Finally you finished it!!!

Two question:
would it be difficult to have the possibility to tag an ensemble of selected faces without having to pick them?
would it be difficult to have the possibility to update an ensemble of selected tags without having to pick them?

Aera checking and reporting without leaving Sketchup: I dreamed of it for so long!

I wish I could help but I can't...
I know nothing about MAC.
In Windows: I think the problem comes when user is asked to pick rotation/scale reference point
You can click 10 times, nothing happen. The software stays waiting for the validation of that input.
I hope it helped a little bit.

Wow!
Very nice work, that's looks very very very intersting...
Will make tests as soon as possible!

... I am soooo stupid!
Thank you very much, it works perfectly.
Thank you very much master TIG

Oups, here is the code

def ss()
model=Sketchup.active_model
ss=model.selection
### You can assemble any collection of edges
### Here it's from the model's current selection
edges=[]
ss.to_a.each{|e|
   edges << e if e.class==Sketchup;;Edge
   e.entities.each{|ee|edges << ee if ee.class==Sketchup;;Edge}if e.class==Sketchup;;Group
}
edges.each{|edge|
ang=edge.faces[0].normal.angle_between(edge.faces[1].normal)
   if edge.faces[1]
     edge.soft=true if ang >= 45.degrees
     edge.smooth=true if ang >= 45.degrees
   end
}
end#def

Here is the code and the result,
I tried with different angles.
If I choose 90° nothing is smoothed neither soften.

Dear TIG, I tried to edit you code in order to be able to choose the smooth angle but I didn't succeed.
WHat am I doing wrong?

def ss()
model=Sketchup.active_model
ss=model.selection
### You can assemble any collection of edges
### Here it's from the model's current selection
edges=[]
ss.to_a.each{|e|
   edges << e if e.class==Sketchup;;Edge
   e.entities.each{|ee|edges << ee if e.class==Sketchup;;Edge}if e.class==Sketchup;;Group
}
edges.each{|edge|
   if edge.faces[1]
ang=edge.faces[0].normal.angle_between(edge.faces[1].normal)
     edge.soft=true if ang.radians >= 45.0
     edge.smooth=true if ang.radians >= 45.0
   end
}
end#def

I mean compute total area by layer.
I explain: I am doing a big project. I put each floor's top face on adifferent layer corresponding to the affectation of the floor (for exemple: exhibition, administration, library etc...). Each time I want to check the total area of library's floor for exemple, I select one face, right click, and go into context menu and choose "by layer" to have the sum of all areas of library's floors top faces. I do that 40 times a day.
I think that if we can make a report of all areas of these faces we can produce an automated area table for elements of program.
Of course it could be done with materials, but we often want to give the same material to all the floors. The differenciation comes with layers.
Switching to "color by layer" mode gives a more analytical vision.
"color by layer mode" = analytical, programmatic
"textured mode" = realistic, rendering.

Sorry for my frenglish.

Thanks FREDO!
Would it be difficult to add "by layer"?

You're right TIG, thank you

I think the title is self explanatory.

Thank you for your answer Whaat,
we could think about a code which could soften egdes of selection of faces or a group with a predetermined value.
With a shortcut it would be fast to resoften edges at the desired angle value each time the subsurf is updated...

@earthmover said:

1. Setting Crease to multiple selections at once. Specifically surface borders.

Doable: select you edges ( double click on surface to select its unsmoothed borders),go to tools/artisan/crease selection
Et voila

Dear Mr MASTER WHAAT,
a little question.
There is an option for smoothed edges or not for the subsurf in the settings.
We only have the choice between all smoothed or none smoothed, it would be fantastic to have the choice of the "angle between normals" like in the soften edges native SU dialog!
And also why not dreaming: to establish a correspondance between proxies "angle between normals" edge softening and creased or not edges of that proxy.
Sorry for my very bad english.

PS: ARTISAN ROCKS! PROFILE BUILDER ROCKS!!!(the first and only software my former office was Ok to buy for me...)

Dear Mr MASTER WHAAT,
a little question.
There is an option for smoothed edges or not for the subsurf in the settings.
We only have the choice between all smoothed or none smoothed, it would be fantastic to have the choice of the "angle between normals" like in the soften edges native SU dialog!
And also why not dreaming: to establish a correspondance between proxies "angle between normals" edge softening and creased or not edges of that proxy.
Sorry for my very bad english.

PS: ARTISAN ROCKS! PROFILE BUILDER ROCKS!!!(the first and only software my former office was Ok to buy for me...)

Just put profile lines on with a thickness of 1.
Styles/edges

Lightup is getting more powerfull everyday!

Dear TAK2HATA
It is a great pain to see your country so violently damaged.
Here in Paris we keep looking toward japan and pray for all japanese people.
United, we shall overcome!

More serious use exemples to come asap.

Works perfectly.
We need to be carefull with the number of colours of the bitmap!

After a few tests,

best settings are:
. indexed colors in photoshop or another image editor (in Photoshop you can choose the number, in the exemple below we have 12 colors)
. save as bmp (8bit, no compression).

First exemple is specialy dedicated to Thomthom