@chris fullmer said: Here's a few suggestions: Make sure they are all actually over the top of the terrain. They will get stopped by hidden geometry and I think even layers that are turned off. Try selecting those that did not drop and keep running the script on them. There is a good chance that many of them will drop the 2nd or 3rd time. Maybe something there will help? Chris thanks for the help! i got most to drop guess i will just do the rest by hand it wont drop the Land FX trees, it makes them go up and down and everywhere in bt, weird, maybe the ruby was not designed to work with land fx

It is impossible with dimension objects, but possible with other methods.

I think they have been made for Notepad ++. Check out this page: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=10142 and go down to Editor suggestions to find links to a version made by Didier and Radhikari. However, I don't know if those will be helpful though. I was thinking there might be some way to use them, or at least extract or convert their information into something useable by your editor of choice. But maybe someone else has a better suggestion, Chris

Another useful app in this category is "TextWrangler"http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/ But "xCode" is hard to beat as it is made for the job and comes with every new Mac. @unknownuser said: people listed: TextMate Smultron xCode - might be included on the Mac. Recommended by RickW Tasman

Of course. In the meantime I also found the right solution. This Sketchup is very powerful when you found the correct sequence of commands script! Thanks again. I think for my project (some ambitious) I will still need your advice. I hope that you are always online these days as then. Bye

If you don't use @xxx in front of the variable name it will work - xxx. If you use @xxx the last values you entered are remembered. Don't mix @xxx and $xxx like this - I recommend you stay with @xxx. However, you must assign the @xxx values before the dialog first runs - like this [###=changes] choose=[ "Frente 1", "Frente 2" ] @choose="Frente 1" ### set initial [default] @choose enums=[choose.join("|")] ### you just could use emuns=["Frente 1|Frente 2"] prompts=["TIPO","Ancho","Alto","Espesor"] @a=600.mm if not @a ### set defaults for @a - any changes to @a will be remembered for that session of SUp... @b=709.mm if not @b ### @c=19.mm if not @c ### values=[@choose, @a, @b, @c]### results=inputbox(prompts,values,enums,"Parametros del frente") return nil if not results ### 'nil' @choose,@a,@b,@c=results ### $a >>> @a etc ########### Frente 1 pz=[] pz[0]=[0,0,0] pz[1]=[100.mm,0,0] pz[2]=[100.mm,-@c,0]### pz[3]=[0,-@c,0]### edges=entities.add_curve([0,560.mm,0],[@a,560.mm,0],[@a,560.mm,@b],[0,560.mm,@b],[0,560.mm,0])### a >>> @a etc facez=entities.add_face(pz) facez.followme(edges) ### etc etc

Sounds like a plan to me!

TIG- I am on a PC though trying to do a similar thing for the mac. I'll try some observer fun but am sure to be splatted into oblivion Thanks for your thoughts. best, Justin

Oops, came here from "new posts". Got to read those subject titles better. I took a couple of swings at ruby, then put the bat back on the rack before my hands blistered

Thanks!!! Now I can continue with my project!!

@chris fullmer said: Are you going to work on a multi-user SketchUp environment where the server database holds the actions of all users and pushes that info back out to all other users simultaneously?????? Eh, noo... not for now. Your idea is nice, anyway . What I need is to store information about materials, dimensions and other characteristics of some predefined objects that will be created. And to be able to alter that data using a webdialog interface. What is this post here? Because I find this http://www.tmtm.org/en/ruby/, but there I could find just linux packages. I don't know what I'm looking for... I just don't want to use a lot of programming languages. It's enough to me that I'm forced to use that ugly JavaScript for webdialog

Make sure you've downloaded the most recent version of the script. This thread is for 1.2, which is obsolete now. The current version is 1.3 and its here: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=11212&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a Chris

...correction four... ...now that might come in handy.

Thank you, TIG. There was a small problematic part I could not handle, so I copied it from your cleaned-up version. And you're right... sometimes I spend too much time looking for a script to automate a task or a 3d warehouse model that suits my needs, when I could have done it manually in half the time. But I highly recommend "extend close lines". It really saved me time with this drawing. And Todd, thank you for checking out this odd case. I'll continue in the Smustard forum.

It already exists... http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=40025#p40025 Put the fast_tw.rb file in the Plugins folder: 'fast'=it's the quickest way & 'tw' = TextureWriter To use it you just type fast_tw <enter> in the Ruby Console. Any material textures in the model (whether used or not) are then extracted into the model's folder as jpgs etc...

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Thanks Adam - I am actually trying your program as you speak as an example of what the display could look like and it looks great but I am not looking for a lighting tool. My equivalent "lighting effect" is created by custom radiation functions that depend on the type of source, the distance from the source, and blockage and are not light sources. I am not lookig for photo realism but for a representation of intensity on surfaces. The essence of my question is: what technique could be used to color small portions of the Sketchup drawing? The resolution I am looking for is typically 30 cm square for drawings that are the size of a building. Is there some way to divide up each face of every entity and assign a color to it based on the result of my "radiation function" as the point. Perhaps this is part of the infrastructure you mention? Thanks for your help.

Organizer is just trying to load the .rb files it finds in the subfolders of your Plugins menu. The usual fix is to explicitly exclude subfolders that are created by other plugins. You can do this by adding the subfolder's name to the "SmustardOrganizerExcludeFolders.txt" file. If that doesn't fix it, contact me at Smustard and we'll troubleshoot it.

Yes, it has been that way since the first release of Ruby back in June 2004. We ask every release for that to be fixed. The good news is that with V7, we did get a larger COURIER font for the Ruby Console instead of a smaller ARIAL font or whatever it was. Perhaps I can do some more smooth talking with the Google developers and get them to fix this too. It is quite annoying, and really does slow performance on long running traces. Todd

@thomthom said: I'd be very happy if SU8 focused on stability, bugfixes, GUI and UI improvements pluss more ruby power. I totally agree with you thomthom. Fix the core problems - we can always count on this community to develop cool new features! BTW - I used one 20-inch monitor with SU for a long time and have recently gone to two 22-inch widescreen LCDs at home and must say it is wayyyy more enjoyable now since I can really spread out and put all of my palettes on one monitor and model in the other. Never going back!