I beleive it works on the context menu. Bring in your window and place it on the wall. Right click selected window and choose Window & Wall/Make a Cutting Window

@unknownuser said: funny thing, I tried last night Aptana - it has some nice features, but for me is waaay to bloated/slow. nowadays I play with SublimeText coded by an ex-google. as it is at the beginnings it doesn't have all the cool tricks, but it is extensible via python scripts (if Ruby were available I would jump in to write some specific Sketchup thingies) another one that I keep an eye on is Intype Sublimetext looks very nice, and it is very small at 11 MB installed...smaller than RDE in fact. And it's only $59, which is not that bad. I'll give it a shot and see how the features work out...thanks, TBD.

@unknownuser said: Question of a total candide There is no tool in Su for reccord actions on the screen for see the result in Ruby? Do you know that such a thing was built into SU1 (before Ruby), but it was hidden? John Bacus and I had a little bit of an argument about it at 3DBC. I still think a macro recorder is a useful thing. But they pulled it out by SU2.

Yeah, the script was a quickie I did before work this morning. I was originally just going to make a copy & paste one-liner for the Ruby Console, but putting it in a menu was easy enough. I just used Groups because that is all that the first example model had. Update: TIG has updated this script to work on Groups and Componenets. See the following link: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=11081

You are welcome. I thought I had already done it. Thanks for the tickler. Todd

Hmm... reasonable. But we are really looking for innovative (weird, maybe) ones rather than common ones. (It is Reeeeesearch) So any solution here?

see http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=3124 for some details about the project

Todd: I sincerely appreciate the offer but must decline for a number of reasons. Besides, what's the fun in having someone else do it for me when I now have an excuse to pick up javascript and DHTML? This is for a propietary in-house plugin so it would also be slightly unethical for me to just take someone elses code, freely offered or not. But again, thank you for the generosity! Jim: thanks for the link, that looks like a great place to get me started! If I have questions along the way it seems this is a good place to ask, glad I've found it!

Richard was also looking for a script that could use this function for identifying leaves on an imported model: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=9476

This would be great but as Adam says different materials, masses and densities absorb/deflect sound differently. To model the conditions with any accuracy there has to be a way to express the sound attenuation effects of actual materials. This would be very useful for testing acoustic insulation but it sounds very complicated to achieve. Also sketchup deals with surfaces not solids, I'm presuming its easier in a solid modelling application to model acoustics. edit: You could group some geometry that represents, say, a concrete wall and then calculate the acoustic properties by its volume.

I have just watched the clip and noted it was dated 29th May 2008. On the very same day I started a thread called SketchUp nameset workability in Google Sketchup Help, part of which went: "I am trying to find out whether sketchUp and ruby programming could be workable as a nameset device, and would be most grateful for your help... would it be possible ... to generate a sketchUp model from an array of names?" Scott actually answered my question simultaneously! But seriously I am begining to think Sketchup/Ruby API business could well be more significant than the birth of DOS was in its day. Chris

Yes, I noticed LightUp was already in there on my system. Probably not a wise move. It harks back to the problems people had when copying their entire Plugins folder from one release to another...with the Extensions like Sandbox not showing up etc. The present separation allows Google to safely upgrade some of their own rubies and dlls...tucked away in the Tools folder...without the danger of people then reinstating older versions back when they copy over the Plugins folder.

Thanks, Jim. set konsolenText to "DayOfYear = Sketchup.active_model.shadow_info[\"DayOfYear\" ]" tell application "SketchUp" activate tell application "System Events" tell process "SketchUp" --stellt im Konsolentextfeld die Einfügemarke sicher tell menu bar 1 tell menu bar item "Fenster" tell menu 1 click menu item "Ruby-Konsole" end tell end tell end tell end tell keystroke konsolenText --to "AXTextFiled" of "Ruby-Konsole" keystroke return end tell end tell Because I start an AppleScript script from FileMaker, I need not to type in ruby console. With ruby script above I get 162 (when the date of shadow is 06/11) 163 (when the date of shadow is 06/12) But for Longitide, Latitude I got no different values, if I turn or go some steps, but only 10 and 50 (my location). So my question, how I can set the parameter of my view to get back a view of remember, stays here.

La doc la moins mauvaise est celle de SU lui-même... Quand je ne sais pas quelles méthodes sont valides sur un objet, j'en sélectionne un exemplaire dans le modèle, et dans la console Ruby: a=Sketchup.active_model.selection[0] a.methods Cela renvoie toutes les méthodes applicables à ce type d'objet.

You could have a look at my new Google site http://sites.google.com/site/namesets in which I trace the steps I am taking to use sketchup with something called namesets. You will definitely need a webdialog for your customer to select your products. It can be as simple as you like with just two basic functions: opening skp files and some device that moves each through the optional locations. The webdialog can be made with HTML and Javascript. Try it! Ask if you need help. Chris

Could this be used to enforce/update a corporate SketchUp standard installation, I wonder?

You have to put bezier ones into your .../Plugins/BZ_Dir folder, and surface tools ones in .../Plugins/TOS_Dir folder overriding

setting to nil or killing its thread will not stop it. only solution i managed is a new "UI.play_sound" command on new existing and valid wav file, a short one.

Dear Rick - Greetings - just a quick note - the comment above brings out an interesting point. Since I often render with Maxwell after the model is built, I have also used the trick of push/pulling with the + on to make the "inside" of a window. Its a bit of extra work but, given the tremendous fantastic power of your script I am always quite happy to do it. BUT Why not edit the Windowizer to make double-sided windows? Perhaps, if there is no "second" or "inside" wall, it could just offset the original face by the required depth (ie., set Wall Thickness) and then ZAM! Its all ready. What do you think? Looking forward to hearing from you. Best wishes from Berlin, Jason

There's always Piranesi, which trumps in most ways the various Styles possible in SketchUp and will work on faces. However, it's rather pricey and I frankly don't like its interface very much.