Hi Tomasz, Thanks for the trick, was able to save and open model in KT! Now all I have to do is learn how to get some good render!!!! Thanks again, Regards, Patrice

how about loading a complex model (with textures, transparent materials, sun activated, ...) and typing in Ruby Console Test.time_display

There's another option. Scale has lots of subtle 3D control. If only an edge is selected, tugging on the top/bottom, dead-center handle will only raise/lower an end. Tugging at one of the selected edge corner handles would lengthen/shorten the edge along its vector, etc... Selecting a face would be similar. Face and edge combinations can be scaled. Works swell while in hidden geometry. For the greatest control, orbit around the model so the cursor tugging on the handle is in front of some geometry. The closer the geometry is located the better. That's one way to harness inference - using neighboring geometry to finesse/steer the handles. Otherwise scale may seems to go wacko. Smoove and Smoove+Shift work, and an offset can be set for controlled, incremental bumping. But I don't use it much. Fine-tuning shapes often means tweaking as little as one edge at a time. And of course tools like nudge.rb, nudge bits and pieces. That's real handy. Using scale to move vertices like this means some initial 3D movement of geometry first to get a 3D bounding box. [image: kitty.jpg]

An example. http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/sas/Ruby/userdefinedaxis.skp

I am not so sure that it is random....I just removed item [0] of a 13 item set. Then, I added that particular edge back to the set...it went back in the orginal index position of [0]!

Thanks for all the information. Umlauts and other accents are more of a problem then I expected. I am going to look into some things and I will report back. It looks like they are supported in Ruby and SketchUp for some things, but then lost for some other things.

SketchUp on Windows uses IE for webdialogs (not FireFox, not Opera, etc.). Sketchup on the Mac only uses Safari for webdialogs. Are you saying that if IE is installed on the Mac, that SketchUp is using IE in preference over Safari? This is new news if this is so. And, a pain in the hiney for webdialog developers, because some of us (err, me!) don't have IE for Mac. I bought a Mac to distance myself away from IE and MS Office. Todd

Don't know, whether the "old" standard Ruby "require" is really needed for all scripts. If you do not need it at all, WHAT is Sketchup.require doing? Does it use the "old" "require"? If not you can think about replacing it dynamically: module Kernel def require *args Sketchup.require *args end end (not tested, maybe the asterisks are on wrong place) After that you can use the "old" require and get the behaviour of the Sketchup "require" azuby

Note Forgot to comment in file xline is created to keep from selecting as path and to use for axis setting as a single line only provides the x axis refference to the align ruby dtr

Thanks Todd! I never could have imagined that the spelling was different!!!! I REALLY feel stupid now.....................

I would call that "recording of a macro". And as of today - no can do. Sketchup is closer to being able to do this with V6, but there are not enough "hooks" to get there yet. It would be a nice feature. Todd

FreeBSD I believe.

I've had no success either. I guess its because if you look at how its recommended to embed Ruby in an App, its a very simple ruby_run() model. So SU may be multi-threaded or not, but the call to Ruby is a busy wait. Pretty much the only thing that does work is spawn a Ruby thread that twiddles the Sketchup.set_status_text Adam

i spoke about a case, when a face-origin pyramid is partially inside and partially outside of the calculated shape but maybe since complicated things tend to be trivial once you get the 'clue' after adding all the pyramids together you will get the correct result, forgive me for being sceptic... comparing your and the original 'slicing' method could prove your point

TBD thanks for your encouragement, will share for sure, it's fairly easy with the bounding box proposal from above - will get to it tomorrow, hope that method works stay tuned

TIG thanks, thought i'd try..

Here are my findings in relation to attributes assigned to the SKM file: SU will not save an attribute containing an array or hash SU will save multiple keys within single attribute dictionary .. but will load only first! In attached sample there are three keys saved: <n0:AttributeDictionary count="3" name="su2kt"> <n0:Attribute key="kt_lib_path" type="10">TEST1</n0:Attribute> <n0:Attribute key="kt_map" type="10">KT MAP</n0:Attribute> <n0:Attribute key="kt_mat" type="10">KT MAT</n0:Attribute> but only first kt_lib_path will be loaded I am afraid only a fix from Google would help. Tomasz http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/sas/Ruby/Silver.zip

I usually have camera scenes, and then scenes that save something else, different section cuts for instance. Different phases on diff. layers, or whatever... so in one cam. I can show 3 diff. phases, 3 diff. section cuts, then move to the next view, and do it all again...very powerful w/ clients and bosses.

hank You, I'll give it a try

Also there's this http://www.smustard.com/script/ChamferAlongPath The old SU forum needed to move in order to gain access to the greater Google resources to better support the growing user community http://groups.google.com/group/sketchup-Pro-Groups.