Thanks TIG! The problem was indeed the last argument, I put an entities object in there. working with an array instead did the job

Hi, I was testing the process of screen capturing the animation with Active Presenter and I am not so happy. The resolution setting had to be very low because if not the resulting video would have lagged very bad even though inside SketchUp there was no lag at all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RGFwNHLfpo Renderiza

Thank you very much it works just fine

Ok I get the good position with a translate: definition.instances.each do |instance| originBefore = instance.transformation.origin instance.transform! inv tr = instance.transformation vectorTranslate = originBefore - instance.transformation.origin translate = Geom::Transformation.translation(vectorTranslate) instance.transform!(translate) end but when the axes changes (y axes become z axis for exemple) the scale are not good and switch... I try to get the model.edit_transform , manualy I can get it but with the API it's always the same problem : I can't do the right click Component edit... Any Idea to get the local axes?

@lestercavey said: Also, Sketchup.send_action(21112) does not work for me. Even though send_action returns true, no Import Window appears. Because the API Dictionary is way out of date, and that list of integers is erroneous. The proper integer (PC only,) to invoke the "File > &Import..." is 21933 I do not know if there is a cross-platform string arg.

It worked! Thank you so much!

I understood it was an example, but the logic of the code told me it accepted primitives, and primitives didn't work like they should have, nor did the duration work as expected. As an example, for its intent, it's fine and I would not bother (other than adding comments for the learner) with any additional enhancements. Todd

For the avoidance of doubt --- here's a base-class free version... Please implement something like this... <span class="syntaxdefault"></span><span class="syntaxcomment">### pass a 'face' as the first argument<br />### and a second optional argument to convert the image texture into a PNG format<br />### it returns the new material, or 'nil' if the face is incorrect<br />### or if there's no face.material.texture...<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">def material_make_unique</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">face</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">nil</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> png</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">false</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    return nil unless face<br />    return nil unless face</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">is_a</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">?(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">Sketchup</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">;;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">Face</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    return nil unless mat</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">face</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">material<br />    return nil unless txt</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">mat</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">texture<br />    iwi</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">txt</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">width<br />    ihi</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">txt</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">height<br />    </span><span class="syntaxcomment">### later we use ### texture.size=[w, h]<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    tads</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">txt</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">attribute_dictionaries<br />    </span><span class="syntaxcomment">###<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    nam</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">mat</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">display_name<br />    alp</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">mat</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">alpha<br />    col</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">mat</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">color<br />    mads</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">mat</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">attribute_dictionaries<br />    </span><span class="syntaxcomment">###<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    mats</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">Sketchup</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">active_model</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">materials<br />    namp</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">nam</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">+</span><span class="syntaxstring">"1"<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    namp</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">next</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">!</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> while mats</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">[</span><span class="syntaxdefault">namp</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">]<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    num</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">namp</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">gsub</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(/^</span><span class="syntaxcomment">#{nam}/,"")<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    nmat</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">mats</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">add</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">namp</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    </span><span class="syntaxcomment">###<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    tw</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">Sketchup</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">create_texture_writer<br />    tmp</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">ENV</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">[</span><span class="syntaxstring">"TEMP"</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">]</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxcomment">### it's a PC == 'TEMP' or 'TMP'<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    tmp</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">ENV</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">[</span><span class="syntaxstring">"TMPDIR"</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">]</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> unless tmp </span><span class="syntaxcomment">### it's a MAC<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    tna</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">File</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">basename</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">txt</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">filename</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxstring">".*"</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)+</span><span class="syntaxdefault">num</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">+</span><span class="syntaxdefault">File</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">extname</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">txt</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">filename</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    tna</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">File</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">basename</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">tna</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxstring">".*"</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)+</span><span class="syntaxstring">".png"</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> if png<br />    pth</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">File</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">join</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">tmp</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> tna</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">).</span><span class="syntaxdefault">tr</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxstring">"\\"</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxstring">"/"</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    tw</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">load</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">face</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> true</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    tw</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">write</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">face</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> true</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> pth</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    </span><span class="syntaxcomment">###<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    nmat</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">alpha</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">alp<br />    nmat</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">color</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">col<br />    mads</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">each</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">{|</span><span class="syntaxdefault">d</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">|</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> d</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">each_pair</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">{|</span><span class="syntaxdefault">k</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault">v</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">|</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> nmat</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">set_attribute</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">d</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">name</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> k</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> v</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)}}</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> if mads<br />    nmat</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">texture</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">pth<br />    ntxt</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault">nmat</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">texture<br />    ntxt</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">size</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=[</span><span class="syntaxdefault">iwi</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> ihi</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">]<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    tads</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">each</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">{|</span><span class="syntaxdefault">d</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">|</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> d</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">each_pair</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">{|</span><span class="syntaxdefault">k</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault">v</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">|</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> ntxt</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">set_attribute</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">d</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">name</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> k</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> v</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)}}</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> if tads<br />    return nmat<br />end<br /></span>

@sdmitch said: Using the BoundingBox certainly works as long as the selection box is not rotated which will cause BoundingBox to be much larger than the selection box. I see no reason why the selection process should be any slower on a curved surface. It should only matter how many total entities there are in the model. Yea. That is the same thing I'm confused about as well. Unless SU has a way of selecting the cylindrical surface as one unit or a collection rather than add each face of the curved surface one after the other(which is what my code does). Also, all my conditionals could be slowing things down as well. The selection box is axis aligned, so the they bounding box and the selection box should pretty much be the same size.

@dan rathbun said: What platform is this for? PC or Mac ? This is for the PC.

@gwd said: At Basecamp the people of 3skeng showed a way to connect netbeans to sketchup for using it as full working IDE for SU.Does somebody knows how to do it? Hi Guy, 3skeng could have their own internal solution, you would need to ask them. There is a possible way using TBD's "bridge" plugin. You would need to configure netbeans to execute the buffer using the sub.exe file in bridge. This is a Windows plugin and I see your profile says Mac so you may be out of luck. http://labs.plugins.ro/

@dan rathbun said: And BTW shell commands are done with Kernel.` (backquote character) see http://phrogz.net/ProgrammingRuby/ref_m_kernel.html#Kernel._bq still a cmd window... ex:ipconfig /all

@chris fullmer said: Hey, great job! It looks great! Chris Chris thank you very much! Video Update #3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTuhPfFGl9Y&feature=plcp To download the latest SketchUp game version go here; https://www.dropbox.com/sh/w9m7du0fnhkgwv0/bIqndmMs1S Thanks

I am so frustrated that I don’t possess the knowledge yet to understand most of this discussion. Correct me if I am wrong but could this code make animating textures possible? If so I am very interested in trying to figure how I can do this myself.

There's BoolTools http://www.Smustard.com, for just $10... There's also Oscarlok's Boolean ODCoolean toolset, in the Plugins Index, which is free... http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=112055#p112055 These both replicate several of the solid tools in Free that are available only in Pro...

@thomthom said: @jasef said: Awesome gents, make_unique solved it. What about ComponentInstances? I hope you're not making them uniqe - as I doubt the user will be expecting that - or be happy to see that happening... No, just Groups.

Thanks TIG: I would never have been able to figure out the self.run routine on my own!

Aye! If you are dealing with vertices, and you create a bug where you mix up your vertex references you might not notice it immediately as this method happily returns the first vertex in the edge which isn't the one pass in the argument. Garbage in - garbage out.