@alpro said: Well forget the Blender route. Exported obj out of SU, imported to Blender, selected verts and changed tris to quads, no problems. Well a little problem, it only converted about 85% to quads, see pics. However the real problem was importing back into SU, like thomthom said the quads have to be coplanar in SU so when I imported your quaded head, SU put a hidden line everywhere it wasn't coplanar thus making quads into tris again. Mike Technically, all quads in any 3d application consists of triangles. It's just a matter of how the 3d application presents it. Internally each quad will consist of two triangles. SketchUp makes no effort to provide any form of quads and instead exposes the triangles directly to the user and leaves the responsibility there. Further more, just having a set of quads as you do in your screenshot provides no real benefits as the topology isn't regular. It's going all over the place with a mix of quads and tris at random. To have an efficient topology you need the quads to be laid out in a manner so they make nice loops around the characteristics of the shape. Then you can use tools that makes use of this regularity of the quad mesh to perform actions such as selecting rings and loops so you can quickly and predictably modify the geometry you want. To put it simply, quads has no benefit over tris unless the quads are laid out with a good topology.

Hi Mike, Very nice to hear you are a fan of Tgi3D SU AMorph. Yes you can upgrade to the latest version on your current license, and as Rich had already answered (Thanks Rich!) you simply login to your account and download the latest version and install. Go to the Downloads page (the link in Rich's post) on Tgi3D website, click on the "updates" link at the bottom where it says @unknownuser said: For latest versions of Tgi3D SU Amorph and Tgi3D SU Photoscan, please visit the updates page. I am not sure if we can be as fast as Rich here (wow!) , but you can always contact us through the support page on our website as well.

I've mailed to the geosketch guys as advised by Rich. Awaiting reply

@tig said: You can't add 'arguments' to a UI.openURL() - it's a 'path' only tool. BUT you can write a cmd/bat file with the needed data and then open that [it 'executes'] and that can pass/use arguments written into it thus... START mailto;"someone@somewhere.com?subject=The%%20Title&cc=%%20&bcc=%%20&body=Hello%%20testing%%20123 See here for more details http://www.robvanderwoude.com/email.php or http://www.paulsadowski.com/wsh/cmdmail.htm There are ways to escape the used special characters if you want... Just compile the message File.write to a temp file called say 'C:/Temp/emailer.cmd' then UI.openURL('file:///C:/Temp/emailer.cmd') to run it. You can even make it erase it self as it ends... i am not familiar with batch programs, but i shall try to understand the way to do it; thank you!

Not sure what the problem is? What are you trying to do?

It can't automatically be used with other tools. It'd have to be explicitly integrated with the tool by its author.

@jojo9 said: Code 1 is designated for a standalone script, right? (like: #jojo9_startup.rb) No, it just shows how to save a reference to the submenu item. It doesn't have to be in a loader/startup script. If you want an example, look at my Pushpull & Group plugin: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=28072 I wrote it using 2 global variables, but I have figure out since then that you only need 1. You will see that in my plugin, "Code 1" is actually in "Code 2", where it saids "else something".

Can you post the data file [zipped?] or PM it to me. It's hard to comment without more substantive detail.

@unknownuser said: TIG recently developed a very similar ruby http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=346754#p346754 -Brodie Thanks brodie, I initally wrote v1.0 in 30 minutes that simply flattened vertices to z=0, posted it to the forum, then noticed TIG's drop vertices. With v1.1 I thought I'd take the development in a different direction with Flatten to mean normal, which works similar to TIG's scripts but my focus is on replacing the Z vector with the average normal of all the faces selected. I don't want to butt heads with TIG as he's quite a deal more talented than I. In the next version I'm working on ways to preserve the edge conditions, so the script doesn't destroy four or more sided faces. The method I'm thinking of using considers edge conditions as 2 dimensional manifolds (so rotate along the border edge away from the border face's normal until you find a face that isn't in the selection). The normal determines the direction of rotation to avoid the angle_between not greater than 180 degrees issue. We rotate away from the normal to find the next face because there may be more than two faces sharing a border edge. This (hopefully) will remove interference by more than two faces sharing the same edge. This method also shows some promise for applications like correctly orienting faces and removing internal geometry on non-solid geometry, but more grey matter is required on my part. Hopefully all's not lost

@tig said: This http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=345385#p345385 is v1.4 that has an option 'ALL' version that processes all scenes in one go... yes, you are right; i had downloaded the plugin here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=28782 it works perfectly thank you

It was and there's even some newish thread debates about it http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=1518&p=344388&hilit=+housebuilder#p344388

Yes, exactly, any plane (defined by the initial face). This is why I drew the face horizontally. Face-lock is very useful when drawing extremely complex roofs for instance, too. Just adding details (or healing missing parts) you need not use a plugin or a complex intersection method.

Updated the Shell plugin with a tool. Also available for users here at SCF: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=39308

Somewhat biased reply, but you could try crosshatching. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=38637 if it's edges you want. Only work on planar faces.

Mr. Tig. Thank you very much for the explanation. Unfortunately I do not understand programming. : ( It's asking a lot, you program this plugin? Thank you very much for your time

No. The clashes are almost all so unexpected and subtle it'd be difficult. Where a script rewrites a base class method it's easy BUT if someone rewrites say progressbar 'that's left dangling' within there own poorly structured code until it breaks a tool using the 'real' progressbar it's hard to prevent... There are a few - like SketchyPhysics that has an occasional clash with say Mirror.rb because it seems to be doing something to mess with the 'Sketchup::Group' class - I still haven' tracked down to a satisfactory conclusion There is an informal list of 'bad' scripts than should be avoided and others with recoded parts to avoid problems, but I really can't see how we can automate it - reading through a script to find what it's doing is sometimes difficult as it is, let alone passing the task over to 'code'....

@kyyu said: Look at the plugin "Toggle Units": http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=11745 Their version is: state = tb.get_last_state > if(state == TB_NEVER_SHOWN) > tb.show > elsif (state == TB_VISIBLE) > tb.restore > end But I am not really sure of the use of "restore"? The API saids "used to reposition the toolbar to its previous location". But I tried testing it (moving it and restarting SU, etc..), and don't really see what it is doing. Can anyone explain? Hehe, sorry but i'm not yet a ruby scripter. Thanks very much for the tip, it helped!

@tig said: If you mean 'Center of Gravity' [CofG] then I already have a tool for this, which also gives the 6 Suspension-Points which are == the axes through the CofG... Search the 'Plugins Index' for it... thanks TIG, i'll try it out!!

@earthmover said: I believe that LumenRT was the first of it's kind to support .exe output and work within sketchup. Perhaps try LightUp? It requires a player (similar to Unity) rather than a stand alone .exe, but the footprint of the player is quite small and installs in seconds. Might not be too burdensome on a client. There are also talks of Lumion going to .exe output in V2, but that's a few months out yet. hi TIG and EarthMover, thank you for your answers LumenRT LiveCubes doesnt work on my PC and MAC... this was my first favorite last month. now i must search other options. o k ill try 3dpdf lumion and lightup. thank you at both dean

@unknownuser said: To fix it 'select all', and 'intersect with selection' Is that how to fix that nuisance of faces on faces on faces etc? I never knew that