@unknownuser said: Ruby is kind of cool in that you can increment Strings. Thanks Jim for the tip. In this case I can not use it, since my block-numbering-steps comes from the imported autocad-blocknames. But maybe it gets usefull in the future. @unknownuser said: Do whatever works for you best... Thanks again TIG. Hans-Peter

The sample 'Make Sang Red' from here: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=17888&p=145120&hilit=Make+Sang+Red#p145120 might help: # Add a new configurable option to Sang. # (Any attribute that starts with an underscore # is a "meta attribute" that describes behavior.) sang_def.set_attribute 'dynamic_attributes', 'weight', '145' sang_def.set_attribute 'dynamic_attributes', '_weight_label', 'weight' sang_def.set_attribute 'dynamic_attributes', '_weight_formlabel', 'My Weight' sang_def.set_attribute 'dynamic_attributes', '_weight_units', 'STRING' sang_def.set_attribute 'dynamic_attributes', '_weight_access', 'TEXTBOX' Not sure if this would enough to make a normal component into a DC! Will try.

Oh! Deception So translator must be very brief

Fredo, did the pic come?? i'll re-attach. freeScale. bottom box after TopMenu your delightful scripts, when I can download them (a problem with this site), and get them in the right place (my fault) are fantastic to use on the Mac, my comment was more about if any of the earlier ones had been absorbed into FreeScale or Pushpull, or outdated by SU7, etc.. then I will not try to find them now. cheers john [image: oPgQ_monpm2.jpg]

Too funny....your quick Chris. When I have a minute....which might be awhile, I'll put together a little Photoshop idea of the dialog box. It might help. And I can't believe your not a math whizzzz. I was checking out your Ruby writing tutorial. Can't wait to try it. You've made it look really user friendly. Have a great day! Jeff

pret auto How wonderful feedback!

I assume the grid is regular ? Parse the array into sub-sets of the same Z value. Starting with the highest Z-set, find the max and min X and Ys in the set. Test each point in an X column comparing to max Y and min Y. Add these to a points array. Test each point in a Y row comparing to max X and min X. Add these to the points array. Check to see that these points could form a face - if not do next lowest Z set... Do next lowest Z set the same way... this time the face2 could also have an inner loop formed from face1 - add this points set into the array IF you want the 'hole'... Do the next lowest Z set etc, face3 could have an inner loop formed by face2 outer loop etc... Now we have a set of points that would form faces [facepts1.facepts2,facepts3,..] each with a perimeter that match the points Z height. Assuming you want to move each face independently then make facegroup for each face - add_face(points) - and move it up in the Z. In the group erase any face with only one outer loop IF it's NOT face1 - this forms the donut for face2/3/4 etc. If you want a face without a hole simply don't add the inner loop's points as above... You can explode the groups if desired once the faces are placed. Co-linear points that won't face, re-entrant loops and multiple holes etc might prove difficult ? If the points are not 'gridded' a similar principle applies but you might want to [re]consider how pairs of max/min points are found...

@al hart said: Entities is a Class internal to SketchUp which acts like an array. You can convert it to an actual array with the .to_a operator. But it is a lot more than that. The Array behavior is secondary to its primary purpose of adding and containing a Model's visual elements.

@billbell52 said: I am on this quest to get Netbeans IDE working with SU Ruby. The development version of Netbeans has a capability to attach a debugger to a Ruby process. ... From a quick reading, it looks like this is an ide to attach to a Ruby script run from the command line. SketchUp, however, runs scripts from an embedded version of Ruby. Not the command line. So there's no port or process to attach to. Secondly, running the rudebug-ide would not give you access to the SketchUp Ruby extensions embedded inside SketchUp. Eg., If you issue a UI.messagebox() call (or any SketchUp call) from your script loaded by rdebug-ide, it'll just get an "unknown method" error. Third, the SketchUp Console is in control of all Standard in, out, and err I/O streams. Ruby-ide will have to redirect the SketchUp Console I/O to itself, then restore them when it's finished. For MS windows, an alternative might be: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=18130 SketchUcation Community Forums • View topic - [plugin] SuRDebug

You can do it pretty quickly by just doing a right to left selection across the top of the push pulled object and hitting delete

Hi there, sorry to take so long to respond. I got busy and was away from the computer for a fews days. thanks for the response RickW and Chris Fullmer. I used repaint to replace one texture(the pinkish marble in the picture) in a very large model and it worked. I really have to go shopping at Smustard soon there are so many cool scripts there! [image: jsBW_RENDER4.jpg]

@unknownuser said: oh man... life can be so easy. i was blind for years. Oh man, make that X 2. Thank you for the explanation, I can now look back on many wasted hours.

Thanks both again I tried a different tack originally with an add_group/explode combo but TIG the instances option worked perfectly. Chris as I am disallowing component edit sessions for the time being and I am coding for SU 6 upwards, I will bear in mind Model.edit_transform for the future. BillW

Good to go. Thanks for taking the time to mess with this small stuff, I certainly appreciate it.

Welcome Bill, The first thing to try is append the $LOAD_PATH from the installed Ruby environment to the SketchUp environment. If you run IRB in your installed Ruby, and enter $LOAD_PATH ($: for short), you might see something like this: ["c;/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8", "c;/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-msvcrt", "c;/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby", "c;/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8", "c;/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32", "."] But in SketchUp, the $LOAD_PATH might be something like this: ["C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins", "C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Tools", "C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/Podium", "C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/Podium", "C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/ruby"] So in your SketchUp script, append the $LOAD_PATH from the installed Ruby to the $LOAD_PATH in script. # Script.rb $LOAD_PATH.concat(["c;/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8", "c;/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-msvcrt", "c;/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby", "c;/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8", "c;/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32", "."]) Then see if you can require the needed libraries. You might need to install version 1.8.0 of Ruby because that is what SketchUp uses... although I have been able to copy the msvcrt-ruby118.dll from my installed Ruby to my SketchUp directory without obvious problems. (Rename original first, of course.)

I used the code they posted in the API in RenderingOptions "each" method here: http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/renderingoptions.html#each_key But the example puts each key into a messagebox, so I changed "UI.messagebox" to "puts" so it would send it to the Ruby Console. The code looks like this: model = Sketchup.active_model renderingoptions = model.rendering_options renderingoptions.each_key { | key | puts key } and I run it in Jim's Web Concolse, which is my favorite Ruby development tool. Then I just went through the returned keys one by one and compared then to the API. There were quite a few missing ones in the API, and some in the API that don't actually exist. Chris

Pecan has made a SketchUp debugger, but I think it works with FreeRiDe (I think?). It sounds like a monumental task to me, but who knows. Maybe your up for the task! Chris EDIT: It uses wxSTEditor, and here's a link to his debugger plugin: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=18130&p=147722

I remember there was a hack to make applications embed Mozilla engine instead of the IE engine. But I'm not sure if it still works. There was some possibility for incompatibility as well.

Interesting, I'm not seeing that. Perhaps you have a ruby installed that is conflicting. You might need to test which ruby it is.

this is easy. the normal place for plugins on a mac is: HD/library/application support/google sketchup/sketchup/plugins. the plugins folder at the user level is used very rarely by some plugins that install themselves. ocasionally, we put some plugin there in case there is a conflict between it and some other plugin.