Not only there an API blog, but all the Ruby documentation is now in a wiki style format. Todd

Each script usually contains in it some copyright and/or license clause. Most scripts (if not all) that are available from that website are free to use for personal or commercial use - but read the script itself to be certain. You can open the script with a simple text editor. Occasionally, the author will encrypt a script so you can't read it. If that's the case, then from your perspective, consider it free to use. Also, be sure to check out http://www.smustard.com for several commercial grade scripts. Todd

Aaaah TIG it's good to have your brain beside me... Thanks (and merry Christmas) !

Yeah, I just revised the whole site and the "tour" and thinking of how it may work, well, it may indeed. Maybe I post this to the guy at the free forums. Thank you very much!

Thanks Didier!

I think you should contact tech support with all of this stuff. They may have something for you. The best way to contact tech support nowadays is from within the help menu of an open application of SketchUp.

Looks, that it has something to do with Sketchup LangHandler.rb azuby

Thanks mirjman, I was wondering what it did.

Thank you , that makes things very straightforward and easy.

how 'bout that. it's right there. just one little folder away. thanks Gai

Mover will only work with groups and components http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2007/08/plugin-mover-2.html . And look at Render Plus plugins Space Design and Retools http://forums.renderplus.com/wiki/index.php?title=RpTools . Space Design is a free subset of RpTools. RpTools has additional things like making alpha channels within SU, a nice Component Explorer window, component axis aimer, PDF stuff, and eventually Flat Path will be reintroduced, etc. Al's move wizard will move individual bits of geometry.

Mmmm, I must check that asap...

@lekonna said: However the model should be always solid so it would be enough for me to just check the normals of the faces and compare those to the camera and if they are not opposite i could just reverse the face. If you imagine a box with 6 faces which are all aligned correctly, the 3 faces which are visible would have their normals match the camera and the three faces which are invisible would have their normals the opposite of the camera. So the "trick" is to determine which faces are visible, and which faces are obstructed by other faces. Todd Burch was working of a script to solve this problem, but I never heard if he got it finished. I don't know any easy way to determine if a face is visible or obscured in a particular view.

@daniel s said: Thank you TIG!! It works great!... this will save me a lot of time. And a question... because this i can´t done with sketchup.. i put an example on the attachment... is it possible with ruby? Thank you again! Daniel S Groups always have their bounding box square to the axes. Components do not. Try using components ?

TIG, you're so quick

Sure... I wouldn't even have said anything ifI hadn't thought it was OT regarding your thread. That's what I ment in my lates post above. I was wrong...

See my signature 350 free scripts

Well, I wrote my own, stable, tested language handler. azuby

... and most Ruby programmers own this book: http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ruby - The Pickaxe But be warned: Sketchup includes Ruby 1.8.0 as far as I know. AND Sketchup does not come with most of the libraries mentioned in the book. If you can read German, search the old Sketchucation Sketchup forum for the German section / my topics. I've tried to introduce Sketchup-Ruby to a programming newby. azuby

Okay, thanks for your reply. I was actually thinking of writing a web dialog for this script at a later stage. Just thought I'd test some functionality first without it. I guess I'll have to dive into the sea of web dialogs then...