Thanks - The RpTreeMaker is for Windows only. However, we have created about 50 trees with it and stored them on the 3D Warehouse. You can load these into SketchUp and use them as is. These are 2D trees with a shawod mask to create good shadows. RpTreeMaker trees on the 3D Warehouse See this other thread: Library of Trees for RpTreemaker

@juju said: Didier announced that he will no longer teach SketchUp nor will he develop new extensions or maintain any of his existing extensions. That's probably why his site is down then. I'm not surprised, Trimble seem to be out of touch with SketchUP's core customers. Didiers site & plugins were a revelation when I started out with SketchUP as a way to increase my productivity with the tool. It was a great service to the community.

layer=model.add("Layer0") does return a reference to a layer in any locale - including EN. It is the same layer as model.active_layer=nil Setting the active layer to nil and getting its name is the foolproof way of finding the default-layer's name in that locale. If you are sure that layers[0] is always the default layer then using that should work too. Then to process all layers except the default-layer you can use model.layers.to_a[1..-1].each{|layer|###do process###} as it misses off the first one...

We used to have a job posting subforum but in reality, it turned out to be more of a spam hive and people fighting with each other, blatantly bumping their postings more than a really useful info panel. If someone wants promotion, can organize something here now.

We had a lot of positive responses to this rendered image/3D Model in the same PDF file from IRender nXt users. (See: New 3D PDF interface for IRender nXt) So we have added the same feature to RPS 3D PDF. The new version of RPS 3D PDF adds a rendering from the SketchUp Window to the PDF file to flip/flop with the 3D model. Using the new interface, you can easily replace the SketchUp rendering with any other image - including renderings from other rendering packages - achieve the same image/3D effect using any rendering package. See: RPS 3D PDF Wizard - Image Tab [image: 450px-3D_PDF_Images_Tab.jpg]

Aha! I need to play more and lets You now! Thanks!

No - neither the Ansi ä or the Multi-byte ä can be used in a DC attribute name. I got off track a bit on this post. The to_ansi() function is useful when dealing with Umlauts and/or accents which are converted from ANSI/Extender ASCII to Multi-Byte automatically by Ruby or SketchUp. But still doesn't solve the original problem. I will be interested to see if it help with Web Dialogs or other problems.

Another strange thing If I use the window materials editor and click reset colour, the green square flashes grey then comes back green, and won't go away, however the material become transparent, and the colour changes to different rgb values. If I use the entity material editor the click reset colour the rgb values change and the green square gets replace with grey as you would expect. Also there appears to be a numerial difference in vertical size reported- I know its very small, but shouldn't they be the same EDIT I surpose one window is rounding it off the, as its so small[image: 0R2g_mat1.png] EDIT2 Changed to cm and more noticeable[image: mBNK_mat2.png]

Thanks Gai. I knew I had tried one in the past, but I couldn't find it easily by searching for "Section"

@al hart said: Thanks for these replies. I think my concern is trying to construct the path using the pencil tool. [attachment=0:vdpveofb]<!-- ia0 -->pipe-along-path.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:vdpveofb] I was able to use it here, where the path included an edge of a face. But it was fairly confusing trying to draw the path, because when I drew a line to the first corner of the face, and then clicked on the second corner, the line tool switched its prompt from "Enter End Point" to "Enter Start Point". Also, because the "path" touched a face, I couldn't double click or triple click on the path to select it to use with PipeAlongPath. I had to select the segments individually. I think my users would like to use the pencil tool to trace the path from beginning to end, and then convert it to something to be used for reporting. My 2dTools have ways of making lines/polylines/clines that follow picked points without pause - read my code and 'borrow' what you need.......

We did toy with this idea at FormFonts; but in the end we rejected it. We even went as far as to write some custom scripts to produce thumbspins (as we called them). One script physically rotated the model, rather than orbiting it...so you didn't have to pass through the shadow side. Another script panned around a central point, for large area models. The thing to realise is that it's not a one-size-fits-all solution. It's great for certain models (upright or fairly compact) but not suitable for a great many others. For instance, we get many requests to model sofas. Not only are sofas generally even longer than the garden bench example of Al's...so you lose even more of the ends, or zoom out so far you can't see anything...but they are only remotely interesting in a 90* cone of visibility around the front. The other 270* is as boring as hell...especially right around the back. Trucks, buses and lengthy wall units etc fall into the same category. The vehicles are OK all around, but the ends spin past like the business end of a centrifuge.

We put out a new version of RpTreeMaker with Flowers. See: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=36762

@dan rathbun said: @al hart said: We want to write a routine to take a 360 degree spherical panoramic HDRi image ... These HDRi images are spherical? or cylindrical? Environment maps can be in many shapes - even cubical. HDRI image aren't always environment images.