Automatic Sketchup book can now be freely downloaded
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Awesome
! I can't wait to download this to my iPod Touch. I've been wanting to do some ruby scripts, seeing their the only frontier ventured, but not devveloped by me. I've done iPhone apps, beta testing for Facebook and Yahoo, 3DS games, etc... But this seems like a promissing frontier. Oh yeah, did I mentoin I'm only 13 
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Or maybe I won't download it?
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Hello all,
Sorry for the confusion. I'm surprised the Google Docs link wasn't reliable.
I've updated the HTML at [link removed] so that "Access PDF version" links directly to the PDF instead of Google.
In fact, the direct link is [link removed].
If there are any further problems, please let me know. And if SCF (or anyone else) would be willing to host the file, that would be fine by me.
Best,
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Great, thanks Matt!
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A potentially VERY useful book - many of us scripters could do with learning how to do properly what we are doing
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HI,
Great book, thanks Matthew !@unknownuser said:
And if SCF (or anyone else) would be willing to host the file, that would be fine by me.
Hosting the file somewhere on my site would be nice, don't you think ?
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Thanks Matt - will probably buy the dead trees version as well.
But now I don't have to wait for sea-going snail mail to reach here! -
Got my printed version today. Thanks, looking good.
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An update about 5 years later...
At the link above, to Matt's original announcement of the PDF, is the link to a Google Docs page:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1JtraED8shnNGZkNzM4ZmQtMTVmNS00Zjc4LWI2NjMtYzliZGVjYzQyNTU5/view?ddrp=1%26amp;hl=en#As of today, that works for me.
I also found the PDF at http://www.crai.archi.fr/rld/pdf/Automatic_SketchUp.pdf
Those help with the fact that http://www.automaticsketchup.com and http://www.autosketuchup.com appear to be redirects to a page with only a link to a legal disclaimer. That's too bad.
As for paper vs PDF, I have the paper book open for reading and I'm using the PDF to be able to do text searches. I can copy the code out of the PDF to past it into the Ruby console. And just like with music, buying the book supports the author where freebies, bootleg or not, do not.
Unfortunately in this case, the book is out of print. You can get a used one for $250.00 on Amazon or a new one for $570.00 to $800.00. Yeah. More for this book than for SU Pro. And I bet not a dime of that gets to the author.
Seems like it's time for an update to the newer versions of SU. The book was published in 2010 for SU 7.1.
Does anyone know how to get hold of Matt Scarpino? I bet this group could do a crowd-sourced update of it pretty quickly.
Just ideas,
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