His website isn´t working too (Journal has been deleted): http://lss2008.livejournal.com/ Daniel S

It appears to me that you are looking for Daysim http://www.daysim.com/ to stay with free tools, there's Radiance and Su2Rad (http://code.google.com/p/su2rad/) If I recall well someone was writting another code that could be used instead of Radiance (faster and easier to use). Does someone have information on it?

Hi @unknownuser said: Is there a way to get a list of all plugins? I'll try to provide that soon. EDIT 2010.06.15: done. @unknownuser said: would have been nice if it redirected instead if producing 404 ht_access only redirects old bookmarks that were pointing to main pages... regards,

@tig said: Since a SectionPlane is a DrawingElelment you should be able to do most things with it like Move, Rotate etc. You also have two extra methods to 'set' and 'get' a SectionPlane's 'plane'... You can't make a SectionPlane - unfortunately there is not equivalent method to entities.add_section_plane(plane) - though the trick of importing an 'empty' component that contains only a SectionPlane and then exploding it works - you can get it's id and then change it's location/plane... The BIG problem is that there is no entities.active_section_plane [returning a SectionPlane or nil if none is active] or entities.active_section_plane=SectionPlane [setting that active and all others not - equivalent to model.active_layers/= but entities based as there can be one active SectionPlane in each set], also SectionPlane.active? to see if a particular one is active and SectionPlane.deactivate to switch it 'off', would be good. Note that hiding/showing active/visible SectionPlanes can already be done though Display settings... and you can already search through an entities set and make an array of its SectionPlanes - though then you can't do that much to them... If these simple methods were added to the Ruby API it would open up loads of possibilities... It's beyond a mere scripter to hack into the SKP format and get/set the entities's active SectionPlane BUT it must be possible Why does the green color lenses of your geek sunglasses shine like light at the tunnel's end?

The models will go into a computer game. Any suggestions on a different format and/or intermediate programs?

Hi , Oppps I missed that issue Diddler Bur: It would be great if your point cloud importer had a "text" option Thanks for all your help Berst regards "fra regn byen" Kristoffer

I'll do that tomorrow.

@matteo said: I suppose that these rubies work directly on the rendering engine (opengl) parameters. Afraid not. They are simply setting the Style and Fog settings available in the API. No control over sun or shadow colours.

@jclements said: Related to Chris Glassier' posting. A possible UI which is relatively easy to use is shown below. A 2-D application I use, XaraPro, uses a "Profile" dialog with some of its tools. **A.)**shows a drop down list in the dialog of basic presets. **B.)**shows how the user can tweek the presets by using slider or typing in values. Not only does the plot-graphic change instanteously, but the graphic of tick marks adjusts instantaneously depicting the dispersion of data along an interval. Just an idea of how choosing the proper the acceleration from scene to scene (or camera to camera) might be done. Me likes!

Hi Jax, Thank you for your post, glad the fix worked. Just to let everybody know that Shaderlight for Sketchup has now been released as an open Beta. Please give it a try and let us know what you think. It is available to download free from http://www.artvps.com This is not yet the complete product as we are going to be adding advanced features such as enhanced lighting and our trademark MELT interactivity which is the ability to make interactive changes to materials, environments, lights or textures at any stage in the rendering process without having to restart the render. This will available later this year. Martin

@unknownuser said: It may be that groups, when just duplicated, and before any edition still behave as components. If edited via the Ruby API, they do. One has to call .make_unique on groups before editing.

I'll be glad to test it! @jim said: It does sound cool, and it is certainly possible. What I am not sure about is whether it would be heavy and slow like copy & paste, or fast like the outliner. I'll write a prototype "insert into" tool if you don't mind testing it. -- On second thought, it would be simper to write a "Pull out of" tool for if it's for testing performance.

Hi Mike (and welcome to SCF)! Please, have a look at JointPushPull and ToolsOnSurface plugins. You mention "offset" but what you describe is rather the PushPull function (can be done with the first plugin linked) however to make it complete, the second one can do offset on curved surfaces...

uh . . .no. I guess that would be "Explode" I am not by any means a plugin guru. I just have about 500 of them on my machine __(see topic "how many plugins is too many?" ) I am sure there is something that does what you are talking about. seems to me there was a recent post that listed all of the plugins and their authors with all the links to all their little toys but danged if I can remember what is was titled, and I can't find it.

I was tryin' just about everything and the best results (and the easyiest way) are when I extrude edges of curved face with "extrude lines along a vector" and then just copy the face.

Regarding the extra faces after import to sketchup: Could this be a result of overlapping, or multiple instances of vectors with the same endpoints, but on different layers that were created in the cad program?

Yes, exactly, thanks. And now I even remember...

Plugin posted here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=28851

Try this require 'sketchup.rb' def cpointseqxy() model=Sketchup.active_model ents=model.active_entities layers=model.layers tlayer=layers.add("cpointseqxy") sel=model.selection sela=sel.to_a sel.clear vec=[10,10,10] ### change these values for arrow length model.start_operation("cpointseqxy") cs=[] ca=[] sela.each{|e| cs<< e if e.class==Sketchup;;ConstructionPoint ca<< e if e.class==Sketchup;;ConstructionPoint } th=[] ch=[] lh=[] ca.each{|c| cx=[] cs.each{|e| next if c.to_s == e.to_s if c.position.x == e.position.x and c.position.y == e.position.y cx<< e ch<< e t=ents.add_text(" =XY",e.position,vec) th<< t l=ents.add_cline(c.position,e.position) lh<< l end#if } cs=cs-cx } th.each{|t|t.layer=tlayer} lh.each{|l|l.layer=tlayer} sel.add(th+ch+lh) model.commit_operation end This has arrows for the text: vec=[10,10,10] sets the arrows 'vector', adjust the value of it to change the leader location, length etc...

Slicer exports the slices as individual groups, the 'lay flat' option makes copies of these flattened onto the ground spaced apart by an entered amount, set in a logical h/w arrangement and numbered to match the original order, and these are also grouped. You can adjust where these are by editing the group and of course make plan views of each as desired as scene-tabs ? Then export them as jpegs using once of the batch image exporter tools available...