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.

Sweet! Thanks for the help. I'll give it a try. -- Karen

Yes, it works in any plane - the lines must be coplanar and potentially intersect...

Added indication in the edge normals if they are reversed_in? the face the cursor is over. [image: KvB8_reversed_in.png]

Hi Morisdov: As I wrote on the first post, one of the uses of the plugin is helping in the research of how the bodies in the night sky can be used to contemporary design (please do not mistake this for astrology). So a lot of rotating goes along, orienting a single face to various points in the sky until finding the right one. Since this thread, I have simplified my request of the plugin here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=27876 Regards. @morisdov said: Hi Javier, I cant guess which faces in your 3D model should have the ability to reorient themselves towards anything. The "archeological site construction" which is the only 3D model is frozen by history and must be locked for any changes whatsoever. you should place in that 3D model many Skethcup "cameras" and orient only them to face certain directions towards the sky at a certain date and time point. (like the sky of the longest day of year 500 BC or 1492). You can ANIMATEvia sketchups standard view animation features to "look" form the cameras - this will be your demonstration of this whole idea. You may add lines from the cameras to the cameras target point(star in the sky) to emphesize and "prove" and "explore" that the archeological site was indeed constructed in ancient times in accordance and perspective related to stars positions of specific dates and times. As an unrelated side note - i recommend exploring when "perspective" was first "invented" in each cultures paintings Cheers, Moris

Has anyone found a way to have certain models not affected by inference-snapping? I'm finding a couple situations where I wish the inference-snapping would ignore a model in the scene. For example, I have a large sub-divided plane and I'm trying to extrude a cube in the foreground, the motion keeps snapping at sub-division way off in the background.

STL is also limited to objects of max 32K?

When asking questions about rendering it helps to tell us what render engine you use. Most render engines for SU does not render Section Cuts. There is poor support for that. One has to manually cut the model - on a copy of course. There is plugins to make such cuts.

Alittle more experimentation - by not using the component option and only making into a Group. the conversion went well. On the Sketch up blog it said component or group

You don't need Java for webdialogs. Javascript on the other hand, and HTML + CSS.

Thanks, can't see why i didn't think of that...

@hfm said: You could use Layout for this. Simply load the Sketchup-file; open it twice at a different scale and draw the circles yourself. So, it apparently already exists, if you have SUPro, which you may or may not. Back in the days of graphic cards with CAD drivers on steroids ($$), such a thing existed. Now we have SUP ($$).

Hey thanks, this last one was a very good tip. I think what AdamB proposed is a very professional approach of the problem. I 've tried it out in my code and it works fantastically. Yet, it would be interesting to understand WHY this actually works, does someone know a bit more about the matematical background of this vector based solution?

There is a Unfold.rb with a visual demo somewhere in the forum. See if this can help?

Wow TIG, thank you so much! Both edits work a treat , but yes yours is definitely more succinct - I have always had issues with my code being a tad too verbose, and possibly missing the trees for the forest... After my previous post, I was thinking it did seem odd that I wasn't working directly with the definition, but I'm sure I would never have found it without the help Thanks again - now onto the next tweak... Cheers, Doi!