@tig said: In the very first line of your Ruby RB file add this. # encoding; UTF-8 This should ensure your own code is properly formatted. This magic comment does not ensure that the code file is saved as UTF-8 w/o BOM. This must be set in whatever code editor is being used.

@areal3d said: is there any way to controll the position of the ruby inputbox on the screen, just to put it a bit away from the center of the screen? Sorry, Stan. NO the UI.inputbox method always centers the dialog.

@icehuli said: Someone might be interested in using c# and .net stuff. I created a very simple example to write a ruby extension in c#. https://bitbucket.org/icehuli/sucsexttutorial can you guide me to run the sample code

Königsblau = Royal Blue [plain wrong!] Ruby-Konsole = Ruby Console [simply correct]

Is there any way to fix this?

Thank you very much, this is exactly what I'm looking for !

edit: found the filed for the version......upload worked thanx for helping me !!!! stan

@rossthompson said: Hi, I'm afraid not. I wasn't able to find a solution. Ross OK thanks for the reply.

@fredo6 said: For instance, if you pick interactively the nested component, the PickHelper will give you the chain of grouponents. Expanding upon this use of the PickHelper class ... This is using the Sketchup::PickHelper#path_at() method. It returns the instance path from the active entities context (for the given index in the list of pick paths.) To get the full path, you will need to add the pick path to the model's active edit path (if it is not nil.) edit_path = model.active_path ? model.active_path ; [] full_path = edit_path + pick_path Then, you can use a little known method in the InstancePath class to get the transformation ... ipath = Sketchup;;InstancePath.new(full_path) trans = ipath.transformation See: Sketchup::InstancePath#transformation

@mr_creator said: Next I need to move everything to the origin of global coordinates. group1 = entities.add_group This line of code will create a new group at the origin of entities. If this is the top level model's entities, then this is the global origin. If it is some other component's or group's entities, then it is their local origin. @mr_creator said: group1.transformation.origin have zero coordinates, but group1 is not at zero. This confirms then that group1's origin is at the origin of the active edit context's origin.

Thanks for your answer a very long time later I hadn't passed by for a long time!