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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      Entities.fill_from_mesh
      http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/entities.html#fill_from_mesh

      smooth_flags does not default to 0. Seems to default to 12 (soft and smooth)
      weld_vertices - what does this really do? I can't see any difference in the resulting geometry.

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
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        Entities.add_faces_from_mesh
        http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/entities.html#add_faces_from_mesh

        @unknownuser said:

        Returns:
        faces
        an array of Face objects if successful

        In my tests it returns 0 - not an array.

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        • C Offline
          cjthompson
          last edited by

          @thomthom said:

          PolygonMesh.add_polygon
          http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/polygonmesh.html#add_polygon

          I can't seem to add points like the example does.

          Instead, I must first add each point using PolygonMesh.add_point and then provide PolygonMesh.add_polygon with index values that refers to the points.

          That's weird. It works just fine for me.

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            Can you post a quick example?

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
              last edited by

              Ah! That's what I tried. Using a normal Array as substitute of Point3D. How odd that this method suddenly don't let you interchange arrays and Point3Ds... 😕

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              • C Offline
                cjthompson
                last edited by

                now I see why it doesn't work with arrays:

                
                mesh = Geom;;PolygonMesh.new
                mesh.add_point([0,0,0])
                mesh.add_point([1,0,0])
                mesh.add_point([1,1,0])
                mesh.add_point([0,1,0])
                mesh.add_polygon([1,2,3,4])
                Sketchup.active_model.entities.add_faces_from_mesh(mesh)
                
                

                you can use an array to index the points directly (for some reason, starting at 1)!

                Can you test whether this is faster than point_at?

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
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                  I will see over the weekend. I found some slowness by having to use .add_point and then later use .point_index to build the polygons. building my own hash of Point3Ds and the index I got from add_point was faster.

                  Hopefully adding points in the add_polygon methods directly will be faster.

                  Oh yea - the index start at 1 is annoying as well.

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                  • C Offline
                    cjthompson
                    last edited by

                    I think I found what your problem is.

                    This works:

                    
                    mesh = Geom;;PolygonMesh.new
                    mesh.add_polygon(Geom;;Point3d.new(0,0,0),Geom;;Point3d.new(1,0,0),Geom;;Point3d.new(1,1,0),Geom;;Point3d.new(0,1,0))
                    Sketchup.active_model.entities.add_faces_from_mesh(mesh)
                    
                    

                    This doesn't:

                    
                    mesh = Geom;;PolygonMesh.new
                    mesh.add_polygon([0,0,0],[1,0,0],[1,1,0],[0,1,0])
                    Sketchup.active_model.entities.add_faces_from_mesh(mesh)
                    
                    

                    EDIT:
                    You can put the arrays inside of another array to get it to work:

                    
                    mesh = Geom;;PolygonMesh.new
                    mesh.add_polygon([[0,0,0],[1,0,0],[1,1,0],[0,1,0]]) #this works
                    Sketchup.active_model.entities.add_faces_from_mesh(mesh)
                    
                    
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                    • thomthomT Offline
                      thomthom
                      last edited by

                      Using .add_points first and using index references for .add_polygon seems faster than using Point3d's.

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                      • RichMorinR Offline
                        RichMorin
                        last edited by

                        General

                        Class and method names could be turned into links
                        to the appropriate API page, for ease of navigation.

                        Sentences should begin with a capital letter and end with
                        a period (etc). Phrases should not.

                        If a modifying phrase is used at the end of a sentence,
                        a comma should be added for clarity:

                        
                          the name of the attribute dictionary  if successful
                                                    dictionary,
                        
                        

                        Specific

                        http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/animation.html

                        
                        animation -> animation
                        ruby      -> Ruby
                        
                        ... to pause, only certain ...
                               pause;
                        
                        

                        http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/appobserver.html

                        
                        ... a 2nd    model ...
                              second
                        
                        Useful for if you need ...
                        ---
                        This is useful if you need ...
                        
                        

                        http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/array.html

                        
                        The SketchUp Array class adds ...
                        ---
                        SketchUp adds ...
                        
                        Specifically, it contains methods ...
                        ---
                        Specifically, it adds methods ...
                        
                        ... arrays of 3     coordinate ...
                                      three
                        
                        ... vector. it returns ...
                                    It
                        
                        

                        http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/attributedictionaries.html

                        
                        ... all of the attributes dictionaries.
                                       attribute
                        
                        

                        http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/attributedictionary.html

                        Although the page does not discuss this, setting a
                        custom attribute with a key that contains upper-case
                        letters does not work.

                        The page does not indicate how to set an attribute
                        (eg, '=LenX+20') to be used as an expression.

                        In the entry for AttributeDictionary.each, the "value"
                        argument is being formatted as part of the description
                        for the "key" argument.

                        Ditto for AttributeDictionary.each_pair.

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                        • Dan RathbunD Offline
                          Dan Rathbun
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                          On the API docs pages, in the left nav column, whenever you have made a link bold, the cursor changes to a caret instead of the hand cursor. I suspect it's the <b> and </b> tags doing this.
                          example from the API HTML source:

                          <li><a href="/apis/..../model.html"><b>Model</b></a></li>
                          

                          Perhaps if the bold tags were outside the anchor tags?

                          <li><b><a href="/apis/..../model.html">Model</a></b></li>
                          

                          If the css specifically set a tags such: a {cursor:hand} the nested bold tags should inherit their parent's cursor setting (according to the css reference.)

                          I'm not here much anymore.

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            The bold tag should not interfere with the cursor regardless if it's inside or outside the link element. It's default cursor property is inherit. It's either some override or other quirk. Could be a browser quirk.
                            In FF3.5 I don't see this behaviour. What browser do you use?

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                            • Dan RathbunD Offline
                              Dan Rathbun
                              last edited by

                              @thomthom said:

                              In FF3.5 I don't see this behaviour. What browser do you use?

                              Currently still using MSIE 7

                              P.S.: at MSDN it indicates if the cursor is not explicitly set, the browser decides; so it may indeed be a MSIE quirk. (I have MSIE 8 and FF on the computer in another room, I'll check and see how the site looks on that machine later today.)

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                              • thomthomT Offline
                                thomthom
                                last edited by

                                @dan rathbun said:

                                Currently still using MSIE 7

                                Tried with IE8 - cursor is normal.

                                @dan rathbun said:

                                so it may indeed be a MSIE quirk.

                                It certainly wouldn't surprise me!

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  @dan rathbun said:

                                  Point3d.<
                                  http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/point3d.html#%3C

                                  @unknownuser said:

                                  Returns:
                                  true if the point2 is closer to the origin.

                                  Following the example, I get he opposite result.
                                  The Returns: should probably read,
                                  " *true* if the point2 is **farther** from the origin; *false* if the point2 is closer to the origin (than the receiver.)

                                  And the anchor link http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/point3d.html#%3C doesn't work for me under FF3.5. Might be due to the < character.

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                                  • Dan RathbunD Offline
                                    Dan Rathbun
                                    last edited by

                                    @thomthom said:

                                    And the anchor link http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/point3d.html#%3C doesn't work for me under FF3.5. Might be due to the < character.

                                    I suggest the Google webmeister change the anchor to "#lessthan" instead of "#%3C".

                                    I would suspect that links to - and + methods may have problems with some browsers as well.

                                    I'm not here much anymore.

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      The id for the anchor is invalid.

                                      The correct format is:
                                      http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-name

                                      @unknownuser said:

                                      ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").

                                      There are a number of other HTML errors as well. They use a XHTML doctype, but empty elements is not closed with />. Looks like HTML is used - despite the doctype.

                                      The HTTP header claims characterset ISO-8859-1 while the META tag claims UTF-8

                                      Characters isn't escaped properly, such as the < character in the method list. (line 342)

                                      Run it through the validator and see 67 errors. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcode.google.com%2Fintl%2Fnb%2Fapis%2Fsketchup%2Fdocs%2Fourdoc%2Fpoint3d.html&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&ss=1&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.654#line-342

                                      No wonder things isn't always working when there's so much invalid markup.

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                                      • scottliningerS Offline
                                        scottlininger
                                        last edited by

                                        Thanks for all the feedback, Dan! Keep 'em coming.

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                                          SketchUp Software Engineer
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                                        • thomthomT Offline
                                          thomthom
                                          last edited by

                                          @unknownuser said:

                                          Thanks for all the feedback, Dan! Keep 'em coming.

                                          How is your to-do list compared to Santa's list? 😆

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                                          • scottliningerS Offline
                                            scottlininger
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                                            Santa's got nothing on me. 😉

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