Dear John,

You wrote, "I don't think SU's Section Plane tool can do the following without grouping and duplicating groups."

In my enthusiasm to give/find a solution, I failed to read the question.

Hopefully, the described technique will be useful to someone, and informative to those who are new to SU.

Kind regards,
Bob

Sigh. The installer shouldn't do that. Here is the file in case anyone has the same problem.

Win32API.zip

There's a strange ...something... in SU that adds all kinds of non-geometric stuff to the selection set. Todd and I requested it be "fixed" (at least changed), to only add geometric objects to the selection set. After all, who wants to filter out loops, materials, etc., when all we really need to deal with are edges, curves, and faces?

So far, no internal fixes, so we're left to filter objects.

Dave remove(rename) number "22", leave "skin.rb"...thats all

Third for the abort command key-stroke. The sandbox tools are an excellent example of processes seizing a pc and the only way to regain control of the machine is a crash. A abort command key sequence/stroke is necessary.
Best Regards

Thanks for your response, but it still doesn't work.

The file structure is as you described, though there are many more files in the OFS_Dir/ (png/pdf etc)

Joint push pull appears to be working for me now though...

All these Ruby scripts seem very well messy! I mean the arrangment.

I don't know what half the ones I have are any more! Any tips on organization with Ruby? Also how to get the above script to work 😞 😳

@al hart said:

I was just interested in:

Is it possible to access the sketchup database separately from multiple tasks in Ruby

Ruby doesn't 'do' concurrent tasks. So the answer is No!

Adam

I've exported/imported limited info via PageExIm. It can work, but takes some effort - especially when new SU file versions change the data available! 😄

I have StylesExIm on my list of things to do. Should I move it up the list?

delete all time text instances when Time is off, save, restart

In no particular order, and from a cast of thousands, I would definitely include:

Mirror (Remember how man times this was asked for / requested on the old forum ?).
PipeAlongPath
Centerpoint

BezierSpline
JointPushPull
Also show PDF files / user manuals for these two - Excellent and very comprehensive.

SoapSkinBubble

Purge
VolumeCalculator (latest version from TIG, version 2-1 ?)
...
For a good variety in your presentation, I wouldn't just concentrate solely on the gee whizz / flash bang scripts.
Some of the most useful scripts are actually the ones that perform the everyday tasks
(and should really have been incorporated into the core program originally) eg Mirror
...
Hope this helps
Regards
Howard L'

If you can read the address bar, it looks like he (James G. Therrien?) is demonstrating that on an internal Google corporate address.

James Therrien is also the name of this Lead Training Simian and Google employee.

Strange... I always use this plugin and never have this problem.
Perhaps you have groups inside groups?
What you can try is to explode all.. Select all.. group all, and explode2groups.
I think that there is no limit for the number of groups because I have use it to create more than 600 groups.

Daniel S

ah..not so easy then..

to clarify: once you install the FS plugin, you assign it a key shortcut - [K]

you click on K and SU is waiting for you to type a second key (as if you were in preferences > shortcuts) - SU knows which tool you are using and will use this knowledge to assign the command to a second key.

..this second key is always the same key - it would be useful even with one floating key (doesn't have to be a function key), # for example.

hope someone can...it would be a real useful feature,

👊 so it does, my fault.

... is there anyone to improve this idea ... iguess how easy it would be to make i.e. trees using such ruby 😉

no, sorry for causing confusion. this is only helpful when developing tool plugins and you want to use keyboard to control your tool behavior, you need a code of each key so that you can specify what to look for. these codes are nowhere to be found (su ruby api) so only way I found is to run the key discovery tool posted above and pressing keyboard print respective codes to the ruby console.

I was certain that after trying "darkred" sketchup returned an error, but now the same "darkred" works as expected - thanks!!

@a4chitect said:

could someone help me understand why when editing spline sometimes the selecting cursor is a black filled square and sometimes it is an empty square? the filled cursor can't be locked to axes when moving while the empty square can and also snaps to geometry better. I could't recognize any apparent reason why sometimes I get the filled one and sometimes don't. thanks

By the way, you seem to use the older version which had bugs about inferences. I have made a correction in the release of January 2008, which is on Crai Depot
(see also http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=5429)

Thanks for the try Todd, but I found it in our scripts which add edges to renderings and 3D PDFs

This is the color I was looking for - in the Styles menu.

edge-color.jpg

It is stored in rendering_options["Foreground_Color"]

Hey,

Thanks for your suggestions, unfortunately they don't quite meet my needs. Basically I'm building a bunch of different models for different tiles. What's important is that they are all exactly the same size (to the pixel). I need to precisely set the view zoom and camera angles to make sure the sizes always match up. I looked at the ado code, here you rely on "zoom extents" which doesn't work for me. Some of the models fill the whole tile, others are smaller than a tile, if I do zoom extents some things will be too big and others too small.

I'm pretty surprised that you can't get precise control over the exact camera view from a script, surely there must be a way? For example I want to set up a camera such that the image represents exactly the rectangle [0,0,0], [0,5,0], [5,5,0], [5,0,0], with a fixed aspect ratio, say w/h = 2. I actually can set the aspect ratio, but I can't find a way to control the zoom (I should mention that I'm using parallel projection, maybe that's related).

Thanks again for your help!
Matt