Bjr, @unknownuser said: PS: comment transfert-on un topic? Il faut demander aux mods, on ne peut pas le faire soi-même (sinon tu imagines le b....) Pour ce qui est du conflit, c'est presque normal puisque mon script reprend une classe et des méthodes développées par J. Gall. Tu peux supprimer son script puisque le mien fait pareil. A+

I appreciate your trying to help, Susan, but I put this query in the ruby forum because I was soliciting help from other ruby programmers on how best to do this task. It is easy in SketchUp itself, as you point out, although probably even easier than you suggest because you can probably: Open the component for edit Select all the geometry in the component Right click and select Make group and you have the group. My problem is that this is much more difficult in Ruby, unless there is a ruby command for #1 and #3 (there is a one line command for #2) Again, though, thanks for offering your help.

Not realy clear for me yet. If I understand well, that means "transformation" is usefull for add_instance (f.e.) A kind of insert definition transform1 = Geom;;Transformation.new inspoint instance = entities.add_instance componentdefinition, transform1 and "transform!" to modify this instance. instance.transform!(transform2) But I'll get use to it. Thanks both of you for your help.

hihi comme quoi l'habit ne fait le moine

Hi All thanks for the info... that may well do it,looks perfect. i've had that plug in for ome time but not noticed that option before, many, many thanks all the best matt

Hello Jean-Franco It is still under improving! I will keep upload the latest version of the script in youtube(avi file). Regards Oscar

@unknownuser said: Thanks Jim! Once again, you hit the mark. First, I missed the ".collect" and get a bug on sketchup. Have you got any idea what scan order is prefered in the 'do' loop? Any way to sort the collection? Collect is a Ruby method that just makes a copy of the selections in an Array. There isn't any order to the entities returned (that I am aware of.) You'll need to sort them manually, possibly by building another array of only the instances. Then, you'll need to decide what to sort on: definition name, color, position, size?

ok, never mind. i looked at the wikipedia article on ruby and im way out of my depth. i know baisic computer code, but this seems way complicated. you can go ahead and tell me what to do, but i probably wont try. thanks ayways.

Yes, I've seen that too. Thanks for the reminder.

Thanks.

todd, you were absolutely right. mac A had the latest build whereas B had an older one. i had just to update the older copy of SU to fix the problem. thanks!

well as I see there is no one avaliable and everything got quiet so I guess they give up from that project. I found another try on that but they also did not show in a while http://www.queo-blog.com/?cat=6 some of the progress http://www.queo-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/class-diagram-3d.jpg

Great work Chris !

Thanks TBD. However, there is a method to upload multiple .SKP files all at once rather than one at a time. You create a Spreadsheet of the files, with other information, Description, Tags, etc. and then upload the whole mess at one time. Hopefully creating collections and sub-collections as you go. This is supposed to be part of the SketchUp SDK. But I am having a hard time tracing it down.

agree with Notareal and others, this would be a great script. SketchUp knows it's weak in an area when people have to say "use a different program to do this major modification for your model" SketchUp can't be expected to do EVERYTHING but... it should at least be expected to improve it's materials mapping

I agree, Juju. I've locked this thread and moved it to the Subdivide and Smooth forum here: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=253&t=9224

Glad you got it figured out. Happy repainting!

Google says 120 centimeters = 47.2440945 inches Bob

@juju thanks sir i appreciate ur concern....but if u get to know the name of that ruby please let me know

You must recreate 3D text from scratch. That's why I made TagTag to allow 'flat' text that's editable later on...