no, sorry for causing confusion. this is only helpful when developing tool plugins and you want to use keyboard to control your tool behavior, you need a code of each key so that you can specify what to look for. these codes are nowhere to be found (su ruby api) so only way I found is to run the key discovery tool posted above and pressing keyboard print respective codes to the ruby console.

I was certain that after trying "darkred" sketchup returned an error, but now the same "darkred" works as expected - thanks!!

could someone provide a list of all color names recognized by the view.draw_points method?

prints the code to the ruby console

class KeysTool 
def onKeyDown(key, rpt, flags, view)
puts "key; " + key.to_s + ", repeat; " + rpt.to_s + ", flags; " + flags.to_s
end
end
Sketchup.active_model.select_tool KeysTool.new

paste the above code into webconsole, execute
after that focus from the webconsole to sketchup and pressing keyboard prints respective codes to the console

http://download.sketchup.com/sketchuphelp/gsu6_ruby/Docs

there is a mirror http://groups.google.com/group/SketchUp-Plugins-Dev/web/Ruby-methods.html
(with a little less screen space (due to google groups toolbar and sidebar) but more colors)

and a different approach http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/developers_guide/index.html (imho less informative, without examples but for quick reference)

=> farewell old guide and thanks for sticking with me for such a long time
a little less 'sketchup' and more google in the address bar

these are wonderful for their perfect user interface and integration (look like native tools)
bezierspline (fredo6)
joint-push-pull (fredo6)
offset-on-surface (fredo6)

bevel (cphillips)

subdivide&smooth (whaat)
component-spray (didier bur)
roof (tig)
volume calculator (tig)

view-based-face-reverser (didier bur)
webconsole (jim)
ruby toolbar (jim)

holy shit - you are right: Ctrl is toggling these modes THANKS a lot!

all right, respect. there you go webconsole

Sketchup.active_model.active_entities.each{|ent|
if(ent.typename=="Group" && ent.locked?)
Sketchup.active_model.selection.add ent
end
}

paste the above into a ruby console (I suggest using Jim's Webconsole) and Execute

Plugin: WebConsole

2010-05-22 * Eliminated the Results textarea in favor of SketchUp's Ruby Console. * Automatic resize of the code textarea. * Changed ...

(sketchuptips.blogspot.com)

warning: no testing for errors or bugs, use at your own risk

could someone help me understand why when editing spline sometimes the selecting cursor is a black filled square and sometimes it is an empty square? the filled cursor can't be locked to axes when moving while the empty square can and also snaps to geometry better. I could't recognize any apparent reason why sometimes I get the filled one and sometimes don't. thanks

does someone understand this dialog?: Sketchup.send_action 21245

sorry for not checking myself first... thanks for looking into it

I wonder how many Sketchup.send_action ##### numbers do something useful?!
thanks TBD, keep them coming!

whaat please stop playing with such childish tricks, and make something more demanding on your skills and talent: reverse polyreducer (user draws a rough shape and your script turns this into a beautiful and detailed component)

all right, am just kidding.

Download Clean-up

Usage:
The loop goes through all selected geometry, checks if the current entity is an edge, and if yes it erases this edge in 2 cases

• it is an edge belonging to 2 faces at the same time, their normals are parallel (faces are coplanar) and their front color is the same
• it is an edge which doesn't form any faces

This part is taken (after a little modification) directly from the script Skin by Darrel Belvin so all credit is his (hope he doesn't mind me posting this)

Warning: please save your model prior to running this

this part is taken (after a little modification) directly from the script Skin by Darrel Belvin so all credit is his (hope he doesn't mind me posting this)

is taken (after a little modification) directly from the script [b]Skin[/b] by Darrel Belvin so all credit is his

warning: please save your model prior to running this

@unknownuser said:

Script explanation:
the loop goes through all selected geometry, check if the current entity is an edge, and if yes it erases this edge in 2 cases

1. it is an edge belonging to 2 faces at the same time, their normals are parallel (faces are coplanar) and their front color is the same
2. it is an edge which doesn't form any faces

sorry remus, but i'm pretty certain it's still gonna snap to 'invisible' lines or vertices. I guess that this particular problem could be solved by coding a new freehand tool in ruby, then you could specify to draw planar only (like when hodling a specific key) - this wouldn't be very hard to do, unfortunately it's impossible for me to devote any time for this.

thanks chris, nice little script - great idea with the face shrinking

it should ideally prompt in the VCB only

there is a little trick to help you, once you are happy with your toolbar arrangement, close sketchup (the UI gets saved internally). anytime your screen gets resized, or messed up, or your toolbars change - don't close sketchup, open another instance of sketchup - this one opens with the original UI. then close both windows but make sure that you close the clean and tidy @last

this way your clean UI gets saved as last overwriting the messy one (since all instances of sketchup share one UI setting)