could one not communicate directly with the VCB, updating the dimension from there and visee versee?

@jim said: I know it barfs when the file is encrypted. We've asked Google to fix this, but no dice yet. Ditto on Ruby access to Dimension objects.

Al from from Render Plus has been working on something called NprTools, buts there's still has some development to do, and it has not been released yet. The sketchy materials would be great for hatches etc, and I do like the look of the sketchy shadows

not that i know of. there were some youtube vids for sds, though. Theyre linked on the smustard page if you need them.

Sorry, if I'm going to debug this, I require a complete, small, failing example. I'm not going to try to reverse engineer your snippets.

Thanks for the heads up people. Wish that API wiki truly was a wiki so that info could have been added there.

Are you wanting to write a ruby script to do this or to use a ruby script to do this?

Thanks Scott, I just want to make sure.. I was asking if there were routines in the Ruby/Javascript files used by DC's that I could use in my scripts, or are they unavailable outside the DC world?

Hi Malaise! You can also the second button of the Soften toolbar...

Ok. I was just checking that there wasn't a built-in function that printed objects, like what you get in PHP with print_r.

Yea... makes sense that some things have legacy names. ...but still don't understand why a Styles class exist which contains Style classes which only contains two properties... sigh will the API docs every be updated with complete descriptions..?

@gaieus said: And it's now a sticky with a "hot" sign in the Wish List forum...

I haven't looked at this in a long time, and after looking at it again I'm not sure why I did it the way I did. m=Sketchup.active_model inss=m.active_entities.find_all{|e| e.typename=="ComponentInstance"} inss.each_with_index { |ins, ind| name = ins.definition.name g = m.entities.add_group ins.explode.find_all{|e| e.typename=="Face"} g.name = name #g.to_component }

This is the file attached. thanks, Mark TextTag14.rb

Hey Al. I was hoping I could post again before you saw my terse update. I was going to expand on my post to give you the info you are asking for now. Right now, I zip everything up into a single file. Doing this on Windows works fine for Macs. I haven't done the reverse, but I suspect it would work fine too. After reading the first hit on the link I posted, creating the .dmg seems pretty straight forward. However, I want to go a step further from that for now on, and actually create an installer app as part of the .dmg. I'm now researching what it would take to do this. I would be happy to share it with you when I am done (as long as you don't mind a "powered by Smustard.com" label at the bottom of the dialog... Todd

DC's just make parametric modeling available to non-ruby programmers. Anyone could make their own version if they wanted to.

@unknownuser said: Subdivision modeling Seems you are making a SUZ_brush

Here is a try combining the Web Exporter with a fly through path. i am working on it still but I guess you can see the intention already http://www.cad-addict.com/2009/01/sketchup-adding-camera-control-to-web.html

Component spray has random rotation.

Here is a free script that does this called PathCopy. http://www.smustard.com/script/PathCopy (moved topic to Ruby Discussions).