Welcome to the forum Scott. Welcome to the forum Scott.

Yes, Pixero is a an active member here.

Hi susan, yeah, ok, fair cop. But it does seem to happen a lot and it defrosts my kelvinator when i see people abusing the fab community we have here. Have you noticed the odd comment from new users about how different this forum is from most others? From my limited experience with other forums it's certainly true. Now while Id would'nt like gscf to go the way of pushpull bar, some sort of formal credibility rating might not go amiss. On the other hand Im getting just like the other old farts that I despise so heartily. So forget all that. Let it carry it as it does and let entropy take care of those who do not appreciate it. baz

thank you very much.

You can issue OpenGL commands from Ruby. But I don't think they will do what you expect - such as changing the rotation of the current view. SketchUp's own view/camera interface is probably the bet way to do this.

Thanks.

Hi Todd, of course the link works correctly. The image is quite small sorry. There is a another example : http://img72.imageshack.us/my.php?image=balloontips2an0.jpg

this was an error on my part. I recently switched from Windows explorer, to XYplorer. When I was extracting zip archive with native windows zip into XYplorer for some reason files get corrupted. I noticed it later when i unpacked a few photos. A simple switch to 7zip, fixed the problem. It just i was very surprised to see such an error, it always worked before, and from website it was clear that the only thing that was updated was time limit. So essentially it was same script. Just had no idea it was mt recent switch to XYplorer.

Well, progress of a useful kind. I've worked out from the sketchy API for observers how to define an observer to monitor the 'onComponentInstanceAdded' event, and got it to pop up a messagebox when the user has picked the insertion point after the script generates and inserts the component. Now to add the code to select the Rotate tool, instead of the messagebox (which is where I came in!)

Thanks Morisdov, I'll be looking at those. New Plugins for me to learn

It is cheffey. It will create a skin between two selected lines.

my pleasure Fredo Bezier Icons.zip

you are welcome, numerobis. yes indeed. the "projected" function is the only way to get organic models textured half decently. there is a ruby for spherical/cylindrical mapping. but it doesn't always work for me. my hopes lie with SketchUp7 and that they took in some of the suggestions that were made here in the forum (like a multipin-mapping system)

oh zeee

No it doesn't work. In a model above the face is not hidden. It is on a layer that is turned off.

TIG, I tried yours and it seems to work great for what I was doing (rather than duplicating planes and intersecting "by hand"). Also gives the lines as a separate group, instead of making them part of the mesh, which I like. Taff, I think your ruby will do the same thing once I fix the header. I am not sure the paint faces ruby works for the effect I was looking for, as it does not give a graduated texture, nor colors by contour. It might be useful if the model is used in analysis. I only got one color, though I picked other ones. It has an interesting look, like an iceberg. Just for your info (not complaining) where you put in a number (default 10) is is not clear what the number is and that there is a limit, seems to be about 46). The lower numbers give a very subtle effect. If you go too hight the colors repeat, starting with the dark color. Your terrain models are very helpful (wish SU were faster in flying over).It would be neat to do the model of a place you are going to visit and hike in. And I like the effect you got with the lake surface. Thank you both for the help. Peter

Hi tballman, For your original problem, see this reply in your original topic.

[EDIT] after some quick test view.draw_polyline works fine, but are you sure you execute your code within the drawmethod of a Tool (this is the only place where view.draw methods can work)? Otherwise, if you want to draw a polyline, you could also use view.draw GL_LINESTRIP, pt1, pt2, ... If you want to draw segments with each pair of points, use view_draw_lineor view.draw_lines. Very handy to draw in one shot a complex shape that you pre-calculated.

Hooray !

Updated the script to fix a bug in re-materialing coloured back-faces... Please re-download this version...