised that would only round the corners but not simplify - you should use fredo's beziertools and convert the contour into a polyline (you may need to use weld.rb before conversion) , then you can change how many segments it is made of)

@remus said: massmaterialimporter It's unlikely to scale the textures correctly, though. p.s. You can find plugins very easily using the extensions index: http://www.sketchucation.com/extensions-index/ , a serach for 'material' brought up the above script in the first 10 results many thanks to remus

Hi, Nice plugin. It reminds me my vr_obj_exporter back in 2006, that I was too lazy to update since then...

@chris fullmer said: Thats neato. Looks like the kind of thing we should develop an entire system of architecture around. i am glad it was a joke. there is way too much of that already.

Ah! I see now how the batch process is. Still don't understand what you mean by focus though. Maybe calling Sketchup.file_new before each import will work? http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/sketchup.html#file_new

How much do you really need to learn "the matrix"? You can do a lot of stuff without ever messing with it. Chris

what version did you download?

Thanks again. mitcorb

@cjthompson said: Is there any way to find the opposite face of a rectangular block without using a raytest? I made a function in my Selection Toys plugin that selects the opposite face. Doesn't use ray testing though. I lops over the connected geometry and finds the nearest opposite face. You can poke around in the code for that if you like.

Thank you so much for the response! It works great!

When using complex curves (e.g. bezier curves) as a path, Pathcopy sometimes doesn't do what it's supposed to do. If you see that happening, try the following method; Get "Weld" Ruby script (also by RickW) from http://www.smustard.com/script/Weld , drop it in "Plugins" folder. Select the entire path, right-click and "explode" or "explode curves". Select the entire path again, call up "Weld" from [Plugins] menu. When prompted "Close curve?" say yes, and no to "Find faces for this curve?". Now you are ready to run Pathcopy script, but don't erase the unwanted connecting edge created by "Weld" until you finish running Pathcopy successfully.

hm... that's an interesting question. That snippet looks very useful. Something SKX could use.

hahhaha sorry http://rubyosa.rubyforge.org/tutorial.html

@TIG Thanks for your input, even though I couldn't understand your script But I managed to get it to work by using this: page = model.pages.add newname layers.each { |l| page.set_visibility(l, false)} page.set_visibility(layer, true) puts page.update(32) page.use_axes = false page.use_camera = false page.use_hidden = false page.use_hidden_layers = true page.use_rendering_options = false page.use_section_planes = false page.use_shadow_info = false page.use_style = false It might not be beautifull, but it works

You may try to open the component (double click, or right click menu), select geometry, close component and paste. Or do you mean something more specific?

If you want it to look something like this [image: LniQ_Structure001.png] use something like this css for the body body{ cursor;pointer; font-family;arial; font-size;.6em; border;0px; margin;0px; overflow;hidden }

Chris Thanks for the very quick reply. Sometimes one just forgets all the tools available. However, what I was trying to do. I work with plate steel panels. I align copies of each panel to the front view, arranging all the panels in order. I like to make sure they are all aligned correctly before I make a ACAD export. Also I need to be in the parallel projection view before exporting. I have noticed that if I use the section view, and starting on no particular panel, most of the time not all the panels will show up in the section view, or sometimes just part of the panel. So my reasoning was that they were not all at the same position. So I wanted the plugin so I could go around to each corner and have a text message showing the position. I like using the “Export Section Slice” as a DWG. This way I don’t have to hide the rest of the model and I can be selective about what I want exported. The elevation plugin works on groups, however, the TEXT menu option only gives the info when the plate section is exploded. Thanks for your reply Ken

1001bit also got a selections of array functions.

Download again the plugin from here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=13563 and read the important note before install (You should delete any BZ__***.rb files that existing the Plugins folder. You should also delete the folder BZ_Dir.). Daniel S