Online model generation using ruby
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Just treading the water here.
I know all of this is possible offline.
I've been wondering if it would be possible to generate an image of a sketchup model using online input. Eg: A client wants to see what a box would look like if it was 2 meters long am 15 cm wide. Inserts data, clicks generate, bla bla bla, render appears.
And i suppose this would require me to buy a copy of SketchUp Pro, for how much does one go around these days?
I know there must be dozens of other options to do this, but i have next to no experience in web programming, i could easily do it in ruby. -
You wouldn't need the Pro version - free would work.
The SketchUp/Ruby side of this won't be too hard. You could simply poll for changes in a file, read in the instructions, draw things, and export an image file from a SU plugin.
As far as the server goes, if you do not have one setup you could try installing like wamp on your local machine for testing.
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