@wikii said: Thank you very much for the info, AI! Is it possible to show me a little demo rb_file about how to use RpTools.dll to load a dcl file? Pardon me,if you feel my request is unreasonable,for I want to know more about it eagerly. I put some samples on the Render Plus Forum if you want to try some things out:

@unknownuser said: Ha, Ha, Happy New Year Oscar oscarlok.slepp 6.days azuby

Hey....thanks guys. You were both very helpfull. Much appreciated. What a very cool tool! I hope I can post a creation soon. I've been using SU for about 3 years now but have really increase my knowledge and skills since I joined this great forum. The script writers have made this program the best! Hats off to everyone who posts with help and solutions. Merry Christmas everyone! Jeff

Thank you,

thanks

Just discovered I can Close components with "Sketchup.active_model.close_active" Thank you, but even with sleep(5) and bring the window to focus ... no success to trigger "Edit Component" shortcut ("Y"). p Sketchup.active_model.active_path s=WIN32OLE.new("WScript.Shell") p s.AppActivate("SketchUp") sleep(5) p s.SendKeys("y") sleep(5) p Sketchup.active_model.active_path

Ah, thanks, Didier. In the topic mentioned above, I had to "bundle" all three scripts (the point cloud triangulation already "tweaked") into a zip file but this way it will always be easier to direct people to your site.

Many thanks for your reactivity, I'm actually conversing with Didier (easier in french) in order to solve the last problems. Best Regards. Adrien

Just wanted to add that it was deletecoplanaredges.rb that did it for me as well. Fixed now.

¡ No problema ! Ask and ye shalt receive... Seasons greetings...

I get them again as before, they worked fine this time. Thanks for the help TIG

Turns out, I think I need to write the texture to disk. The only reason it seemed to work to just take the original filename with the path and assign just the filename was because SU's last file dialog location pointed to where the original texture was. TextureWriter object is the only one that allows me to save out a texture? It doesn't take a Material object as an argument, so would I have to create a temporary object, like a group, assign it the material, export using TextureWriter, then delete dummy object? ...seems messy to me... any better solutions?

@didier bur said: Hi, @unknownuser said: the dialog box says it's in mm In what command ? Please precise what command executes in inches instead of your unit ? I meet the issue too When use "P-P selected faces along their normals " and "P-P selected faces randomly" (projection_V6) It executes in inches instead of MM!!

I.frisken, i think your best bet would be to send adam a PM and see what he says. He always struck me as quite a reasonable chap so he might be able to make you an offer.

/me goes hunting for ninjas

I don't think so, thomthom. Components take colours from layer they are in. And if you select all entities in a layer (with Didier's quick selection plugin), you copy place them in a new layer?

That's a great idea, Bill. I've added it to the feature request list. Cheers,

@thomthom said: Just had another though, if you really want a modal window on mac? Not possible? Not currently possible, unfortunately.

@thomthom said: Can anyone elaborate ... Suppose you have 3 points (p1, p2, p3) and want a point (p4) "normal" to p1. The 3 points define the PLANE and also 2 vectors with origin in p1. If you make a CROSS PRODUCT between those 2 vectors, you will get a 3rd vector that is NORMAL to the PLANE and passing on p1. If you offset p1 using this new vector ... voila! Example: p1 = Geom::Point3d.new(1,2,3) (can be any 3d point, non hard coded) p2 = Geom::Point3d.new(4,5,6) p3 = Geom::Point3d.new(7,8,9) v1=p2-p1 or v1=p1.vector_to(p2) v2=p3-p1 or v2=p1.vector_to(p3) p4 = p1.offset(v1v2) or p4 = p1.offset((p2-p1)(p3-p1)) Regards Marcio

You should be able to calculate the volume, and the maths to work out the weight given the material type and density should be straightforward.