SketchUp 2013 changed over to a non-standard tooltip technology. No wonder if problems occur with such non-standard bricolage.
Work-around 1 → disable toolbar tooltips in the Customize Toolbars dialog
Work-around 2 → install SketchUp 8

The script error is a general error that appears more or less arbitrarily or randomly in Internet Explorer (on Windows as well). These script errors even appear when the script on the webpage does not contain an error. We usually recommend clearing the browser cache etc. (which is easy to say as a Firefox user, but recently I also got one in Wine that does not go away). Often it's a matter of time, another Wine update and things behave a bit differently.

There is no quality or compression argument (?). Or did someone try :compression from view.write_image, maybe it's undocumented?

C'est un chapeau en couleurs "vivantes"

They should just leave the crane there

Also compatible with wall?

@unknownuser said:

So now what?

3D Warehouse will continue to exist, and take whatever models you upload. If someone steps up to offer a platform to display the models on an earth globe model, then that's even better.

Google introduced this change in several (big) steps. Last year they discontinued Building Maker, an online photogrammetry tool programmed by a brilliant member of the SketchUp team. Except for Google Earth it had not as wide use cases than SketchUp.

As we know, SketchUp was sold (to be continued by Trimble) and around the same time Google started to introduce autogenerated "3d mesh" maps and replace region by region. Unfortunately this technology does not allow to "keep" holes for individual hand-modelled buildings. All hand-made models keep being live on Google Earth if they fall not into such a region.

This new change means just that the submission process ends, the so-called 3d pipeline. I assume this is because it cost a huge amount of technology, maintenance and man power to manually review models.
If we take a look back, over time Google has build a submission process that needed to scale to up to tens of thousands models per week.

I doubt I've heard anyone else doing this. It is indeed sad that it is discontinued, but due to the change of focus, such a huge effort is hardly justifiable in the longterm.

This is great news!
I wish you all the best for the future in Trondheim&Boulder.

Now we see SketchUp and SketchUcation growing more and more (and more?) together.
This means big things happen!

The menus are indeed not very customizable. And all what plugins could do about it (better nothing) would be more hacky than manually editing the files.

One could either load less plugins from start (only on demand) or adopt to some toolbars. Unused toolbars can be hidden, whereas menus can't. there are also several custom toolbar plugins (Jim's, Rick's and mine).

The last resort if you can't find anything is a menu/toolbar search like LaunchUp.

You can use constants for this: Constants are looked up through all parent classes/modules until the first matching is found.

module JBB_MyModule

    self;;MODEL = Sketchup.active_model 
    # self;; makes sure the constant is defined in this module
    # Otherwise we would modify a "global" MODEL constant if someone had defined one.

    class JBB_LP_AppObserver < Sketchup;;AppObserver

        def onNewModel(newModel)
            MODEL = newModel  # or JBB_MyModule;;MODEL
        end#def

    end#class

end#module

Subclassing SketchUp's core classes is currently impossible (see my tries with [extend()](https://bitbucket.org/Aerilius/color/src/e837419cfb80a5b29fb2c152a107447737f03f53/ae_Color.rb?at)ing the returned object).

@unknownuser said:

How can I fix this -- I have a special coordinate system in my plugin and need to distinguish transformations using it from transformations using the standard coordinates.

Try to create maybe a wrapper class, instead of a subclass? Create a class that stores the Geom::Transformation in a variable, and create derived methods to access/modify the original transformation.

Just to be sure, did you save the files directly from SketchUp to a usb drive?

"Save toolbar positions" was only in SU8. (It has only been added because of the issues in previous versions, and then has become needless in SU2013 because the source of the problems has been removed/overhauled.)
But one can keep SketchUp 6 and SketchUp 8 or 2013 installed in parallel.

Something like the select tool of Ruby Console+ ?

It shows an html page which is stored in the SketchUp program folder… We could replace it by something that is more useful (and more productive), like an iframe with SketchUcation.

But for command line processing, it is indeed an unconsidered obstacle (though SketchUp doesn't officially support its command line interface).

As it seems people are at least looking for a download link. Even if it was on a file sharing site or where ever but legal.

In ruby objects have a certain type and you can rely on that the type does not magically change on its own.
For a number, the + method is defined to accept another number as argument and returns a number (that you don't want).
For a string, the + concatenates strings and returns the resulting string, so you have to convert any object into a string first.

There are many ways to create strings:
string concatenation:
90.to_s + " degrees" # slow because it creates a new third string object
string appending:
90.to_s << " degrees" # faster because it adds the second string into the first
string interpolation:
"#{90} degrees"

Long live the forum:
http://www.solidiris.com/kerkythea/Kerkythea-v2.5.2.exe

Compare this with any other scandal. It is surprising and ashaming what happens.

• US government / Obama narrow-mindedly focus on catching Snowden while ignoring that they are actually standing on the pillory. They rather close doors for friends.

• US media see Snowden just as a curiosity (a game). An alternative to Jungle Camp.

• Governing politicians don't dare to defend rights of the people who elected them. They accept being put in front of closed doors because it's more convenient.

• Non-governing parties dare to raise their voice for people who still won't elect them.

• Rogue states try to abuse the events for their own purpose. Though they are the only ones who can live their souveranity.
  All of these points don't help anything for a proper investigation (as it is normal for any other scandal, like bribery scandals etc.). An investigation would need to lead by someone who is not involved, has nothing to loose (diplomatic relations) and nothing to win. Ideally it would not be possible to pressurize (economic disadvantages etc.).

As it seems, such a person/institution can nowadays only be anonymous.

There were no changes between SketchUp 8 and SketchUp 2013 that make scripts incompatible, except extensions that use the SDK or scripts that require some of the previous default extensions (which just changed their name and location).
So it's interesting to know more about this problem. It's useful if you tell us the name of the plugin (and script file) and what different behavior or errors you encounter.

If by polygon you mean a face, then it's easy. If the polygon is just geometry without entities, then it needs to be calculated. But you can use creative solutions, like
normal = Geom::Vector3d.new( [Geom.fit_plane_to_points](http://sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/geom.php#fit_plane_to_points)(points)[0...3] )