@hornoxx said: @majid866 said: ...MAJ Rail Version 0.0.2 is published. Please let me know your idea about it. Thanks for this plugin idea and Info - where is it? I cant find it here in https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore Extension Warehouse.

@tig said: A page does not 'have' the active_section_plane. That belongs to the model.active_entities as .active_section_plane So you do need to make the page [scene] in question model.pages.selected_page= and then check the active section-plane details in the model.active_entities ... HI TIG, yes, thanx a lot, i am at this point, too, i think, and i could iterate thru all pages (make the active one after another), with view.refresh off, maybe, i just was hoping, that there is a hidden property for an active section. so the conclusion is: the page (scene) stores the active section - but there is no way to retrieve it directly by api at the moment thanx a lot again stan

Found this post which helped me find the solution... https://forums.sketchup.com/t/transform-a-model-vertex-by-vertex/38771/7 Here's the code I'm using with some notes... if something can be improved or changed please let me know? I can also add the code to iterate the faces if needed? Basically you need the vertices of all the faces you want to move and each vertex needs a cooresponding vector to be moved to. That way you can pass the 2 arrays to transform_by_vectors(vertices, vectors) . Andif you're using sub components like I am, make sure you're in the correct entities context (not sure I'm using all the proper terminology here) oe else you get a mess as a result. Like Tig explained in the post I shared... @unknownuser said: ... if every vector has a separate vector-transformation you need to pass two full arrays - in one go! vectors=[] //array of position to move vertices vertices=[] //array of face vertices from the individual faces that make up the surface vertices.flatten! //in my case I need to flatten the array vertices.uniq! //make sure there are no duplicate vertex vertices.each{|vector| position=vector.position.clone position.x +=distance vectors.push vector.position.vector_to(position) } component_entity.transform_by_vectors(vertices, vectors) Hopefully this helps others out because it wasn't easy to find or understand... but it works!

@majid866 said: @srx said: Hello. Thank you for giving your plugin for free. It could be vary useful. My first notice is that I could not make a wall with external layer thicker than 10cm. Why this limit? Hi, General idea is make a wall simply and close to real. I never see a wall with finishing layer more than 10CM. Also some other plugins will come after this one that will use it and I need to consider some limitation for future. You can draw 2 walls and change layer on one to "Finishing" for solution. Best regards Lucky you. It is at your place.

Ok, I'll uninstall and move on.

Others are publishing the plugins in the plugins topic... https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=323

This plugin by thomthom kind of does it. https://extensions.sketchup.com/extension/1356b8f5-54c3-4df9-a6ed-28466ff41ede/transformation-inspector

@pixero said: If you temporarily comment out the line: unless file_loaded?(FILE) you can run the script again without restarting SU but you will get a new plugin menu entry for every time you run it. I had been loading the script from the console, then created a menu entry to do just that (from your How to Debug thread), but naively assumed it would reload any required files. Added another menu entry for the file in question and all is good...

Some helix here : http://www.drawmetal.com

And 10 thousand years later... thank you, TIG!! It seems so unbeliavable that this feature wasn't available native until recently...

Just tested Sketchup::Text#set_text on SU2020 and it (as Dezmo says) does not display the change until the view is redrawn. So Sketchup.active_model.active_view.invalidate is necessary to see the change. I'll open a documentation issue for this "quirk".

The result looks good. What were you expecting to be different ?

@season_x said: I think Right - click menus are more important than toolbars and shortcut key. Doug Olivier (formerly a Trimble employee) is working on a popup button matrix called GhostMenu: There is a beta version available to test. https://app.ghost.menu/ It uses a keyboard shortcut to popup the GhostMenu. (But I cobbled up a little script to insert a command for GhostMenu into the top of SketchUp's context menu.)

Man I thought python and Dynamo were hard. I even had a go at lisp but for some reason I cant get my head a round ruby. I like the code above but want to use the clean code but also just add in the layer names and leave the other ones alone. It seams that when I run this it converts all the layers in the model to Default and then the layer color had to be the same as the material name. I like the hash option but cant seem to get it to run on transparent materials and it only paints 1 side. any suggestions P.S. I am bringing in a dwg (exported from Revit) with 20 or so layers and want to put all the layers to 1 color but windows I want them to be on Translucent Glass Gray F.E. all layers to color 123_White except 0_EX_Glazing it needs to be on Translucent Glass Gray Some of the issues the import comes in as 1 group (with layers in the group) some of the groups come in the main group with groups within groups (doors and Door windows) Objects come in with a material not defined (<auto1>)so a generic material must be placed on all the objects for the script to have a chance. Thanks in advance

I did some workaround on this behavior by adding an event listener on the dialog box via JS. This way the callback will be triggered. window.addEventListener("beforeunload", function (e) { sketchup.focus_dialog() }, false); @dlg.add_action_callback('focus_dialog') do |ac| @dlg.bring_to_front end

@pyroluna said: Well obviously the answer to my previous post here is yes. But it took a few years... https://www.clippingplane.com/ https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=AdvancedCameraSettings Pyroluna, did you know that there's already a free plugin by S4U to do this? https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=s4u_Clipping_Camera And it's not quite true that it took a few years. The legacy ThomThom's Camera Tools ( https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=43290 ) provide you instant (Camrea > Advanced) access to the debug dialogue. This plugin is very old but only with SketchUp 2017+ we have FORCE button. May the Force be with us!

Thread revive! I found this extension and wow---it's a lifesaver 7 years later! Thanks!

An oldish thread but I'll poke in and let you know about 2 plugins that can easily access camera dialog box: S4U Camera Clipping - https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=s4u_Clipping_Camera - a rather new plugin Legacy ThomThom's Camera Tools - https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=43290. You access it via Camera > Advanced (and it has nothing to do with ACT). Have fun and never ever struggle with clipping!

@alexms said: But, when I do like that, I'm depending on the last choice of Use image as the user's made in import dialog. You are correct there are no importer options for image file types exposed in the Ruby API. If you are still using SU2017 Make, then there is no way to change what the user's last setting was, whilst SketchUp is running. It is saved in the registry, and although SketchUp will immediately update the user's setting (if it changes,) SketchUp core will still use it's internal memory of the setting instead of checking the registry. This means if you attempt to tweak the registry whilst SketchUp is open, it will have no effect. @alexms said: Or should I make a full tool and use add_image ? This is likely your only option. I did post an example of dragging objects around within a tool at the SketchUp forums ... See links in this post: https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-to-realize-the-drag-effect/125758/4 Once the image is placed, you might try to push it's reference into the selection set alone and activate the ScaleTool. Sketchup.send_action("selectScaleTool:")

@masp said: I found 7.1.6859 (free) for mac (based on Aerilius' post): http://dl.google.com/sketchup/gsu7/FM-2-1-6859-EN.dmg (what a relief: I've been trying to find it for ages!) pro would be similarly: http://dl.google.com/sketchup/gsu7/PM-2-1-6859-EN.dmg Mike Hi! I know it´s been quite posts while since these posts, but miraculously those links are still working. Thanks! I´m trying to download the two older Pro versions for Mac (7.0.8656) and (7.0.10246) but couldn´t find them with this method so far. I tried a lot of alternatives but they didn´t work. Did anyone have any luck? Thanks