@jim said: By the way, what is the difference between a page .name and a page .label? Seem to be the same, except label doesn't have a setter... The examples for the getters are pretty much the same.

I love answering my own questions... http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/material.html#color= @unknownuser said: To reset the color of a Material with a Texture, set the color to nil.

Plugins that makes use of the Tool class to make custom tools can implement an Instructor help page: http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/tool.html#getInstructorContentDirectory

Also reported here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=20676&start=15#p268315 Have you used InstanceObserver before SU8? I could never get it working - no events ever triggered...

After that video, I went looking and found a few: -template "/path/to/template.skp" # startup template -notemplate # use no template -page "Scene 1" # set the staring scene -timing # some sort of test? There's more, if you search the .exe for these strings.

@thomthom said: How on earth did you find that? The unix strings command. I tripped over while looking for command-line options.

@jd hill said: ..., for which jessejames's above statement is an alias. LOL ~

Men... this is completely awesome!!! ver 2.2 works perfect... but in a non developer language, what will clean do? again, THANK U VERY MUCH!

You can also take an object oriented the way you want your plan, and create a new axis using that object. For your new axis blue is still on the Z axis for your model, set the green axis to go in the direction that you want to be at the top of your screen in plan view. You can save this as a scene and always jump back to it.

I do like that approach though. Using Images for advanced material compositing.

@notareal said: Maybe kirill2008 Stick groups to mesh can inspire http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=24676 Same as Jeff's link.

@thomthom said: No - I wondered if it preserved it. I wanted to only move and rotate the object to a new plane. I wondered if this method would be an option as oppose to combining a translation and two rotation transformations. Well, first you have to determine which axis gets priority (because the angles between the axes in the original transformation may not be the same as the angles between the axes the user picked) then measure the angles between the prioritized axis and the other two, and apply the angles to the user axes (including face normal). I'm pretty sure that doesn't make sense but I can't think of how else to describe it. If you have any specific questions, I might be able to help a bit more.

Thanks!

@dmac said: removeMaterials takes more time after calling addObservers/removeObservers again. What is taking the time if the observers aren't active? Some of us are suspicous about the remove_observer() (I recall some other topics, here at SCF where other people reported slow downs as the number of model entities increased. Do a search on this forum.) When you are done with an observer instance, set it to nil and run Garbage Collection. GC.start Also: @@watchedFaces.each { |f, o| needs to be: @@watchedFaces.each_with_index { |f, o| if you are using an Array... ... but I think you want to use a Hash instead, where the keys are the object_id of the face objects, and the Hash values are references to the observer instance that is attached to it. @@watchedFaces = Hash.new model.entities.to_a.each { |e| (@@watchedFaces[e.object_id]=MyEntityObserver.new) if e.instance_of?(Sketchup::Face) } (Since the entity is getting a 'change' by attaching an observer, it is smart, to iterate an array, rather than the C++ entities collection directly.) If there are Groups and Components in the model, then the above will only find "free" face objects, not faces nested down in Group or Component hierarchies.

Hi, @unknownuser said: Was just wondering if there was a known way of makign a solid and not just a 'surface' based model The 3D printing file formats (most of them AFAIK) are not based on solid(s) description(s). The STL format for instance (even if it starts with "solid" and ends with "endsolid" keywords) is just a watertight mesh of triangles.

Oh crap. That linked to a PHP library... ?

If you want to clear any previous selection first use... Sketchup.active_model.selection.clear then Sketchup.active_model.selection.add(mogroup)

Overview of the code for each standard view (informative) Top direction = Z_AXIS.reverse Sketchup.active_model.active_view.camera.set( ORIGIN, direction, direction.axes.y) Sketchup.active_model.active_view.zoom_extents Bottom direction = Z_AXIS Sketchup.active_model.active_view.camera.set( ORIGIN, direction, direction.axes.y) Sketchup.active_model.active_view.zoom_extents Front direction = Y_AXIS Sketchup.active_model.active_view.camera.set( ORIGIN, direction, direction.axes.y) Sketchup.active_model.active_view.zoom_extents Back direction = Y_AXIS.reverse Sketchup.active_model.active_view.camera.set( ORIGIN, direction, direction.axes.y) Sketchup.active_model.active_view.zoom_extents Left direction=X_AXIS Sketchup.active_model.active_view.camera.set( ORIGIN, direction, direction.axes.y) Sketchup.active_model.active_view.zoom_extents Right direction=X_AXIS.reverse Sketchup.active_model.active_view.camera.set( ORIGIN, direction, direction.axes.y) Sketchup.active_model.active_view.zoom_extents Iso direction=Geom;;Vector3d.new -0.666667, 0.666667, -0.333333 Sketchup.active_model.active_view.camera.set( ORIGIN, direction, direction.axes.y) Sketchup.active_model.active_view.zoom_extents This emulates the standard cameras, combined with zoom extents. Credits to ThomThom!

@honoluludesktop said: Not the profile in "styles"? NO ... That is DrawSilhouettes in the Page's rendering_options hash. rendering_options['DrawProfilesOnly'] must have been related (or was intended to be used for something related.)

i'm not into the dll stuff, but i'm currently working on communication between Sketchup and Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Project. Win32OLE.so can be used in that case