See how 'heighttool' [?] sets its 'string' and replace the .add_text() in the other file with the 2dtext code using the height 'string' ? Can you explain how you see this being used ... I'm guessing you want 'flat' 2dtext height-tags rather than 'Text'?

@dave r said: Pete, how are you generating your cut list? Are you doing that with CutList 4.1.1? If so, you probably do not want the dimensions or labels inserted inside the components. The plugin reports the dimensions of the bounding boxes of the bottom level components. If those components have things like labels or dimensions included, the bounding boxes will be larger than the actual piece of wood you need to make and thus your cut list will be inaccurate. Dave I use the generate report function of SU Pro and use and excel macro to format the cutlist information the way it works best for our shop. I would be happy to share the macro if anyone is interested.

Sam, Well, I'm supposed to know the use of the ; but i forgot.. Again thanx for your help. The Math part was easier than the constructionpointarraycreation.

Maybe you could disable the edge visibility (View/Edge Stile/Edges).

Have you tried Thom's Material Tools http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=17587

a little IDL — no ruby but I am keen to explore and learn what is possible — Lots of resources on this site!

Click on the link in the first message. Then read the directions. He says download and isntall progressbar from smustard.com and his plugin. To "install" a plugin, if it is an .rb file, just drop it into your SketchUp "plugins" folder. If it is a .zip file, extract it to your plugins folder keeping the same folder structure in place that exists inside the zip file. Then restart SketchUp and it will work if you did it right. Good luck, Chris

Maybe a Windoze 'Compatibility Files' issue - check your 'permissions' for the Plugins folder properties ?

@thomthom said: Did you do anything with your Tools folder after reinstalling SketchUp? Nope. I loaded everything exactly as they were before. In fact, curiously, all, and I mean all, of my plugins loaded just fine. Except, of course, the unfortunate shadow strings fix.

Works Wonderfully! Thanks ThomThom

@involute said: No. I used Eagle by CADsoft. I already had it as I occasionally need to make real PCBs. There was one element that had to be repeated 24 times at intervals of 15 degrees of rotation (I'd include a pic but I can't figure out how to attach or embed, only link, and it's not online). That's just not something you ever need to do in designing a PCB, hence the headache. Obviously a 5 second operation in SU, but with no way to get the design out in Gerber format, I just had to suck it up and carefully tweak each placement in Eagle. Took about an hour to figure out how to do it, then another hour to actually do it. Would've taken much longer for someone to write a script, plus some dough. If this was something I was going to need to do regularly, that would be another thing, but it was strictly a one-off requirement. Thanks again for your looking into it, though. http://eagleup.wordpress.com/installation-and-setup/

@xrok1 said: did u try curviloft? Dang, missed your comment there Xork1... How could i forget curveloft.. Now tested and result is acceptable. Thank you for the tips.

I think you might get more answers in the developping forum, asking this. But I'll give it an attempt. NO. You need Webdialog for checkbox. (very sad indeed) I'm guessing no, since we are doing promts. Prompts need to be delt with, and what you are saying you want to do, there is already 1 prompt running when you want to excecute another. Hopefully I'm wrong. However you can have multiple promts succeding each other. For ex(biased info), like Hatchfaces crosshatching. By dropdownlist user selects YES or NO for crosshatching and click OK on the inputbox, who closes. IF you clicked YES for "crosshatching", another different prompt pops up. Stuff like that. You can have a look at the code. TIG helped me with that, so it should be "OK" on that part..

Have you already seen this thread? http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=360003#p360003 Read TIG's and Didier's posts, maybe it's useful.

well...when you have only one neuron working at each moment - every idea looks great!

Ahhh. Thank you! In parametric applications I am accustomed to detecting and altering vector direction. How do you detect curve direction in SkUp?? I didn't even know it mattered until yesterday! Anyway -- many many thanks for posting this little gem.

Do you have a version of Blender? Do you have a version of Python language? Should be loaded with Blender. The file extension for Python is ".py". Is there a conversion you must make from .rb to .py?

@unknownuser said: @unknownuser said: Hi Is there a plug in that could help me with alucobond style panelling? Soemthing that can also do tiles? no, not really.. as seen in the above responses, you're going to have to do it manually or use some plugins that might get you half way there You could approach this a thousand different ways.. bjornkn's suggestion of components is a good one depending on the complexity and/or number of unique sized/shaped panels.. my approach (at the moment ) would be something like this: (using solids) [sorry, 10+ minutes long.. even after i edited out the parts when waiting for sketchup to process] [flash=853,480:2e3b2nwv]http://www.youtube.com/v/HO1Qdd-SiGM?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0[/flash:2e3b2nwv] Dude! WOW thanks so much for creating a VID... really really appreciated! Thanks bro!!

@chris fullmer said: That's how my car works. If I unlock the doors with the remote, but don't ever open the door, it will re-lock itself after about 30 seconds. Crazy. My car does that too

Chris, The code works perfectly as far as it was designed to do and that was to place instance1 beside instance2. Only you know how you want and need the components to be related to each other and only you have the components to work with.