I think that the built-in require_all method doesn't load anything other than *.rb files in the given folder. My snippet in the other thread made it do sub-folders too...

hm... that sounds like they might be running into a SU group bug where group.entities.parent sometimes refer to the wrong definition. V-Ray suffered from this, but I found a way to patch it. @unknownuser said: On the other hand if i explode the components and then turn the geometry into groups (actually when i want to do that i go fist inside the component, turn everything there into a group, get out of the component, and just then explode it because it's much moreeee faster exploding components into groups than to geometry) there's no problem. I guess that's maybe because groups are just geometry "grouped" and the components can have much more "properties". From the API point of view groups and component instances both have a ComponentDefiniton, with very little difference.

Never knew require_all was built in... require_all("C:\myrubyscriptsdirectory\") You then could easily use it to do subfolders thus: Dir.foreach("C:\myrubyscriptsdirectory\"){|entry|require_all(entry)if FileTest.directory?(entry)}

Thanks Jim!

Try this code. Have your Dynamic component selected, then run this in the web console: model=Sketchup.active_model entities = model.entities sel = model.selection[0] sel.attribute_dictionaries.each do |e| puts "***DICTIONARY NAME***" puts e.name puts "" puts "*****VALUES*****" puts e.values puts "" puts "*****KEYS*****" puts e.keys puts "" end It will output to the Ruby Console, so have that open. That should show you some info. Chris

Thomthom: If an edge loop selection terminates at a 3 or 5 junction, do you see this as terminating the selection or retaining the selection up to the junction? And thereafter the selection is made edge by edge, adding to the path, or restarting the loop selection without losing what has been selected before. Just some thoughts. How many people model like this, you ask. Because I have some limited experience with Blender, I often think in terms of that workflow (wishing that Sketchup had that versatility) as I model in SU. In my opinion, this loop selection capability (and your current Selection Toys) is at least as important as the Point Merger tool recently developed and Select only Visible. Somewhere out there is the Grand Unified Modeling Program....or GUMP for short. (edit: add small chuckle)

Dear Tomasz, thanks for the fast reply. The result of ENV['PATH'] is nil. Sorry that i not mentioned my system. I'm working with a PC and WIN XP SP3. I tried SU2KT Version 3.0 ,3.05 and 3.1 beta. Below the messages which are shown when i Started export in SU6/7. Karlheinz [image: aa6s_Bild2.jpg] [image: vEDh_Bild4.jpg]

Fred06 has a plugin called hoverselect, i tihnk it does what you want. Do a search of the ruby forum and see if its what your looking for.

file_found?(path) that fixes ascii in SUp Ruby path and unicode in returned filepath returning false negatives with 'FileTest.exist?(path)' - even with accented characters - is updated and moved here... http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=169225#p169225

I've updated my file_found?(path) code here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=169225#p169225 ...

And Jim has made some crazzy animationstests

I think you could do what you are asking Chris, with a minor modification. You would need to have the user perform a prior install of a script to enable to communication with the web service, but then once it was installed, that is all they would need. From then on, all scripts could be downloaded, and managed at run time from the database. In that you could store the scripts as either simple strings, and pass them to the ruby engine at run time to be executed, or maybe you could even store them as blobs in the DB and then execute them as a full script. I am not sure about the blob idea, in theory it could work, but in practice there might be hiccups along the way....but the managing them as simple strings that get passed around should work. As I go through this exercise over the next few weeks / months, I will keep you posted. If anyone out there wants to play a little and be a part of this, by all means, let me know... there is more than enough work to go around Obviously my catalog specific stuff I wouldn't be open to sharing, but anything generic like methods supporting gears, and or dynamic script loading from the db would be awesome to give back.

Oh good, I think that is a good idea. It does sound like you need to be working in Ruby. Feel free to start a new thread if you get stuck. I've probably said it before, but I'm saying it again: I've written two tutorials on getting started with Ruby. I made them because getting started writing ruby was a frustrating process for me. So I'm hoping this will get people started easier. #1 Getting Started Writing a Full Script Chris

Hi TIG, that is true - i was thinking it would be fab not having to turn into 3d view to do it.. Takesh, thanks for clarifying - i wonder if the script 'knows' the view plane, perhaps it would behave in '2d mode'

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=159685#p159685 has a PC based registry hack to save and reload toolbars... It works - I use it. You need to edit some of the example files for v7; it works in Vista too... You could also change it to only save toolbar stuff...

http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/menu.html#add_submenu plugins_menu = UI.menu("Plugins") submenu = plugins_menu.add_submenu("Test") submenu.add_item("Plugin Name") { plugin_method } That should do the trick. It gets a little trickier if you want to multiple different plugins to the same sub-menu, but its possible. I use a global variable, but Jim showed me a way to do it without the global. Chris

Seems Didier Bur has made a big plug about that Layers Manager

another video

Thank you Pilou. It is a complex shape and to get the curves and presures you need to divide it up. maybe I should invest in Sub/smooth.

It would even be nicer if the 'render area' which is defined in maxwell render would be preserved in the different cameras from film and stage... I think we could definitely use a new and easier to use film and stage plugin!