Be careful, though, with groups. If you create an empty group in the definition and then add geometry to it, you'll be okay. But if you try to create the group with specified geometry, your group will end up in the main model entities space. That's because in ruby, things that are impossible when drawing manually become (theoretically) possible, such as using FollowMe on a path outside the current entities space (will work), or creating groups inside of groups when you aren't inside the group to begin with (won't work). So, just be mindful when working with groups & nested geometry, that things may not happen the way you expect.

kwistenbiebel: Is this vista's security "feature" biting your behind? Copy the rubies to your desktop first, then drag them into the plugins folder from there. Also, look at the top of the explorer window when you are in the plugins directory. Is there a folder icon for "compatibility files"? That's were these things often end up. CB.

If you can export form blender, couldnt you export from SU to blender then blender to DTS?

The data structure in AutoCAD is different to that in Sketchup so code conversion will be quite complicated. Unless the major part of the lisp code in question is computational rather than related to geometry manipulation, you will be better off writing new ruby code from scratch rather than trying to port the code to ruby.

Thanks xrok1, That's my importer - it's far from perfect, but if you'd like to try it get it from here.

Thanks for all the help, guys. I'm off and runing now. And I have to say, it's a pretty cool trick - the excel window opens and stuff starts appearing in the cells like magic! CB.

Go here: http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2007/10/plugin-export-outliner.html Regards, Bob

Whats it going to take to release this. I would even pay money.

I guess I would start all over again. See this post post for the default setup of the Plugins folder. http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=6952&hilit=+default

@solo said: wq418, Where did you see that? in our bbs http://www.sketchupbbs.com/ if your chinese is well

@kevd said: The problem only seems to manifest itself if the geometry is located in a nested group -- top-level groups didn't seem to have this problem. It's probably related to the admittedly very messy way in which I apply the transformations and inverse transformations to export the geometry in the right place. Hi Kevin, I am an author of SU2KT exporter. I have faced same problems as you have had. I've got still several test models where photo-matched textures are not exported correctly. Can you try them with your routine? Could you describe in detail what was actually wrong with applying inverse transformations to export the geometry? Mine has been inherited from Ogre exporter and it is messy indeed Frankly speaking my routine still doesn't export photo matched textures inside nested geometry Thanks Tomasz UVs export problem UVs export problem #2

@unknownuser said: End where is the ruby? Download http://stroyka-r.ru/Stroim_dom_2.50.rar

Well, it looks like I have to either just fix my Display Templates to work in SU6 and pretend Styles don't exist (as they didn't when I first wrote the script) or write a script that uses Styles and potential flood the user's SKP with styles. Do you think there might be a work around by using send_action? -wehby

Or use the Weld tool to join edges into a curve ("polyline").

Subdivide and smooth is on my computer at work, and I won't be back there till next. I'll post some screen shots then if thats ok. However from memory I have placed the main folder in the plugins folder, and to clarify there appears to be 2 plugin folders on the mac osx format. One that can be reached by (right)context clicking the SketchUp icon in the Mac HD/Applications/Google Sketchup 6/ heirarchy and clicking on "show package contents". Inside this folder is a file named "Contents" which has a "Plugins" folder in it. I have learned from experience that putting rubies in here doesn't appear to work. So I placed it in the MacHD/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/ Plugins folder. In order to get the dialogue box to appear in my Sketchup Preference/Extensions panel I had to take the "subsmooth_loader.rb" out of the Subsmooth folder and place it just in the general Plugins folder. I thought I would have to do this with the other rb. file (I can't exactly remember it's name but I think it was "subsmooth_load.rb") but when I restart after doing this an error dialouge appears, and I'm sorry Iknow it refers to the suddivide rb. but I can't remember precisely what it says. Thanks for the Help

From what i remember of max, I think what your looking for is referred to as intersect with model, if you want to cut a shape into one with other, then right click on the one shape you wish to carry out the cut making sure it is inside the group of the target shape. I hope this helps, i've just made it sound far more complex than it actually is, this is a very powerful and often over looked function of SU. all the best Matt

@dave r said: Thank you Adam. I ran the resolution at 2cm and still had sharp edges on the bench cushion. 1cm worked better. Does adjusting the size of the light component have any impact on the light? Sorry DaveR, missed your post. The Point Light component is not affected by its size because the light emenates from a single point of 0 area/volume. Area lights are effected by their size (ie area) so a larger area gives more light. Adam

view.show_frame(1) # optional delay This line uses an optional 1 second delay. What happens if you set it to zero?

If you export to OBJ (SU has a setting to triangulate all faces) it will do that, you can then just import the file into SU again.

If I were you I'd have a look at what Smustard has on offer. I have a great many of their scripts and they're quite useful. You'll also find some of the scripts you mentioned there.