My ideas was do create a Fence-Builder where you can plan fences for your garden. So you could be able to snap the fences vertically and horizontally. Add doors and so on. Thats what snap alignment would be great for.

That's one but there's also http://rubyzip.sourceforge.net/

Don't think you can. It's one of the several annoying limitations of the Tool class. (Why doesn't activate return an view argument?)

I was trying to get the function name in the trace as well. It turns out that adding this line after every function definition may work well. It displays the rotuine name as well as the file and line number. puts("TRACE: " + caller(1)[0].to_s) if $rps_show_traces

And it work ! Thank y'all for your help...

Thanks a million TIG

Tom, Thanks, I previous looked at that page, and tried to correct my code, but couldn't make it work. Guess it's another case where I am asking the wrong question. It's late, I will take another stab at it tomorrow. Except for speed, parsing, layers, block names, and nested blocks the plugin is (beta) usable. [image: Mkj1_temp09.jpg] This is a import of a Dxf file. The coding is very basic, but modular enough to add other Dxf features in the future.

mm. a shame. would be good to ask the google team to enable this option. no? thanks for replying

OK, thanks.

Perfect I made a stupid mistake I investigate not thanks a lot

Yea - you'd need to keep store the path to where you found the group in the first place.

All this work trying to redirect output led me to come up with a ruby script which will redirect output, and flush the output file. See: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=31160

YAY! Thanks a ton thomthom, your solution works.

@runnerpack said: @thomthom said: Use the bitwise And operator to combine flags: Messagebox with Yes/No button and question mark icon: UI.messagebox('Hello World', MB_YESNO | 32) That's actually the Or operator... but you knew that Doh! I swear there's a little brain-gnome that intercepts and swaps words before they reach the hands...

UI.savepanel "Test", "C:/Test/", "test.tmp" This also returns nil in SU6.

@thomthom said: I see an issue with this method: It has multiple .start_operation and commit_operation inside the code flow - which will interfere with any start_operation you started yourself - since SU doesn't handle nested start_operations: ` model.start_operation ... layer.color = 'red' # this breaks the undo stack ... model.commit_operation` Though, it is not related to the error you got. Sorry, I don´t understand that. I tried now that: def layer_color model = Sketchup.active_model layer = model.layers.add "Test_Layer" layer.color = [255,255,255] end if( not file_loaded?("test.rb") ) plugins_menu = UI.menu("Plugins") plugins_menu.add_item("LayerColor") {layer_color} end #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- file_loaded("test.rb") That works without error - but the new layer has the color 102,68,0 and not 255,255,255!!!??? I test that: def layer_color model = Sketchup.active_model layer = model.layers.add "Test_Layer" layer.color = "Blue" end if( not file_loaded?("test.rb") ) plugins_menu = UI.menu("Plugins") plugins_menu.add_item("LayerColor") {layer_color} end #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- file_loaded("test.rb") The same result like before - Color 102,68,0 instead of blue Than I test that: def layer_color model = Sketchup.active_model my_mat = materials.add "Ahorn" my_mat.texture = "O;\\Sketchup\\Mat\\Ahorn.jpg" layer = model.layers.add "Test_Layer" layer.color = my_mat end if( not file_loaded?("test.rb") ) plugins_menu = UI.menu("Plugins") plugins_menu.add_item("LayerColor") {layer_color} end #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- file_loaded("test.rb") There was no error but also no layer!!

It is safer in any case - as you don't risk your edges/faces merging with stuff it should not merge with.

Add Sketchup.send_action "showRubyPanel:" into the start of your script just after require 'sketchup.rb' BUT remember to ### it out when you are done!

Tom, thanks.

Hmmmm.. so when Microsoft stops supporting XP SP3 soon will SU end support as well? What about about when Microsoft only supports 64bit Windows ? (Yes I'm being a bit sarcastic.)