I dont think I have released any plugins that do that. But I have used it a few times to avoid copying a bunch of code into each case of a elaborate if or case statement. I have also used it when debugging to override the behavior of a function like puts

@gaieus said: @kwistenbiebel said: Forget the store, forget the download, it's not even been announced by Google yet! You know kwist that it will be announced somehow like this: "SU 7 has been released" maybe like AD products and etc - GSU 2010, closer 2009 why 2010? need time to develop another version!

Something like this... comp_instance = (Sketchup.active_model.entities.select{ |e| e.typename == "ComponentInstance"}).first Sketchup.active_model.entities.add_edges( ORIGIN, comp_instance.transformation.origin )

same happened to me Dylan. therefore I deleted all my rubies in the plugin folder and copied them in again separately, thus finding the ones that were not compatible. I think most disturbing is, that the IES plugin conflicts with progressbar.rb, for this one is used by many other scripts...

@unknownuser said: Tell me if you need some code for that in 3D. Fredo Thanks! I'll take you up on that offer. I will PM you.

A sloped roof doesn't lie in any of the 3 standard planes, so there's a quick exception, and was the kind of thing I was talking about. It is planar, but not orthogonal to the coordinate system. And a sloped roof on a wall at a 30 degree angle to the x axis compounds the issue... @tomot said: those that wrote the API didn't think a polar method was necessary. True, because they provided vectors and transformations. Polar is simply a kind of transformation.

Hi, Nothing specified in the docs concerning normals. Doc is so sparse you know... I guessed that passing points in a counterclockwise order was orienting the normal up (assuming that these points are on an horizontal plane) ? You can notice that once drawn, quads are visible from both sides. Is the normal useless or am I completely wrong ?

I totally agree. I'm constantly closing windows on accident. Autocad has me addicted to the ESC key. Please help.

nice tip thanx!

Try Roof.rb... http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=3470&p=88900&hilit=+roof.rb+#p88900

OMG,it can work,just rename "dline.rb" to "fr_dline.rb". Thank didier.

Thx!

Neat tools bar!

Aaah !! Thank you Fredo6 !! that's exactly what I want !

Dear Jorgensen, You can lengthen/shorten lines of any orientation by doing the following. Select the Move tool Place the Move tool on the line to be altered (the line will change colour) Press and hold the Shift key and move the Move tool along the line to the end to be moved. Still holding down the Shift key, click on the end of the line and then drag to lengthen/shorten by a small amount. Release the Shift key and enter the required change in the VCB In many cases SU's native tools can do the job. Begards, Bob

would command-shift-4 do the trick ?

not easy - but deadly useful!

On a related note. The callbacks from javascript to ruby also have issues. Both on Mac and PC the return value string can be mangled. Instead I put return values in a hidden text field in my html and fetch them via WebDialog.get_value(). As far as I can tell its foolproof.

@simon b said: Have you heard of spore? http://www.spore.com/ftl Incorporating evolution between bacterial development to galactic conquest - the creatures are not fully autonomous though. I guess they used the concept of evolution for promotion, but in fact it is still an environment where the players make decision. I found some other not-so-ancient projects related to virtual creature and this one looks pretty interesting:http: http://www.darwinathome.org/video.html. Anyway, to me Sketchup is quite a natural environment for this kind of projects to evolve.

I answered this in the GSU Ruby forum.