@dan rathbun said: @niccah said: Just a small question: Why you are writing " Sketchup.require"? Are there any differences to the "normal" require? FYI: The "normal" require (and load,) comes from module Kernel. Sketchup.require and Sketchup.load can call the internal decryption for rbs files, but the Kernel ones cannot. Okay, this sounds logic! Thanks for the information!

thank you very much for the help, great links

@dan rathbun said: Does your boss ever use the [image: file.php?id=87554] Model Info > Statistics panel ?? [attachment=1:1ebrpxvl]<!-- ia1 -->ModelInfo_Statistics.png<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:1ebrpxvl] Yes he knows this tool, but it don't give you the texture (in m²) and of the components neither groups thanks to all everybody !!! I think I found the solution. When I need to found each entities in a group I use that : if g.is_a?(Sketchup;;Group) g.entities.each do |element| if element.definition.name[0] != 0 && element.name == "" element.name = "#{element.definition.name}" end # end if end #|element| With that, I can change the name of component inside a group The first code of TIG gave me an idea, I combine my code with a piece of code from him and it worked ! (it was only a sample of code used to test for me) Now I have to copy that piece of code in the big one ! Before : [image: 33890297.png] After launching the plugin : [image: 18942418.png]

@unknownuser said: In pas trials, I noticed that the SU error message (whether for syntax at load time or at run-time) are not handled by the console Ruby object, but send directly to the console at C level. @jim said: I can't get this to work now. I know it used to work, and had used it daily. Maybe the latest version of SketchUp changed somehow? @unknownuser said: It would nice if we could redirect all messages toward a known output stream. ... Maybe we should ask the SU team I'd assume then that we are unable to capture it, as irritating as that is. Thanks all

Hi everyone ! I have found how to correct my code !! It's was just an error of algorithm. At first time I had this condition : chose.name[0] != 95 And I would like to have this : chose.name[0] != 95 || chose.definition.name[0] != 95 but it doesn't work ... The solution is : chose.name[0] != 95 && chose.definition.name[0] != 95 As I said, I'm beginning ! Thanks to all! especially TIG

Your first problem is very easy to solve, just make sure that your ruby script executes asynchronously. I use this function in a couple of my scripts instead of the outer-most loop: def asyncLoop(range, &proc) from = range.min to = range.max iteration = lambda do |index| last = (index > to) proc.call(index, last) if !last then UI.start_timer(0.02, false) { iteration.call(index.succ) } end end iteration.call(from) return nil end You can use it like this: asyncLoop(0...16) do |i, last| if (!last) then # Perform ith iteration else # Put code to be run after this operation here instead of outside the loop end # Code here will run immediately, so leave it empty

I'd just write: text = IO.read("path/to/file.txt")

FYI .. file_new() will close the active model only on Windows (because it's not an MDI interface.) On Mac.. another document window is opened, and becomes active, but the old one with the old model is still open. This post belongs in the Ruby forum.

Ok I played around a bit in the console.. and I agree with you. This is another example of poorly wrapped C++ objects that can cause Rubyist's nightmare. Each time we call Sketchup.active_model.active_view.camera we get a new Ruby object. Ex: Sketchup.active_model.active_view.camera == Sketchup.active_model.active_view.camera %(#008000)[>> false]

Thanks for the replies and for the correction about @id. I changed both, but it doesn't solve the problem. It seems the timer starts correctly and counts until the end, only the action (code block) isn't executed until the user hovers empty space or give focus to other UI elements. @unknownuser said: I wouldn't set @model.rendering_options['ForegroundColor'] in the draw event. I agree (I didn't think about that), although I didn't notice it in Edit → Undo... I now chose to get along without text color.

@unknownuser said: (referring to Windows ALT+PrintScreen manual workaround.) ..., but I needed some to write a code to save and image from my plugin. You may on Windows only, use Win32OLE.so and the SendKeys() function.

You haven't really explained why you are doing this. Is it something like you model an aircraft full size and then want to have a dimensioned 1/12 scale model? If so then do this... Make sure you are in the model entities context [i.e. not editing a group etc] Draw a line 12" long [assuming you are using inches]. Use the Tapemeasure tool and click the two ends of the line. The VCB should show 12". Immediately type 1" + <enter>. You are asked if you want to scale the model. Answer 'Yes'. The line and the rest of the model are now 1/12 the size they were... Erase the unneeded line. To make other scalings from a full sized version simply draw the line an appropriate length, so for 1/48 use a 48" line scaling down to 1"... A tool listing all the possible scales will take as long to use as this simple method and of course it's probably not have the scale you wanted in the list anyway! To reverse the scaling... let's assume 1/12... draw a line 1" long, Tapemeasure pick its end and type 12" etc, and everything is scaled back to full-size again...

@unknownuser said: Hey guys, I really don't expect anything weird to happen with the docs. Google is obligated (and happy) to host our current web resources until such time as we have a replacement ready. (One with rejuvenated user comments. ) Good to hear! (Great new logo in your profile! )

Weird, now the user says the problem is not occurring anymore without any explanation. Lovely! Sorry for wasting your time Dan,TiG. Thanks for the help!

Thanks Dan that worked and was just what I needed. Keith

@dan rathbun said: Seems like you are trying to do things the hard way. Nope. I'm doing things "The Game Way". EXPORT the fewest polys, fewest textures, no textures on backfaces, no polys w/o textures. As minimal as possible... applying a texture to a component puts that texture on the backface -- I can't allow that. The code I showed, above, was what I use to identify and color untextured polys bright red (written by someone else). If they're big enough, I'll see them and either delete the poly or texture it correctly. 99 out of 100 times, I delete the poly. I need either a report OR a modification of the code I posted, whichever will get me a display/listing of all component/texture assignments. With the information in hand I can go right to the specific component definition and find the problem. W/O it's an ordeal.

Hmmm... OK. Yes, actually it's Ruby 1.8.x itself that uses "green threads" instead of native threads. You might have more luck using a OLE interface to the java. See: [Plugin Library] Win32API and Win32OLE so files and: WIN32OLE rdoc

@tig said: There are new API methods with the latest v8M2 to extract files/subfolders [into Plugins] from zip/rbz files. However, if you already have ways of extracting them, then the moving to their new locations can be done with vanilla Ruby Dir and File commands... Or the extended library FileUtils FYI.. there is a Pure Ruby (beta) edition of the Zlib library that is cross-platfrom (no need to deal with compiled so/dll, Ruby version, compiler versions, etc. etc.) It is by Park Heesob (who is involved with Daniel Berger's win32-api project.)

@sdmitch said: vhiguita, Are you still working on this problem or do you have a solution? I was interested in your problem and thought I would give it a try. Using the data from you post, I created a "html" file and created a plugin to read it and place the data. My html file contains the faces, lines and points but the lines and points are really the only data you need. I assummed the units were feet. It would help if I had an actual file to work with so post one if possible. Hi, I found the solution, there are many ways to get this, for example with PHP you could load all the html to a string, you could apply regular expressions to get the values (<div>,<span>, etc) from the tags review curl library.

Just keep in mind that if you start attaching data to every Entity, you'll have massive file bloat.