I used the "select only tools" http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=24474 and then the "solid inspector" http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=30504 . They did the job nicely. Thanks a lot, everybody.

Thank you to all for your helpful responses!

The idea of having a disclaimer at time of downloading is something to consider although once downloaded ..... I wonder if disclaimer text entered in the Model Description of the Model info > File tab could somehow be used for a message. But that would, I guess, require SU9 to have process functions like "OnOpen" as a part of the file structure itself. (Kind of funny, long ago, when I think back to using WordPerfect for DOS, I could associate OnOpen, OnSave, OnPrint, etc., script-functions to any of the menu items for a document or series of interrelated documents; I did this for an entire "electronic" operations and maintenance manual over 10 years ago.)

Another solution would be to place plants in front of the pillars.

I wrote this a while ago - it exports a selection to any available format http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=183756#p183756 So in your case it'd be export_selection('dxf') Of course you need the appropriate exporter - so for DXF you need v8Pro on one of the earlier versions that came with it in Free...

Thanks alot Tig, thats what I needed! Sketchup for sure wouldn't be the same if it wasn't for masters like yourself! Thanks again Kurt

Thanks both for your responses - Ive been side tracked by another project but will be looking back into this shortly. Component reporter is fantastic TIG - very detailed! And JGB thanks for advice about running the script on files individually, no problem just wondered if I could run it on multiple files to save some time. Cheers Sam

Awesome.... Thanks!

I was needing something like this last week.. And while thinking how it might be done, it would seem an elegant way might be to write it so an arbitrary fragment of Ruby is evaluated with known arguments. You could have some "presets" - as you do - but they would simply be preset Ruby fragments that are eval-ed on the arguments. Users could add any Ruby fragment they liked to extend it. two cents worth and all that.. Adam

I'm taking a guess you are using the free version of Sketchup, right? Cause If I understand you correctly, what you are asking for is what Dynamic Components are used for. You assign different attributes and change them accordingly. I don't think any plugin developper is "up to the mood" of creating a new DC component plugin. However a special "plant" plugin with different attributes etc is fully possible to create! But then again it have to be something extra to compete with DC's.. OR maybe to satisfy "nonpro" versions of Sketchup.

You rock as allways! Thanks again!

Yea, I wish we could do that. I've been trying to lobby for a way to have a responsive progressbar and cancel button in SU. Still hoping for it. Many hours has been spend by good plugin authors trying to find a good solution for this. But when it comes to it, it's something that needs to be built into SU in order to make the UI responsive.

To do what you want my 'Grow' tool will copy a selected component and rotate it about an axis... this is in X-axis only = 10nr @2m c/c @5degrees [for clarity] but your requirements would work too [image: dsUn_Capture.PNG] see here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=324331#p324331

Thanks You might consider adding 'filtering' to the tool changes, otherwise doing 'transparent operations' like orbit/pan/zoom will also 'beep' annoyingly...

These scripts are very useful. However, I am wondering if it is possible to go further with this to help me with what I use sketchup for. I draw a 3d floor plan of a house which is basically just lots of boxes/rooms adjoining each other. For each room I need the area of each wall and its orientation. However the orientation is from the perspective of being inside that room. So say I am inside the room and I am looking at the wall in question, the orientation of the wall is basically the direction I am facing, for example North. If I was in the room adjoining and am now looking at the same wall but from the other side of it, the orientation is now the opposite direction ie south. These scripts dont quite cater for this and I am wondering if it is even possible to make such a script. So when i click on one side of a wall its orientation is one direction but if I click on the other side of it, its orientation is the opposite direction.

You're right TIG, thank you

Adam ended up doing a 0.5 instead of 2... i think thats what you meant? or did i get my x/y's the wrong way... pt0.offset!(ya,interval*0.5) either got it I'll post further questions to the plugin page

Yes there is: http://www.smustard.com/script/GroupByTexture

This tool you did are really interesting. But I was wrong about the reason why I ask for this plugin. The problem was that when I render a scene in V-ray, everything was dark. I rendering from far away and I see that I had a huge object involving the whole scene. I thought it was a hidden object that this tool could make me find out. But this was not the problem. The problem, as I discovered later, was on "scale definition." The plugin for V-ray for some reason did not translate correctly the object as I seen in the scene, but according to the scale of the original object. Your plugin could also automatically define all the objects as "scale definition" as we see in the scene??? I tested this script in the the scene I'm working on, and could not see any results, because the scene I'm working on is very large and took too long time, so I had to kill the sketchup. Another thing I think will be great is the possibility of being able to choose what kind of object it takes from the "hidden world" and brings to our reality. Thank you TIG.

Try instance.transformation.origin