Thanks for the info, sounds promising.. All the best Matt

@genma saotome said: I not a programmer... I find myself rotating a selected texture 90 degrees all the time and the default GUI menu is pretty inefficient: select the texture and then menu Texture/Position/Rotate/90/Done. Does anyone know where I might find those functions programmed as icon? You know, select the texture, click the icon, and it's done. 7 mouse clicks reduced to 1. Ummm, and if it's not already written and is dirt simple to write, might someone write the code? I think it's one of those little things many people would like. pretty much looking forward to this ... 7 clicks to 1 ...

what about Bridge ?

@bellwells said: Thanks, Rick. Both startup.rb and smustard-app-observer.rb are in my SU6 Plugins folder. I'll reinstall again. Obviously, I never had it with SU5. Sorry you had to research my silly non-problem; I'm slightly embarrassed. No problem, really - I just wanted to make sure I hadn't written something I forgot about (it has happened!)

It depends on what you mean by "where the user is". If your user has just clicked on something you can find out the top level instance and then figure out the transform of the object in that instance. If your user has "opened" the object its a little trickier but you can find the top instance through an observer.

Then, you can use a reverse Axis transformation. [image: VgWn_Transformxyplane2.jpg] The following code would for instance transform any given face to be in the XY plane, with its barycentre at the Origin. axes = face.normal.axes origin = face.bounds.center t = Geom;;Transformation.axes(origin, axes[0], axes[1], axes[2]).inverse Sktechup.active_model.entities.transform_entities t, face The drawback of the above method is that the orientation of the transformed face in the XY plane is not predetermined. So, if you wish to have a privileged direction, for instance an edge of the face to define the X axis, then use the following code instead, which will ensure that the selected <edge> defines the X axis, and that the Origin corresponds to the Start vertex of the edge. origin = edge.start.position xvec = origin.vector_to edge.end.position zvec = face.normal yvec = zvec * xvec t = Geom;;Transformation.axes(origin, xvec, yvec, zvec).inverse [image: 23wv_Transformxyplane.jpg] Note that you can use the transformation <t> to calculate the coordinates of points to reconstruct a copy of the face, instead of transform it. entities = Sketchup.active_model.entities face.loops.each do |loop| f = entities.add_face loop.vertices.collect { |v| t * v.position } entities.erase_entities f unless loop.outer? # for holes end Hope this help! Fredo

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What does it mean: "It don't work." Maybe you're using Windows and have enabled hiding file extensions. You should disable this in Windows. azuby

Maybe my HideEdges Ruby script could also be a good choice. It can work on all or only on selected entities (but unfortunately not on component instances). A toolbar button isn't included, but a right-click menu item. (see my signature) azuby

See this post also...

Thanks, there is hope then!

http://groups.google.com/group/SketchUp-Plugins-Dev/web/Ruby-ComponentDefinition.html#name= .

Cool, Merci Matt!

solved - i needed to add a plugin menu item - with icon and context menu only i get that registering bug. Thanks for all the help though!

I understand what you say about the text not matching so I played round with changing them so they matched, and after non-working numerous iterations, it finally worked! its now home = File.expand_path "~" myrubyscripts = File.join home, "MyRubyScripts" require_all(myrubyscripts) I think it worked because I eventually removed the spaces around (myrubyscripts)? thanks for your help Jim may this be of assistance to other Mac users.

PushPull does use the Unit Snapping length, if it is set and so it will snap to the distance set there.

I know this is an old topic, but CADSpan's free plugin has this "shell" feature. http://www.cadspan.com/tools

Yes, the onMButtonDown API when used inside any new tool "is broken". I already included a fix for that on the "WishList" stick. But now I realized the need of more than that. Something that works above the level of the tools - where onMButtonDown is. Maybe a new API like "Sketchup::onGlobalMButtonDown" that allows to associate my new Orbit tool to this trigger (and so, disassociate the default Orbit tool from that). I would like to know if there is any workaround (maybe change something on CameraOrbitTool class - where is this class?) before include this "Sketchup::onGlobalMButtonDown" on the WishList. Thank you.

A Group is a single Instance of a Definition - and of course there should only ever be one of them, but sometimes SUp with Ruby thinks that a copy of a Group is another Instances. The way round it in Ruby is to use make_unique on the copy of the group (instance) as you go. It will return an error but it should work anyway... It might get fixed one day...

@unknownuser said: TIG, would this be something that you could accomplish? I'm not savvy enough to create these kinds of things. I wasn't actually talking about exporting this information to excel, but just compute and keep track of this information within sketchup. Running an update is fine as well just as long as the information that is assigned to a material, is kept for each update. Thanks for getting back to me. TIG, if this isn't something you could do, is there someone you know that could? Regards, Jaktavia I'm pretty busy at the moment... If you write a step by step description of what you want to do, sent me it in a PM and I'll try and look at it - no promises though.