i was wrong about "applyTo"(multiple ex/change)...it works, "applyTo" + Emmanuel's "select component instances"... need simple [web]dialog to get it features as api

Hi, I think the script "layers_materials.rb" will help you. What it does: "Manages layers and materials as the "color by layer" display mode does. 4 options to create layers or materials corresponding with materials and layers, to repaint faces based on their layer or to change their layer based on their materials." Download it here: http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/em_ren_page.htm Hope this helps

Dear Azuby, I have just had an opportunity to try out your script. Perfect!!! I like the undo hide-edge function too, and the right-click context menu is just SO HANDY. I use your script for cleaning up model elements. Suppose I am modelling an object with a 6-fold symmetry about the z-axis say. I model the object and then take a 1/6 slice, make it a component, and then rotate it about the z-axis. Using your Hide Edges script, I can click on the two bounding faces to hide the edges, then delete the faces before rotating. This saves a lot of time with the Eraser tool + shift, even in wire-frame mode. Thanks once again. Regards, Bob

@cadfather said: yes, but only if you already have extruded faces... True - you cannot do this with 2D geometry.

Site is back up for the link I posted a few days ago.

This is a Vista security problem - you need to have Admin rights and you can then delete, add and change files from within the Program Files folder structure. Otherwise you get 'compatibility file issues where things seem to change but when you look later they are back - or the old version !

gata, I hear you A couple of things you mentioned were already on my list, but it's good to hear from script users to verify/validate/change my ideas on what a script needs.

Great Macs! I'll test it as soon I'll go back to my codes. Thanks A lot.

Super - thanks Didier

thanx HFM and Gaieus ( for birthday ) and guidance ...

@unknownuser said: Have you got any idea about when it will be possible to see and buy SU7? The people that do may not tell. I'm betting sometime soon after the 3DBC.

@unknownuser said: Let's not pick on Ray, okay? It's just too easy - how many of us had cash to spend when we were his age? Well? Huh? This is totally off topic: When I was 14 I was mowing the lawn (plus some odd yard work), cleaning out the garage & store room and washing the cars, all on a weekly basis, for spending money that you could go to see a movie, buy some popcorn and a drink with before it was finished. Work isn't difficult to find if you want it.

dtrarch, Whaat are spot on. Thanks,

Dear John, You wrote, "I don't think SU's Section Plane tool can do the following without grouping and duplicating groups." In my enthusiasm to give/find a solution, I failed to read the question. Hopefully, the described technique will be useful to someone, and informative to those who are new to SU. Kind regards, Bob

Sigh. The installer shouldn't do that. Here is the file in case anyone has the same problem. Win32API.zip

There's a strange ...something... in SU that adds all kinds of non-geometric stuff to the selection set. Todd and I requested it be "fixed" (at least changed), to only add geometric objects to the selection set. After all, who wants to filter out loops, materials, etc., when all we really need to deal with are edges, curves, and faces? So far, no internal fixes, so we're left to filter objects.

Dave remove(rename) number "22", leave "skin.rb"...thats all

Third for the abort command key-stroke. The sandbox tools are an excellent example of processes seizing a pc and the only way to regain control of the machine is a crash. A abort command key sequence/stroke is necessary. Best Regards

Thanks for your response, but it still doesn't work. The file structure is as you described, though there are many more files in the OFS_Dir/ (png/pdf etc) Joint push pull appears to be working for me now though... All these Ruby scripts seem very well messy! I mean the arrangment. I don't know what half the ones I have are any more! Any tips on organization with Ruby? Also how to get the above script to work

@al hart said: I was just interested in: Is it possible to access the sketchup database separately from multiple tasks in Ruby Ruby doesn't 'do' concurrent tasks. So the answer is No! Adam