Aaah !! Thank you Fredo6 !! that's exactly what I want !

Dear Jorgensen, You can lengthen/shorten lines of any orientation by doing the following. Select the Move tool Place the Move tool on the line to be altered (the line will change colour) Press and hold the Shift key and move the Move tool along the line to the end to be moved. Still holding down the Shift key, click on the end of the line and then drag to lengthen/shorten by a small amount. Release the Shift key and enter the required change in the VCB In many cases SU's native tools can do the job. Begards, Bob

would command-shift-4 do the trick ?

not easy - but deadly useful!

On a related note. The callbacks from javascript to ruby also have issues. Both on Mac and PC the return value string can be mangled. Instead I put return values in a hidden text field in my html and fetch them via WebDialog.get_value(). As far as I can tell its foolproof.

@simon b said: Have you heard of spore? http://www.spore.com/ftl Incorporating evolution between bacterial development to galactic conquest - the creatures are not fully autonomous though. I guess they used the concept of evolution for promotion, but in fact it is still an environment where the players make decision. I found some other not-so-ancient projects related to virtual creature and this one looks pretty interesting:http: http://www.darwinathome.org/video.html. Anyway, to me Sketchup is quite a natural environment for this kind of projects to evolve.

I answered this in the GSU Ruby forum.

@remus said: Sketchyphysics renders you say? have you got a link? im intrigued. Sure, here you go. Proof of concept by Whaat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Mi2urpMns [flash=425,344:28sc35yy]http://www.youtube.com/v/R-Mi2urpMns&hl=en&fs=1[/flash:28sc35yy] Whaat seems to have object animation going for Indigo (though not released yet in the Skindigo plugin) and Fryrender (version 'One') already has object animation capability. I currently just don't know how to use it on SP, as SP doesn't produce a default scene tab animation to start with. I am really excited about being able to convert Sketchyphysics action into default Sketchup animations and use render engines on it. As a note: Vray won't be able to benefit from it as it hasn't got object animation capability for now. I posted the wish for it on their forum though.

Hmmm crud. I tried to repro it from a blank slate: build brick, componentize brick, make wall, fill with component bricks, make house, fill with component walls. Add house component, then add wall to same scene. Bricks in the Wall do not show up as Brick_red#1, as expected. I need to back track and see how the current versions are different than this repro step. (Thanks for the replies!)

thanks

Hi_thanks for the reply. I tried putting the folder in tools...no luck with mac. That said- I think I figured it out. I removed the top level rb folder and dumped its' contents directly into the plugins folder. It now works! So happy. Otto

@unknownuser said: there is a sort of beauty in keeping the poly count as low as you can Of course : small is beautiful

Thanks for the answer! If I have to make the texturing procedure automatically, may be in one way: using Magick++ to produce DLLs, then using Ruby script in SU to call them. At least am trying to do so...

Maybe it's because of threads. As far as I know the GUI toolkits need their own main thread. azuby

Using Object#respond_to? should also be possible. And if you really want to use "OnTransactionEnd", set an alias on "OntransactionCommit" azuby

Hi, SketchUp can only render lines of 1px thickness or more. But by placing your SketchUp model in LayOut (you'll need SketchUp Pro), you can define the thickness of lines in points, not pixels- and thereby reduce the visual appearance of line weight. john .

Just for information you have a young 3D prog who use voxel on the Beta 3.0! 3D Coat Link of the thread about Alpha 3.0 version "voxels" Andrew the creator will be glad to speak with you

Hi, Why not use Marshall to store/restore very long strings ? This works well to store all kinds of data, even organized as struct objects, in attributes. Look here:http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/ref_m_marshal.html My 2 cts,

very very generous offer, Solo! Thanks! I have decided I will just import these furniture pieces in .obj format directly to KT. I will just build some placeholders in SU for my Cam. setup. I can probably convert the objs at home tonight.

Hi, I've been using it loads this last two weeks. @messire said: I have an issue using spray rb when using the selection option. I select a face in a bigger face ( any scale from big ( 100x100m) to small ( 10mx10m) and want the components to be "dropped" on that face. With some settings i get the " u are about to add more than xxxx components are u sure"... with some others ( less spray) i get no message but with both nothing happens. Firstly if the % is too low then it will struggle to place components the same if the % is too high. @unknownuser said: With some settings i get the " u are about to add more than xxxx components are u sure"... This just warning saying that it'll take a long time to place the components. I've had to leave the spray running over night. Also it is sometimes better to work in millimetres instead of metres SU copes better. Hope I have helped