@miikka1978 said: Is there a plugin that creates a construction point in the end of each line (line that is not connected to anything) in the model? I am trying to create a 3D mesh (terrain). I have created lines (with Three Line Tools Plugin) that indicates the height of the terrain in each location. Now, I would like to create a construction point in the end of each line and then use Points to Mesh Plugin to create a terrain. Look at the assembly plugin from lss2008 ... "Create 3d mesh from construction points" http://lss2008.livejournal.com/22807.html @unknownuser said: Here an intermediate option, which is ready today: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4885828/lss_toolbar_1_1.zip before unpacking (or, after) should be removed from the Plugins folder, all the old versions manually (they are now all in the folder will be 'lss_tools' and so when unpacking the surface is not written down)

TIG, 10x allot for your detailed post. very useful. regevz @tig said: The edge has two vertices - its 'ends'. Found by edge.start and edge.end or edge.vertices[0] and edge.vertices[1]. Let's assume you want to move the edge's end by dist=100.mm We know the 'line' of the edge from line=edge.line, where line[0]==edge.start.position and vector=line[1] is the line's vector towards its 'end'. Now work out where the new end would be by using an offset on a copy of the end-point by dist... new_end_point = edge.end.position.clone.offset(vector,dist) So now we have the point where we want the end-vertex to move to. You have to make a transformation to apply to that vertex [ruby:anqq9m2l]tr=Geom::Transformation.new(new_end_point)[/ruby:anqq9m2l] Now you apply it to the vertex - it's done in a convoluted way for a vertex compared to other '[ruby:anqq9m2l]entities[/ruby:anqq9m2l]'... If you are working in a group use '[ruby:anqq9m2l]group.entities...[/ruby:anqq9m2l]', but here I assume it's in the model... [ruby:anqq9m2l]Sketchup.active_mode.active_entities.transform_entities(tr, edge.end)[/ruby:anqq9m2l] The end-vertex of the edge should now move 100.mm further away from the start-vertex... If you want to move the start-vertex then use [ruby:anqq9m2l]vector.reverse[/ruby:anqq9m2l] and substitute the start/end vertices. For other units change the method e.g. [ruby:anqq9m2l]0.1.m[/ruby:anqq9m2l] or with no suffix it's taken as [ruby:anqq9m2l]inches[/ruby:anqq9m2l]...........

DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ thanks allot. this tool is exact what i looking for. friends, i am amaze from your responses... 10x

Or, use the Outliner.

My Protrude works on perfectly rectangular fae only, so that may be limiting. It is here: http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2007/10/plugin-protrude.html Thomas also added a face division tool to his Edge Tools: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=24593&hilit=plugin

@thomthom said: Have been thinking about it. Got a few UV mapping ideas actually. But other project has been getting the priority. Getting there though. Please get there quick.

Driving Dimensions uses constraints through dimensions, but I'm not sure it can do what you need. It's worth a look. http://drivingdimensions.com/SketchUp/tutorials.php

All right, I was wrong. (There are so many flying toolbars all around my desktop)

@chris fullmer said: Oh it really doesn't matter. If you post in that thread, I can go ahead and delete this thread you don't mind? go ahead I copied my question to your cited thread, thanks!

I added .name (Sketchup.active_model.selection[0].layer.name) and got exactly what I needed. Thanks Keith

Like this one http://www.smustard.com/script/BoolTools

I've found the EntitiesObserer to be bugged... http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=20676

The 2D Tools set is available in the Plugins forum here do a search for it and by author 'TIG'... I could give you a direct link but it's good that you learn to find things yourself - 'give a man a fish or teach a man to fish' etc...

@davidboulder said: I haven't looked through this entire post. Good, don't waste your time Just watch the videos and if there is one you like, then use code associated to that video. Much of the thread was me rambling on and on. @davidboulder said: As long as I was careful how I named my scenes, I could drop swap out my SketchUp fle in my Layout project, and get a quick shadow studies for any project. I think that is an neat idea too. I find myself drawn to video and animation for this type of study personally, but whatever works for what you need it for. I would like to develop a full script that layers multiple shadow times on top of eachother and colors them differently - maybe blue red and orange or something for morning noon and afternoon, for each day of the year. I think that is potentially a useful script. Bytheway, Al at renderplus has a script that will layer shadows on top of each other and output them as a single image. I think it is part of his NPR (non-photo-real) toolkit. I'm not sure if it costs or is free. But he developed that after we had some discussions along this line, about how to layer shadows. It is workth looking at. Chris

@august said: Sorry for the sarcasm. I should have remembered a rule from one of my college professors, Gregory Bateson, "Never an untrue word spoken in jest." Can still allow sarcasm, just not hyperbole.

Woowwww OMG thanks massimo i never saw that plugin! Thanks to Didiers too! Bless my friend Thanks for ansewering TIG!

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@thomthom said: I'm not sure, but I think someone before mentioned some issues with new line characters that acted unexpected. Try opening the rb file in a good editor, setting the newline (end of line) character to UNIX (instead of Mac or WIN,) and resave the file. Also sometimes, block comments =begin ... =end have problems (and I avoid using them and replace them with a '#' pound character at the start of each line.) My editor (Notepad++,) uses the pound characters when I use the block comment menu command on a highted multiline block of text.

But that works only if any "little segments" of curves are no vertical! And this is not evident if you have some curves corners!

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