@chris fullmer said: I'm not sure what one you are thinking of Chris, but this article talks about web dialogs: The trouble you see is that I cannot open anything with blog in it (nor you or tube) but the date seems right. Perhaps the other other Chris will let us know if it is useful. As you know I am very keen to interest more people in web dialogs, because, for example, I agree with this chap. @unknownuser said: Vic Gundotra, Google Engineering vice president and developer evangelist, told the Mobilebeat conference in San Francisco on Thursday that the web had won and users of mobile phones would get their information and entertainment from browsers in future. ... “What we clearly see happening is a move to incredibly powerful browsers,” he said. “Many, many applications can be delivered through the browser and what that does for our costs is stunning. “We believe the web has won and over the next several years, the browser, for economic reasons almost, will become the platform that matters and certainly that’s where Google is investing.”

Chris, in SU it always goes to List display. In Windows XP, all my default Folders View is to browse and display Details.

@chris fullmer said: That sounds like booltools plugin. Search for the one. Chris That's right. thanks

Hello, Sorry for the confusion! Thanks for pointing this out Fredo6. I'll try to better explain my predicament... I have list2 (beaphash and spihash - a list of all hashes) and list1 (user-generated list where each of the elements refers to a hash). So, I have a user-generated list (this code is just a snippet) and I want to access the the hashes that correspond to list1 and pull, say, the length of the "companion" array from these hashes. beaphash = Hash["companion" => %w{carrot corn pea}, "antagonist" => %w{beet broccoli onion}, "name" => "bean(pole)"] spihash = {"companion" => %w{lettuce pea radish}, "antagonist" => %w{}, "name" => "spinach"} tomhash = {"companion"=> %w{bean(pole) potato}, "antagonist" => %w{carrot}, "name"=> "tomato"} list1 = %w{bean(pole) tomato} list2 = %w{beaphash spihash tomhash} list3 = Array.new list1.each do|x| list2.each do|y| if y["name"] == x list3 << (y["companion"]).length puts "Hey, hash length; #{y.length} and name from hash; #{y["name"]} and name from list1; #{x}" puts "But beaphash name is #{beaphash["name"]}" else end end end ...then I can interleave list1 and list3 to make a new hash. I realize that I may have made this more complicated than it needs to be and there may be a simpler solution...I'm really new to Ruby! Any help would be very much appreciated! Thanks, laura

Yep!!! THX! Miracle that is working! Sure I should read the Api document before But I had risked the trick So my second script was a new speedy success and a big lesson @unknownuser said: groups=[];selection.each{|entity|groups.push(entity) if entity.kind_of?(Sketchup::ComponentInstance)} groups.each{|ComponentInstance|zeds.push([ComponentInstance.bounds.min.z, index]) Copy my code follow in the Web console from Jim Foltz (if you have components use the file linked ) model = Sketchup.active_model model.start_operation("Move in Z") entities = model.entities selection = model.selection zeds=[] index=0 sorted_groups=[] groups=[];selection.each{|entity|groups.push(entity) if entity.kind_of?(Sketchup;;Group)} groups.each{|group|zeds.push([group.bounds.min.z, index]) index+=1 } zeds.sort! zeds.each{|z|sorted_groups.push(groups[z[1]]) } ### sorted_groups is now groups sorted by z z = 0.0 sorted_groups.each do |e| # update! # Now we process the groups t = Geom;;Transformation.new(Geom;;Point3d.new(0,0,z)) # Apply the transformation e.transform!(t) z = z + 100.cm end model.commit_operation return nil Some help for fun variations [image: picture.php?albumid=23&pictureid=421] Undrop_component.zip

ok, here it is: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=20635 Check it out and see how it works. Chris

I think this will work. It checks the loops of face1 and looks for face2. def isFaceInFace(face1, face2){ face1.loops.each { |loop| next if loop.outer? return true if loop.edges.first.faces.include?(face2) } return false end

Ah. I finally figured out what that gem thing was. Everything is working fine now. Pretty docs.

@chris fullmer said: Is that the case? Yes! I don't know why it happened, but now I know a little bit more - e.g. to refer to the comp axis when editing. Thanks Chris

Name : slot.2.rb Description : This file creates a 2D slot. Parameters : The slot width and length. Menu Item : Draw -> Slot Context Menu: NONE Usage : N/A Date : 8/14/2006 Author : Doug Herrmann Probably available on Didier's Library Site ?

Hi Hasan.

telling by your latest creations BTM, you should.. (must?) i'll be happy to pace it further if you need

kayjay, well said! My thanks to all of you as well.

If his site is broken you probably have more luck contacting him. Try that email address listed on his main page: http://tx.technion.ac.il/~arrguedi/

The cpoint_with_cline is treated as if it were a lone cpoint at the picked point - i.e. the end of the line with the cpoint attached. The bit of line is ignored, you can't snap to it as if it were a normal cline ! The cpoint_with_cline has the cline permanently attached and it cannot be removed separately... To get rid of the cpoint's cline try this... model=Sketchup.active_model;ss=model.selection;ents=model.active_entities;ss.clear;cpts=[];ents.each{|e|(cpts.push(e.position);ss.add(e))if e.kind_of?(Sketchup;;ConstructionPoint)};ss.each{|e|e.erase!};cpts.each{|p|model.active_entities.add_cpoint(p)} ### or could be reworked to apply to a selection... ;ents=ss.to_a;

Dear Bob, Great stuff! I see you get to play with much bigger toys. Your modelling looks very good, and very informative. Kind regards, Bob

I may have found part of the problem. I went through each tool and checked out everything in each context menu and it looks like my computer has something backwards or scrambled. This is a long and a bit confusing, but here goes: When “Group” and “Mark With Construction Points” are being used, it says [GROUP] [CPOINT] by the "Show Instructor" button. When they are not being used, nothing is shown on the bottom. "Trigonometric sense" will say yes or no. It is the only one that does that shows both on my computer All others are the opposite and show nothing when they ARE in use, and show [NO…. when NOT in use]. These tools: Rectangle, Polygon, Circle, Ellipse, Parallelograms, 3 Part Circle, and Arc - all have the same discrepancy with their context menus. With context menu item “Generate Faces”, the context menu shows: Generate Faces (current=Yes) -->F8 The bottom shows: [GEN. NO FACES] and nofaces are generated. *******I know that an arc can’t have a face because it isn’t a closed loop, but I thought I’d mention the discrepancy When the context menu shows: Generate Faces (current=No) -->F8 There is nothing about faces listed on the bottom and faces are generated. With context menu item “Generate Curves”, the context menu shows: Generate Curves (current=Yes) -->F8 The bottom shows:[NO CURVES] When the context menu shows: Generate Curves (current=No) -->F9 There is nothing about curves listed on the bottom. I don’t know what “Generate Curves” actually does, so I can't tell if it is working or not, but I'm assuming that when the context menu says "no" it really means yes, as with the other tools. The protractor only works with the Line and Sector tools It does, however, show in context menus of all tools, whether they are supposed to have it or not. There isn't anything about it by the instructor button whether it’s on or off, even with the tools it does work with. Has anyone had any problems like these? KJ

You can use a transformation object on face and edge entities if you use the entities.transform_entities method: http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/entities.html#transform_entities That makes it easier to just scale and rotate and stuff. Chris

It works great! Thanks for such a fast fix!!! KJ

Thank you for looking into this and the speedy response. John