If you take a look to the "Edit Frame" of Moi, you will have dreams for the rest of the year

Without doing some investigation into the available Layer methods, I'll go out on a limb and say it's possible. Just need to find time

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=18992

ok, I think I got a working version of it up and running. See here: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=18963 Chris

TIG: I did a real quick test and the data mining functions seems to work great. I'll be using it extensively during the next week or two. If anything comes up I will post here. Thanks again! "You're a gentlemen and a scholar." ... W.C. Fields

Yup, I admit I am lazy, just don't want it to happen at all. I do a lot plan and section tracing. They represent various interconnected concrete channels, tanks, flumes, wells, and the like. Not like a building where you have fixed floor heights, but a lot of intermediate elevations, with "zig-zagging", sloping channels. Tracing is far better faster than redrawing from a dimensioned plan or section (if you don't have to do a lot of cleanup) and is less prone to operator (me) error. :0

It's a PowerPoint - I put it on my Google Docs here: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dkg3rtr_788fnpxntdz

@rspierenburg said: I looked at your script Tig, not sure it will do what I need. Yours selects and replaces texture to another texture. I need the faces selected so I can globally change a property on all the faces with a certain texture on it. SU Podium's reflectivity to be exact. Its a property on the face, not the texture. OK here's one that does what you want 'Select All Faces by Material'... Usage: Select faces / entities. [IF NO selection ALL active entities are used] 2. Activate the script from the Plugins Menu. 3. Choose Material. << DEFAULT >> = ALL Faces that have NO Materials and then an Alphabetical list of other Materials in the Model. 4. Choose the desired Material. To access Materials that are off the visible list type the first letter - e.g. 'W' and use up/down arrow-keys to move to the one you want e.g. 'W'hite... 5. All Faces are selected. Note: to also include groups and instances etc put # in front of 'and e.typename=="Face"' on line #59... Faces with Materials within groups/instances ARE selected BUT 'default-material' ones painted en mass aren't... Feedback please... SelectAllFacesByMaterial.rb

Another variant [if the rectangle's face material is not critical] is Jeff's last one using offset to make the inner rectangle then draw a rectangle from the outer rectangle's corner to the inner rectangle's nearest corner. Repeat that another three times... OR double click it to select its face and 4 edges, copy what's selected to the clipboard (ctrl+C) and paste it [one corner will automatically become the handle], now simply paste (ctrl+V) three copies into place - one copy will have a vertex you can snap to, the others need you to hover over a vertex and use shift/inference to snap as needed. [both ways ~12 clicks as before] Another variant is to draw one corner square, copy/paste it into the other corners as above, then draw another rectangle between these four square's inner free vertices... [~11 clicks !] There are many ways to do this - shortcuts make things MUCH faster...

@jclements said: There is hope .... afterall? John There is always hope when you have a terrific support community like we do here.

Thxs a lot Tig

TIG: Thank you very much. Regards, John

so fast thank you tig, i test v1.2 and it works well. and i like the xyz scale item also so how i could do thanks agian! EDIT: i want the xyz scale could do this: the height fit the line height but the comp. donot distortion. [image: QLzz_qqwqw.jpg]

just fun with grow by Tig Then bend on the left with Free scale2 by Fredo6 [image: KY1u_corne.jpg] [image: JHqy_corne2.jpg]

Check out new free SketchUp plugin that shows suns path, hour of day etc: http://tx.technion.ac.il/~arrguedi/SunTools/dwnld_after_reg/STdwnld.htm Works on SketchUp 7 and for SketchUp 6 (have to direct it to SketchUp 6/plugin in the INSTALL process - as instructed in SunTool Help file.)

there's a recent topic that's along these lines.. http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=18014 not about a macro recorder rather a GUI for making scripts. @jim here's a universal recorder and sketchup.. you'll see that i had to lock the orientation of the 2nd circle and that's where things went haywire. [everything after the still shot of the ring is being done automatically] [flash=500,405:3dd0x04h]http://www.youtube.com/v/W-4FxpqeKmg&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&border=1[/flash:3dd0x04h]

do it in blender

I suppose if the user is using this plugin they already have a good idea of what its going to look like, so showing them isnt neccesary. More generally, most people just use common sense.

Just saw the new video, Fredo - you've outdone yourself. This is a milestone plugin.

oops thanx, i must have missed an update or 2