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!

so supriese!,i like to test it ! my Email: leixing333@gmail.com

Can you post the plugin? It looks fun and useful.

oh no, but it has more features on mac - variables etc

Dig around this forum also. I think someone recently detailed in the developers forum how they got an xml writer hooked up through ruby so they can write xml files easily.

I think i get it now, but is there an easy way to edit path's in the MXM files? The tool mxmchecker doesn't work for MR V2 :S

@unknownuser said: activate the plugin which immediately groups the selection then switches to the move tool.. upon moving/placing the newly created group, it explodes? Yes - by using the ToolsObserver http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/toolsobserver.html you can detect Tool activity. Though you need to find out what state in the tool to look for.

I have nothing to add but a humble pile of warm, clean compostable thanks to all afflicted action figures who figured this out and fixed it.