I know what a Hash is in Ruby, but are you guys talking about the same "hash"? It's not clear how I could use a Ruby hash without running into the same problem; needing to search Entities for the matching ID. I wanted one of my plugins to handle selections in undo and redo operations, so I wrote a Selection Manager to handle it. It appears to work just fine using the entityID of each selected entity stored in an array of arrays; and stepping back and forth thru the stack. Second issue, there appears to be a que-ing, or scheduler in Sketchup? If I call Sketchup.undo followed immediately by my undo, the entities have not been "undone" in time for my undo to find them. I hacked it up using... Sketchup.undo UI.start_timer(0.1) { my_undo} Any alternative?

Hello, Actually I was wondering if I can preview an entiy drawing inside the webdialog before create it into current model. This will be used on entities created from parameters like width, length, etc. As soon as the user change some of these parameters I could show a preview drawing and only after he hits Ok it creates the entity inside current model. Any ideas? Regards, Fernando

@gieselmant said: I had this same problem. ... Hope this helps. Thanks, I have as they say moved on, but I may well go back to it in the future when your advice will be undoubtedly useful. Cheers Chris

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yes, Juju, I think you are right - the jpp tool is the best way to achieve this at the moment. you just have to make sure to choose "keep original faces" (right click > additional options), which I allways forget the first time

Lol, kinda the opposite of what your plugin says it does... isn't it? Still not what I need however, I need to be able to do this in a ruby script, but I think I got it down. Gotta give your plugin, and a few others a try sometime. There are some very good ideas being worked on around here. [Edit] Ohh and from what I can see in the pictures there, your tool creates shapes on a parallel plane, I need them on the same plane, just not necessarily within the face selected.

Be careful, though, with groups. If you create an empty group in the definition and then add geometry to it, you'll be okay. But if you try to create the group with specified geometry, your group will end up in the main model entities space. That's because in ruby, things that are impossible when drawing manually become (theoretically) possible, such as using FollowMe on a path outside the current entities space (will work), or creating groups inside of groups when you aren't inside the group to begin with (won't work). So, just be mindful when working with groups & nested geometry, that things may not happen the way you expect.

kwistenbiebel: Is this vista's security "feature" biting your behind? Copy the rubies to your desktop first, then drag them into the plugins folder from there. Also, look at the top of the explorer window when you are in the plugins directory. Is there a folder icon for "compatibility files"? That's were these things often end up. CB.

If you can export form blender, couldnt you export from SU to blender then blender to DTS?

The data structure in AutoCAD is different to that in Sketchup so code conversion will be quite complicated. Unless the major part of the lisp code in question is computational rather than related to geometry manipulation, you will be better off writing new ruby code from scratch rather than trying to port the code to ruby.

Thanks xrok1, That's my importer - it's far from perfect, but if you'd like to try it get it from here.

Thanks for all the help, guys. I'm off and runing now. And I have to say, it's a pretty cool trick - the excel window opens and stuff starts appearing in the cells like magic! CB.

Go here: http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2007/10/plugin-export-outliner.html Regards, Bob

Whats it going to take to release this. I would even pay money.

I guess I would start all over again. See this post post for the default setup of the Plugins folder. http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=6952&hilit=+default

@solo said: wq418, Where did you see that? in our bbs http://www.sketchupbbs.com/ if your chinese is well

@kevd said: The problem only seems to manifest itself if the geometry is located in a nested group -- top-level groups didn't seem to have this problem. It's probably related to the admittedly very messy way in which I apply the transformations and inverse transformations to export the geometry in the right place. Hi Kevin, I am an author of SU2KT exporter. I have faced same problems as you have had. I've got still several test models where photo-matched textures are not exported correctly. Can you try them with your routine? Could you describe in detail what was actually wrong with applying inverse transformations to export the geometry? Mine has been inherited from Ogre exporter and it is messy indeed Frankly speaking my routine still doesn't export photo matched textures inside nested geometry Thanks Tomasz UVs export problem UVs export problem #2

@unknownuser said: End where is the ruby? Download http://stroyka-r.ru/Stroim_dom_2.50.rar

Well, it looks like I have to either just fix my Display Templates to work in SU6 and pretend Styles don't exist (as they didn't when I first wrote the script) or write a script that uses Styles and potential flood the user's SKP with styles. Do you think there might be a work around by using send_action? -wehby

Or use the Weld tool to join edges into a curve ("polyline").