Have a nice holidays. I glad for you, I will be working from 02.08 @unknownuser said: I'm just trying to get good parameters mainly for diffuse and glass shaders to implement the SU materials convertion in the plugin It's handly, writing into .sc? Or ...

The new update is now under this topic. I am moving this longer, "discussion-like" thread "back" to the Ruby Forum - leaving only Didier's "final" post in the Ruby Depot to avoid misunderstanding (I myself was confused first when I couldn't find it agai...).

It makes a lattice from a group that's a single plane - faces and edges. The frames can have open or paned centres. All lattice frames are the same width. If you want an exact size make the offset around half of the intended frame width and it'll then expand at its edges to suit. If you want a bigger frame offset than that, then offset it (but less the 1/2 frame) and then group only the inner part. Then lattice-ize, explode the group and it'll merge with the outer frame, pushpull the outer bit to suit erasing coplanar edges etc...

It was a quick reaction without thinking about. You can do what you want...I'm not a coder, just hacking. It is the only way I know to make a toolbar. Apologize my unwise If there are some problems more, feel free to contact me via pm or mail ( you got my mail time ago) It is easier for me to communicate and clarify an issue. cu Burkhard

Added to the list... [EDIT: Done - for v1.7 see: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=153&t=1531]

Thanks Todd, much appreciated. just what i was after....

I used to work in a millwork plant... we had several programs that cost 10k that did that sort of thing... I would like material lists for my houses, and cost break downs... in SU... but remember you can always make "pages" in SU and then batch export dxf's for your "cutsheets"

Not me - the "community" (although I give a damn... ) No, seriously I can use the old version with v5 - it's just some people don't have that.

Hi Rick Once again with more clarity I hope. Here is the deal that seems to work for other graphic data. You buy so many credits at a set price for each (say $2 per credit)your option for how many. Just like script at the Church Bingo Fest. A set number of credits are required for each graphic downloaded and charged against your account.(credit card) So that you do not get logged down with 1sies 2sies perhaps you could set a min purchase credit of say $10-$20.(or min number of conversions) A BIG package deal at a discount is always a good pump primer. Like many other downloads a time limit for downloading would be part of the deal. Just some ideas that I hope will help get you off and going ASAP. Whatever you decide will be OK here. Dave

tomot, Todd, TIG thank you! I will try to make it as TIG said...but i still dream about magic-ruby all-making-button - "push it' and you get log wall with daps and ect. ) [spire7k]

YES, It does..The only thing I can figure was I had figures that were to close thus the solid black..A big thank you to both of you..

Thanks, TIG

OK, I've posted the new version of cloud.rb at the depository: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=153&t=1533 -better dialog box (more user-friendly). -better layer support -more delimiters, sample of file line provided in dialog box -invalid file detection, more than 3 data per line detection, -select your X Y Z coords columns when more than 3 data per line in the input file -option to "flatten" the data (Z=0) Tested with V5 and V6. works like a charm Gaieus, when you say "it does nothing", maybe it does build the cloud anyhow: did you do a "zoom extents" after the command has ended, or did you look at the status bar to see the message when it imports the points ? If it fails, please send me the input file. Cheers,

Thinking ahead (for next version?): Ability to name sets Ability to lock sets (currently, the lowest-numbered set is removed once the 21st set is created, and each set is renumbered. Locking would prevent a set from being displaced) Ability to save sets in the model for future reference Input is appreciated.

The Tools observer has some problems - "toolname" is truncated on the Mac, making it hard (or impossible) to get the active tool based on name. However, the toolid works fine. class MyToolsObserver < Sketchup;;ToolsObserver def onActiveToolChanged(tools,toolname,toolid) #do stuff here puts "Selected tool; #{toolid} ;; #{toolname}" end end Sketchup.active_model.tools.add_observer(MyToolsObserver.new) That said, to constrain drawing to a 2D plane will probably require recreating all the tools with the constraints built in.

OK folks, this is a new screenshot. I know, there are two "undefined", which are the result of hand-editing the history file - it's old stuff. Anything you can see on this tab is working. The other tabs ... well ... I have to care. The Tasks tab is OK, you can see all tasks ordered and add new to the current model. I've removed some bad bugs and added some other functions, for instance a menu entry to get the window back on place where you can see it and with size, which fits to your monitor resolution. The black bar you can see is a one I hover with the mouse. And something more to colors: I use the system colors, so if your menu items are dark red, you will have dark red elements in that UI. azuby [image: mh_screenshot_web.jpg]

I think the housebuilder plugin provides most of the 2D/3D connections you suggest; you can draw 3D walls glued onto the 2D plane and they would still appear 2D in 2D Mode since perspective would be off. Section planes can also clip things down to only the 'plan' level, keeping all the 3D stuff out of the way. As for auto dimensioning, that does have a pretty good thread going already; I think the two could work together, but shouldn't be integrated into the same function/tool; you may not always want both. [birchins]

Your link to the Paintshop pluging contained no explanation whatsoever of the word bump map. That is why I placed another url, to a Gimp plugin that does explain that term. But the Paintshop plugin is a smart bumpmapper and not a real SFS. @unknownuser said: Animation of space ship going through a tunnel (seen at right) lined with rocks. Bump maps of the rock material were created by the Shape from Shading plug-in. @unknownuser said: Image can be rendered as a bump map in your 3d application First quote can be read under Tunnel.avi, second is the end of the plug-in demo SFS.avi. edit: added model to demonstrate difference between BM and SFS. This guy is nice and grey. I have neither BM nor SFS software installed. But I believe BM will probably push this man into the background while SFS at least theoretically should be able to see that he is floating in mid air. We can see that at first glance. It was the intention of mister (professor? doctor?) Horn, on of the founding fathers of SFS to give computer vision that very same level of intelligence. The S from Shape stands for 3D, bump maps can give a very nice 3D impression, but are actually no more 3D than stereoscopy. http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/sas/Ruby/BMP%20vs%20SFS.skp

Moved topic to the Ruby Forum. Glad you figured your problem out!

Thanks Jim, very useful for me.