thanks for your help on this guys, the right click option that you made honolulu doesn't seem to work on my computer but Chris, your updated code works so thank you very much

Ok. I didn't know.. I thought it was native. Is there some way to stash this inside my script so that the method is local? Or perhaps I shouldn't worry about that? (How do I check if a method is defined? If I can't, are duplicates OK?)

Darn, I finished coding only to discover the "putdxf" I use for my CAD import has a bug that fails to locate multiple blocks correctly. I confirmed this by being unable to "putdxf" with the system's "getdxf". Will have to rewrite as a "command line" script. Thanks for everything, sorry I couldn't understand much of what you tried to explain to me. But, because of your help, I will get better in time

@thomthom said: I think that as a component/group is opened for editing, all co-ordinates are made global. That explains much. @thomthom said: Su7.0 introduced a method to help on this matter: http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/model.html#edit_transform And I'll have to transform them all back myself, I guess. Thanks, Thomas.

Cheers guys, that makes sense

I guess I would recommend using it without the do, since ruby syntaxd seems to think its redundant (which I do find odd as it does not fit their other loop syntaxes). Or if it helps, I learned the array.each do |e| ... endmethod first and I was able to understand it fairly quickly. And I hve zero programming experience outside of Ruby for Sketchup. Another bonus to teaching that method is that all the API uses it, as apposed to the for in end loop. So it might help readers transition into the API smoother. But that is just a thought, Chris

@thomthom said: Doh! I never noticed that method! Nor is_curve? or single_object?. I know. I searched the SCF first, but never thought to try to search the Ruby documentation. (I kind of assume that if something is important we have discussed it here already.) Actually their search works pretty well. (even better than that) if you go to: http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/index.html And use their search box for something like "Curve" it displays text from and links to pages in the SketchUp documentation containing the word curve. (Just what you might expect it to - but I also suspected that it might search the whole universe for the word curve) I need to use it more often.

Interesting, I did it manually with no problems. Perhaps this is yet again coming back to SU tolerance issues? Chris

@daiku said: Clearly I was overthinking it! Thanks, Thomas. Something none of us have ever been guilty of before Chris

@daiku said: I guess Martin's way is fine. It won't create a second face, will it? Yes, I'm creating it on an exisiting face. Looping through the geometry was straightforward - it's not that large a component. In that case you should only need to check the faces collection of one of the returned edges.

You can open the Sketchup.rb to see what is included in it. Chris

Very happy to hear that it's still in the works as well as your commitment to continue making awesome plug-ins. And please remember I'm natural lab rat so if any beta testing is required just let me know.

Let me know ifyou need beta testers.

As a temporary work-around, added a prompt: [image: OI60_068.png] This will allow you to leave the unfold tool and resume when re-activated - but moving the geometry (including using Undo) will invalidate the history and the re-fold will fail. Download from http://bitbucket.org/jimfoltz/sketchup-unfold-tool/get/tip.zip

thank you all... I wish someone would compile a thread with all (or most) plugins ever created, with small animations of what they do, just like the Must Have Rubys Visual Index, but BIGGER

@thomthom said: @martinrinehart said: The w3c insists that you put the <script>...</script> above the </body>. Please join in my subversive campaign against the w3c: http://www.MartinRinehart.com/articles/xhtml-strict-not.html No no no. You should read up some more about separating content from layout in regards to web development. There are very good reasons why all best-practices articles discourages tag-soup. You did not address the content of my article. Is your web the exclusive property of web professionals? Are we drifting way off topic?

Hi Gaieus Sort of an odd ball deal but IMO more script focused but move as you see fit. The 3d PDF that I used built a much larger file than Al Hart's offering for SU but had better images in all render modes. The PDF tools are just killer. Cheers dtr

Maybe, but I don't understand it myself. Rather than returning from the proc, the proc itself evaluates, and that is what is returned.

Or just recreate the dialog every time... def create_dialog @dlg = UI;;WebDialog.new( ... ) @dlg.show { } end

@cjthompson said: The reason I was asking was in regards to this post: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=22567 Is it possible that the bounding box's initialize was interfering with the web dialog's? I don't think so because I have seen invalid dialogs aldo, and I'm fairly certain I have not redefined initialize at the top-level. I see invalid dialogs through variables that reference a dialog that has been closed. I've added some example code here.