Dan, you're at it again

You're correct in guessing that I was daunted by your changes, I appreciate you're understanding and your time.

As you may have noticed, we've made the decision of closing down ExtendSketchUp and in turn I won't be doing any work on SketchUp plugins in the foreseeable future. Please feel free to use my code in any way you choose and I hope some of it becomes useful. Sorry to be disappearing but I don't use SketchUp much these days and don't feel I can adequately support any plugins at this time.

Cheers!

Sorry bout the broken download zip, I've fixed it.

Had made the zip on the command line and apparently my settings only zipped the folders, doh!

@utiler said:

Thanks for the reply, Dana.
I see you have an 'unhide all' botton in the toolset but what I was thinking was if I isolate selected entities I would like to then go back to what I had shown before I did so, not necessarily unhiding all.

Gotya. Like an "undo" button? I could look into adding this, just not sure when I'd have the time to get around to it!

Could be added with some sort of "history" buffer...

@utiler said:

Hi Dana, nice clean set of Utilities.. well done and thank you on behalf of everyone who has downloaded it!!

I had a think about the Isolate Entitles: its great to be able to isolate something particularly in a large model when you want to just work on that specifically however it would is just as important to be able to revert back to the entities that were visible. The same applies to the Hide Entities tool: mostly I would think that once you've finished with the hiding what you need you'd want the option to revert back....

Just a thought

Thank you again.

Glad you like the tool!

If I understand correctly, you're asking for the ability to "unhide all" which is actually a button on the menu, so you should be able to do that already. I apologize if I'm misunderstanding what you're looking for.

I've finished a new release of the plugin. I've renamed it to VisTools so it's not so confusing and ambiguous.

@dbehrens9000 said:

Ishboo,

I use this utility alot with large projects and it no longer works with sketchup 8.0.15158. Could you please check why it does not load? Was there a change in the sdk that conflicts with your ruby scrpit?

Many thanks,

David

Hi David, I will look into and get back to you. I've been working on re-writing the application recently. Will update!

That's awesome news! Congrats!

I'll have a look at it soon and try to finish up the tool

Thanks for the links Dan

@dan rathbun said:

As as I mentioned before.. there are already Ruby bindings.

Curb looks like the most recent, it was last updated June 29, 2012:
http://rubygems.org/gems/curb

I would assume this would mean the end user would need to install the gem for it to work?

I talked to my colleague and we're gonna try to hack on it this Saturday at our weekly hackathon. Will update if we get around to it.

Hey y'all,

I have not tried compiling on windows since I own a mac. On Mac libcurl is installed system wide so it is more straightforward setting it up.

One thing that may work is trying to install libcurl using Cygwin and then trying to compile it in Cygwin as well.

I have a coworker who runs windows, so I'll have him an I check it out next week and see what we can find out!

Thanks Dan/TIG for replying! You guys rock.