@dacastror said: when opening sketchup 8 will not get a notice to upgrade to 2013 version (because of this, they will lose millions of users) It does update. Unless you have a firewall that blocks access. @dacastror said: in "Sketchup 2013 free" entities transformations performed more slowly than "Sketchup 2013 pro" and "Sketchup 8". These things are really serious errors Got a reproducible sample case for this?

That was and is displayed. But it think the string equivalent was always shown but just didn't work until now

I have rewritten the plugin to add up the attribute values as it recursively looks through the components and groups. This works without a problem. For future reference, all those people out there dealing with dynamic attributes should probably know that something weird happens when you create an array of nested groups/components and start working on them within the DCFunctionsV1 class. That may be an incorrect diagnosis, but it explains enough for my situation. For those interested, see the plugin attached that works. At the moment, when you change the value of an attribute of a nested group/component that is summed, it doesn't automatically update the formula value. Fixing this is my next challenge. Oh what fun I will have with observer classes (of which I know very little about)! AttributeSum v0.1

Hi TIG I figure it out how to write animate. but I have a another question How do I make one group from bunch of small groups for example house has door group, window group, roof group (I mean door(),window(),roof()). now how do I do these three method in to one group? I need to make house group contain door group, window group, roof group. I search whole forum I could not find close to my situation. pls give me some Idea thanks

If you read the code it never said that. It said: self.delete_folder(File.join(File.dirname(File.dirname(__FILE__)), 'K2WS'))Assuming that the rb doing the deletion is in the K2WS_Comp2LayerScene_ext subfolder. The path finds the dirname of its folder and then the dirname of that folder's folder - which should typically be Plugins...

Yes, modal webdialogs under Windows are working as modal windows should. For some odd reason it's not working as a modal window under OSX.

@renderiza said: SketchUp 8 runs little bit faster still but not by much...I will study ways of optimizing code to make it faster but as is right now it is playable. Sounds great, I will be the tester @chris fullmer said: Awesome, glad its improved! Thanks for working that into his code Anton, great! It was interesting, I never actually knew that setting the second parameter of model.start_operation to true would actually improve the performance. That is an important parameter to know, especially when your dealing with geometry plugins.

I find a way. # {Ecken von ausgewaehlten Elementen ermitteln() # def ecken_ermitteln model = Sketchup.active_model entities = model.active_entities auswahl = model.selection context = auswahl.first MoMo;;g_name = context.name MoMo;;teile = entities.add_group auswahl model.selection.add(MoMo;;teile) auswahl = model.selection e = auswahl.at(0) bounds_a = e.bounds MoMo;;x_mass = bounds_a.width MoMo;;y_mass = bounds_a.height MoMo;;z_mass = bounds_a.depth MoMo;;i_li = bounds_a.corner(2)[0] if MoMo;;tuer_c_o_li == 0 MoMo;;i_re = bounds_a.corner(3)[0] if MoMo;;tuer_c_o_re == 0 # corner(n) = # 0 = [0, 0, 0] (left front bottom) # 1 = [1, 0, 0] (right front bottom) # 2 = [0, 1, 0] (left back bottom) # 3 = [1, 1, 0] (right back bottom) # 4 = [0, 0, 1] (left front top) # 5 = [1, 0, 1] (right front top) # 6 = [0, 1, 1] (left back top) # 7 = [1, 1, 1] (right back top) end # {S-Tuer oeffnen/schliessen() # def schiebetuer_open_close_li_gen model = Sketchup.active_model entities = model.active_entities status = ecken_ermitteln # siehe oben if MoMo;;g_name == 'Schiebetuer_li' x2 = MoMo;;x_mass / 3 * 2 x1 = x2 if MoMo;;tuer_c_o_li == 0 x1 = -x2 if MoMo;;tuer_c_o_li == 1 a1 = 0 if MoMo;;tuer_c_o_li == 0 a2 = 1 if MoMo;;tuer_c_o_li == 1 t1 = Geom;;Transformation.translation [x1,0,0] entities.transform_entities t1, MoMo;;teile MoMo;;tuer_c_o_li = 1 if a1 == 0 MoMo;;tuer_c_o_li = 0 if a2 == 1 else UI.messagebox 'Es wurde eine falsche Tuer ausgewaehlt.' end status = MoMo;;teile.explode end def schiebetuer_open_close_re_gen model = Sketchup.active_model entities = model.active_entities status = ecken_ermitteln # siehe oben if MoMo;;g_name == 'Schiebetuer_re' x2 = MoMo;;x_mass / 3 * 2 x1 = -x2 if MoMo;;tuer_c_o_re == 0 x1 = x2 if MoMo;;tuer_c_o_re == 1 a1 = 0 if MoMo;;tuer_c_o_re == 0 a2 = 1 if MoMo;;tuer_c_o_re == 1 t1 = Geom;;Transformation.translation [x1,0,0] entities.transform_entities t1, MoMo;;teile MoMo;;tuer_c_o_re = 1 if a1 == 0 MoMo;;tuer_c_o_re = 0 if a2 == 1 else UI.messagebox 'Es wurde eine falsche Tuer ausgewaehlt.' end status = MoMo;;teile.explode end

Hi, Its been long time since I talked about this but I want to share some new information regarding sound. My initial goal was to trigger same sound simultaneously and have the ability to overlap sounds without any cutoffs or lag. Just recently I learned how to make use of HTML5 by adding a the following line on web-dialog <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=10"> and this has opened a lot of possibilities with sound. Here is a technique that will enable multiple sounds... On HTML <audio src="sound.mp3" id="snd_test1" preload> On Javascript document.getElementById("snd_test1").cloneNode(true).play() Note: The above line of code is used every time you want to trigger sound. Also for me the only type of sound extension that is working is mp3...I have tested .swf and .wav so far. If anyone has any new info about sound and SketchUp please post it here...Cheers!

catch was supposed to be rescue in my snippet. I was language confused. :s

@richmorin said: @jolran said: Hope this can help you (although it's related to modifying geometry in groups): http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=52014&view=unread#p470425 Yes, that was very interesting. Thanks for the pointer (though it didn't make me feel any better about the situation): "It's worse than that — he's dead, Jim!" Sigh. -r Groups should be unique and not treated as components with multiple instances when freshly copied. This is causing so much trouble for scripts! and probably the source of numerous crashes. Regarding group names, I think the SU implementation is that the name is just an attribute. The identification is done internally based on Ids of the underlying definitions. If we wanted that all groups are created with a unique name, then I am afraid that this is a request for the SU team to modify the core. Of course, a script that will make all name unique can be written, but you would have to run it every time you create a new group. Fredo

best_picked - or best_face if you want to avoid getting an edge or group or whatnot. Yea, I've spent a lot of time testing things. The API docs are much better now then in 2007 when I started, but it's still lacking details.

But remember : @thomthom said: It will work on all systems that have IE10 or newer installed.

Sure, but if the results are that close then it's insignificant. Large differences - the ones that matter you'll see quickly.

Smustard.com's offset.rb adds an ' .offset' methods faces/edges/arcs/curves etc. That should give you some ideas at least... My ExtrudeEdgesByOffset tool also has some similar code that you could think about - however the easy way to offset edges is if they belong to a face, and are therefore definitely coplanar... Instead of entities.add_edges(array) you might be better using entities.add_curve(array) to make the offsetting easier, if you want separate edges later you can always explode the curves in code...

Yes I think it is a simpler way to draw the profile and pushpull, but once I started along the path of rotation I was getting some unusual things happening and I wanted to know what was going on. I'm on a learning curve with transformations so I will be looking into all the points highlighted here. I want to be able to define the number of teeth on each wheel and the diameter of the wheel. There will be eight wheels in all- I am modelling the back sprocket of a bicycle wheel and would like the script to ask how many wheels on the sprocket? What are their diameters? and what is the separation between each wheel. If I were to go along the route suggested by Dan I would have eight separate pushpulls of the axial profiles but this still would probably less error prone and much simpler.

Thanks a million. That has cracked it. I used the offset method Best wishes Andrew

Thanks TIG it is a good point

Yes, it'd be trivial to collect hidden entities or collect stats. But the point being is that the code is compact and easy when you traverse like that instead of walking model.definitions which would require backtracing.

Hi, I updated [Re]Scene to include the feature to reorganize all scenes by alphabetical order. Thanks for all the help! New Web-Dialog: [image: dlg_1.jpg] Plugin Page: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=52203 Cheers!