Convert sketchup files to ruby
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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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No, not really. You can not reverse engineer a shape into ruby code.
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@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.
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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.
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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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Hi every body
I hope you are fine.
Can you show me any example for converting sketchup to ruby coiding,
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@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?
ChrisProbably "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.
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@wadhahmm said:
Hi every body
I hope you are fine.
Can you show me any example for converting sketchup to ruby coiding,
wadhahHow 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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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...
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@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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