You can also move vertices together. Have nothing selected, active move tool and pick on one vertex and snap it to the other. There are also 'clean-up' plugins to do this 'healing' for you too...

Er, wait... is this a request for a "gizmo" to move, rotate, or scale (around object center or object origin)? Something like this: [image: Manual-Manipulators-Combo.jpg] That would be fantastic to have! (even better, snap it to the current model unit... then you can do precise movements without having to post-enter VCB units every time) Reference link to wikki's plugin: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=20346&p=170277 I created the gizmo model for an external editor using SketchUp [see file attachment] Gizmo.skp

@plot-paris said: well, EEbyRails restricts you to 4 curves (two profile curves, and two path curves) whereas with a loft tool you are allowed to use as many curves as you like (order in which curves are selected will determine the order they are used). maybe you could create a loft tool based on your EEbyRails tool... I know there is a basic loft tool out there somewhere (I think Chris Fullmer). but last thing I know its still in early beta. you got quite a stable tool which produces beautifully smooth forms. so maybe you could derive a mighty loft tool from it... I am working on such multi-profile loft tool. Still a lot of work, but you can get an idea at http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=1306&start=210#p216592 Fredo

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Finally installed the plugins i wanted - ToolsOnsurface - the problem seemed to of been my safari browser which would unzip and rename the the files automatically - some browsers cant handle the spaces in file names so fills them with other characters - so switched to mozilla firefox for the downloads and was able to extract the files in plugins folder myself with no problems

Hi I am afraid you are wrong Skindigo/indigo has Instancing and Proxies. This means that you can replace a 10K ploy tree by a simple 6face cube in your SKP file, and since it is instanced, it will be exported only once As a registered user i can tell you Indigo + Skindigo is a very powerful tool See this Thread from the indigo forum : I made a 3D with 2500 trees, no problem, and this with a good old laptop with only 2Go ram (yes, b the time, i was a poor student and i had no funds to buy a powerful computer ! ) http://www.indigorenderer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7338 Janjake (Djegoo from indigo forum)

Here is one script ("Revert Curve" in the contextual menu). Actually, there is no simple method, because changing the order of segments impacts the whole model structure for Sketchup. The attached script works fine on isolated curves. On curves which are linked to faces and other edges or curve, the scripts has to erase the edges and reconstruct the faces. So you'll loose the material and other properties of these faces. EDIT 01 Feb 10: Attachment removed. See this post to get the plugin http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=25710#p221170 Fredo PS: The contextual menu item appears on a selection which contains one or more curves. Elements in the selection which are not curves are simply ignored. You do NOT need LibFredo6.

Hello MartinRinehart, Thanks you very much,

@haynesc said: hi all i remember seeing a script to import multiple cad files at once but i cant sea mto find it ... See this http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=203630#p203630

Thanks Tig Have sent you a PM. Pewe

@ecuadorian said: For render programs that can't handle distorted mapping, I've read the workaround is to export as 3ds and re-import, but I can't test this as I don't have SketchUp Pro. If the object only has a few faces, you can click on each one and right click > Make Unique Texture. So are you saying that there is not a way in the API to automate the "Make Unique Texture" function from the popup menu. I looked at ThomThom's "uv_make_unique.rb" which does a great job of duplicating a texture/image. But I need to dice up the image and spread over multiple smaller faces. Basically, I am dicing up terrain into smaller faces, with each face needing it's own texture/image. Thanks, Jim

Do you get any error messages in the ruby console ken?

@thomthom said: @unknownuser said: The reason I am looking for something like this is that I imported a 3DS file of a car. All the textures luckily came in fine, but the faces were reversed - all the textures appear on the interior surface of the car. When I select all the faces and 'reverse faces' they come out all jumbled up. When I select one face and select to have it projected and then reverse it, it comes out fine. but I have to do this to aprox 2000 faces one by one!?!? I didn't read this the first time around. To transfer UV mapping front<->back side of faces: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=18992#p155759 I had already tried out your UV toolkit, but it didn't seem to work. only about 6 faces out of the 2000 were reversed, and I'm not sure they did it well either.

@chris fullmer said: You can also just enter this into the ruby console: Sketchup.send_action(10624) and it will open that dialog box. As for claiming authorship of the code, I've got no idea. But as far as I know, TBD discovered the hidden camera dialog. You might have written the snippet yourself TIG Chris I make absolutely no claim on ownership of anything - the code I gave is all there is in the Ruby file that I got from somewhere - I don't remember writing the 'Camera Info' menu item... but then again senility is just round the corner perhaps I did... I can't recall where that send_action came from - you said TBD - I just found it here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=57709#p57709 It's not on the list in the API Guide OR other expanded lists that have been published - in fact that very number is skipped over !!! Anyway - it works for PC users... sorry Macsters It'd be good if Sketchup.send_action("cameraWindow:") or something similar worked ! It'd be good to be able to get the 'text' action for all OSs from the numerical equivalent used on a PC...

True: scenes aren't designed to control visibility. but they can. If they just had the ability to "freeze" I wouldn't have that minor annoyance in my workflow. The way I prefer to work is simple really: -Build to my heart's content -Select all, unselect desired component(s), hide, Add new scene -Document in Layout -Build more, add more scenes when necessary I never need to Unhide because there's always a scene that has everything that I can create a new scene from. Not trying to step on anybody's toes. Your workflow is just as valid as mine

Martin, the problem with softening exterior edges is that you end up with strange shading typically shown as a diagonal shadow on the surfaces. If you don't want to see the edges, it would be better to hide them with Shift and the Eraser tool. Hiding them won't create the appearance of the shadows on the surfaces.

Thank you very much for your reply. I was not able to find the right ruby during search on the site. I received all messages with the words i was looking for. Maybe a suggestion for the site to change the way the search engine works? Or maybe i am definately failing with my internet skills! But thank you

@majid said: in sketch up to "select connected faces" that is a built-in right-click menu option Oh, man. I couldn't see the forest for the trees. There is such thing as too many plugins. Thanks Majid, I'd used a hotkey so long I forgot completely where/what it was in the menus after re-installation. Palm, meet forehead...

nice help. Thx

Instances do not have their own entities - it uses the entities of its definition, so.. ins = Sketchup.active_model.selection[0] entities = ins.definition.entities will give you the entities collection for the instance.