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    • M Offline
      Matt666
      last edited by

      Just in case... Ruby is a program language, and SketchUP a 3D modeling program... You can't convert a sketchup file to a ruby file... πŸ˜•
      You can't convert a windows system to a Mac system, right? Same here. πŸ˜‰

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      • W Offline
        wadhahmm
        last edited by

        hi,I used the below progrem to get cube ,can I get program from this cube.I mean invers work
        .please tell me if it possible.
        many thanks
        point1 = Geom::Point3d.new (0,0,0)
        point2 = Geom::Point3d.new (0,0,100)
        depth = 100
        width = 100
        model = Sketchup.active_model
        entities = model.active_entities
        pts = []
        pts[0] = [0, 0, 0]
        pts[1] = [width, 0, 0]
        pts[2] = [width, depth, 0]
        pts[3] = [0, depth, 0]

        Add the face to the entities in the model

        face = entities.add_face pts
        line = entities.add_line point1, point2
        begin
        status = face.followme line
        rescue
        UI.messagebox $!.message
        end

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        • TIGT Offline
          TIG Moderator
          last edited by

          You CAN make a Ruby that'd read the geometry, groups, components etc that are in a SKP file and then save it into DATa file or within a .RB file itself. However, why would you want to do that ? If you have the SKP file you can simply import in into another SKP file using the built-in tools or with a simple Ruby...

          Exactly what is it you want to do ?

          TIG

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          • TIGT Offline
            TIG Moderator
            last edited by

            You are nearly there - draw the face and then you don't need the 'line', simply use a 'height' value...

            
            ...
            height = 200
            face.followme(height)
            
            

            @wadhahmm said:

            hi,I used the below progrem to get cube ,can I get program from this cube.I mean invers work
            .please tell me if it possible.
            many thanks
            point1 = Geom::Point3d.new (0,0,0)
            point2 = Geom::Point3d.new (0,0,100)
            depth = 100
            width = 100
            model = Sketchup.active_model
            entities = model.active_entities
            pts = []
            pts[0] = [0, 0, 0]
            pts[1] = [width, 0, 0]
            pts[2] = [width, depth, 0]
            pts[3] = [0, depth, 0]

            Add the face to the entities in the model

            face = entities.add_face pts
            line = entities.add_line point1, point2
            begin
            status = face.followme line
            rescue
            UI.messagebox $!.message
            end

            TIG

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            • W Offline
              wadhahmm
              last edited by

              hi
              if i use sketchup 7 for example,and I use the tools from menu and draw cube can i convert this drawing to ruby code (program)

              many thanks

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              • Chris FullmerC Offline
                Chris Fullmer
                last edited by

                No, not really. You can not reverse engineer a shape into ruby code.

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  @chris fullmer said:

                  No, not really. You can not reverse engineer a shape into ruby code.

                  Reverse engineering from a .skp into a .rb IS possible, but the programming effort required to find all of the skp's edges, faces, materials, layers, groups and components etc etc would be disproportionate compared with what you'd get. There are tools and methods available within ruby to make edges, curves, faces, pushpull, followme, add layers and materials etc etc ,that will do what you want without first making it in a skp and wrenching the info out of it.

                  .

                  TIG

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                  • J Offline
                    Jim
                    last edited by

                    It's possible. Exporting a model as a Ruby file is a technique I thought of when thinking about how to connect and synchronize multiple instances of SketchUp over a network connection.

                    Hi

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                    • Chris FullmerC Offline
                      Chris Fullmer
                      last edited by

                      I agree its possible to store all the entities into ruby. But I sort of get the feeling he wants an easy button that you can just click on and it will turn his shape into a script. So I was trying to be more realistic about what I am guessing he wants. But again, more info on the final purpose would be nice.

                      @Jim, for the script, what if it was more of something like a database that stored the entity info. And then write a ruby that would just update the model by reading the database. Is something like that feasible?

                      Chris

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                      • W Offline
                        wadhahmm
                        last edited by

                        Hi every body
                        I hope you are fine.
                        Can you show me any example for converting sketchup to ruby coiding,
                        wadhah

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                          Jim
                          last edited by

                          @chris fullmer said:

                          @Jim, for the script, what if it was more of something like a database that stored the entity info. And then write a ruby that would just update the model by reading the database. Is something like that feasible?
                          Chris

                          Probably "required" is a better word to use than "feasable." I haven't really thought terribly deeply about it, but I would think a database would solve numerous issues that might arise from trying to synchronize SketchUps.

                          Hi

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                          • Chris FullmerC Offline
                            Chris Fullmer
                            last edited by

                            @wadhahmm said:

                            Hi every body
                            I hope you are fine.
                            Can you show me any example for converting sketchup to ruby coiding,
                            wadhah

                            How do you want the code to work? You want a script that will take a model, and then store that model into a ruby script. Then what? It does no good just sitting there in ruby. What do you plan on doing with it once its stored as "ruby". Is the script supposed to be able to then re-draw that shape on another computer's sketchup?

                            Chris

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                            • TIGT Offline
                              TIG Moderator
                              last edited by

                              To take it to its logical conclusion you extract all of the skp data into a data file... That is in effect the skp file so why have you bothered ? You could for example extract only geometry - that's something like an exporter format... Simply take all of the edges and list their start and end XYZ with ref , all of the faces and list their edges refs. Then you could take the info into a ruby to build the geometry...

                              TIG

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                                thomthom
                                last edited by

                                @tig said:

                                To take it to its logical conclusion you extract all of the skp data into a data file... That is in effect the skp file so why have you bothered ?

                                That's what I've been thinking as well. I think we need some clarification on the actual purpose of the original question. I could be that the question itself isn't correct.

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