ComponentReporter+.rb and CutListAndMaterials.rb

[peweuk]

Forgive me, I know nothing about developing Ruby Scripts, but I have been looking at both of these scripts and although they are both very useful, there are slight changes which would make one or other, or both, more useful for cabinetmakers who use SU.

CutListAndMaterials gives a nice breakdown of the cutting list for parts 'SELECTED' in a model. What would be nice is if there was a facility to give a complete cutlist from 'ALL' of the components in a given 'LAYER'.
For example when modelling a room, all the cabinets could be placed in a layer called 'Cabinets' and everything else in the model could be put in the default layer or layers of their own. The cutlist could then be applied to 'ALL' models in the 'Cabinets' layer and nothing else.

On the other hand, ComponentReporter could be used instead of Cutlistandmaterials (as it itemises the Layers and the output could be filtered by Layer afterwards) except for the fact that for some reason (which I don't profess to understand) the dimensions of the component are shown totally differently to the dimensions for the same cabinet in Cutlistandmaterials.

I don't know how difficult a task it would be to modify ComponentReporter to change the method of reporting size so it does it the way Cutlistandmaterials does, and whether it would be possible to possibly restrict the report to specific 'Layers' - can anyone advise?