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! [image: NebB_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. s=Sketchup.active_model.selection;s.first.bounds.center If it is the local coordinate then s=Sketchup.active_model.selection;s.first.bounds.center.transform! s.first.transformation.inverse

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 Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

Thank you TIG.

Perhaps this the plugin you were seeking. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=45995

Hi, Not sure it is is exactly what you need ,but my "Divide" tool in SuSolid plugin will divide non-solids in base of internal faces. So,for example if you have one cube and one face in the middle, the output would be 2 solids. You can check here http://www.susolid.com/susolid_divide.html David Malnar

Hi,bdealva. I am working with point cloud in Revit and want to find a way to work in SketchUp. It seems that you are working with point cloud in AutoCAD, am I right? Could you please tell me how AutoCAD works with point cloud? Is it easy to modeling than Revit or some others software? Thanks a lot.

One of my most used support tools - Really useful

Great plug-in! But would it be possible not the change an object's position when you lock it? This would make the plug-in perfect....

@gábor said: @john2 said: Gabor - my plugins were manually downloaded in chrome and copy pasted in sketchup version 8 and as TIG said those don't get recognized by plugin store since they are not downloaded via store interaface. I'm not understanding your statement. John, I suppose you have the SketchUcation Pluginstore Plugin installed? ( http://sketchucation.com/resources/plugin-store-download ) If yes, and you launch it, you will see a list of the latest 20 plugins. If in the first dropdown you select the "Full list" option, it will show you the list of all plugins available in the PluginStore. If you scroll down in this list to the plugin what you want to install and press the "Autoinstall" button, the plugin will be installed. It will also register your PluginStore download and next time you'll be able to see this new plugin in your Bundles list. I know this, are you being sarcastic? @pbacot said: Looks like one of your problems is the rotated box tool. If you look in the SUcation Store, it was last updated last year. So perhaps it isn't compatible. Each entry gives an update date. However that doesn't mean it won't work. Looks like you had problems with two plugins, and their names are in the error report. Unfortunately you'll have to look around for more info on the tool--the link in the SUcation store for more info on the rotated box tool is bogus. So a search in the forum gives this: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=45806 Oh it's been updated. Just didn't make it into the store yet. On Compo Spray You can see in the store it has not been updated in a long time. My process was, click to the Forum thread. Look at the latest entries--another person has the same problem--and no answer is given. You can assume this one will continue to give you trouble. I also checked at the ruby "library depot", where D. Bur also offers plugins, and it is not updated there. So what should I do to use these 2 plugins for sketchup 2014? Or there is no way? The only way is to downsave your file to version 8 and then work?

FloorGenerator plugin has been posted.

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