@rinse04 said: I am trying to differentiate the difference between an internal corner and an external corner to get two different angles as shown in the below image. angle_between() returns the angle between 0 and 180 degrees. If you wish the oriented angle, you need to set a reference of some sort to distinguish between concave and convex angles. Look at your model, and make abstraction of the walls, keeping only the vectors, and you'll see that none can make a difference between inside and outside. Usually, if you have vectors v1 and v2, say in the horizontal plane, then (v1 * v2) % Z_AXIS is either positive or negative. Now, up to you, based on conventions to consider this is an internal or external angle. Fredo

Yea TT Select Curve is great. But I have come across a modeling request where I need it to continue selecting past an intersection. similar to a ring select. Searching .... [image: ring selecting.png]

Boom! That worked! Thank you sir! --J

@sminky said: Hi, Is there any way to use Shoes to make UI for a sketchup plugin? No. sorry. A special fork and compilation of the Shoes code would be required, afaik. I believe that no one has attempted it.

. Ruby 2.x+ (SketchUp 2014+) [String#start_with?](https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.0.0/String.html#method-i-start_with-3F) ie ... if e.definition.name.start_with?("MyComp") ... or ... if e.definition.name.start_with?("Door","Window")

@didier bur said: Sketchup.active_model.name is NOT (always) the same as the SKP file name... Sketchup.active_model.name and Sketchup.active_model.description are used to set the name and description when you will be using the entire file as a component. Secondly, these 2 fields are used to set the name and description that will be displayed when using the file as a template. So it seems that someone who saved the file, renamed it using francais and resaved it under the old english filename. There are cases when the filename (minus extension) are used to set the component name. Importing an image is one case.

Hi Careca, Thanks for the extension - looked great - but I'm having trouble with getting it off "summer" in the drop down so it will work with "winter" instead and with a bit different times. Also, how do we output the nice shaded shadows combination, let's say from 9AM thru 4PM on Dec 21, 2019 for our customer? Maybe I've installed it incorrectly? No instructions have shown up either. I'm on a Windows 10 with SU 18. Thanks ! tab1

Thanks. Ill try that.

I use this. def self.reload() Sketchup.send_action(CMD_RUBY_CONSOLE) load __FILE__ puts "reloaded #{__FILE__.to_s}\n" end

Thanks for clarifying it. I had a hard time finding my own plugin in the menu and thought something was wrong with the code.

Hi mate, maybe operator error the first couple of times I tried. Confirmed working in SU2019 Pro both with Collada DAE meshes created in Meshlab and from batch triangulated Collada export from Blender.

Thank you for your help. It works perfectly. Thank you again.

'Containers' are groups or component-definitions, which 'contain' entities - they are usually referred to as 'entities-collections' - but 'containers' is synonymous...

Thanks. That worked.

Before the line starting angle... Add in these to see what the arguments you pass are out the possible obj_axis permutations and retest... ` p e p tr p a_vector p obj_axis p a_vector.to_a p obj_axis.to_a` If one or both of them are NOT vectors, then we've got somewhere...

They are just for two small snippets that I will need some advise from Thomasz (Thea settings) to make them properly. I'm just preparing for when he will have some time to look into it...

Did more searching, and found one spot that said the source couldn't be changed (at least not in the way I was meaning). I guess to do what I really want to do, I'd have to dive deep into this, and I just don't have the time since my development work is a "side" project at work. I DO however have time to use TT's SKUI, so that's what I'm going with, since I have already used it for a couple dialogs already in this project.

Just now saw this - I have been unable to get a batch redraw of DC's to not take significant time. It seems the more DC's you redraw in the same operation, the longer each successive one takes to redraw. Eventually, I found a way around this by simply scrapping my usage of DC's and switching to groups. Operations on groups are essentially instantaneous. I'd use DC's if it's one or few objects at a time, or something I want the user to be able to interact with via the DC interface, but most of my plugin's objects are not that - I'm manipulating them with my code. Since I'm doing Engineered Wood Products layouts on very large multifamily buildings, I end up with thousands of objects to manipulate, and DC's simply didn't work well enough, as they were too slow. And the fact that even changing one property - even one that doesn't affect geometry - forces you to have to redraw them each, that time involved was a deal-breaker.

Ok I find the way, it works with local_bounds model = Sketchup.active_model sel = model.selection bbox = Geom::BoundingBox.new sel.each {|grp| bbox=grp.local_bounds get_entities(grp).find_all{|e| is_kind(e,"Face") }.each{|fc2| pl2 = fc2.plane if fc2.normal.parallel?( vec3d(0,0,1) ) and ( bbox.max.on_plane?(pl2)) fc2.layer = "K-Masque" edges = fc2.edges edges.each {|edg| edg.layer = "K-Masque"} end } }

Please use 'code' blocks to format long Ruby extracts. I've fixed your post for you this time... You need to find all 'vertical' faces in the group named 'Top'. After the last part of the code add this... vfaces = entities.grep(Sketchup;;Face).find_all{|f| f.normal.z == 0 } vfaces.each{|f| f.material = clr }