I hear you with PlusSpec, we are working on it bigstick,we will get there, hopefully sooner Tehran than later. I was hoping that Ruby 2.0 would help but unfortunately not.

thanks for the hint...!!! yes, it can be useful to look at the taskbar sometimes 💚 😒
So it works too. 😄

@jql said:

It's stable now but still dangerous... Fortunately it's at the end of the context menu list. For new users it can easily be confusing to see a "create group from slice" and a "slice model at section"

I will add some clarity to the context menu or maybe a toolbar button instead. Thanks!

Well, I got here too late for the poll, but I do see that it reached 90 before being closed, not counting those who thumbed-up instead of poll voting. Does that mean it's a go for the non-drab version? Would another vote help?

An hell's puzzle 😄
casse_tete.jpg

Carreful : even you find a volumic solution, that don't want to say that is possible in reality! 🤓
Give all the 2 pieces starting 😄
puzzle1.jpg

puzzle_v6.skp

Yea, there's a few annoying inconsistency where the correct error isn't raised.

@greenskp said:

Hey guys!

I use 2014 version and found the solution. Thanks for Didier Bur on the following link:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=27019#p311954

Open clf_vertical_line_maker.rb with Notepad++ and add the code below at line 46:

require 'LangHandler.rb'
$uStrings = LanguageHandler.new("clf_menu_loader")

Now works like a charm.

Or, if you want to take the easy path, just download and install it automatically through Window>Extension Warehouse. It's called CLF Vertical Line Tools. 😉

@utiler said:

For me it's PlusSpec.

http://www.plusspec.com

👍

Random Component Replacement by Sdmitch ?

Hi Chris,
Tried to enter the patch script at the start of this thread, but the the ruby script is different than what you quoted:

And here's another option. If you want it to reset the component rotation and scale, edit the ruby file in a plain text editor (like Notepad for example) and after the line:

if comp.typename == "Group" || comp.typename == "ComponentInstance"

add the two following lines:

t = Geom::Transformation.new comp.transformation = t

This is it now:
sela.each do |e| if e.is_a?(Sketchup::Group) || e.is_a?(Sketchup::ComponentInstance) to_move << e end
...
I need to zero out the components rotation/scale
What's your thoughts?

Terry

@Earthmover
can You do a quick explanation video tutorial?
thanks!!

@box said:

It's not quite what you want but Jim made a plugin to attach the camera to the sun so you can track the sun on your structure. Might help.
http://sketchucation.com/plugin/853-attach_camera_to_sun

Not quite the same I think...there's another plugin called Shadowtex (by Renderiza) that does something quite close by tracing a line from the center of every face to the sun's current position, but it uses this information to detect faces that are in shadow.

Maybe this technique can be modified to detect angles between faces and the sun angle? I know nothing about rubyscript, so unfortunately I wouldn't even know how to begin trying to build something like this...maybe one of the gurus here can have a think about it.

J

Just 'discovered' this plugin. Added an array with often used groupnames (SFB codes) which is displayed in the dropdown list instead of the layer names and this speeds up my workflow quite a bit. Many thanks for this gem Thom!

@unearthed, @dave

Glad u like it

@jeff

Dunno

@kris

I'm looking into it.

And why don't put an example skp file of your problem? 😲

Any answers must redraw something! 😒
Many time losted for answer to you or other members' questions! 🤓
It's so easy to reuse something! ☀

soap.jpg

Great job! If you do any more work on it, I would like to see the feature already suggested of sending the result into SU measurement input field. Additionally, I'd really appreciate:
2) Non-modal (can switch back-and-forth) without forcing close);
3) Re-sizable (can reduce size without cropping);
4) Copy results
5) History of last {3 to 9} calculations.

However, if you do no more, you can rest on your laurels IMhO.

I did the whole ProfileBuilder Library folder but that didn't make every library file accessible.

@alvis said:

Hi everyone Sketchup guru. I want to ask you, whether there is a plugin that can find the center of the model (group, component) by axes length, width or height?

Do you mean the real world coordinate, the component local coordinate, or something else?

If it is the real world coordinate then this one-liner pasted into the Ruby Console will give you that of a selected component or group.

If it is the local coordinate then

Yes that's the one I meant, freddo tools.

Although Cotto's way will work just fine. Thanks chaps

Sounded perfect at first, but alas: he designed it not to mess with DC's 😞

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