That's for that revised version!

Just trap for any non-standard characters and replace them with _ It's done all of the time in things like OBJ exporters...

Carbon sequestration systems

A texture of squiggles or footprints (feetprint?) should be easy to make tileable. And textures, like the SketchUp sky on glass, are already repeatable. [image: NSP9_trans6.png] (You can see here, it repeats from left to right, and top to bottom) I could superimpose two repeatable textures by finding a least common denominator, and adjusting the width one a but if necessary. For instance, if I was imposing a Sky with a 5' repeat width onto a tile pattern with a 2' repeat width, I could either create a 10' texture - with 2 skies and 5 tiles already repeated, Or, when there is not an easy answer, I could stretch one ot the other - 3.g. stretch to sky to 6; and repeat 3 tiles per sky.

Thanks Solo. We know that this can all be done from PhotoShop, but it is neat to be able to do it directly from SketchUp. In addition to the obvious use for IRender nXt users. We are interested in whether this would be of any value to SketchUp users who just want to put an image behind a SketchUp model.

Easiest is to find some place in Paris, but instead of going to restaurants, you can just as people there where to find a market, and wander around to chose your pieces of food. Anywhere in Paris will have its own place ...

@thomthom said: hm... I'm tempted of adding a script that loads first that freezes the base ruby and SketchUp classes and modules just to see what happens. Could be useful to catch misbehaving plugins. Problem is that Ruby is designed to allow this by people who know what they are doing. Many of the Extended ruby Library files add needed methods to base classes, or modify some methods (RubyGems is an example that modifies the global require method, although I never understood why it really needed to do it.) Even though methods are objects, it is difficult to get a reference to an instance method within the class definition (very easy within an instance of the class.) So it is hard to freeze particular instance methods class-wide, without freezing the whole class or module. (Perhaps the gurus on the Ruby Forum know a trick?) An alternative would possibly be (untested): class Sketchup;;Group # Make a copy of method ;copy alias_method(;_copy_,;copy) def self.method_added(sym) # # callback called by Ruby when a new method is defined; # alias_method(;copy,;_copy_) if sym == ;copy # end end EDIT: method_added is a class callback, so must be defined using def self.method_added(sym)

nope, it's an imvu user made exporter. there's an improved version in beta, but i haven't installed it yet. http://www.imvu.com/groups/group/SketchUp%2BMeshing/ there's, in the version i'm using, a uvmap, mesh and skeleton... and if this site would let me upload them, you'd see them... nope, it don't like xmf's, i'll zip em. thingy.zip

If locating the faces is sufficient, you can start with my code here. Just noticed that there is a link to Chris's post too.

@unknownuser said: I would be curious what he's doing with the .jpg's. I wonder if he's just wanting to use the .jpg's as a replacement for thumbnails since they don't work for many people. If so perhaps, he should try MysticThumbs instead which would be a better solution. -Brodie One of the problems thumbnail processing may have is that "modern" thumbnail generators can make large thumbnails for Vista and Windows 7, but programs which haven't been updated much still make old XP sized thumbnails. Here is an image of "Extra Large" Windows 7 thumbnails for a folder with images, movies and SketchUp models: So things that want to process thumbnails well may not have much to work with with SketchUp thumbnails. [image: thumbnails2.jpg]

Hi everyone, Like the users ask to Al Hart, I me too want to place a text label in the drawing, using the value of an Attribute on the entity for the text. To be more specific I downlaod a dynamic door compoenent wich is really cool and offer me lot of options, but I really want to have the name of the compomenet and the its length and height to be shown at the bottom of the door for example or eles where in order to view this information when I produce de plan view in layout. I know I can a samrt lable in Layout to do that wich I am doing right now. But I really want to have this implemented in the compoenent so the infomrations is update upon the dynamic compoenent attribute. Because right now, we often miss a door when inserting samrt lable in LAYOUT. It's a hard job to get focus and not mis a door in LAYOUT when we have like 100 doors in our drawing. Thanks in advance for your answer.

I see you have addressed the "Definition of a group" in another thread: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=19765 It looks like I may have some luck using: definition = group.entities.parent to get the definition, and definition.instances to locate the groups which use the same definition. My client mentioned there was already a ruby to convert groups to components. Did you write it, or do you, (or anyone), know where it is? [Edit: It looks like I am looking for: Selection Toys. I will try to find it]

Thanks. I have searched for "Clay" but it didn't just pop up for me.

We didn't want to have ads anywhere on our Forum. Also, it someone was searching for "Nighttime Scene" on our site, they might get an ad for one of our competitors, sites. So it is worth $100.00 per year to eliminate the ads. [image: wkmw_nighttime.jpg]

Thanks mitcorb and leedeetee. I have been looking at thois image so much the past few days that i felt that way too. Here is an image I found on the web of the actual place: Here is a photo of the actual Drive Inn: (See: Michigan Exposures) [image: chick5.jpg]

I found a different problem. I was using this code to set a string: (This loads all text up to the word HERE into a string with new lines, etc.) ` smess = <<HERE This face will not render in the material you have created, since it is on placed the reverse side of a face. Use "Setup Options/Special/Process 2 Sided Faces" to allow materials on reverse faces to be rendered. HERE` and the beautifier indented the last line (HERE) which cause the ruby to fail