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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
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      Thanks Scott.

      I'm still puzzled about the six arguments for Vector3d.linear_combination.

      vec = Geom;;Vector3d.linear_combination(x, xaxis, y, yaxis, z, zaxis)
      

      How does this really work?

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      • Chris FullmerC Offline
        Chris Fullmer
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        Not to mention that the example at the bottom of the method does not actually include the method of linear combination. It only shows:

         vector1 = Geom;;Vector3d.new 1,0,0
         vector2 = Geom;;Vector3d.new 0,1,0
        

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        • Chris FullmerC Offline
          Chris Fullmer
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          PolygonMesh.add_polygon

          The example shows how to use the add_point method.

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          • thomthomT Offline
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            Wish we had red pens to scribble on the docs. πŸ˜„

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            • J Offline
              Jim
              last edited by

              @thomthom said:

              Wish we had red pens to scribble on the docs. πŸ˜„

              Great idea, really. I'm sure there are browser plugins that allow social sharing of sticky notes, or comments on web pages.

              Hi

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                Oh, yea... at least for Firefox. I mean to remember something like that.

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
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                  Could this be something? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2792
                  Anyone tried it? Or got better solutions?

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                  • Chris FullmerC Offline
                    Chris Fullmer
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                    Point3d.project_to_plane:

                    http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/point3d.html#project_to_line

                    Shows the wrong example code (uses from project to line). and I know I gave the link for project_to_line. Its so you can see both methods simultaneously and see the error better. Thanks!

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                    • Chris FullmerC Offline
                      Chris Fullmer
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                      So far I am really truly enjoying the new docs. They feel much better, thanks for the efforts to get them to where they are. I'm also excited that changes might be able to happen faster now too, that is great.

                      I'm noticing that sometimes in the methods list, when I click on a method, it takes me to the class index for that method. Other times it willtake me directly to the entry for that method within the class. I prefer the latter. But I don't know why sometimes it does one thing and sometimes it does another,

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
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                        Error 404 (Not Found)!!1

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                        It doesn't mention how to allow drop-down options by using a third array with strings separating each option with a pipe | character.

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                        • Chris FullmerC Offline
                          Chris Fullmer
                          last edited by

                          You can do a dropdown box?

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
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                            UI.inputbox ['Hello'], ['World'], ['Mars|Pluto|World|Monkeys'], 'Title'

                            "Global Material Changer" and "Component Spray" uses it. That's the only way I knew it was possible.

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                              Jim
                              last edited by

                              @chris fullmer said:

                              You can do a dropdown box?

                              Sure, and I made this to ease the pain a little: http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2008/03/inputbox-class.html

                              Hi

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                              • thomthomT Offline
                                thomthom
                                last edited by

                                Nice one Jim.

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                                • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                  Chris Fullmer
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                                  http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/point3d.html#z=

                                  It says:

                                  Point3d.z=
                                  
                                      The y= method is used to set the z value of a 3D point.
                                  

                                  That second line should say "The z= method..."

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                                  • thomthomT Offline
                                    thomthom
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                                    Error 404 (Not Found)!!1

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                                    Face.area actually takes an optional argument. I'm not sure what the argument is. It accepts pure numbers which then seems to be a scale factor. But it also accepts Transformation objects.

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      Same applies to Edge.length

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                                      • thomthomT Offline
                                        thomthom
                                        last edited by

                                        Point3d.project_to_plane
                                        The example uses project_to_line

                                        
                                         plane = [Geom;;Point3d.new(0,0,0), Geom;;Vector3d.new(0,0,1)]
                                         point = Geom;;Point3d.new 10,10,10
                                         projected_point = point.project_to_line line
                                        
                                        

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                                        • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                          Chris Fullmer
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                                          Tool - onMouseMove example has a bad local variable.
                                          http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/tool.html#onMouseMove

                                           def onMouseMove(flags, x, y, view)
                                             puts "onMouseMove; flags = " + key.to_s
                                             puts "                 x = " + x.to_s
                                             puts "                 y = " + y.to_s
                                             puts "              view = " + view.to_s
                                           end
                                          

                                          The variable "key" should be replaced with "flag" I think. That makes the example work.

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                                            http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/face.html#get_UVHelper

                                            The code example:

                                            
                                             model = Sketchup.active_model
                                             entities = model.active_entities
                                             pts = []
                                             pts[0] = [0, 0, 0]
                                             pts[1] = [9, 0, 0]
                                             pts[2] = [9, 9, 0]
                                             pts[3] = [0, 9, 0]
                                            
                                             # Add the face to the entities in the model
                                             face = entities.add_face pts
                                             tw = Sketchup;;TextureWriter.new
                                             uvHelp = face.get_UVHelper true, true, tw
                                            
                                            

                                            This will return the error:

                                            @unknownuser said:

                                            Error: #<TypeError: (eval):95:in `get_UVHelper': wrong argument type (expected Sketchup::TextureWriter)>
                                            (eval):95

                                            Instead of tw = Sketchup::TextureWriter.new, the method tw = Sketchup.create_texture_writer will work.
                                            Which leads to another questions: why can't tw = Sketchup::TextureWriter.new be used as in the example?

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