Here's v1.9 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=145009#p145009 Copies over Instance Attributes if copy making set...

@designforlife said: Can anyone explain the correct use of view.invalidate and/or start_timer? You may try to substitute "while...end" or "for...end" etc control structures by timer. The funny thing is that maybe it is not necessary to put 'Sketchup.active_model.active_view.invalidate' line inside the timer. ` wait_time=(<suspend period>) times=(how many times you want to repeat <some code>) timer_id=UI.start_timer(wait_time,true) { <some code> # put some geometry to active_model times -=1 # decrement times to be able to stop timer Sketchup.active_model.active_view.invalidate do not forget to stop timer timer_id=UI.stop_timer timer_id if times==0 }` I noticed, that visual results of <some code> processing appears even without view.invalidate. Note, that <some code> appears to work a kind of 'transparent' way (you may zoom, pan, rotate view and even launch other commands during the timer processing).Such behaviour indicates, that during <suspend period> all possible events (mouse events, key stroke events and so on) rise and you can handle them. Hope that helps.

Thank you!!!! KJ

Thanks for shining a light on this for me Chris, I need to get new batteries

Well, I haven't had many replies, although I do have another question. When you use ASP in the web dialog, as far as I can tell, the ASP post-back doesn't work. I've gotten it to work in the development server. Do I need to use javascript post-back, or am I just missing something?

@tig said: ...till they bite us in the butt... So you do understand the timing of my question :`)

See this... http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=179421#p179421 I think it does what you want...

Thank you so much! KJ

@teknoel said: Thanks Rick! repaints a great tool! I second that.

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Here's v1.3 - with error on attrdicts==nil fixed... http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=167219#p167219

Not sure if this is what you want to do... Select the component, context-click and [Save as], save it to a folder as a new component file. Open the saved file, [select all] - [Cut] - [Paste] Now your cursor is at the corner of the new volume, click at the origin point and paste it there. Save the file and close it. Go back to the file you were previously working on, context-click the component and [Reload], select the saved component file and you're done. Everything your component had as its definitions should be inherited to the reloaded component.

Something like... ### assuming model, compo'defn, instance etc defined earlier on... transformation = component_definition.transformation * component_definition_instance.transformation this_parent = component_definition_instance.parent while not this_parent == model transformation = transformation * this_parent.transformation this_parent = this_parent.parent end#while ### now have full transformation for the instance no matter how deeply it's nested... ??? Untested - just a thought... Adjust for Edge etc...

ah, ok. Another thing to note is that I only tried 3d export, and I only exported a model that was drawn in 2d. So I have not tried 2d export at all. Perhaps it is not working. I'll check it on my machine when I get a chance, but my guess is that I will get your same results - no consutruction geometry. Chris EDIT: I haed acciedntaly mistyped a 3d and 2d....it is all typed as it should be now.

@unknownuser said: Try one of these "</script>" after lets say every 5 or 6 thousand lines. I'm self-employed and darn sure my crab apple boss will fire me if I ever get to 5k lines in a JS file.

@adamb said: I'm sure what Fredo meant to say is that its not good practice to overload (or to some degree) extend a built-in class. Its very good practice to derive from / subclass an existing class to create a specialization you may want. Adam Thanks Adam, this is exactly what I meant. Somehow, the best would be that we restrict the possibility of name clashing only at Module level, which implies that all scripts are alway encapsulated within modules, so that it is easier to control.

@redinhawaii said: I know little to nothing about rubies, but it seems there is a need and maybe there is a way to create rubies for door and window schedules, note keys, lots of useful tools for the creation of working drawings in SU/LO. is it possible, is it practical, who knows rubies well enough to understand the issue? aloha red Don't be put off by the topic title but is this the kind of thing you have in mind? If so can you find someone who would be willing to collaborate on a Mac version as I have only a PC? Chris

dear mates ...I havn't poblished the process yet...so if you are interested to do a co-work plz email me at : majid - ye ga negi (at) yah... com so that i could share you the process

Hi Rob, All we can go by is the API docs - which say nothing about being able to specify options on exporting. It just doesn't appear to be supported. http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/model.html#export

Chris, Thanks so much for the help, the revised script works beautifully. Proof positive that I was and still am in way over my head. Rob