Plugin for Sketchup using VB.NET or C#

[LSeibt]

Hello everyone

I wonder if someone has already developed a plugin for Sketchup using VB.NET or C#.
I saw that I add as a reference library of Sketchup as a COM
But I found no example of coding in these languages over the Internet
Could anyone help me with this?

Thanks

[morisdov]

Hello Leonardo,

I created a few for customers.

1. Using visual studio create a new project type of a windows class library. In your dll expose public methods to be accessed from sketchup.

2. download from the web win32api.so and copy it into Sketchups Plugins folder. follow the examples on http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/lib_windows.html

Start slowly and advance in steps.

Moris

[Jim]

We've had a few members post some VB-related files on the forum in the past. I'm not sure if these are of interest, but here are the posts:

[1] http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=23441&start=0

[2] http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=22828&start=0

[LSeibt]

@morisdov said:

Hello Leonardo,

I created a few for customers.

1. Using visual studio create a new project type of a windows class library. In your dll expose public methods to be accessed from sketchup.

2. download from the web win32api.so and copy it into Sketchups Plugins folder. follow the examples on http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/lib_windows.html

Start slowly and advance in steps.

Moris

Actually what I had thought was to develop something directly in VB.NET that "converse" with Sketchup.
I add in my project the COM "Sketchup 2.0 Type Library" which gives me access to the API commands SketchUp.
I tried using the code that follows, but it always shows an error saying that the class is not registered.

Imports SketchUp

Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim app As SkpApplication = New SketchUp.SkpApplication
        Dim doc As SkpDocument

        doc = app.ActiveDocument

    End Sub
End Class

[jhauswirth]

@lseibt said:

@morisdov said:

I tried using the code that follows, but it always shows an error saying that the class is not registered.
[/code]

You need to register it-
regsvr32 sketchupreader.dll

[LSeibt]

@jhauswirth said:

@lseibt said:

@morisdov said:

I tried using the code that follows, but it always shows an error saying that the class is not registered.
[/code]

You need to register it-
regsvr32 sketchupreader.dll

Even registering this DLL can not run this code
Did you already wrote some code to Sketchup using VB.NET?
Have some simple example that could show?

Thanks

[Pout]

i'm not into the dll stuff, but i'm currently working on communication between Sketchup and Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Project.
Win32OLE.so can be used in that case