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  • honoluludesktopH

    Coplanar surface tolerance

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    Chris FullmerC
    @thomthom said: :idea: +1 !
  • honoluludesktopH

    Help with Acad generated Dxf file

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    honoluludesktopH
    Well, I spent the day looking at the way various applications read and write dxf files, as well as the differences between Acad versions. My own Cad program outputs a dxf that is no longer compliant with Acad v 11 (maybe not even since 2000). But fortunately, it hasn't affected my work. I have been writing a SU plugin to modify my Cad2Dxf output in order to improve its performance. As long as I was doing this, I thought I might be able to post a DxfIn for SU-free users, but have discovered that there are too many considerations, requiring rewriting my code to accomplish even a very basic version of this. Good thing for me that my Cad2Dxf is easy to understand. Thanks for the support everyone, hopefully I will finish soon:-)
  • Al HartA

    Temporary message box

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    In the webdialog use this code: <body onLoad="setTimeout('self.close()',5000)"> with 5000 being the amount of milliseconds that the message is shown Haven't tried but should work
  • P

    Transformation scale

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    ok i've found it here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=24947&p=213942 use .transform! instead of .transformation .transform adds the specified transformation to the already existing one .transformation replaces the current transformation (like in: will put the object back to 0,0,0)
  • T

    Camera - FOV = H unchecked

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    thomthomT
    Also throw in a mention of the camera shifting that occur at times when using camera.aspect_ratio...
  • honoluludesktopH

    The case of the missing data

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    honoluludesktopH
    Thanks, they both work:-) Ended up fixing my app in a couple of places. Wounder how I mucked the data:-(
  • M

    SKSocket connected with my socket server

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    M
    Hello, Thanks for your answer and your way to send datas through a Webdialog using ajax. For the SKSocket class, I have asked to Scott (a Googler) at the Basecamp and the response is this class as been developed for an internal test but it's not fully implemented and fully working so don't use it if you want to be sure your code will run correctly. Regarding my needs : Now I just want to handles events from another windows software directly inside Ruby so I'll open another topic in the forum.
  • P

    SU8 - new api

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    thomthomT
    The release notes is all I've found... which even appear to be incorrect when it comes to the selection observers.
  • PixeroP

    Default save as v7?

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    TIGT
    If you are working in a model that's been opened in 'v8' then whenever you 'save' it will be as in the 'v8' format. Whenever you use 'save_as' it will be saved in the 'selected format' at the point you press OK: this defaults to 'v8' format every time: so you have to change it manually each time to another earlier version format - e.g. 'v7'... Sorry, but your "dream" hasn't / won't come true...
  • honoluludesktopH

    How to call method added to SU?

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    honoluludesktopH
    For other beginning ruby writers like myself: model = Sketchup.active_model @entities = model.active_entities @selection = model.selection . . . # Group entities inserted. sel = @selection sel_ents = sel.to_a first_entity = sel_ents[0] while sel_ents.length > 0 if ((sel_ents[0].is_a? Sketchup;;Edge) or (sel_ents[0].is_a? Sketchup;;Face)) and sel_ents[0] == first_entity new_group = sel_ents[0].all_connected sel_ents = sel_ents - new_group group = @entities.add_group(new_group) else sel_ents = sel_ents - [sel_ents[0]] end end model.commit_operation C&C is welcomed:-)
  • T

    Mac32API.so ?

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    J
    Here's some related info: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=66969#p66969
  • AdamBA

    Page &quot;Include in animation&quot; flags

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    thomthomT
    Oh - so there is a difference between label and name... Hurray for documentation...
  • J

    Pack Up Multiple Files into a Single .rb File?

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    tbdT
    I did something like that in timetrack.rb - here is the uncompress part zap_files = <<EOL {"tt_stop_l.png"=>"... removed ...", "tt_go_s.png"=>"... removed ..."} EOL if not FileTest.exists?("tt_stop_l.png") eval(zap_files).each_pair do |x,y| File.open(File.join(Sketchup.find_support_file("Plugins"), x),"wb") do |f| f.write y.unpack("m") end end end
  • J

    Windows: Moving Floating Toolbars

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    J
    One problem is that some of the floating toolbars do not remember their shape after re-starting Sketchup. Using the new "Save Toolbar Positions" does not help, and I haven't figured how to resize them.
  • T

    Invoke draw(view) method on tool startup

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    T
    @thomthom said: What I end up doing is: > def activate > Sketchup.active_model.active_view.invalidate > end > Thanks. It has done the trick. I've been trying def activate draw(Sketchup.active_model.active_view) end , but it has not worked.
  • thomthomT

    Whutwhut? UTM class?? Since SU6??

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    Dan RathbunD
    Here's the link again: from Wikipedia search on "UTM": Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system, a grid-based method of mapping locations on the surface of the Earth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_coordinate_system _ .
  • thomthomT

    Extract Material thumbnail?

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    TIGT
    If you get a 'large' image there are Ruby tools to down-size it into a thumbnail ??? http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/ http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3621 http://oldwiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoCreateThumbnailImages etc etc............
  • D

    Entity and Vertex

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    D
    I just wanted to put the vertex in the selection for drawing considerations, but I'll do it in an other way. For the moment, I'm trying to found a memory leak when I try to send my mouse coordinates to a Webdialog for displaying it using the InputPoint class and the position method. It takes me a lot of memory and then makes sketchup very slow.
  • A

    Add a group to another group by rupy-code

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    thomthomT
    @andreas said: Hi, I would like to insert "Group1" into "Group2" by ruby-code. What should I do to make this work? Are you talking about existing groups? If so, refer to TIGs post. If you are creating new groups via Ruby: group1 = model.active_entities.add_group group2 = group1.entities.add_group
  • Al HartA

    Save Toolbar Positions

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    thomthomT
    When I last looked at the registry it appeared that the function was simply making a second set of registry keys. Originally you got lots of ToolbarsUser-Bar0 ToolbarsUser-Bar1 ToolbarsUser-Bar2 ... When you use SU8's Save Position you get an extra set: ToolbarsUserCustom-Bar0 ToolbarsUserCustom-Bar1 ToolbarsUserCustom-Bar2 ... So it's no easier to control their positions now, than what it was before.

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