hi experts,

is there any way to controll the position of the ruby inputbox
on the screen,
just to put it a bit away from the center of the screen?

my skills are still not good enough for the html-menues (especially the data transfer from html to ruby),
so i still have to use the old ones...

thanx a lot
and merry x-mas to everybody at sketchucation and in the forum!

stan

hi tig,
ok, if it depends on the encoding of the original file imported to skp, i will have to study it.
thanx and merry x-mas!

stan

hi tig,
just a small add to this toppic:

situation:
i imported a ifc from a german cad with special chatacters "ä,ö,ü..."
in the "key" of the ifc-parameter

we solved the handling for ruby by using ift-8

so far, so good.

now i tried to export this file from skp to ifc
and reimport ( to see, if my attributes are passed correctly).

can it be , that sketchup exports the code of the special character in some special way?

in reimport the ifc-key contents the code itself now, not the original special character - somehow...

screenshots show the display in the original file and after the re-import.

i want to try to detect those codes by ruby again to be able to differ between areas, length and so on.

regards
stan

the alternativ format is perfectly working !

thanx a lot for this, i di not know this syntax yet

stan

hello,
i just stuck at one point:

wirh onmousemove i can get the instance/component - structure easily:

pickhelper = view.pick_helper pickhelper.do_pick(x, y) pickhelper.count.times { |pick_path_index| pp=pickhelper.path_at(pick_path_index) }

i can the iterate pp and get for example all transformations.

now when i iterate thru entities of a certain instance and want to get the parent, i do not get the higher INSTANCE, but the DEFINITION LIST.

how can i get the whole path as in the pickhelper from a selected instance?

thanx a lot for helping .

stan

edit1 : found this interesting topic:

https://forums.sketchup.com/t/what-is-the-way-to-get-an-instance-path-to-the-root-given-a-group-componentinstance/47274

starting to check it out!

edit 2:

this works, but interesting:

not the returned arry of elemnts holds the row, but the array[0]

BUT IT WORKS FINE !!!!

hi tig,
first : thanx for your help.
but
i am doing something wrong.

i placed the utf info at the very first line (above "Module")

` # encoding: UTF-8
module ZF_ifc

#########################################################################################
class ZF_BIM_version
#######################################`

but i still get

Error:
#<SyntaxError: C:/Users/zdene/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2023/SketchUp/Plugins/zf_areal3d_bim/areal3d_bim_prg.rb:6743: invalid multibyte char (UTF-8)>

so i cannot search in keys for german letters (ä,ü,ö).

in the key of the hash there is an "ä"

i want to check with ruby, if there is an "ä" in ite key:

elsif tt[0].to_s.include?("Länge")

elsif tt[0].to_s.include?("Länge")

elsif tt[0].to_s.include?("Länge")

i just stick.....

stan

hi,

i get ifc-fields from german cad-programs, which have "ä, Ü, " etc. in the ifc-descriptions.

ho can i handle this in ruby, when i want to check them?

example:

iterate key / value...

if key == "Fläche" then...

saving this the ruby do not work...

thanx
stan

hello,
maybe someone has an answer:

i can extract all informations from the ifc like area, volume etc. wirth the corresponding values.

now, the desription ov "value" can be any expression, depending on the software , which generated the ifc.

in german i have ifc-parameters using special character ("Fläche") vor "area", which i even cannot handle in ruby well. in other cases the key is not clearly defined, so i cannot analyse , if it is length/area/value.

is there any universal way to find out, if a parameter value "xxx" is a length, area or volume, without regarding the name of the attribute? is it coded somewhere in the inported ifc in sketchup?

so if i get key : 'abcdefg' value : '3,23456'

how can i define the unit automatically?

thanx for any idea...

stan

edit: found the filed for the version......upload worked

thanx for helping me !!!!

stan

ok. understood.

question:
where do i have to implement the version of the plugin according to this message?
in the ruby file or in the sketchucation system?

thanx
stan