Thanks Gaieus, This was posted on the SketchUp SDK Forum. I reposted it here and put a link in the SDK Forum to this SUC Forum thread - since I think he will get better responses to queries here.

My only complaint about Fraps is that it doesnt capture the toolbar, only the working window. So you don't get to see the icons being selected or any of the windows or toolbars. I only use fraps for capturing 3dgames. It excels at that and it is a pretty cheap program. Chris

telnet 66.17.141.96 587 -> ESMTP works telnet 66.17.141.96 25 -> ESMTP works telnet mail.estreet.net 587 -> ESMTP works telnet 66.7.183.229 587 -> doesn't work tested also with this found using this google query

Thanks, I have mine working now as well.

If you have made [or imported] a model where the back faces are the wrong way round but have been textured as if they were the front face - visible when viewed in Monochrome mode - then my FixReversedFaceMaterials script tools can help... http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=264134#p264134

@al hart said: I was just interested in: Is it possible to access the sketchup database separately from multiple tasks in Ruby Ruby doesn't 'do' concurrent tasks. So the answer is No! Adam

I've exported/imported limited info via PageExIm. It can work, but takes some effort - especially when new SU file versions change the data available! I have StylesExIm on my list of things to do. Should I move it up the list?

so it does, my fault.

Thanks for the try Todd, but I found it in our scripts which add edges to renderings and 3D PDFs This is the color I was looking for - in the Styles menu. [image: 7L5K_edge-color.jpg] It is stored in rendering_options["Foreground_Color"]

Hi Al, Most options in Su are handled by hashes. For instance: options=Sketchup.active_model.shadow_info then: options.to_a gives: [["City", "Paris"], ["Country", "France"], ["Dark", 20], ["DayOfYear", 172], ["DaylightSavings", false], ["DisplayNorth", false], ["DisplayOnAllFaces", true], ["DisplayOnGroundPlane", true], ["DisplayShadows", false], ["EdgesCastShadows", false], ["Latitude", 48.867], ["Light", 80], ["Longitude", 2.333], ["NorthAngle", 0.0], ["ShadowTime", Fri Jun 21 15:30:00 Paris, Madrid 2002], ["ShadowTime_time_t", 1024666200], ["SunDirection", Vector3d(-0.149675, -0.420103, 0.895048)], ["SunRise", Fri Jun 21 06:53:33 Paris, Madrid 2002], ["SunRise_time_t", 1024635213], ["SunSet", Fri Jun 21 22:51:25 Paris, Madrid 2002], ["SunSet_time_t", 1024692685], ["TZOffset", 1.0], ["UseSunForAllShading", false]] options.keys return an array of all the options names and options.values an array of all the values associated with each key. All the hashes are contained in: Sketchup.active_model.options For example: optionsmanager[0].to_a gives: [["LengthPrecision", 2], ["LengthFormat", 0], ["LengthUnit", 4], ["LengthSnapEnabled", true], ["LengthSnapLength", 0.393700787401575], ["AnglePrecision", 1], ["AngleSnapEnabled", true], ["SnapAngle", 15.0], ["SuppressUnitsDisplay", false], ["ForceInchDisplay", false]] And so on... all sort of things that I found by myself (and with the help of other rubyists) BUT that Google apparently don't care to document

Here ya go, Al. Sketchup.active_model.shadow_info["UseSunForAllShading"] = true See this thread for more undocumented ShadowInfo options.,

I appreciate your trying to help, Susan, but I put this query in the ruby forum because I was soliciting help from other ruby programmers on how best to do this task. It is easy in SketchUp itself, as you point out, although probably even easier than you suggest because you can probably: Open the component for edit Select all the geometry in the component Right click and select Make group and you have the group. My problem is that this is much more difficult in Ruby, unless there is a ruby command for #1 and #3 (there is a one line command for #2) Again, though, thanks for offering your help.

Al, That would be great. Our existing libraries, as I have said are outlined carefully and sparesly in a low poly fashion. Would your script work with the existing low poly outline together with the high poly version or would your script require that the low poly version is just the image file? I would really want to be able to offer both the low poly outlined version as well as the high poly. Perhaps 3 layers?

about "5" point...will be need to develop external modules-scripts or assigning with authors of renders-exporters for supporting...or make api-sections for devs....near cad-skipy future great features are....

Thanks TBD. However, there is a method to upload multiple .SKP files all at once rather than one at a time. You create a Spreadsheet of the files, with other information, Description, Tags, etc. and then upload the whole mess at one time. Hopefully creating collections and sub-collections as you go. This is supposed to be part of the SketchUp SDK. But I am having a hard time tracing it down.

@kwistenbiebel said: In some cases it could be a benefit that export would be done in phases, in 'chunks', so the RAM can be cleared somewhere in between. The generated mesh .xml files could automatically be merged into one geometry file. I don't know if what I describe is possible..... What we would do is write the geometry to a file - this is what exporters like KT do - and then read the file with a separate process. So the RAM usage during export would be minimal. However, we want to make sure that the two processes are communicating. For instance if we change brightness settings in the render window, we want to remember those settings in SketchUp so we can reuse them. Or, If you change the view or some other setting - like sun brightness - in SketchUp you would like to modify the rendering without saving and reloading the geometry. We are researching the best way to have two separate processes be aware of each other and communicate, and then we will run some tests - such as exporting a large model to a file - to see if it will be of value to separate the processes. (But this thread is not just about rendering - we have similar problems in our export to 3D PDF application, in our Component Reporting application, etc.)