@marc477 said: What is the equivalent of SUTextureGetImageData for a SUImageRef? How can I access images pixel data? Update - SUImageGetData should be equivalent. http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/su-api/image_8h.html#aedb99aee21a39619602866fc400766cb

I'll ping Chris as well.

I think you need to use another thread for the WinForm windows, e.g MessageBox. I checked the following code. It works. It actually makes more sense to let the WinForm window in a separate thread other than the Sketchup's thread. Imports System.Windows.Forms Public Class MyFunctions Private Sub showMessage(ByVal msg As String) MessageBox.Show(msg) End Sub Public Function AddMyValues() Dim Result As Double Result = 20 Dim t1 As New Threading.Thread(AddressOf showMessage) t1.Start(Result) Return Result End Function End Class

[image: 0Fbs_2015-04-06_21h44_53.png] For for me as well - SU2015 Win8.1. Have you tried with extension disabled?

My client wants to be able to stop the process. I've got him copying a file named stop.txt into a folder. I check it every loop. Works great.

Just published the API in the main TopoShaper thread. Documentation is attached in the main post. Fredo

If you are in an edit context the model.active_path returns an array of the 'containers' - groups/instances - so you can directly get the volume/scaling of those to apply to the object in question ? This assumes you physically [pre]select the object you are testing - which by its nature sets up the active_path [or nil if in the model] for you. I think there is a possible 'trick' using a new input_point and pickhelper.all_picked or .path_at ? Getting an array of all of the picked point's nesting ? None of this is easy

Big thanks. I will try this. I think I only need the orientation.

By the way, if you transform multiple entities it's faster to do it in bulk with Entities.transform_entities or Entities.transform_by_vector. Ditto for erasing and selecting - the performance differences between doing this in bulk is significant. Whenever you use erase! or transform! etc or any other single entity action within a loop consider the bulk alternatives.

Thread has been inactive for a while, but the 'Faceme' component issue has been fixed with V-Ray 2.00 and Sketchup 2015. Either when rendering animations or batch rendering scenes. I run through this issue with previous version of V-Ray. Works fine right now, and 'faceme' component shadows are now also taken in into account...

@danmacumber said: This post indicates that this method is provided by the Dynamic Components extension. Correct. However, those methods that are listed as added to Sketchup::Drawingelement, that have to do with transformations, should not have been added at that level of the class hierarchy (in order to just add them to the Group and ComponentInstance subclasses.) IE, they got erroneously added to ALL Sketchup::Drawingelement subclasses. Those methods are meaningless with respect to primitive entity classes like Edge. They should (and may in the future,) be defined within a mixin module, and then mixed ONLY into Sketchup::Group and Sketchup::ComponentInstance classes. @danmacumber said: Is there any documentation for the Dynamic Components extension? Not at this time. @danmacumber said: I only seem to get these issues if I change the active path multiple elements at time. ... I get similar results if I switch between other levels of the hierarchy in odd ways. I wonder if the implementation of local_transformation() depends on the active path observer? I do "believe" it does. I think it does similar to what you described. It (the "DCX") saves transforms into hashes (using the object reference as the key.) I think they are global collection objects named $local_edit_transforms and $global_edit_transforms. So you could write some watcher code into your tests that watch those collections. (Just do not write code that changes them or the DCs could stop working.) @danmacumber said: In our plug-in, we only ever have two levels of nested groups and all groups are unique instances. So I guess this should work for us? As long as the SketchUp team doesn't remove the method? This would require that your users have the DC extension loaded, or your extension might have to require the dc loader script explicitly.

@tig said: So your code ABSBMP::MoMo::class_variables returns an Array of Symbols >>> [:@@a, :@@b,...] So you need the step varstr = varstr.to_s to make it into a String. :@@a >>> "@@a" Then you use attstr = varstr.gsub(/^[@][@]/, "") to strip off the initial '@@'... Many of the global query methods changed from Ruby 1.8 to Ruby 2.0. They now return arrays of symbols (for each variable or method name.) In Ruby 1.8 they returned array of string (for each variable or method name.) There are also many other "breaking changes" in Ruby 2.0 that need to be dealt with. (@TIG, Was there a post here on breaking changes?) Also garbage collection is much better under Ruby 2.0, so any menu reference will most likely only be valid during the evaluation of the file in which the reference is first made by an API call. So the attempt to hold the reference @@menu[:top] across multiple files may no longer work. We have been complaining about the non persistence of UI element references, for years! (Especially menu references.) So the workaround is to save the menu NAME (as a string,) instead of the actual reference to the menu object. @@menu[:top]= "Plugins" ... then whenever you need the object reference, use: topmenu = UI.menu( @@menu[:top] ) or submenu = UI.menu( @@menu[:top] ).add_submenu( "MoMo" )

If anyone is still interested throw-to will do the trick... See link below. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=51542

@sdmitch said: Great, I'm glad that it proved to be of some use. The version you have doesn't remove the edge and always just gives you the the first component in the definitions list. I have sent you, by Personal Message, a version that truly replaces the edge with the component as well as giving you a drop down list of all the components in the model to choose from. I'll try to look into it (the new version) tonight. Great about the drop down list of components. My memory doesn't always recall which component to type in. Now I can create dashed lines and proper centerlines (and other types), sort of a library to choose from. I may have one or two other suggestions:- (not always) delete the replaces edges, a choice so to speak. a choice whether all replacing components should be grouped or not. All 3D Polyline components into one big group (as visual reference) or not, by choice of the user. But I'll have to see /experiment with converting floor plans, symbols etc. to see what works best. And then I still have to rely on what you are willing to add. If anyone has suggestions or hints, please post them here.. Thank you!

Yea, like you wouldn't feed raw user data to your database, you don't want to feed user data to eval. (I consider anything read in from the system or file to be "user data"). Validate and sanitize - this is the stuff you want to find a library that has solved all the edge cases for you.

is there a better solution for this now?

Oh and one more.. I found something called 'ImageMajik' if i use those kind of external tool ,Can others use my .rb file without installing 'ImageMajik' in sketchup just by applying .rb to plugin folder ? if they don't need to install , let me know how to install those please.

Thanks for the reply! I am absolutely amazed that the "only" sollution for this most fundamental function is a 300 euro plug-in. That's... very sad for a software as user-friendly as SketchUp. Well, I guess it will be wiser to man up and switch to Blender after all and get all I need for free. But still! Thank you for information.

TIG, you rock. Thanks for the help (including all the other countless posts of yours I've read on other threads that have taught me so much so far). I think that got it after having it load once (with the exception of one situation where I need it to load separately each time - I have a 'container' component that other sub-components get inserted into, and if it's not reloaded, then the previous sub-component instances are in the new container instance as well, which I don't want). I also changed the path \, and float, and yes 0 length is getting trapped. I still have so much to learn...

Yes everything. All entities in all entities-collections.