@mitcorb oslocadiz is correct, the script is not at a point where it's useful in any way. I'm just in the first stages of learning Ruby, so this post was more as a way of asking the skilled developers in the forum for advice and feedback, not as a usable script at this point. Furthermore, TIG's produced (as usual) a very capable script that does Datum measurements, I'd recommend that. I may shelf this project for the time being anyway, as it's a little to ambitious for my knowledge at the moment. I wish I knew more, but I just haven't had the time to devote to it enough, or enough understanding at this point. Thanks for the interest, Matt

@tt_su said: I would recommend compiling it under your own namespace - to avoid version conflict if anyone else should try to load a different version. Ok, I guess that's the way I should go @tt_su said: The problem is that every SketchUp extension developer isn't on this forum to check this list. Lazy people @tt_su said: That somewhat that path I took with TT_Lib, but trust me - it will generate a lot of "This plugins doesn't work!!!111!!1" - because people never read the instructions. I've started expanding the library check with my plugins so the users will get a webdialog that describes why the plugin didn't load and direct link to the require libraries. That takes cares of most of the people who tries to install it. Even I my self got one of these messages before Good results require some work

@renderiza said: @agamemnus said: I created some code to render a helicopter. Unfortunately, for some blasted reason, most of the scenes are not being rendered correctly. Help! Can you be more specific when you say "rendered correctly" because I am not 100% sure what you mean by this. Do you mean the scene style rendering options where not updated? Yes... all of the camera didn't update, so the image doesn't render as intended. Had to do "view.camera = pages.selected_page.camera" to get it to work correctly.

Thanks Jolran, You're right that was a short coming in logic, but it was making it into the 'if' anyway. The issue is you can only use .texture to load images, not skm's. TIG wrote a module to extract a .skm and return the texture within so I'm currently integrating that library.

The final product and discussion is now available over here: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=54082

A URL like: file:///C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2013/SketchUp.exe should open SketchUp [with a new file from a template] when run in IE, but the user will be prompted to let it execute because any exe has to have express permission - these are strict internet protocols to protect from virus/trojans etc that might otherwise do things without the user's prior knowledge... In other browsers like Firefox/Chrome you'll get different results, but all will ask the user what to do - usually they as you if you want to save the file NOT run it ! ...

@aerilius said: Why do I reply here I'm not a god… I am currently building a temple on your honor...at least a SketchUp model of it for sure! Thanks!

@tt_su said: In SketchUp everything is built around Z being up. You will probably find it easier to convert imported geometry to match this and have the exporter adjust the axis again later for the target application. Thank you for this info. After a Google search I started to assume that this would be the case, but you have confirmed it. Being a beginner in SU I didn't want to start coding and hacking a 'square peg into a round hole'. I will code a function to transform the geometry between the two programs so that the data will react to each of the programs assumptions.

Back to the question... NorthEast Quadrant: normal.y>0 normal.x>0 SouthEast Quadrant: normal.y<0 normal.x>0 SouthWest Quadrant: normal.y<0 normal.x<0 NorthWest Quadrant: normal.y>0 normal.x<0 As you said: Due North: normal.y==1 normal.x==0 Due East: normal.y==0 normal.x==1 Due South: normal.y==-1 normal.x==0 Due West: normal.y==0 normal.x==-1 Exactly Vertical: normal.z==0 Upwards Facing: normal.z>0 Downwards Facing: normal.z<0 Exactly Up: normal.z==1 Exactly Down: normal.z==-1

What fredo said, Transformation.axes sounds like the method you want to use: http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/transformation.php#axes

I think people have pretty good success with getting SU to run under WINE. I've never seen anyone try CentOS. Good luck!

That's a work around if Java's not available... Sometimes decompression tools also hijack .JAR extensions ! If you are using PC only you can use VBS with 'unzip' etc...

@aerilius said: Once you override such a property (like padding: 0) the button can't be rendered anymore using the theme, and it won't look native anymore. I noticed that before using paddin:0 the button had a gloss effect on the button. @aerilius said: without width/height works fine for me. I tried this and it does center the button image but then the button is too big. @tt_su said: Exactly what code to use depend on the scenario and layout you have. Got a small snippet? http://sketchucation.com/resources/pluginstore?pln=RND_KeyScene The .html file is inside the "RND_Keyscene" folder...its called "rnd_keyscene.html" Note: Using the paddin:0 worked ok even though that will mess the theme used for button but I can deal with that. Thanks!

I'm still (extremely) new to ruby scripting and Git, but I'd be happy to help where I can!

Ah, so simple Thank you guys!

Epic bump, but is there any news on this? Was upgrading the installation ruby put on the backburner? Should we still be expecting this sometime in the future (or a complete library at least)? To me at least, this seems like a really important feature - plugins and the community around them are a powerful part of sketchup.

I still plan to keep working on this and will post future progress. The best case scenario will be to make it work on faces that have angle...so far my attempts have failed in solving this but will keep trying.

Fixed. Thanks Dan for the reminder for the namespace. Namespace now implemented =-P.

Nothing in the API AdamB did moot something that came to naught. A way back I made some clunky API additional like layer.color [Pro>DXF] BUT that exports all layers and analyzes the layers colors from the DXF... A really convoluted way BUT you do get the layer color RGB values !

Found it... array = "a,b,c".split(',') array[0] #=> a array[1] #=> b array[2] #=> c Cheers!