@robmoors said: If anyone is interested in advancing this ruby, a window in which you can tick the exports and specify their file names and their location would be awesome. Any progress on this one? I used it the other day and all the files showed up with no name, just a .dwg .obj etc... I would welcome a more refined script. Thanks.

I presume you are a Vectorworks user which has a tool function that does this. You might look at the Skin.rb which can do some of the same thing. http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=153&t=1534&p=23813&hilit=skin#p23813

Yes, I put: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/download/file.php?id=2482 in the post.

Hi Gaieus Thanks for your quick reply. I will take a look at Didirs script. Thanks Jorgensen

"Behind": Change puts "foo" to puts "foo" if $DEBUG The other way would be: if $DEBUG puts "foo" end This also would be possible : puts "foo" unless !$DEBUG @Fredo6 They still have Ruby 1.8.0 implemented since ... don't know - maybe Sketchup 4? azuby

When geometry reaches a certain complexity, the Orient faces command starts behaving weirdly ; some faces aree reversed some not - but the bigger problem is that it reverses front faces also (as if SU could find out what should be outside and what inside). As I remember Ross posted a +nice" example a while ago when he got stumped with this (it's in the "lost topics" I think).

Somebody is already on it.

As daiku says the accuracy of the volumes for curved surfaces is only as accurcate as the number of facets you give those faces - number of swegments in the arc etc... Ensure that all of the faces are in the same orientation (use context-menu orient faces) and every part of the object has a face so that the volume doesn't rty to 'leak out' ! In fact v2.0 orients all of the faces in the volume it makes for you... BUT better safe that sorry... To ensure there are no other complications (at the moment) I recommend that you keep discrete volumes as separate groups - otherwise there can be confusing - imagine several touching 3D shapes atht are otherwise separate volumes - sometimes the calcualtion process can get muddle as to which face belons to what... There are fixes in the pipeline to trap these, but...

So needless to say im late coming across this a bit late in my random wanderings of this forum, but that image that stuckon3d (wonder where he went he does nice work) looks fantastic. Im wondering what ruby he used to do that stonework and where i can find that PROJECTION EXTENSION.rb ruby or whatever it is he used. Anyways im off to reinstall sketchup and try the volume calculator again. Just reinstalled XP Pro.

does anyone else have this behavior when trying to place a door in a specific location? Is there any other place/forum to ask about the functionality of this great plugin?

Thanks for the links. The smustard one looks like what I was picturing.

I dis-like that you must select a section plane by clicking on it becuse if you ahve a large model and are in close you have no way of determining whether or not you have the section plane selected. Often I must zoom out completely until i can see the grip arrows on the section plane in order to visually verify that the section plane I want is in fact selected. For instance you might have two section planes only 6 inches apart from each other and it's difficult to actually select which one you are selecting from a far back distance.

Hi guys, Have a look at this post. Surely texture mapping is a pain with this kind of solution though...

Thanks Gaieus, Hopefully this will save me alot of time as I am constantly re-tweaking the "fly thru" path to get it smoother before I start to wrestle with the export/rendering game. Thanks Again! Matte

Thanks didier and cphilips for everything especially for speed, i will release few rubies in a short time, so i hope it will reward you for your efforts. Have a nice time. I finally understand the real power of sketchup: ruby & community. And i think that your and others rubies have raised the SU version number higher then 10, so the only functionality I wish for in the official 7 is photosketch and better menu interface for plugins. This topic hijack is intentional. Thanks!

Thx TF for the heads up. I was aware of the project set from Didier. They fail to create face from circle and do not slice through the 3d object like the drape tool does. As you said the results can be a little unpredictable. Good of you to give a shot to help. A rotated drape may not be possible but sure would be nice to have. dtr

Lapx, Have you tried the Organizer plugin?

Just use e.material, where e is an instance of a Group, as a Group is a Drawing Element. This set the material for the group, used as a default by its elements if they do not have a material by themselves.

fantastic - thanks!!! i guess that going through the basics of ruby in SU is inevitable, but doing mash-ups is so much fun

Change the property of these edges so that when their respective faces are delected, the edges remain.