Thank you for your quick reply. And yeah I noticed your suggestion in one of the above links too. The observer solution seems a little kludgey to me, especially when you can create the needed leader manually with the Text tool. So I'm still pretty new to SketchUp development, how that observers solution would work when say I would like to move my *.skp file to the other PC? I would obviously have to move it with the script which sets up observers?

Jim, I see you are the creater of this webconsole script. Thank you for this great tool. What you just wrote in previous post, is this about creating route different from the webconsole in SU, to let you write outside SU and then run these snippets inside SU? I'll have a better look and see if I can get it to work if I understand. The webconsole is a huge improvement for a poor soul like me. (I must have missed it since it is from 2006) Thanks again, Wo3Dan

As you know I am keen to promote the use of webdialogs. One significant reason is that html files can contain links to the world. Afterall we are told by such gurus as Kevin Kelly and Tim Berners-Lee that data linking is the future of the World Wide Web. @pout said: on the first point: the set of html is indeed not so small and it is regenerated a lot of times So I want to post this: Mechanisms should not be designed to suit the size of the current task. They should be made for types of tasks to be reusable with different variables and conditions. Then you and any collaborators will appreciate their existence in the future. Using html markup in quotes in either ruby or javascript files is contrary to this approach. Using tables for layout should be avoided. If you like I am willing to help you do it this way but you will need to show more of what you have achieved so far. Chris

I'm 90% sure that I've gotten it to work just fine with SU7. Just make sure you're putting it in the right plugins folder. It should show up at the bottom of the Camera menu if I recall correctly, Chris

Thanks for the quick response and tips. small steps for now... I try what you said

Chris, Mat, Jim Many thanks - each of your responses added that extra bit to my knowledge. I think I have all I need for the next step of my journey. I am trying to build a virtual sundial correct for any Latitude and Longitude - which may seem a bit of a strange task. But Stetchup has rather a good model of the Earth's movement around the Sun. It correctly distinguishes between solar time - as seen on a sundial - from civil time - as read from your watch. So, with its ability to cast shadows correctly, a sundial simulator should not be too difficult. I'll keep you posted !

The only problem we've seen so far (that I'm aware of), is that a couple of folks have required a restart if they install IE8 while SketchUp is open. So first suggestion is to install IE8 with all apps closed. But if you do see a webDialog problem, a system restart should fix it. Cheers,

Hi Ecuadorian. I have suggested or requested a similar feauture several times here on the forum but no luck so far.... The interest in smooth animation in a render engine combo seems to be very small.

Hey!, that is what you meant. And it is in fact returning a parallel vector. I'll write it into my code and see if .samedirection? is enough to help me decide whether to rotate with a negative or positive value. Thanks! Chris

AdamB, No, the calculation that I'm doing is in the reversed direction. I do not want to raytrace the whole model and see what I hit, I want to select a face (or a few faces) and say how much of it is lit. (i.e. out of the set of rays that should hit it, how many actually hit it first) This is working great, as already stated, for non-grouped/componented selections...

@mitcorb said: Edson: Does this method produce the same result where I see in some posts "viewtopic..."? this method allows you to make any word into a link, without really showing what can be a very large URL. what you mention is the result of a simple copy/paste operation.

That's what it was! Thanks, Chris.

If you are creating them all like this: $bad_global_variable_new_group = entities.add_group $bad_global_variable_new_group = entities.add_group $bad_global_variable_new_group = entities.add_group $bad_global_variable_new_group = entities.add_group The variable only points to the last one. The first 3 will be lost.

No problem, Chris. If you have any further questions about this - feel free to message me (or post here and message me so that I'll read it for sure )

Aaah... Cool!

@unknownuser said: if you explode it Yes but it's dangerous to manipulate TNT

Yes. Maybe good idea to do it in another software (like AutoCAD). Thanks.

You need to have an inputpoint for inference to work. Check out the InputPoint class for how that works. That's about all I can say. I am currently working on inputpoints too, and its going slowly. There is a good example in the utilities directory. Open utilitiestools.rb and look at the TrackMouseTool in there. It is found in Tools>Utilities>Query Tool inside of Sketchup. It uses inference points. It seems more complex than I thought it should be, but it definitely works. Chris

Check out this post tothe Ruby API blog. It should help hopefully, http://sketchupapi.blogspot.com/2009/01/playing-sounds-in-sketchup.html Chris

@gaieus said: Yup, in LO 2 you can now explode your model and assign any kind of line style (thickness,dashes and such) to the individual lines (2D only and cannot be reverted).LO has finally grown up and if some tweaks and a couple of "feature requests" are implemented,it can be a full featured presentational as well as drafting tool - still keeping updateable relation with the 3D SU model. Do you have to export 2d as jpeg to do that in LO?