@jim said: Slow loading, slow minimizing, slow resizing, slow focusing. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=23343&p=298179#p298173 Did you experience it yourself?

Ok, made the changes and a few more, although there's no outward difference; it should run a little quicker. Download from here. Thanks Jason for the feedback and Thom for the code.

There is not in the Selection Toys by Thomthom something like "extend an existing selection" ?... (not yet researched)

That's some mighty big GIfs. 5MB and 2MB. Some users aren't as fortunate to have good bandwidth. Had it been a video click they could decide to load the clip or not.

And also please note that Skin only works: only works with curves:-> to make it work with lines: divide them and then Weld them. [image: DBelvinSkin02.jpg] only works with curves that are not contiguously: [image: DBelvinSkin01.jpg] Cheers, simon.

Maybe someone has to delete the [Plugin] tag from this discussion.

@honoluludesktop said: Fredo, What software do you use to screen capture, and make the gif's. I use Camtasia Studio. Very powerful software and easy to use for video edition. @honoluludesktop said: And if possible in a few sentences, how did you create that menu at the top of the screen? I guess you refer to the button palettes. This is simply 2D drawing with the very few drawing functions available in the SU API. Fredo

@didier bur said: Hi, @unknownuser said: For some reason, it does not load for me - again RLD's OK, though... Not always; see catamountain post in this topic recently (so it is not just me): http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/thread?tid=22ea17cbcf56c8a5&hl=en @unknownuser said: Happy new year 2011 Happy Birthday to you, Didier as well!

Same problems, no solution despite trying everything. I'm going to uninstall and reinstall everything? Also, my Preferences > Extensions folder does not contain anything useful either. HELP!!

@jim said: Hi Aqualung - is that your plugin? How about a tutorial? Hi Jim - Yes, it's mine - The only tricky thing to using it is getting the entities in the right order - The plugin uses any un-grouped geometry as input - Additionally, any subsequent operation on the geometry (such as moving, scaling, etc.) potentially alters the order it is returned in a list - My workaround for this is to first create the reference geometry I need, put it in a group, and then trace any new geometry to be used as input. To reproduce the spiral in question, create a circle (I used 12" for the diameter), position it where desired, and then put it into a group: [image: d33G_sp01.JPG] Next, create a semi-circle using the three-point circle tool: [image: lp4j_sp02.JPG] For five turns of 48 segments each, 240 segments total are needed - In order to spread out the turns, a height of 120" was used along with a scaling factor of 2.0: [image: oX49_sp03.JPG] The result should be as shown below: [image: DezL_sp04.JPG] If you try to edit the original circle into a semi-circle and subsequently use it as input, you will prpbably end up with something like: [image: piei_sp05.JPG] This is a result of modifying the geometry after it's created. Aqualung

Lo mismo os digo. ¡Feliz 2012! Porque con la crisis, el 2011 hay que darlo por perdido

The multiplication kind of resembles the effect of the Inverse Square Law, where doubling the radius results in 4x the area, and 1/4 the intensity regarding light and acoustics.

Instantly is impossible. Even Copy+Paste takes time depending on how much you copied.

Plugout: a Plugin that has been removed As in "causesproblems.rb became an immediate plugout for me".

There's cutlist, used by a lot of woodworkers that could perhaps help you.

You need to have this edge and these faces insidethe groups to make them solid. [image: 6YZu_solid.png]

@dave r said: Do you even need layers, then? Could you just name the groups and be done with it? I have thought of that but havent had a chance to test it yet.But layers do help by being able to turn them off and on as needed especialy when working with alot of groups/layrs. for example a 6 light glass door would have 14 layers total.

@driven said: I don't understand what super is... or where it comes from... super is a Ruby keyword that acts similar to a method, but has a quirk. super calls the same method in the ancestor PASSING UP the parameters that the child method received. super() calls the same method in the ancestor BUT PASSES AN EMPTY parameter list. super(arg1, arg2, ...) calls the same method in the ancestor BUT PASSES ONLY the parameters listed. ~

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I suppose you could use a dialog to set up a pattern like /^Glass-blue/ For material name that starts with 'Glass-blue'. Or /[Gg]lass/ for any material name containing the text 'Glass' or 'glass' etc etc... You can eval the pattern string in a gsub() on each materials name... Then you can iterate through the Model's Materials and find all of the ones with 'matching names' as an array. Then you can apply a Name+R+G+B+A[+texture+size] which is initially read from the first match in the array... and offered for 'adjustment' in a second dialog... On OK all of the matches are 'consolidated to 'Name' using the set R/G/B/A..values etc and the rest of the matching materials are replaced with 'Name' and then 'purged'...