My mistake it was 'Combine Textures' function I was thinking of. Haven't upgraded to 7 yet. Nice tip about the unfold plugin prior to use though.

The first version of the GostCompplugin is now released at http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=21469

That's a like a very hacky wacky workaround. And the site talks about IE5 and Navigator... a wee bit old resource.

http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/EM/materials.rb Yes, it imports pictures as materials in SketchUP but i cannot get it to work. I open it from the menu, choose a folder with jpg but nothing gets imported into materials window. There must be a problem with folder names - I changed the name of the folder with the pictures and gave it an english name - it was cyrillic and it worked then!

Thanks, Ken. OFF TOPIC: You might be interested in looking this over. See movie of April 24th here: http://www.lakeinterceptor.com/pivot/archive.php?c=RSS&o=21&w=rss Overview Video of project: http://www.lakeinterceptor.com/schedule_details.php#OutofLake Attached are some exports from SU of some very crude concept designs. [image: Na3k_HDPEUnderwaterSuspensionConcept-LakeOswegoOR.jpg] [image: 5v3p_Manhole1buoyantconcept.jpg] Also attached are images that "Solo" did for us. They are of an older design of the stainless steel underwater buoyant manhole and tethers. Initial design concepts were all done in SketchUp. [image: tqgd_sinescene.jpg] [image: CPr5_sineunderwater.jpg]

No I wasn't. I had forgotten about that. It helps a quite a bit 68 sec without, 11 sec with, and 6 sec if no start/commit used. But still first run 11 sec and second run it only takes 2 sec.

i like the way it generates the 360 degree pictures automatically. is there another way to do that automated?

ok, sorry

Thanks, Santiago. I'll use this from now on.

thanks tig. i can draw three-point circle. I meant the possibility of using as a basis for new plugins a http://vrshed.com/sketchlife/ Create a 3Point circle of equal to RotatedRectangle.rb. as shown in the video This is possible? Thanks for your answer and tutorial

thanks a lot for your reply. As a matter of fact, I suceeded to solve the problem this morning. Vista had placed one .rb files into material, don't ask me why!!! I took it away and placed it at its right place into plugins, and since everything is working fine!! Many thanks Michel

Here's v1.9 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=145009#p145009 Copies over Instance Attributes if copy making set...

@designforlife said: Can anyone explain the correct use of view.invalidate and/or start_timer? You may try to substitute "while...end" or "for...end" etc control structures by timer. The funny thing is that maybe it is not necessary to put 'Sketchup.active_model.active_view.invalidate' line inside the timer. ` wait_time=(<suspend period>) times=(how many times you want to repeat <some code>) timer_id=UI.start_timer(wait_time,true) { <some code> # put some geometry to active_model times -=1 # decrement times to be able to stop timer Sketchup.active_model.active_view.invalidate do not forget to stop timer timer_id=UI.stop_timer timer_id if times==0 }` I noticed, that visual results of <some code> processing appears even without view.invalidate. Note, that <some code> appears to work a kind of 'transparent' way (you may zoom, pan, rotate view and even launch other commands during the timer processing).Such behaviour indicates, that during <suspend period> all possible events (mouse events, key stroke events and so on) rise and you can handle them. Hope that helps.

Thank you!!!! KJ

Thanks for shining a light on this for me Chris, I need to get new batteries

Well, I haven't had many replies, although I do have another question. When you use ASP in the web dialog, as far as I can tell, the ASP post-back doesn't work. I've gotten it to work in the development server. Do I need to use javascript post-back, or am I just missing something?

@tig said: ...till they bite us in the butt... So you do understand the timing of my question :`)

See this... http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=179421#p179421 I think it does what you want...

Thank you so much! KJ

@teknoel said: Thanks Rick! repaints a great tool! I second that.