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

@chris fullmer said: Seems like it might also be possible if you export it as a video, exporting jpegs and do like 1 frame per second, and set the scen transition time to 1 scene per second. It seems like that way you can specify an aspect ration better? I'm little rusty on that topic though. It might or might not work. This worked! Awesome! =D Can't thank you enough. And thanks to all of you, found some nice plugins on the way!

Humm, some other experiments may indicate that nested components could be the problem. I'll take a look at it more closely and give feedback soon. Cheers, and thanks for your help !!

Thanks TIG, I was sure you had the solution ! (but didn't remember your SKM Tools )

Bravo for the efforts!

similar this image but multiple selected faces [image: 14IW_Sinttulo-1copia.jpg]

I used the drape tool. That worked. Thank you.

Well, I cannot tell you much more than what has been previously discussed in other threads. You probably have an integrated graphics processor- not a recommended system for a graphics intensive application, let alone a plugin for it. It's this OpenGL thing. Your processor has to support that "protocol". Again, I cannot be 100% certain it would not be some other factor. Strangely, I have an older tabletpc with XPpro on it that seems to have an integrated processor. Yet I can run Sketchup and SSB on it, and I do not recall having that situation come up. Maybe that system is designed for heavy graphics. It may be time to consider a newer system. I know I need to.

@ Rich: I've got my code 3 hours after I sent the request.

Thank you, both I used MoI trial till it works: it goes fine for small models. To have a good result (without errors) with mine I had to divide it into 4 parts. About Sycode I knew of it and I asked a key two days ago: I let you know how it works.

Yes, there it is, and it works great. Thanks!

Thank you Very much, every thing is fine now !