If I remember right, I had a fully installed Ruby on my PC and took the REXML lib from it. The directory contains 55 files and five folders. I loaded it this way from my script: require 'rexml/document' unless defined? REXML If you also want to load this way you have to make sure that the Ruby interpreter search in the right place. Put the REXML folder to Plugins or Tools folder - should work with the above code. To make sure that your script only runs if REXML is loaded, put this condition to your codee: if defined? REXML # YOUR CODE HERE else UI.messagebox "REXML is missed, can't load plugin." end Sorry for my late answer - I'm moving from town to town at the moment. azuby

Woohoo! That might be my first correct response in this forum I'm glad it helped, Chris

This kind of thing? It will probably need for a question "Do you want to convert all entities into components in the selection?" EDIT : Please see below for the plugin.

hrmm... I tried using an extra hash to keep a reference list. But as it turns out, the entity that onEraseEntity returns doesn't match the ones I've stored...

Thanks, Jim: I will check this out. EventRelay also appears to pop up the Ruby console when I start Sketchup 6. I usually just click it off, as I have not had time to really utilize the plugin. mitcorb ps I hope you were able to contact ArchitectBoy, ref: skin.

I think I could also have used Point3d.offset http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/point3d.html#offset, generating an transformation from the offset point, but it doesn't look like the code would be any shorter...

while searching for k-tools, i came across 2Dfillet (fillet.rb) that's exactly what i wanted http://www.ohyeahcad.com/download/ [edit] oh, and TIG.. are you talking about 1001bit tools instead of k-tools? http://1oo1bit.com/

Big thanks. Will test it now.

Whaat, its taken me some time to get back to this, but a HUGE thank you! This does the trick quite well. I send it a face and it gives me back all connected faces. I then can remove those faces from my selection set so as to not re-examine them. Absolutely brilliant. This will get written into my components onto faces script. Hopefully have it done and updated tonight. Thanks a million, Chris

BTW, you can hold down shift while using smoove to solve your first problem. it will move (smoove) in the direction of normals.

Actually, I think I said it returned a vector... ... ...I'm going to go to bed now. Wires are getting crossed again...

@mhp said: Okay, thanks. What's the name of the reliable one?? Same name... but without a '2' on the end - but might have been renamed with a '1' on some sites...

The, as yet, unstated downside of all of this is that there are virtually no methods in SUp Ruby to make or manipulate Dimensions anyway... There has been some work over the years using a unit length dimension component that is imported and scaled in its length to suit, and then perhaps exploded. You could also do things by grouping pre-existing dims etc... .

Hmm, thats a great idea. I'm excited to look at the script more now. This whole thread might almost be merged into that script thread with the valuable info your providing. Chris

The difference is explained here: http://www.smustard.com/script/ExtendCloseLines

We already have pushed some small updates since the initial release, and we're planning another in the next few days. So please post any typos or suggestions. Thank you, everyone! We also created a new homepage for the Google Developer's Group, which includes a link back here to Sketchucation: http://groups.google.com/group/google-sketchup-developers Cheers,

Bugs noted. Thanks, guys! We fixed some WebDialog mac bugs with 7.0, but there's obviously still work to be done. Cheers,

I'll be there. I went last year and it was incredibly fun. I'm not sure who else on the team will be going or what exactly we'll be presenting. But there are lots of fun and exciting things going on with Google APIs, and IO is a fun way to learn more. We don't know exactly what will be presented yet. We'll have a booth and there are always parties and stuff where you can hang out and network. -Scott

Try component_instance.transformation.to_a - it returns a 16 item array that has all of the stuff you need like scaling rotation and location. You really need to use all of these to compare distances between components etc as they might be rotated, scaled etc as well as moved in XYZ... The 16 item array has items 12,13,14 == x,y,z .

gimme ten mins