Yes I have also looked at 'packaging' other Ruby methods with mine to give extended functions in distributed scripts [I gave up!]. The real complexity is that as soon as you look to import one new moved over method, then you'll almost certainly find that it includes 'requires' for several other files, these files in turn require other files and so on. You'll end up with a massive tangle of files/subfolders 'requiring' other files ad nauseam, and one mistype/misplaced line of code breaks everything - makings untangling it all very very hard...

@tt_su said: Note that extending Entity instances would not be allowed by EW because the instances are global to everyone using the SketchUp environment. But for other types such as Point3d, Vector3d, String etc that would work. Here delegators can be useful. require 'delegate' module DanielB class SampleFace < DelegateClass(Sketchup;;Face) def inner_loops return loops.find_all { |l| l != outer_loop } end end def self.demo face = Sketchup.active_model.selection.find { |e| e.is_a?(Sketchup;;Face) } return if face.nil? face = SampleFace.new(face) puts face.inner_loops end end

Oh, right - yes I noticed that there's a bug under OSX. Sorry, I mostly use PC so I'd forgotten. I think there's an issue for it, but I'll check again and bump it.

@garry k said: This probably should be moved to another thread. Probably

You need to know if a panel is in shadow or not using this 2 vectors and using cosine law panel verctor-> v=Sketchup.active_model.selection[0].normal sun vector-> s=Sketchup.active_model.shadow_info["SunDirection"] But you need to know also if there is some object projecting shadow over the panel using raytest with sun vector and some points of the panel. You can modify this step and look for other methods if you need more accuracy...

I think in the plugin code "weld" is what you need (google translator)

This is probably a better solution since there are different versions of Maxwell and SU. You should be able to download the plugin including the exporter here... http://www.maxwellrender.com/index.php/try/sketchup -Brodie

@jiminy-billy-bob said: it has to consider the window border. macs don't have window borders... available using vanilia.js from one of my webDialogs... outerHeight; 370 outerWidth; 422 pageXOffset; 0 pageYOffset; 0 parent; Window parseFloat; function parseFloat() { parseInt; function parseInt() { personalbar; BarProp constructor; BarPropConstructor visible; false __proto__; BarPropPrototype screen; Screen availHeight; 1174 availLeft; 0 availTop; 22 availWidth; 1920 colorDepth; 24 constructor; ScreenConstructor height; 1200 pixelDepth; 24 width; 1920 __proto__; ScreenPrototype screenLeft; 100 screenTop; 420 screenX; 100 screenY; 420 scrollX; 0 scrollY; 0 scr

You get a NoMethodError because Enumerable does not have that method defined in Ruby 1.8.x. This should do the same, except you pass the array in as the 1st argument: def slicer(ary,num) a2 = ary.dup len = num.to_i.abs until (s = a2.slice!(0,len)).empty? if block_given? yield(s) else puts(s.inspect) end end # until end # slicer() See another example that will collect the slices into an output array, IF a block is NOT given. (Sort of like the opposite to flatten().) If a block is given, it returns an array of the block's return values. Prints to $stdout only if $VERBOSE == true. Fixed absolute call. It is not a Math module function. It is a standard Ruby Numeric instance method.

And now, I recall having looked at this thread. Sorry for any misinformation, and thanks to pbacot

SketchUp does that just by writing text to the status bar. a series of | characters to show progress. You can mimic the same behavior, but you do have to re-write it yourself.

@chris fullmer said: That was the first script I wrote and published, for this EXACT purpose. You can find it here: http://www.smustard.com/script/Loose2Groups Thanks so much, works perfectly

@tt_su said: @onidarbe said: So Sketchup uses IE instead of Chrome, although I uninstalled IE? strange You cannot completely uninstall IE. You may have uninstalled the front-end, but the IE engine is embedded deep into the OS. Help files (chm files) are using the HTML engine, HTA files are also using it. And the embedded HTML IE webcontrol is more conservative in terms of compatibility, which is why you need to use META tags to force WebDialogs to use the very latest IE engine. And because so many things use the system HTML engine I recommend you keep IE up to date, even if you use a different browser. You can never remove it 100% anyway. The "uninstaller" is just a shim to please the public (and EU anti-trust). For Mac users, the equivalent statement is that SketchUp uses the WebKit Framework, not Safari. Just as on Windows, your choice of browser has no effect on what SketchUp's WebDIalogs do.

Thanks Dan! But in this case I want for those maybe using my stuff to make it readable in notepad to

@tig said: I know TT has done some 'shortcut fiddling' with some of his tools [VertexTools?], so pressing M is Move [Vertex] in that tool, rather than invoking the native Move, which already uses that shortcut, and will do so when TT's tool is exited... Perhaps TT can explain what he does to allow that... the files re encrypted... I never modified the shortcuts. What I did in Vertex Tools was that I wanted to activate Vertex Tool's Move tool when vertex mode was activated, and the native Move tool when it was not. So I created a method that did that - but the user still had to reassign it's short-cuts to my proxy-delegating command.

good catch

yes, generally this tends to do the trick, but we found that it was a tad faster to have your own lookup table that keeps track of definition relevance. The only downside, is that you are at the mercy of the observer system in that case, but the observers these days seem fairly stable, so that isn't currently an issue.

@martinrinehart said: Google didn't help me find the killer stairs Ruby I was looking for. Is there one? what about this? coming soon..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMWwlmsmNAs regards stan

Thanks a lot for your answer. F.....g doc and su apis.

To open it as you would via File > Open: <span class="syntaxdefault">skp_file </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> UI</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">openpanel</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxstring">'Choose model to import'</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxstring">'*.skp'</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">Sketchup</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">open_file</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">skp_file</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span> To load it as a component and let the user position it: <span class="syntaxdefault">skp_file </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> UI</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">openpanel</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxstring">'Choose model to import'</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxstring">'*.skp'</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">unless skp_file</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">nil</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">?<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  model </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> Sketchup</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">active_model<br />  definition </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> model</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">definitions</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">load</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">skp_file</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  model</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">place_component</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">definition</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">end</span> To load it as a component and insert at ORIGIN: <span class="syntaxdefault">skp_file </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> UI</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">openpanel</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxstring">'Choose model to import'</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxstring">'*.skp'</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">unless skp_file</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">nil</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">?<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  model </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> Sketchup</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">active_model<br />  definition </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> model</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">definitions</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">load</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">skp_file</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  tr </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> Geom</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">;;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">Transformation</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.new<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  model</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">active_entities</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">add_instance</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">definition</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> tr</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">end</span>