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    • tbdT Offline
      tbd
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      cool. maybe it can extend my SME and have a more visual interface to it (non IT people are kinda scared by command line πŸ˜‰ )

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        MartinRinehart
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        @unknownuser said:

        cool. maybe it can extend my SME

        Need a link to some word of explain.

        SketchTalk for you will be about 5 minutes of looking at the code.

        Author, Edges to Rubies - The Complete SketchUp Tutorial at http://www.MartinRinehart.com/models/tutorial.

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        • tbdT Offline
          tbd
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          SME is more like a visual editor for SketchTalk - a way to create ruby scripts using simpler, English like, words.

          each command (box in UI) is a method that can be used and reused to do simple tasks. by combining it, like LEGO, you can create different repetitive tasks that speed up the workflow.

          SME is another project that I will open source soon, so anyone can improve on it.

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          • Mike LuceyM Offline
            Mike Lucey
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            Hi Guys,

            Thanks Martin, this looks very interesting to a Rubyphobic like me πŸ˜„ Maybe I am wrong, but it looks to me that a non programmer can start to understand programming by mean of 'SketchUp to Ruby via Reverse Engineering'! Is this correct?

            Mike

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              MartinRinehart
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              @mike lucey said:

              this looks very interesting to a Rubyphobic like me

              If you're good w/Sketchup, Mike, just turn to Chapter 11. You never know until you try. You might become Rubyphilic.

              Author, Edges to Rubies - The Complete SketchUp Tutorial at http://www.MartinRinehart.com/models/tutorial.

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                mics_54
                last edited by

                Martin is there a guide to the previous 10 chapters somewhere?

                Can you define "good with Sketchup"?

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                • pilouP Offline
                  pilou
                  last edited by

                  @unknownuser said:

                  is there a guide to the previous 10 chapters somewhere?

                  Seems you can find it here (and then click the middle icon page bottom for begin... πŸ˜‰

                  Does we can call that a "recorder" of actions ruby?

                  The very diffult thing was to find the SketchTalk itself πŸ˜‰
                  Why not to put it in the first post ❓

                  Some minutes after πŸ˜’
                  Ah damned that is not a recorder 😳 πŸ˜„

                  Frenchy Pilou
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                    MartinRinehart
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                    @mics_54 said:

                    Martin is there a guide to the previous 10 chapters somewhere?

                    The tutorial TOC lists tools covered and keyboard shortcuts for every chapter. If you expand the details you get titles of (which link to) each major section.

                    http://www.MartinRinehart.com/models/tutorial/tutorial_toc.html

                    @mics_54 said:

                    Can you define "good with Sketchup"?

                    There's a screenshot of a quarter circle of oval columns at the end of the Qrotate (Rotate, with the keyboard shortcut emphasized) tool section. If you can duplicate this without looking at the hint that follows, you are VERY good with SketchUp. If the hint that follows makes sense and you can make an oval column, you are good with SketchUp.

                    http://www.MartinRinehart.com/models/tutorial/tutorial_04.html#qrotate

                    Author, Edges to Rubies - The Complete SketchUp Tutorial at http://www.MartinRinehart.com/models/tutorial.

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                      MartinRinehart
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                      @unknownuser said:

                      The very difficult thing was to find the SketchTalk itself πŸ˜‰
                      Why not to put it in the first post

                      If you just DL SketchTalk without looking at the SketchTalk by Example page, you won't have a clue. (First European explorer finds a banana. Bites. Terrible! Didn't know that you had to peel the thing.)

                      There are isolated bits of SketchTalk (the "mc" command is way better than Move/Copy) that stand on their own, but not many. It's really only good if you can add what you need when you need it. My cabinet example needed the "none" command.

                      So I added this trivial function:

                      
                      def none()
                          Sketchup.active_model().
                              selection().clear()
                      end # of none()
                      
                      

                      If you know a wee bit of the Ruby API, and where, in SketchTalk, to put that function, that's a trivial add. SketchTalk wants you to know enough to add simple bits to meet your own needs, so I'm deliberately steering you into the tutorial to learn a little (it only takes a little) Ruby and Ruby API.

                      If you go back to the bottom of SketchTalk by Example you'll see that I took your advice, partially.

                      Author, Edges to Rubies - The Complete SketchUp Tutorial at http://www.MartinRinehart.com/models/tutorial.

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                        carloshmejia
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                        @martinrinehart said:

                        SketchTalk is a layer between the SketchUp Ruby API and the model. It lets non-programmers use the Ruby Console for modeling. Then the non-programmers can gather their commands in a file; save the file with a ".rb" extension and, almost by accident, have written a program. Programmers can extend SketchTalk easily. It's described here:

                        http://www.MartinRinehart.com/models/tutorial/sketch_talk_by_example.html

                        Martin, I've being reading you Edges to Rubies Tutorial. It is wonderful, thank you.

                        When I get chapter 11 I downloaded from the tutorial packages. Unfortunately the gem that comes with it is not sketch_talk.rb but martins_sketch_talk2. As a consequence your commands are not working as they are looking for sketch_talk.rb. I changed the ruby name on your instructions but it seems that the version 2 does not recognize them.

                        Could you please help me to find the original version of sketch_talk.rb?

                        Thank you again for your valuable Tutorial and help.

                        Regards, Carlos H. Mejia

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                        • TIGT Offline
                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by

                          I think that Martin is no longer active on this site...

                          Did you look here ?
                          http://www.martinrinehart.com/models/tutorial/downloads.html

                          Remember that it is all a decade old !

                          TIG

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