@jim said: I haven't ever tried to use this .intersect method, but maybe it's just poorly named. What if you think of it in terms of "overlap"? What it appears to do is give you the length of overlap of the BB's projected infinitely along the Axes. Hopefully the model will explain better. Jim - that is exactly my though - the function acts more as an overlap on the PROJECTIONS of the bounding boxes as opposed to it's literal and more logic meaning of actual intersection of SHARED space. @cjthompson said: cjthompson - Thanks. I personally have a workaround for my needs. but though I'd post it here hoping that a dev. can possibly pick up on this and maybe work this through. your solution is nice though! Chris - this is indeed the same issue

yes I know, but that easiest solution slipped through my hands

Thanks a lot Thomas.

Hy, TIG plugin ListLayerColors after some modifications, can create new colors in the pallet with layer's colors require 'sketchup.rb' ### class CreateLayerColors def CreateLayerColors ;;get() model=Sketchup.active_model entities = model.active_entities materials=model.materials layers=model.layers if model.rendering_options["DisplayColorByLayer"]==false model.rendering_options["DisplayColorByLayer"]=true already_on=false else already_on=true end#if # create temporary entities for exporting layers vecteur = Geom;;Vector3d.new 0,0,1 centre = Geom;;Point3d.new 0,0,0 group_temp=entities.add_group() entities = group_temp.entities x =0 layers.each {|layer| model.active_layer = layer centre = [centre[0], centre[1], centre[2] + x] edges = entities.add_circle centre, vecteur, 0.01 cercle = entities.add_face(edges) x= x + 0.01 } model.save "temp" mpath = Sketchup.find_support_file "temp", "Plugins/" model.export(mpath +".obj",false) mtl=mpath+".mtl" text=IO.readlines(mtl) 0.upto(text.length-1) do |i| if text[i]=~/^newmtl */ name=text[i].slice(7..-2)### layer name only rgbR=((text[i+2].slice(3..11).to_f)*255).to_i.to_s### color rgb values rgbG=((text[i+2].slice(12..20).to_f)*255).to_i.to_s### color rgb values rgbB=((text[i+2].slice(21..29).to_f)*255).to_i.to_s### color rgb values couleur_calque = Sketchup;;Color.new(rgbR.to_i, rgbG.to_i, rgbB.to_i) unless materials[name] new_matiere = materials.add name new_matiere.color = couleur_calque new_matiere = new_matiere.name else materials[name].color = couleur_calque end end#if end#upto File.delete(mpath+".obj") File.delete(mtl) File.delete(mpath) group_temp.erase! ### model.rendering_options["DisplayColorByLayer"]=false if already_on==false ### end#def end#class ### menu # add menu items if(not file_loaded?("CreateLayerColors.rb")) UI.menu("Plugins").add_item("Create Layer Colors"){CreateLayerColors;;get} end#if file_loaded("CreateLayerColors.rb") ### CreateColorLayer Christophe

Ruby is not the programming language of SketchUp. SketchUp is written in a compiled, closed down language and we do not get to see what makes SketchUp work. They have opened small portals into SketchUp. That is where Ruby comes in. Ruby is allowed to interface with the core SketchUp program. But it can only do what they have designed it do it. They have not allowed us access to change the toolbar icon possible sizes, therefore we can not do it. But the workaround is to make your own icons on the screen like some of us have played with. Or to make a Web Dialog with your own icons. Besides, I bet no one would want you to change their icon size for them. People have very strong feelings about how their UI is set up. And no one would want a script to come in and change things outside the realm of that script (like global icon size). Good luck with it, Chris

Didier - thanks for posting this. For my current purposes, I sometimes have another face bounded by the inner loops that I don't want to erase, so If I copy a bunch of faces together, and copy the inner loop faces first, then they'll get deleted when I copy the outer faces. So, creating a group, copying the group, and immediately exploding the original group is the best method for me. Dan - thanks for the info on face.clone and face.dup. I saw <Deleted Entity: xxxxxxxxx> pop up in the ruby console, but I just assumed that the face was immediately deleted because it was placed on top of the other face. -- Karen

@thomthom said: So from that you know the command to trigger the command: create_box ... That is assuming that box.rb is loaded. HOWEVER... there is a bug in box.rb, if Tools/make_pano_pm.rb is also loaded (it loads after box.rb,) and redefines the create_box method; so the box object is never created. I posted a fixed version of box.rb [Example] box.rb version 2.0.0

The effect of how many sets you use are as following: 1 set: The origin of the texture, width and height is taken from the material width and height 2 sets: Origin and scale+alignment 3 sets: Origin, scale+alignment, Skew 4 sets: Origin, scale+alignment, Skew, Distortion

@simonstaton said: oh crap, so no way of moving it out of the menu and onto my toolbar? (1) You CANNOT move anything out of any menu. (2) The Google Toolbar already has all the buttons. Toggle it with: Sketchup.send_action( 10617 )* Show it: UI.set_toolbar_visible('Google', true)* Hide it: UI.set_toolbar_visible('Google', false)

dont worry i needed to put a "+" between to two solved! thanks tig

perefect thanks

Hi Tig, I have sent you a pm with more details about the attributes exporter.

Hi @unknownuser said: I picked the order of the faces anticlockwise You just have to reverse the order of points when creating the face, or to check the normal after creating it: myface=Sketchup.active_model.entities.add_face(p1,p2,...pn) # Default normal to blue (up) face.reverse! if face.normal.z<0

You can assigned the entities in the ComponentDefinition a layer, and you can assign ComponentInstances a layer. And while practically you can apply a layer to a definition, SketchUp ignores this.

That sounds good. I still haven't been able to look at this. Trying to crunch out Vertex Tools.

Cool, thanks a million

Question(s) on Axes: (Background: I am used to how other CAD / Modeling applications had a World Originand a World Axes [ie, WCS], and this allowed the user to create any number of named User Origins [offset from the World Origin, specified with a vector;] meaning the World origin was always remembered, but could itself be moved by the user. AutoCAD used to call these a UCS. I suppose then you could define the Axes for these UCS.) So... in Sketchup, currently: (a) I assume (and this is part of the question; I'd like a confirm,) that the Georeferencing Location for the model is based on the Sketchup model's World Origin. (b) IF the user moves the "World Origin" with the Axes Tool, would that shift the model geographically, if it (the model,) was then re-uploaded to Google Earth?

Does beam tool have all the steel cross sections for ansi. I'm only getting a few cross sections. I was hoping it would have the complete aisc catalogue. Has one been created to date?

@thomthom said: "treeware" = book? Yes!

I recall that there's a '1001 shadow tool' to draw shadows on faces as new grouped faces - this is possibly the basis of what you want... http://www.1001shadows.com/en/index.html