Some time ago I posted this. Found this programmable key game controller, one handed, at Bestbuy for $39.00. It has 144 programmable keys. More than I need. http://www.saitek.com/uk/prod/cyborgcommand.htm I have been looking for a programmable keyboard that was reasonable priced. So now, I am content. Ken

Chers, its pretty long, but its looking good, cheers.

Just for reference, the following works for scaling along the Group's axis: m = Sketchup.active_model e = m.active_entities s = m.selection tr = s[0].transformation trs = Geom;;Transformation.scaling( 2, 1, 1 ) s[0].transformation = (tr * trs) but this scales along the global axis: s[0].transformation = (trs * tr) as does this: s[0].transform! trs

Ok, good. I wasn't sure if asin was simply overlooked, or if you needed something different.

+1...

I wouldn't mind if it would all fit in 1 animation plugin. Improved camera motion and object animation included. But that would be dreaming

Click on the link in my previous post. Save the file with the extension rb in the Plugins folder.

Let me clear up a remark I made at the top of this thread, and even my followup posts. When I said "that is not the topic", I thought I was posting to Lewis's thread about a Ruby vulnerability that applies to people who use Ruby on a server for websites. However, this thread, your topic, certainly applies, and yes, you can do just about anything you want with Ruby.

Please tell us when you found these. It looks like fun!?!

The Ruby on Rails community might be in panic, or not, but it doesn't mean much for us at all.

Hey Fletch, Thanks for the reply. I have the same camera position, I'm working on 24 alternative designs for an entry. So, it would have been nice to automate the export process. Glenn

@malaise said: Hello, everybody I just send an idea. As far as Sketchy-physic is involved in animation. Could it be possible to write some plug-in in order to simulate sensor or end-switches? This would allow to build sequential movements. I mean the block B for instance may move after the block A reached a kown position.... (in french we name that AUTOMATISMES ..) We may program the positions or links on the same way ,we do for joint and block. (my Ruby Level is unfortunally very basic ) Pierre MALAISE frendly yours I am thinking about ways to make this sort of thing work.

I just imported the .dwg file. The "dasd lines" are coming in as components. Try this - select everything, right click, and Explode. Then, try close opens as you did before. Todd

I beleive it works on the context menu. Bring in your window and place it on the wall. Right click selected window and choose Window & Wall/Make a Cutting Window

@unknownuser said: funny thing, I tried last night Aptana - it has some nice features, but for me is waaay to bloated/slow. nowadays I play with SublimeText coded by an ex-google. as it is at the beginnings it doesn't have all the cool tricks, but it is extensible via python scripts (if Ruby were available I would jump in to write some specific Sketchup thingies) another one that I keep an eye on is Intype Sublimetext looks very nice, and it is very small at 11 MB installed...smaller than RDE in fact. And it's only $59, which is not that bad. I'll give it a shot and see how the features work out...thanks, TBD.

@unknownuser said: Question of a total candide There is no tool in Su for reccord actions on the screen for see the result in Ruby? Do you know that such a thing was built into SU1 (before Ruby), but it was hidden? John Bacus and I had a little bit of an argument about it at 3DBC. I still think a macro recorder is a useful thing. But they pulled it out by SU2.

Yeah, the script was a quickie I did before work this morning. I was originally just going to make a copy & paste one-liner for the Ruby Console, but putting it in a menu was easy enough. I just used Groups because that is all that the first example model had. Update: TIG has updated this script to work on Groups and Componenets. See the following link: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=11081

You are welcome. I thought I had already done it. Thanks for the tickler. Todd

Hmm... reasonable. But we are really looking for innovative (weird, maybe) ones rather than common ones. (It is Reeeeesearch) So any solution here?

see http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=3124 for some details about the project