Thanks ANSII - very simple but effective. Can't see how the LenX and LenY values might be both changeable by scaling, as interlinking them gives a circular reference ! Presumably the name (nimi?) etc could also be represented as a piece of text in the DC centred on the surface, on it's own layer so you could switch it on/off etc etc... .

proper animation does just that, although the movement between scenes is linear and can not use a defined path. It's still a fantastic extension. http://morisdov.googlepages.com/

This is very possible in Ruby. Its also possible to a certain degree using Dynamic Components. I made a dynamic building that comes fully equiped with a fron yard, sidewalk, curb, backyard, different trims, colors, details, and more. Then when you scale it to make it wider, it actually makes copies of the buildin next to eachother. So you could scale it to 300' wide and you would end up with a 300 foot wide block of these buildings. I did not include a way to change the width of the buildings, but it is totally do-able. I made it so each one can change its height, basement, stairs, more and more. It was a project I did just to learn a lot of Dynamic componeont functions. Check it out here: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=14248 Sorry, I wasn't making videos of everything back when I made the DC so there is no video tutorial. I could make one to show how to interact with that model if you would like though. And if DC's don't have enough flexibility, Ruby can certainly do what you want. It is very capable. But the menu inputs might require you also learn a little bit javascript for webdialogs (still over my head). Chris

My apologies, everyone. My day job, night job, and family are keeping me very, very busy. I've been in contact with Max, and we are trying to work out a functional solution. UPDATE: I just sent Max a file to incorprate into his toolbars for testing. If everything works as I hope, an update should be right around the corner.

Adobe Illustrator have raster to vector functions. But I'm not sure how good it is for CAD drawings...

when will people learn. no-one will buy a script (specially a complex one) without so much as a screen shot (preferably a video) of functionality? i would love a script like this, and have actually had my pointer on the buy now a couple times, but... i have no idea if it works like i envision or gave someone $6 for garbage. and yes i realize its $6 but its the principle. i'd rather give it to you than someone who asks for money but couldn't be bothered to post a screen shot. i would further add that it should be a prerequisite of smustards that you can't sell a script without so much as a screen shot. so Chris please make a visual menu system to group and place our icons in and i'll gladly give YOU my money instead.

@bigstick said: Ah yes, I see why it is tricky using DCs - all the trimming around irregular shapes would have to be done afterwards. Perhaps Profilemaker could create the roof surface automatically. I am reminded of the LWCad videos here (http://www.wtools3d.com/swf/online_help/LWCAD_30/detailed_sidewalks/detailed_sidewalks.htm) and here (http://www.wtools3d.com/swf/online_help/LWCAD_30/shingles/shingles.htm) showing trimming roof tiles and paving being automatically applied and trimmed to irregularly-shaped surfaces. Something like this in SU would be amazing! I would pay for it without a second's hesitation. Amen to that! I second the motion and would be willing to pay. Especially the paving tools. LWCAD is an awesome toolset.

Good, glad I could help. It also lets you reset the skew.....I've never been able to get a component to skew though. Maybe I'm missing something? I'll go ask in the SketchUp forum. Chris

It would be nice to add top level menu if there was a good way that users could manager all plugin menus and toolbar buttons which would override the plugin maker's.

hm.. that's what I thought of doing for making a Change Group Axis plugin. But for this plugin I want to change the model axis, and I don't want to shift all the geometry around to fake it as that will cause other problems, with scenes for examples...

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+100 on the rubys

Hmm, perhaps it can be done... i'm not so skilled in ruby, but here are some really good guys. I'm tkinking if any drawing operation could be recorded as ruby action. If you draw a line, some observers to stay and watch every move and record in a text file the first point, second point and the line adding between that points. In theory there is no limit of observers that you can use but I'm not aware about how much will slow down the computer. Of course, the file can go really big. Or can be recorded just created faces/components/groups. This can make the job a little smaller. At least for simple geometry this could work. Just a stupid ideea...

@unknownuser said: One by one

@thomthom said: Or would it be ok if it affected all components? It would be fabulous )

And my ie, too, and my Google Chrome, and my Firefox... But I'm sure they'll sort it out. EDIT: It was my own stupidity... I should have been clicking on the "Forums" button instead of scrolling down to see the forums... I figured it out some days ago.

yup, Numb.rb was the first Ruby script made from someone not from @Last - 1.o (12.Jun.2oo4) how time flies

I played around with Curve class methods model = Sketchup.active_model edges = Sketchup.active_model.selection first_edge = edges[0] curve = first_edge.curve puts edges.count puts first_edge puts curve and for a selected circle the output was: 24 #Sketchup::Edge:0x3fc8cc0 #Sketchup::ArcCurve:0x40f86e0 but for an exploded circle i got 24 #Sketchup::Edge:0x3dbd9a8 nil The only conclusion is that add_circle method add some extra information (like center point and radius) to the circle object. And that makes the difference. One way could be to redraw selected segments with circle or arc. I'll think about this. First select wanted segments then compute the point wehere vectors perpendicular on edges intersect. Now distance from that point to a segment's vertex is the radius. First vertex on edges[0] and last vertex on edges[-1] can help to find the starting and ending angle. In the end, edges.count represents the number of segments for add_arc. Now selected segments can be replaced with an ArcCurve object. One thing remains: to check if selected edges were part of a face. If not, just redraw the arc. But if the face exists, i think an array must be created with all vertexes to redraw the face. Ok, things can become messy if selection contains other strange entities... but it can be refined. grrr... I think those guys from Google could make a lot of things more transparent here... and not just here

It seems that SU tries to optimize the size of file, and it uses the same entities for Groups, until they are edited. When you copy a group, you can check that in the Entity window, it does tell you that there are several instances. BUT, you don't have the "Make Unique" feature. The workaround I found to make a group unique is simply to open it and close it. From the Ruby standpoint, there seems to be no way to detect that a group exists in multiple instances. In SU6, I use make_uniquemethod on Groups in a rather blind way. In SU7, you get a warning message telling you this method is deprecated, so I thought SU7 would automatically make a group unique as soon as you apply some transformation to its entities. It does not seem to be the case. Anyway, the bug is easy to fix. It will go to the next version. But I can't remove this bloody Warning messge from the Ruby console! If anyone knows how to check a Group is in one or several copies in the model, thanks to advise Fredo

Well that's not a dumb question! I was expecting something like: "Did that guy that made Ruby own Ruby Tuesdays?" (can anyone think of something grander?)