@unknownuser said: or also why not : always right or left at each fork! i could see that working out in certain cases but it could also lead to bad selections.. i dunno, i think the key would be making it very quick to call up.. ie- no dialog boxes etc.. maybe a settings dialog or something if deemed necessary.. standard select is spacebar and i'd try to set this one to shift-spacebar.. i'm pretty sure i, and a lot of other people, would use it quite a bit..

Seems Grow by Tig make that Grow V2.1 And Component Stringer make a sort of along a path

@unknownuser said: For the still-ruby-challenged,... Start with Chapter 11 and continue through Chapter 17. You'll become Ruby-literate. It's not hard. @unknownuser said: what about using q to do rotations in an arbitrary direction not defined by the planes? All my rotate stuff allows you to specify a plane ('rg', 'rb' or 'gb') or an axis. See my Leaning Tower of Pisa in the doc. @unknownuser said: I've got an existing model with several groups that need to move around in a related, but not quite identical, way. That's where ruby literacy has to come in. Alternatively, some brilliant insight that shows me how to create a generic solution to things that move in a related but non-identical way. Brilliant insights are always welcome. Martin

Thanks, Jeff...that's perfect. It is exactly what I need as a starting point. Appreciate your help...Regards...Bob Thanks also, to all who responded to my posting. I appreciate your interest in helping out a new member.

hi guys, Have some fun with this (the window tool that cuts opening and place the window into walls) This is of course really really early draft... Just place the win01.rbs file into the Plugins folder. I have plan to add a lot for options, and types of windows, doors into this window tool (very early preliminary 1st draft)

@d12dozr said: Welcome to the forum, freshwater ocean Do you mean like a cutlist? Here is the best one I know of. thanks for the help. i've got cutlist plugin installed. i'll have to read up more on it at the link you gave because it doesn't do what they show, on my mac. the lumberjocks forum doesn't date stamp their posts so don't have any idea how old their info is. it would be nice to get the BOM working!

Path Copy by Rick Wilson at Smustard ?

@dave r said: Wood three points be alright? ha! i can see where your mind is...

Know what you mean They confuse me too - and I made them The Extrusion Tools just grew like Topsy and 'EEbyXXX' originally seemed a 'sensible' naming convention until it gets too complicated...

The code finds the geometric center of a Face, then adds some Edges from the center to the outside vertexes. "Crack" means break, shatter, fracture, subdivide.

GROW and CURVILOFT are a good combination for many profile designs. [image: pUeW_Unbenannt.JPG]

Good and powerful!

thanks Jim. just got the tool, it is such a useful script! credit to the phlatboyz

I get it... but I was looking for "something better" RVS

@beepeng said: Hi all. Can I customize Outliner? If so, how can I do that? Are there any examples? Thanks. Ang Beepeng @tig said: No... BUT you could make your own version using a web-dialog - and so heavy-duty coding... If you look at this post you will see some development work on the organisational aspects of Sketchup; it could do with some attention so that requests like yours can be satisfied.

Thank you, Jeff Hammond! It's just what I was looking for!

@ TIG: Works fine! So A third solution I must change the title and my other post! Line above by TIG, Grow by TIG, Radial Move by C.Plassais [image: Rh2D_grow.jpg]

@thomthom said: Are you talking about 3d point data or contour data? For Contour data you can use Sandbox Tools that comes with SU - you might need to enable it under Extensions first. I had been trying with contour data, but I've always had problems with the sheer number of lines that i have. Does point data work better?

@unknownuser said: When you use a PNG file as a texture, how can you see through the holes with a renderer. Perhaps the opacity and a bump map ? It depends on the render application you use - so can't give you a more precise answer than that... In Kerkythea, Twilight and Thea it's the clipping channel... If you use a png texture with transparency (Alpha map) in Twilight, it will automatically make the transparency for you...

There is a conflict between the Sunposition plugin and Curviloft (and maybe other scripts). Basically it causes a direct crash of Sketchup when using Curviloft. see that post for more info on how to resolve the conflict. Fredo PS: I could not contact yet the author of the script