It could be my "Shadow threshold" here: http://www.pixero.com The problem is it doesnt work very well...or at all?

There is a duh moment for me, I hide and show stuff all the time when I am working on a model, never thought about hiding the model so I could see the center. At any rate I did one video show and it worked out OK. I wish I could find the best possible, set up for you tube. The link I posted for this thread was upload #3. I will practice and get better. Thanks for your help so far.

ahh yes thanks

Glad that worked. Your next task should be easy. A nuclear fusion powered motorcycle.

@gaieus said: Something like Fredo's Tools on Surface? Yes! I do have it, but did not remember that "offset contour on surface" was in there. Thanks for the reminder, Gaieus. Have a great day! _KN

this is way above my concentration levels lol ... i just dont understand the language ... thanks anyway

And if I'm not mistaken, the sandbox tools also use dalauney algorithm to make the TIN, same with the DEM importer (possibly). I had started writing an intersting script that was aimed to work more satisfactorily than the from contours tool. Got started on it and got overwhelmed. But these scripts that create meshes are super fascinating to me. This is something I would love to tackle someday. Just don't count it anytime soon Chris

PROBLEM SOLVED Khai, Actually I had both KT and SU installed in non-native directories. Since nothing that was suggested worked, I reinstalled KT INTO the default directory, reinstalled the SU plug in (it asked me where the new KT installation was) and I tried rendering once again. The export process in SU would start and finish without any messages. KT wouldn't start automatically or load the export. BUT when I open KT manually and open the created xml file, the export would load and would render as expected, using all the light sources specified in SU. In contrast, prior to this fix, the manually opened xml files were just blanks. I suspect the solution was the reinstallation of KT. Not sure if the default directory helped. Either way, thanks to all for helping out!

I don't know what is a control point, but if you press the Up arrow key, you have constraint on the Z axis If you want draw only vertical lines, you can use the Chris Fullmer plug "3 lines tools" by lenght by elevation line on normal

Shuffled things around a bit by copying other scripts and got the menu item to appear. Not sure how. But when I select the option nothing happens: Soften all vertical lines in a model require 'sketchup.rb' def abc model = Sketchup.active_model model.entities.each { |e| if e.is_a?(Sketchup::Edge) && e.line[1].parallel?(Z_AXIS) e.soft = true e.smooth = true end } model.definitions.each { |d| if e.is_a?(Sketchup::Edge) && e.line[1].parallel?(Z_AXIS) e.soft = true e.smooth = true end } end name = "softenv.rb" unless file_loaded?(name) UI.menu("Plugins").add_item("Soften verticals") { abc } file_loaded name end

Yes!!!

@tig said: You can easily get the material's color's RGB. You then need to write a png file with those values. Import it in as a texture for that material... There are image writing modules for Ruby with stuff like GD2 ? PNG files are not trivial to deal with. If anyone are knows of a lightweight lib to use with SU Ruby then I'd be very interested. I just wrote my own BMP reader for a plugin I'm working on. A BMP writer would be easy - but the downside is the filesize...

@d12dozr said: Plugins do not have to appear under Plugins menu, they can show up in Right click menu, Tools menu, and Draw menu. I'm not familiar with deletecoplanaredges.rb, but I would check in those places I mentioned first... Found it, it was Right Click Menu. Thanks for the Help

Just to add a small rider to Jeff's excellent reply. SU only needs one plugins folder and that is the one here:- MacintoshHD/ Library/ Application Support/ Google SketchUp 7/ SketchUp/ plugins I suuggest you move all plugins from the other user level folder to the one above and remove the user level plugins folder completely.

Or this one here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=95648#p95648

Thats the one, Chris!!!! Pilou's fragmented / explode tool was the one i was looking for.... Thanks also to wind-borne and Paul for your suggestions, was aware of Bomb but not explode / implode..... Cheers,

Thanks for that. I should have looked there first.

Good to hear

@dizain said: Utiler, I'm waiting for compensation from Goh to $ 10 for having knocked out my windowwizer 4 with his 1001bit... But the plug-in for Rhino is another thing, with all due respect to Goh. Knocked out windowizer??? Knocked it out of what???

@chris fullmer said: LayOut has no ruby interface, so it is not possible through ruby. The Google team would have to implement that. And yes, they could if they thought enough people wanted it! Ha, deception ! So what to do? Build a huge list of people wanting either ruby in LO or the feature in next version. I do think it was mentionned quite a few times in the last LO wishlist survey.