Rusty with Ruby. Import help needed.

[jpjapers]

Hi, I used to dabble in a bit of ruby scripting about five years ago but its all disappeared from my memory and im stuck on something im sure is incredibly easy.
I basically want to add a button the the maon toolbar that simply runs the built in DWG import (Pro obviously) but the documentation on the sketchup site doesnt seem as comprehensive as it once was.
Can anyone help?

Id also like to add a button that saves only sketchup 8 files. Its simple but the code snippets i have gathered from my previous scripts dont seem to work properly anymore and i cant figure out for the life of me why my code isnt running when the buttons are pressed.

Thanks
Jack

[driven]

fill in your profile so we know what your using...
post your code in the developers forum for more advice...

there have been a lot of changes to ruby in the last 4 versions of SU...
john

[jpjapers]

Sorry about that. Ive filled in the profile. Ive fixed the code running issue now but i cant seem to find an answer on the web for my other query. I know its completely possible to force a dialog with only a sketchup v8 file as the sole save option or a DWG import as the only option but the snippets in the documentation give little help unless you really know what youre doing.

[driven]

this is the API code for import

 model = Sketchup.active_model
 show_summary = true
 status = model.import "filename", show_summary

if you replace filename with a dwg file it will import it, and show a summary...

if you want to selectr a file first than you need

chosen_dwg = UI.openpanel("Open CAD File", "c;/", "DXF|*.dxf|DWG|*.dwg||")

if you wan to combine the two, you do something like...

chosen_dwg = UI.openpanel("Open CAD File", "~/Documents", "DXF|*.dxf|DWG|*.dwg||")
 model = Sketchup.active_model
 show_summary = true
 status = model.import chosen_dwg, show_summary

now if you want to use that on a button...

have a look at making a toolbar and wrap this as your command...

john

[Dan Rathbun]

You'll need to make your own button images 16x16 and 24x24

The code will be near to:

if Sketchup.version.to_i > 13 # no save as before v14 !

  save_as_v8_cmd = UI;;Command.new("Save As v8") {
  
    model = Sketchup.active_model
    path = model.path
    
    if path.empty?

      if RUBY_PLATFORM !~ /(darwin)/i # MS Windows
        path = UI.savepanel(
          "Save Model As v8 skp...",
          "*.skp",
          "SketchUp Files (*.skp)|*.skp;||"
        )
      else # Mac
        path = UI.savepanel(
          "Save Model As v8 skp...",
          "*.skp"
        )
      end

      unless path.nil? # nil if dialog cancelled
        model.save( path, Sketchup;;Model;;VERSION_8 )
      end

    else # use current filepath
    
      model.save( "", Sketchup;;Model;;VERSION_8 )

    end

  }
  
  save_as_v8_cmd.small_icon= "your_icon_name_16.png"
  save_as_v8_cmd.large_icon= "your_icon_name_24.png"
  
  UI.menu("File").add_item save_as_v8_cmd
  
  # assume you've created a toolbar ref'd as my_toolbar;
  my_toolbar.add_item save_as_v8_cmd

end