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.

Thanks TIG That was exactly what I needed!!! Keith 11

@thomthom said: Have you looked at the collection of links we have in the stickies in the Developers section? How about the Ruby in 20 mins mini-tut at the Ruby site? http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ Whatcha got plans of making? Thanks guys, had a little laugh at your comment, Cadfather!!!!! Thanks for the link Thom. I'll spend 20mins tomorrow getting started and see if it gives me any inspiration...... What I'd like to develop is a simple set of tools for building purposes skewed towards BIM. Yes there are a number of toolsets out there but I would like certain functions to be simpler and hence more functional...... I have started putting down ideas of the what I think could be a basic toolset then a secondary set that provides edits, etc.... Unfortunately, I'm more a visual kind of person rather than technical which is my concern. Anyway, will see how i go.

Please learn to use the Plugins Index [big red button above here] http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=250026#p250026 Then you can search the page [either using the built-in Forum-Search box or your Browser-Search function [Ctrl+F ?] ] to find what you need... However, if you are too lazy to do that look at http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=315482#p315482

awesome! thanks bud.

adrees of the image is that and I can see it on the poste above! http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=41868&mode=view image is in this thread

Mhh that's a pity! But anyway thank you TBD

Well, I don't know how useful it would be to know exactly in what procedure it happens. I'm a bit surprised that other user(s) (only one report so far) reports 0% CPU with Twilight installed and SU in background/minmimized. I suppose it could be a conflict between Twilight and some other plugins? It's not really a big deal now, after I got a new CPU with 4 threads, as it only runs in one thread, making it around 5% CPU usage. The percentage was higher on my old 2-core CPU.

As Gaieus said... it's a rarely used tool, so it is used without a menu item - as explained in the instructions on the download page... Type Exportcpoints2csv.new in the Ruby Console. You can export any selected cpoints to CSV using this 'Export CSV' tool... To mark all of the selected Arcs/Circles centers with cpoints, BEFORE you do that final CSV export, you can run this one liner: Copy/Paste the code into the Ruby Console + <enter> m=Sketchup.active_model;ae=m.active_entities;s=m.selection;as=[];s.each{|e|next unless e.kind_of?(Sketchup;;Edge)and e.curve and e.curve.kind_of?(Sketchup;;ArcCurve);as<<e.curve};as.uniq.each{|ar|ae.add_cpoint(ar.center)} A cpoint is added to every Arc/Circle's center for you, select them. The 'Export CSV' tool filters for only cpoints so you don't need to be too carefully making the selection as long as you include the cpoints you want...

I have modified the plugin so that, if the the selected entity is an arc, the point is placed in its true position instead of on the segment as before. Should this be an option? Add points to curve

TIG's suggestions are spot on, of course. You really don't need a plugin for a simple task such as this. Simply draw a face at the angle you want for the cut. Intersect it with the tubing and delete the waste. Think of it as drawing in the saw blade. [image: 5964496863_fc05fc1ed2_z.jpg] Knowing how to do this is useful because there are other applications for essentially the same process.

@gaieus said: Hi Luigi, Maybe this can help: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=39442 (Do not miss the video!) Thanks, that's exactly what I needed!

Are you reffering to this: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=20781&hilit=plugin or is it the sculpt brush tool in Artisan? Artisan video tutorial - Sculpt brush: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE5rHkgiNVc There is also an excellent example of modeling a pillow without plugins - using SU sandbox tools: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=34179&p=303018&hilit=pillow#p303018

Make fur? How's that one gonna help? Perhasp its does things I'm not familiar with?

@tig said: There is already Recall_Last_Tool http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=132509#p132509 Great, i obviously missed that. Searched for sth. like this before- i'll give it a try, if it works fine it'll directly hop onto a shortcut. @tig said: The complications of recording actions within the API should not be underestimated. Have you thought about a 3rd party external tool that remembers keystrokes/mouse moves etc... There are several freely available... Yes, i read that in the other related threads as well. Maybe one day. I'll try out some of these free tools, maybe they can do some job- i did't know they could track my actions within sketchup, eg. select certain face > offset > pull > bevel. And maybe they can't But good to know about what's possible and what's not. Thanks, TIG! _h