Just the other day I read a Microsoft guideline stating which one was preferred in Windows, but I just can't find it anymore, and instead found my way back here (Hello everyone!). "Preferences" seem to be preferred on Mac. Config or configurations seem to be exclusively used in very technical contexts, not to what a user could change from a graphical UI. Is any of the terms more used than others for SU extensions? I'm thinking about using Preferences as it matches SU's own phrasing, even though it might contradict MS guidelines.

Please forgive me. I was convinced that I'd already replied. This is exactly what I needed (and I'm further at a loss wrt how I didn't see that in the the API reference). Thanks very much

Did this event happen? I've seen nothing about since this post. No YouTube vids, write ups or anything. Was wondering if it was any good as I couldn't make it at the time.

@thomthom said: [*]Material Context Menu - Copy/Paste Hex values. I was planning to do an extension which allowed me to use Hex instead of RGB I work with HEX values a lot and think SketchUp should support this feature natively. I might still give it a try to see what I can come up with. Keep the great work Thomthom!

@web said: That explains why I couldn't figure out how to do it. The real reason is because standard IO has been redirected to SketchUp's Ruby Console.

Yes, WebDialogs are not truly modal on Mac. So you have two problems: The code processing continues after you called wldg.show_modal. You thus have to implemnet a callback in your Web dialog class to tell the main code when the dialog box is dismissed. Visually the web dialog appears on top but does not prevent to use other elements of the GUI. Although the user may not do that naturally, he could technically. It seems that HTML dialog has addressed the problem on Mac, that is blocking code and dialog box preempting the focus and events. Fredo

I found the solution. . the file won't give a readable code . . when downloaded via Google chrome . .it should be downloaded through extension warehouse . . Going back to the small green cube in the scale tool. . ( i already know how to make colors for the cube ) can anyone help me how make sketchup recognize the temporary drawing green cube when I hover the mouse over it?

I don't know - I may do something like that, but I probably won't. I have a new tool I made as part of my plugin and it creates a draw layer for different defined area types, and I just wanted it to have some level of transparency automatically so it didn't totally cover what may be underneath. But, I think I'll leave it alone for now. I just just figured I must have been missing something, as setting the layer appearance seems very... basic, to be a missing feature.

Hello, SUalive Free 2.40 under review... see features update on the following thread (replay slider, render) http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=65306&p=631451#p631451 Have a good day WhyDi

I did think it was a bit complicated myself. Most of my programming experience was years ago on 3rd GL stuff. All this is new, but I do have fairly good programming sense.I did try the CSV modifier, but I wasn't using it correctly. That's when I stumbled on JSON. It's only a one shot deal for me, but I have to admit, I do like Ruby! Will be studying your example. Thanks again. Everett

probably same reason as this... https://forums.sketchup.com/t/more-mac-color-panel-woes/57619?u=john_drivenupthewall john

@tboy said: Any updated info for this topic? YES. (5 years after this thread ...) In the SketchUp 2015 release, a new key was added to the RenderingOptions hash: The key is: "DrawBackEdges" See API documentation: http://ruby.sketchup.com/Sketchup/RenderingOptions.html

Hi, I am running on this same issue... Has this been fixed yet or is there a trick around this? Thanks in advance!

try a 'one liner' directly in SU's Ruby Console... for count1 in 0..5; print count1, " "; end I think the errors are caused by RubyConsolePro rather than the snippet... on a PC, SU's Ruby Console has only recently accepted 'multiline' input... Mat always saves the snippets as files and loads those... john

You can find an unscrambler pretty easily on Google...

Thank you so much TIG! Adding a simple grep for instances solved it. Best regards and sorry for the newbyness.

As I mentioned in a reply the bug report (it is ridiculous and should be closed.) Some of the coordinates are in MILLIONTHS (or smaller) of inches ! One near the end has a -16th exponent: points << Geom::Point3d.new( 4.194623966922387e-16, 0.20218771239100042, 65.51048909232898 ); That is about 42 femtoinches. In other words, 42 millionths of a nanoinch ! (42 millionths of a millionth of an inch.) Does the OP (@torel) understand that SketchUp has an internal coordinate tolerance of only 1 one thousandth of an inch ? Why would anyone want to be passing SketchUp coordinate floats with up to 19 decimal places ?

Thanks for your continued help, Dan. I've been closely following the methods outlined in "Sketchup & Layout for Architects" by Sonder and Donley (see http://sketchupbook.com). I use the Sketchup and Layout templates that are provided with great success -- the documents that are generated from all of the scenes look great (although I'm still learning -- there's a lot of information provided in the book that I have yet to understand and/or utilize). The methods in the book appear to expand the concepts outlined in the "Ten Fundamentals about LayOut for Architects" tutorial. Modern, stick-built structures don't require the architect to detail each unique lumber component, fortunately. Timber Frame builders, however, often require detailed dimensions for each unique timber. This is where I think the methods for timber construction might need to add some new steps to the process. A frame I'm currently working on (a 744 sf garage) has 24 different frame members. Using the same type of methods in the book I would have to create 76 different scenes (24 * 4) for the four views of each member. I would then create 24 layout pages each having four viewports for each of the members so that dimensions can be added. I'm just trying to wrap my head around how I might automate these tasks in an effective way -- especially when there are several design iterations that would require regenerating some scenes and layout pages.

Thanks Dan for the explaination. I had tried other terms than clear that was just the last version. I will let the user take care of deleting the old panel def if they need to remake the same panel. The neW panel will automatcaly get the new #diget Sketchup adds to components with the same name. Now I know why I couldnt delete def. Never saw the purge unused. THANKS AGAIN ans. with exp are very helpful. Keith

@skastafari said: I am looking for a method to exclude pages from my animation similar to how the "Include in animation" checkbox works from within Sketchup's scene editor. ... I had found a thread from Dan Rathbun somewhere dating a couple years back discussing a need for this, but I can't seem to find what the outcome was. If anyone knows, please advise. FYI,... Finally, ... the API has been updated for version 2018 and higher ... ... both a query method and a setter method have been added to the Sketchup::Page class. Sketchup::Page.include_in_animation= Sketchup::Page.include_in_animation?