Yeah, if you had a model you could upload that would be great too. You say uou have a point above the plane - is it a construvtion point? Or what type of point is it? I'd be interested in knowing. Also, where is that point coming from? Is someone putting it in manually? If so, perhaps there is another method that could be done to help automate the process even more. Chris

Your welcome Mark and I will shortly be in the same boat! My new Mac is now in transit, being shipped as I type Boring for everyone else, but I'm very excited

thanx chriss that works fine does still need that close face option, and i noticed some slight snapping if u click near a vertice or line, but its awsome thanx. i like the red line also

See http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=10555 please... I've made this plugin on a similar request... But there is a SU bug on creating groups inside a component...

Thanks Chris. You may be right regarding what to call it.

@xrok1 said: even a script where you could select one or more edges(with same general orietation of course) and then hit R,G,or B on your keyboard to align them in that axis would be very cool. I agree, this would be quite handy - especially working with imported models.

That's Rhino. Not SketchUp. You can't add more viewports in SU. Not with ruby. It'd have to be something the SU team implemented.

i have a script "displaytemplate.rb" for su 5. that could creat more diffrent scene style. and it can work with su6 but some style wrong. you can try. displaytemplate.rb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEg6tHWNXb4

@xrok1 said: select what you want to add to your group ctrl+x to cut from the scene open the group you would like to add to use edit>paste in place from menu to paste it back to the same location but inside the group this is how its done so i doubt anyone will write a script. it helps if you add a shortcut key for paste in place such as ctrl+shift+v. He did mention that he'd used that method. And never say never. Being able to open an group/component and "import" external entities isn't such a bad idea.

well mate thanks for the quick reply and also for taking my request into concideration, I will be patiently waiting

RayOchoa, I had exactly the same problem before SU7 came out. http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1897&p=31500&hilit=+converter#p8826 Now that I use version 7, it's not a problem for me anymore.. DeepExploration can save into any version of SketchUp (from v3 to v7), and you can use it's batch function to convert multiple files at a time. However, it messes up texture maping of textured SU models. It costs quite a bit too, but you can use trial version for a month without restrictions. It's good in every other way though.

Dear Chris, Many thanks for replying. I am a very patient man, and besides, I have work-arounds, albeit long and tedious. Kind regards, Bob

I would recommend that you use a different program to create your vector lines. One that specialises on vector images which then most likely will allow you to export to .dwg or .dxf. Making an .ai importer would not be a quick and easy task. The .ai can be in the shape of a .pdf file format if it's saved with .pdf compatibility. But it might not.

I get no dialogs whatsoever when using the version embedded in the SCF PowerToolbar.

@watkins said: Try this http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2008/02/plugin-construction-line-tool.html Regards, Bob thanks that works awsome. now if only it could be attached to ALT pencil. that would be great.

I can do it with scenes, but with a lot of objects I'm a bit lost. It was nice to toggle layers also inbetween the scenetabs to support, otherwise I have to much scenes.

I made a skp, rb, html set to test what I understand so far about transformations on a 3x4x5 metre group. If you want to try it out temporarily unzip the files to your plugin directory. transformations.zip Here is a clip of it showing a group rotating around each of the axes in turn: [flash=425,344:32q3oq38]http://www.youtube.com/v/aXxkHu7gSv4[/flash:32q3oq38] The rotations are made with: tr = Geom::Transformation.rotation(Geom::Point3d.new(ent.bounds.center), rv, theDegrees), where rv is the axis, and the angle_between values with: (t.xaxis.angle_between X_AXIS).radians same for y and z. From this, I gather if the angle_between values returned are 0-180-180, the group has been turned by 180 deg on the X_AXIS; and if 0_90_90, the group could have been turned 90 or 270 (-90) degs on the X_AXIS; and the same for the angle_between values for the other axis rotations. The second clip shows the application of different series of rotations: [flash=425,344:32q3oq38]http://www.youtube.com/v/TFAnDrHXaIg[/flash:32q3oq38] Screenshots of rotations providing angle_between values of 90-90-90 shows there is either something fundamental missing or perhaps that an entirely different method is appropriate. [image: 3X69_angle_between909090.jpg] Any suggestions about this most welcome... Chris

@chris fullmer said: Hmm, that would require more than a ruby script. It would need some sort of batch program written and I don't know how to do that. I think it can be done in ruby. Loop over all .skp files in a folder, load them into the model, move all entities to origin, then export. ComponentDefinition has the .save_as method. DefinitionList has the .load method.

You are right. I didn't think about hidden lines defining surfaces. Maybe just hiding the lines that do not define surfaces? Yes, hiding hidden layers could be a nice option...although doing that manually isn't that diffcult.