I found this old thread and thought I would add an update. I've been working with the author of NGPlant to implement collada export. The latest version is pretty neat and creates trees with instanced leaves as SU components. NGP is a cool application. It's an open source cross platform WYSIWYG tree generator. More info here:- http://ngplant.sourceforge.net I created some video tutorials on Vimeo for building trees with NGP. The tricky thing is to get realistic trees with a manageable poly count.

Will be very cool with the Radial Move by CPlassais ! And with the "tricky one liner" for the ruby console by TIG (which makes each faces selected as a component)! m=Sketchup.active_model;n=m.active_entities;m.selection.to_a.each{|e|(g=n.add_group(e);g.to_component.definition.name="Face#1")if e.class==Sketchup;;Face}

Being sold away from Google made SketchUp more free. And in that spirit it sits now in %(#000000)[SketchUp/SketchUp 2013].

http://sketchucation.com/resources/pluginstore?pln=TIG_Honeycomber

DaveR Yes, I'm sure that there have been lots of problems in the past with people not being able to get their head round the 'plugin' file structures required by some plugins, and so a more automated system is a welcome improvement. However, "easier for users to find and install tools" - I would suggest that finding the tools is now NOT easier. I spent hours looking for 'solar north' and still ended up going out of SU and using the google search engine to find it - surely that says something. The system has become fragmented. I suppose I have been using 'solar north' for so long under previous versions (before SU2013), that I had not realised that it was a plugin (or is it an 'extension'?). David

THX TIG

Else in general a very tricky free online! Start

Dynamic-Loading: Several of Fredo's tools are construed in such a way that if you install them using the AutoInstall feature [OR even manually install from an RBZ archive] then you will need to restart SketchUp to see the changes that they bring... Most plugins can be 'dynamically-loaded', and these will give their new functionality immediately they are loaded, but some - like Fredo's - do require a restart Permissions: The AutoInstaller will have checked if there are permission issues, but some subtle limitations might still escape this checking... so it's always best to manually check and ensure that you have given FULL security-permissions to the Plugins folder for ALL users: especially, immediately after you make a new installation of SketchUp - when Windows has a nasty habit of initially limiting security-access to any new 'Program Files' folders/subfolders to protect you from yourself !! ...

Thanks TIG

Yeah that sounds right. Also (if your putting together some code) be aware that pushpulled_face = face.pushpull "distance" will return nil. So to get newly pushpulled faces you have to create 2 arrays. 1: with faces Before pushpull and 2: after pushpull, then subtract array1 from array2. (TIG has some code posted in detail for this, lying around in the developper section somewhere...) Obviously if you have the geometry grouped this process will be faster you since dont have to traverse the whole model.

edited ... @ Pilou : si tu as une bonne traduction de mes posts je suis preneur ...

This already exists http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=337794#p337794 Someone made a rb file from my script example.

Okay, I should have read that more carefully. Creating groups solved my problem. Thanks.

The plugins store has a full list with dates. If the dates were in a javascript-readable attribute, it could all be done locally by comparing the versions, without changes needed on server-side.

Excellent tip. Worked perfectly! Many thanks!

@bomastudio said: @krisidious said: If I just hadn't lost every file I had... what do you mean for? Oh I was just lamenting the fact I had lost all my Autocad and SketchUp files last year due to a system failure.

Curious of if you figured out how to do that. That process could make a lot of things possible. I've been looking for alternate ways to render sketchyphysics and seriously, good luck.

The problem comes from small segments. This is the problem with RoundCorner, as it is based on a pure geometrical approach. It may also an obscure bug. The zigzag artefacts disappear with an offset under 2mm. So there is no good solution except may be to scale up, as suggested by mitcorb to put the option "Strict respect of offset" ON but beforehands to try to eliminate the few small segments by adjusting the upper surface. [image: JAe7_RDCBugWorldWiz.png]

FWIW, if the thing to which you are applying the texture is a component, you can set the component axes so their alignment will yield the desired orientation of the texture. Then you don't need to be changing the orientation of the model axes. Just open the component for editing and apply the texture.

What's the name of this plugin?