hey all

i have reached the end of what i can do in ruby, and need to code in c.

i am new to c

The thing i need is basically to convert skp to dae. I am sick of having to export manually from inside sketchup, since i do allot of work with webgl and collada.

so any tips on starting to write using the sketchup c sdk?
ide to use ? Prefer none. No heavy visual studio.
will the c exe be able to run without sketchup open?

There is a skp2dae.dll in the normal program files installation of sketchup. I assume i cant use that because it needs sketchup loaded, i assume ?

ok thanks for your help. response a bit late ...

G

Hey all,

I fixed it ith the elp of the support guys at SU.

I turned OFF the hardware acceleration and it fixed it immediately.
I have an old computer with a crappy integrated GPU that i know does not support openGL fully.

Its amazing how fast the CAD model is without GPU !

how do you turn OFF a sketchy style ?

Can any SU staff please get some eyeballs on this BUG, IF it is a bug

Regards

ged

I attach the screenshot.
Its SU version 8.0.3117, Windows XP.

Its an Isometric projection.
The Sections behavior is checked.
But whats happening is i am getting these stray lines. Thats NOT be design

It happens with all Section styled views where the view is not fully orthagonal. ( ie.e not a plan or section).

I DONT have a GPU in this computer, so tis doing software rendering. Yeah its slow but not too bad.

Please any experts, it might be something i am doing wrong ?

Regards

ged

i knwo what you mean but thats not what i mean.

I just tried exporting to PDF with the 3 different view-port settings.
The view-port set to "Raster" looks terrible because its static to resolution.
The view-port set to "Vector" looks much better. About 5 times better because its resolution independent.
The view-port set to "Hybrid" looks about the same as the "Vector".

All are set to "High" when exporting of course.

So moral of the story is to use Vector when Printing. Pretty simple. But takes allot longer i believe.

Ged

For example if you put this into a browser you will see the actual Schema definition for Pages in Layout:

view-source:http://sketchup.google.com/schemas/layout/1.0/page.xsd

From this you can generate Code in Java or c# to interact with the Data.

Maybe this is the easiest way to explain it to you.

Regard

ged

thanks - yes i can see the RTF elements int the xml doc.
But the whole complete description of Font, lines, everything is of course there.
Thats much more interesting to me.

The way the Layout Schema is structured is a very standard software pattern these days. Its the same way that MS Word 2010 docs are structured when you un-zip those too. With The WOrd Automation API's you can load a word code and alter it in code. Its very powerful.
SO what i am saying is that you can do exactly the same with Google Layout.
I am kind of surprised Google did no Obfuscate the xml structure in some way; but that would be EVIL of course

Anyway serialise and de-serialsie means to take that XML and inject it into a memory structure in software. This is very easy. You can go both ways. Forward engineering and backwards engineer.

Anyway, the end result is that you can then generate Layout documents from any Meta data !

So if there is a formal Specification of the Schema Or a Java or C# object library that understands the schema my job would be 90% done.

This is the schema for the Document Properties xml file for example:
http://sketchup.google.com/schemas/layout/1.0/documentproperties

It would make it very very simple to represent Layouts in a normal Web Browser using HTML5 and Canvas for example.
You could also very easily make them editable in a web browser. SVG and Canvas libraries can do all this client side using just JavaScript. There are already other implementations out there for doing this with other Layout Schemas.

But just saying its very very easy and well you would not need Google Layout anymore. Opps did i say that

Also now that i see that the PaperSpace viewports to the 3D world are just image instances, I can see why the PDF outputs are so crappy with Google Layout.

I will stop ranting now.
I wonder if there are other people here interested in this ?

Regards

Ged

Gaieus ,

The schema looks like most packing techniques.
Are there any tools to serialise and de-serialise this schema ?
Will help my worflow allot.

Regards

ged