Anton_S your code is very interesting (highlight_picked_body.rb), I have never used Start and stop operation inside a custom tool, I like the result, I am studying this code

Whew! Thanks a million TT! Had no idea that button was active unless sun/shadows was turned on. Didn't even think to try that. That did it. A simple fix indeed. Digging SU just a little more... I'll post this model to the forum once it's completed. I'd call it the Mother of all SU projects. 18 buildings and all the related parking lots, side walks, grounds, tress etc. Really TT, thanks for the fix!

@kaas said: @sdmitch said: If you are willing to post or pm me a sample model and the plugin, I will be glad to see what if anything I can do with it. Hi Sdmitch, thanks for your offer. Jolran and I are already pm-ing about a solution so I think it will be already resolved. Max Great, but the offer is still good.

The issue is that edges = entities.add_edges [[30,0,10], [50,0,10], [50,0,30], [30,0,30], [30,0,10]] doesn't weld the start and end point. Therefore there are two vertices at the same 3d point that isn't welded. add_face(edges) require the edges to form a closed loop - the edges you have in this case just looks to be closed. It's unexpected, I agree, but changing the behaviour now might break existing extensions. But any reason for first creating edges and then creating the face from the edges instead of just creating the face with the points directly?

Dan thanks for replying, I found a recommendation yours here http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180%26amp;t=55722%26amp;p=505915%26amp;hilit=units+vcb#p505915 which led me to the article by thomthom http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2012/08/dealing-with-units-in-sketchup/ I only have problem for receiving angles values ​​with comma as decimal separator, then I am forced to use the following text_input.sub!(',','.') text_input.to_f.degrees I do not know if there is a better method

Karen.. this is a forehead smacker (so get your hand ready.) Standard Ruby has no idea what a scrambled rbs file is, or how to decrypt it. So the SU development team created a module method that could open, decrypt and then evaluate them. You need to use the Sketchup::require() module method. There are other issues with scrambling. The Ruby keywords __LINE__ and __FILE__ do not currently work inside scrambled rubies. (Fixed in SketchUp 2014+ using Ruby 2.0 or higher.) I'm am glad that you have decided to use your own filespace. It's only smart. I posted an example of doing this with scrambled rubies. See: [ code ] SketchupExtension and rbs rubies

Install Visual Studio Express (free). Then you can either attach it to SketchUp's process, or inject debugger; statement in your JS code to make the system prompt you to debug. You can then set breakpoints in Visual Studio and inspect variables and call stacks. I sometimes use a catch-all code like this to trigger the debugger on errors without having to inject debugger; around in the code: window.onerror = function(message, location, linenumber, error) { // Trigger an request to attach debugger. debugger; return false; };

Brilliant! Thank you so much - it's working fine now.

sorry for my silly mistake, thanks Sdmitch

Was that a question on how? Or did you experience issues with Selection.add (because that is exactly the API method to do what you requested: http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/selection#add)

hi and thanx to both, @ tig: yes, i also use puts-tags to follow the code in the console , whit line-number-output to see, in which code -line the puts is. i will try out all the break, next etc. functions. thanx for this? and @tt_su yes, interaction with the viewport was exactly, what i hoped for, so i could inspect the geometry at any stage ot the running code. (break - inspect geometry - go on....). the rest is still tooooo 'high' for me, although i already 'speak' a bit ruby...-:) stan

Thanks to every one here (and also Thomas Thomassen) the work is now finished! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQOgv2OedJM

You can't use the script's code if it's inside an encrypted RBS, but if the Extension menu/toolbar-maker is in a RB, then you can read it to see what it's doing... You have to do some detective work... If we knew this 'secret' extension then we could comment more constructively

There are some class level constant settings for the Float class. List them: Float.constants Example: Float::DIG 15

It worked beatifully. The only thing I had to change was a line of code where I use 'angle_between'. I just created a temporary Vector3D and solved the issue. I had to switch to Marshal because files were getting too big (180MB) and it was taking 15 minutes just to save.

hi tt, to finish this topic, i learned how to identify a surface and handle its parts (faces) and now i can manupulate its elements, as needed. thanx to all in this topic for helping and ttheir ideas. stan

Hej Thom, Then it sounds like I have to switch to Sketchup 2014

Dats true. But I don't understand why you opt to create a new Array for each edge instead of a ternary

@rvs1977 said: @sdmitch said: I use Sketchup 8.0.15158 - Maybe thats why...? Yes.. as I said above, prior to SKetchUp 2014, we had to make sure ENV["HOME"] was set ourselves (as I showed above.) Ruby needs it set.

@dan rathbun said: @al hart said: Thanks Dan - that works! WHAT works ? (I talked about at least 3 ways.) We wound up using win32ole and RegRead However we ran into problems with an uncaught exception when the Registry Key we passed did not exist, so we added a second rescue for the second registry key. Like this (I added XX to the key to intentionally make it fail) require "win32ole" wsh = WIN32OLE.new("WScript.Shell") begin val = wsh.RegRead("HKLM\\Software\\Wow6432Node\\SketchUpXX\\SketchUp 2014\\InstallLocation\\") rescue WIN32OLERuntimeError val = "" end#begin/rescue if (val == "") begin val = wsh.RegRead("HKLM\\Software\\SketchUpXX\\SketchUp 2014\\InstallLocation\\") rescue WIN32OLERuntimeError val = "" end#begin/rescue end#if wsh.ole_free puts "VAL; " + val