Try Virtual Machine, I've used it in the past (admittedly a few years ago) with a fair amount of success, but not for SketchUp though. However, the problem you're having, IIRC I was able to configure a VM with access to the GFX hardware of the host machine.

Why not separate the 'bitness' at the download-installer level, i.e. offer 32/64 bit installers ?
Then what the client downlands is what they expect ?

If you want to remain 'clever'... then check the bitness when the exe runs [installer-level check] and have two separate installer exe's running from those...
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I remember Amrosias Escape Velosity game had a rather fun and different way of getting people to pay.

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/windows/

You could play the game for free and after a while Captain Hector would fly by asking you to pay for the game.
If you continued without paying he would come more frequently and after still a while he would become agressive and start shooting at you.
He was also invincible so you could never win a fight with him. (I tried.) 😳

Revit will never be Sketchup, you got that one right for sure. Sketchup starts as a simple and intuitive software.

However Sketchup could eventually be a Revit competitor. That is only a matter of wanting to deveop the right plugin. Plusspec claims something along this line right? (Not quite there probably, I wouldn't know.)

I believe it would be a matter of choice for the trimble team, but I bet they prefer to keep SU within a wider scope as a modeller, than try pursuing Revit...

@al hart said:

I "fixed" it be downloading the 3D Warehouse models, turning off the ground plane, setting the background color to white, and then re-uploading them.

Well, you never said they were YOUR models.

Of course you are responsible, if you left the ground plane turned on. LOL

It turns out the the other developer had defined a override to Length which returned a value of class Area when 2 lengths were multiplied.

We were multiplying the bounding box extrema to try to calculate an approximate volume if volume was not defined.

if (entity.respond_to?(:volume)) rval = entity.volume else rval = bwidth * bdepth * bheight end#if

They plan to fix it, but I think I can coerce each "length" to a float before multiplying them:

if (entity.respond_to?(:volume)) rval = entity.volume else rval = bwidth.to_f * bdepthto_f * bheightto_f end#if

Actually I will do this earlier when I get width from the bounding box

By the way, if you transform multiple entities it's faster to do it in bulk with Entities.transform_entities or Entities.transform_by_vector. Ditto for erasing and selecting - the performance differences between doing this in bulk is significant.
Whenever you use erase! or transform! etc or any other single entity action within a loop consider the bulk alternatives.

Win7 64bit:

IE-11
Firefox-30
Chrome-37

All the same - show 31.

@driven said:

some zip program require the .zip extension

john

Not a problem with 7-Zip.

The -tzip sets the output format.

@tt_su said:

Yea, it's an annoying deviance that Sketchup::load acts like Sketchup::require.

For my personal projects I got reload code for when testing RBS files where I remove the file from the $LOADED_FEATURES list.

$LOADED_FEATURES - Aha! I didn't know about that. I guess you learn something ever day.

@dan rathbun said:

@al hart said:

Thanks Dan - that works!

WHAT works ?

(I talked about at least 3 ways.)

We wound up using win32ole and RegRead

However we ran into problems with an uncaught exception when the Registry Key we passed did not exist, so we added a second rescue for the second registry key.

Like this (I added XX to the key to intentionally make it fail)

require "win32ole" wsh = WIN32OLE.new("WScript.Shell") begin val = wsh.RegRead("HKLM\\Software\\Wow6432Node\\SketchUpXX\\SketchUp 2014\\InstallLocation\\") rescue WIN32OLERuntimeError val = "" end#begin/rescue if (val == "") begin val = wsh.RegRead("HKLM\\Software\\SketchUpXX\\SketchUp 2014\\InstallLocation\\") rescue WIN32OLERuntimeError val = "" end#begin/rescue end#if wsh.ole_free puts "VAL; " + val

.. and the nested module definition has no end closure.

@al hart said:

Is GetShortPathName in ruby or in Win32API.so?

Neither.

It is in "Kernel32.dll", and you use either Win32API or DL class objects to wrap calls into that native library.

See: [MSDN : GetShortPathName()](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364989(v)

Ruby : DL library

.. and since DL ( really is deprecated, and now a wrapper into Fiddle calls,):
Ruby : Fiddle library

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