@cjthompson said: Is there any way to find the opposite face of a rectangular block without using a raytest? I made a function in my Selection Toys plugin that selects the opposite face. Doesn't use ray testing though. I lops over the connected geometry and finds the nearest opposite face. You can poke around in the code for that if you like.

Thank you so much for the response! It works great!

When using complex curves (e.g. bezier curves) as a path, Pathcopy sometimes doesn't do what it's supposed to do. If you see that happening, try the following method; Get "Weld" Ruby script (also by RickW) from http://www.smustard.com/script/Weld , drop it in "Plugins" folder. Select the entire path, right-click and "explode" or "explode curves". Select the entire path again, call up "Weld" from [Plugins] menu. When prompted "Close curve?" say yes, and no to "Find faces for this curve?". Now you are ready to run Pathcopy script, but don't erase the unwanted connecting edge created by "Weld" until you finish running Pathcopy successfully.

hm... that's an interesting question. That snippet looks very useful. Something SKX could use.

hahhaha sorry http://rubyosa.rubyforge.org/tutorial.html

@TIG Thanks for your input, even though I couldn't understand your script But I managed to get it to work by using this: page = model.pages.add newname layers.each { |l| page.set_visibility(l, false)} page.set_visibility(layer, true) puts page.update(32) page.use_axes = false page.use_camera = false page.use_hidden = false page.use_hidden_layers = true page.use_rendering_options = false page.use_section_planes = false page.use_shadow_info = false page.use_style = false It might not be beautifull, but it works

You may try to open the component (double click, or right click menu), select geometry, close component and paste. Or do you mean something more specific?

If you want it to look something like this [image: Structure 001.png] use something like this css for the body body{ cursor;pointer; font-family;arial; font-size;.6em; border;0px; margin;0px; overflow;hidden }

Chris Thanks for the very quick reply. Sometimes one just forgets all the tools available. However, what I was trying to do. I work with plate steel panels. I align copies of each panel to the front view, arranging all the panels in order. I like to make sure they are all aligned correctly before I make a ACAD export. Also I need to be in the parallel projection view before exporting. I have noticed that if I use the section view, and starting on no particular panel, most of the time not all the panels will show up in the section view, or sometimes just part of the panel. So my reasoning was that they were not all at the same position. So I wanted the plugin so I could go around to each corner and have a text message showing the position. I like using the “Export Section Slice” as a DWG. This way I don’t have to hide the rest of the model and I can be selective about what I want exported. The elevation plugin works on groups, however, the TEXT menu option only gives the info when the plate section is exploded. Thanks for your reply Ken

1001bit also got a selections of array functions.

Download again the plugin from here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=13563 and read the important note before install (You should delete any BZ__***.rb files that existing the Plugins folder. You should also delete the folder BZ_Dir.). Daniel S

Hi Jim, @jim said: It's almost certainly broken - it is no coincidence since I was working on it this afternoon. I will look at it on Monday - my eyes are blurry. It appears to still be broken. When I click Submit, I go to http://www.sketchucation.com/wp-comments-post.php which just shows a blank, white page and the comment is not there on the Extensions List page. And I don't seem to be able to test Logged-In vs. Logged-Out because I can no longer find where to log in to that part of SketchUcation. Logging in to the group Forums here is not sufficient. Meanwhile, the Extensions List page now shows 679 entries while my list has 678. I'd rather not go through the work of regenerating the list just to compare. Do you happen to remember what the newest entry was? If so, could you mention it in the Comments on the Extensions List page? Adding notes in the Comments seems a good way too keep people updated and would make it easy for me to update both the text list in this thread and the HTML list at http://supowertools.wordpress.com/scfextenslist/ The above is, of course, assuming the Comments function is working. Some kind of search system has added a comment since I reported the problem over a month ago, but it seems to be an automated result for when "Extensions List" is mentioned anywhere within SketchUcation/SCF. Or it could have been done manually, it is only one entry. Thanks for you efforts, Jim, and I hope this helps, August

I will, thanks.

@chris fullmer said: I'm not sure what one you are thinking of Chris, but this article talks about web dialogs: The trouble you see is that I cannot open anything with blog in it (nor you or tube) but the date seems right. Perhaps the other other Chris will let us know if it is useful. As you know I am very keen to interest more people in web dialogs, because, for example, I agree with this chap. @unknownuser said: Vic Gundotra, Google Engineering vice president and developer evangelist, told the Mobilebeat conference in San Francisco on Thursday that the web had won and users of mobile phones would get their information and entertainment from browsers in future. ... “What we clearly see happening is a move to incredibly powerful browsers,” he said. “Many, many applications can be delivered through the browser and what that does for our costs is stunning. “We believe the web has won and over the next several years, the browser, for economic reasons almost, will become the platform that matters and certainly that’s where Google is investing.”

Chris, in SU it always goes to List display. In Windows XP, all my default Folders View is to browse and display Details.

@chris fullmer said: That sounds like booltools plugin. Search for the one. Chris That's right. thanks

Hello, Sorry for the confusion! Thanks for pointing this out Fredo6. I'll try to better explain my predicament... I have list2 (beaphash and spihash - a list of all hashes) and list1 (user-generated list where each of the elements refers to a hash). So, I have a user-generated list (this code is just a snippet) and I want to access the the hashes that correspond to list1 and pull, say, the length of the "companion" array from these hashes. beaphash = Hash["companion" => %w{carrot corn pea}, "antagonist" => %w{beet broccoli onion}, "name" => "bean(pole)"] spihash = {"companion" => %w{lettuce pea radish}, "antagonist" => %w{}, "name" => "spinach"} tomhash = {"companion"=> %w{bean(pole) potato}, "antagonist" => %w{carrot}, "name"=> "tomato"} list1 = %w{bean(pole) tomato} list2 = %w{beaphash spihash tomhash} list3 = Array.new list1.each do|x| list2.each do|y| if y["name"] == x list3 << (y["companion"]).length puts "Hey, hash length; #{y.length} and name from hash; #{y["name"]} and name from list1; #{x}" puts "But beaphash name is #{beaphash["name"]}" else end end end ...then I can interleave list1 and list3 to make a new hash. I realize that I may have made this more complicated than it needs to be and there may be a simpler solution...I'm really new to Ruby! Any help would be very much appreciated! Thanks, laura

Yep!!! THX! Miracle that is working! Sure I should read the Api document before But I had risked the trick So my second script was a new speedy success and a big lesson @unknownuser said: groups=[];selection.each{|entity|groups.push(entity) if entity.kind_of?(Sketchup::ComponentInstance)} groups.each{|ComponentInstance|zeds.push([ComponentInstance.bounds.min.z, index]) Copy my code follow in the Web console from Jim Foltz (if you have components use the file linked ) model = Sketchup.active_model model.start_operation("Move in Z") entities = model.entities selection = model.selection zeds=[] index=0 sorted_groups=[] groups=[];selection.each{|entity|groups.push(entity) if entity.kind_of?(Sketchup;;Group)} groups.each{|group|zeds.push([group.bounds.min.z, index]) index+=1 } zeds.sort! zeds.each{|z|sorted_groups.push(groups[z[1]]) } ### sorted_groups is now groups sorted by z z = 0.0 sorted_groups.each do |e| # update! # Now we process the groups t = Geom;;Transformation.new(Geom;;Point3d.new(0,0,z)) # Apply the transformation e.transform!(t) z = z + 100.cm end model.commit_operation return nil Some help for fun variations [image: http://forums.polyloop.net/picture.php?albumid=23&pictureid=421] Undrop_component.zip

ok, here it is: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=20635 Check it out and see how it works. Chris

I think this will work. It checks the loops of face1 and looks for face2. def isFaceInFace(face1, face2){ face1.loops.each { |loop| next if loop.outer? return true if loop.edges.first.faces.include?(face2) } return false end