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    • Chris FullmerC Offline
      Chris Fullmer
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      Cool Martin, that worked quite smoothly!

      Chris

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      • david_hD Offline
        david_h
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        Hey! That was fun! Great Job. I mean. . it wasn't exactly "The Great Waldo Pepper" , but that was pretty terrific!!!! πŸ’š

        If I make it look easy...It is probably easy

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          numbthumb
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          Great job indeed! πŸ‘

          Comfortably numb...

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          • chrisglasierC Offline
            chrisglasier
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            Thanks Martin. I think something useful could be made out of some of this later. After all: "the future always comes too fast and in the wrong order"*

            *A Toffler

            With TBA interfaces we can analyse what is to be achieved so that IT can help with automation to achieve it.

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              Jim57
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              What am I doing wrong? I left the file, which unzipped into a folder named "airshow," in my downloads folder. I copied the ruby console direction you listed, "load '/where/you/choose/airshow.rb' "and changed the 'where/you/choose' part to the file heirarchy for my downloads folder with airshow in it. I hit return and the Ruby Console says " Error: #<LoadError: (eval):2533:in `load': no such file to load "

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                d12dozr
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                @jim57 said:

                What am I doing wrong? I left the file, which unzipped into a folder named "airshow," in my downloads folder. I copied the ruby console direction you listed, "load '/where/you/choose/airshow.rb' "and changed the 'where/you/choose' part to the file heirarchy for my downloads folder with airshow in it. I hit return and the Ruby Console says " Error: #<LoadError: (eval):2533:in `load': no such file to load "

                Did you add "airshow.rb" after 'where/you/choose'? It worked fine for me.

                Very neat Martin, I had no clue that you could do that in SU...I watched that like a little kid watches cartoons πŸ˜„

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                • M Offline
                  MartinRinehart
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                  @jim57 said:

                  changed the 'where/you/choose' part to the file heirarchy for my downloads folder with airshow in it.

                  You got the idea 100% right. The "no such file" error means just what it says. There's a path typo or omission. Ruby likes forward slashes as file separators. Try opening one of the HTML files with your favorite browser to be sure the path is the one you think it is. Firefox is nice about about displaying a list of choices after you type a letter or two, though it likes backward slashes on Windows.

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

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                    MartinRinehart
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                    @d12dozr said:

                    ...I watched that like a little kid watches cartoons πŸ˜„

                    Thanks all. You guys are great movie critics!

                    I tried to have some fun with this one, but I hope that doesn't hide the serious and wide open possibilities. Architects: walk throughs. Interior designers: room makeovers. Gardeners: 3-season progressions (four in warmer parts). Cabinet makers: doors that open, drawers that slide out. Buildings being built. Parking lot traffic.

                    Of course a roller coaster ride might be awesome.

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

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                      Jim57
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                      Still not getting it. I checked the file heirarchy from a HTML file like you suggested and I opened airshow.skp and worked from there. Now the Ruby Console says

                      Error: #<SyntaxError: (eval):591: compile error
                      (eval):591: unknown regexp options - jb>
                      (eval):591

                      Should I be moving these rubies into Plugins Folder, or is that instruction in the Console sufficient?

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                        MartinRinehart
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                        @jim57 said:

                        Should I be moving these rubies into Plugins Folder, or is that instruction in the Console sufficient?

                        Actually there's about two pages of discussion over in the Developers' Forum re how to keep all the files in a single folder, not related to Plugins. The basic idea, that you just put all the files in whatever place you like, was novel.

                        Your error message says to me "damaged file!". Back up. Make a folder called "airshow" (or anything else you like), anywhere you like. DL again. Use your archive utility to put all the files into the "airshow" (or whatever else you liked). On my machine it's \models\airshow. Then follow the original prescription.

                        If you ever meet that guy Murphy, tell him exactly what you think of his stupid law!

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

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                          driven
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                          Martin,
                          that fantastic, there are so many threads on this forum some really good stuff is easily missed..

                          BTW. Mac users, if you don't know already you can just type load' ' drag'n'drop your folder out of downloads or docs, whatever into rudy console between the brackets and hit return.

                          john

                          learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                          • chrisglasierC Offline
                            chrisglasier
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                            @martinrinehart said:

                            I tried to have some fun with this one, but I hope that doesn't hide the serious and wide open possibilities.

                            Yes , this is what I think Toffler meant ... the frivolous is taken up first and quickly. Unfortunately it seems to me nowadays pursuit of the seriously useful is forever being pushed back.

                            @unknownuser said:

                            ... Buildings being built ...

                            Yes I very much like the idea of animating in Sketchup rather than making videos, simply because it can react to actual events or mind changes.

                            With TBA interfaces we can analyse what is to be achieved so that IT can help with automation to achieve it.

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