is there a question or request here? Or are you just offering "doodle" make work project?

BW

A router_selected_edges.rb tool. This tool would allow the user to sect a group or face, and automatically "router" the edge(s) with a choice of a multitude of existing (common) profiles of router bits.

1.) The "board_stretcher.rb" in real life would be as possible as anti-gravity. I think, when drawing, it's easy enough to re-adjust certain components. However, It would be kinda cool to have a tool that would automatically adjust the length of "connecting" groups and components.
Example: you designing a chest of drawers and in view of the available space (real world) you decide to make it wider. This tool would automatically select the rails, top and other possible moldings and pieces, allowing the ability to un-select the ones you don't want altered, and ask "do you wish to lengthen intersecting groups/components?" It would save a lot of time.

2.) A fastener selection tool. Something that would automatically put in, center, align and space out fasteners. Screws, brads, nails, doweling and wafers. Allowing the user to select the type, length and gauge of fastener as well as centering and spacing options.

3.) Joinery. When two groups or components are overlapping, it would be nice to have a tool that would allow the option of automatically select the type of joint (mortise and tenon, rabbit, butt, half-lap, dove-tail, etc) and thickness, spacing and depth.

4.) Centering tool. It would be nice to be able to take 2 or more groups and align them, like you do with fonts on a word processor, i.e.: Left, center or right align, and justify. this option would also be cool with the ability of multiple axis. One use could be to align drawers, doors or adjustable shelves or to align the knobs and pulls on drawer-fronts and doors.

I don't know if this is the type of suggestion you were looking for. I would be really great to be able to have tool to enable me to draw up wood project (cabinets, shelving units, etc) Right in front of a "customer" without wasting my or their time with minor detail like cosmetics of joinery and fasteners while showing them how it will be held together and well as what it will look like, should (example) a dovetail is exposed. As well it's nice to show them a cabinet with knobs and pulls on without wasting 20 minutes aligning and centering them.

Have a great day. Though I may not be able to afford to buy these tool (not working anymore) I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate a tool to cut down time while presenting as well as time and money saved while employees design and prepare the plan and break-down of a project.

This coming from a former renovation contractor.

Mike RL

From the guest account, I'm unable to use the same license of Skp. This is my problem. Why??

I have an older PC (single processor/Pentium 4) with XP on it. I installed 4 512Mb DDR2 RAM cards in it and she's able to multi task a lot better, and experiences a lot less slow downs when using larger on more demanding programs. Whenchecking the stats on the hardware, it reads the full 2048Mb of ram.

Don't know how it works with Skp. Because her hard drive is getting pretty ful, he doesn't want to install anymore programs than she already has.

I have a Mac. My wife has decided to play with Skp and LayOut. As like most people, there are things on my Mac that I would rather she not see, so I turned on the Guest account. The problem is the pro version takes forever to tune on and a pop-up says that this license in for one user only. Can I not allow access to it for other users accounts on my own computer???

She can evaluate the program but then a lot of plug-ins don't work. when I shut down the program, it became unresponsive and I had to "force quit" it.

Any thoughts??

Still not the answer.. I think??!

Thanks for the info .. but... that's the problem... some plug-ins don't download, they simply open into a new browser page as text which has to be copied and pasted. Is there a part that I'm supposed to remove from it??

I use a Mac. I also notice that when I open plug-in files to edit, they sometimes open with "text edit" and other times with "X-code". Which is it supposed to be??

I really appreciate the help, thanks

Buckaroo
basic.woodworks

Thanks... I'll see if I can locate.

^Error Loading File DeleteCoplanarEdges.rb
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/Plugins/DeleteCoplanarEdges.rb:1: parse error, unexpected $undefined., expecting '}'
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf949

I copied the text onto TextEdit, saved it as ".rb.rtf". I then renamed it and deleted the ".rtf" and it asked me which extension I wanted to use at which point I selected ".rb". The word RUBY appear on the icon and I placed it in the plugins folder. I repeated this with a number of scripts and, aside from the actual file named, I get the exact same message for each script. I tried putting the file into the tools folder to see if perhaps that's where they really belonged but achieved nothing. I still get the same message(s) for each plugin. I even attempted to add a "}" at the end the line ad then tried ";}" but I still get the exact same message but this time with "}" or ";}" after the "\cocoartf949"

What am I doing wrong? Can I fix this? Any thoughts??

I am using the SketchUp 6 Free version and all of the plugins I got were taaged as free and there were no mentions of them being for the Pro only version.

thanks

Buckaroo
basic.woodworks

^Error Loading File DeleteCoplanarEdges.rb
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/Plugins/DeleteCoplanarEdges.rb:1: parse error, unexpected $undefined., expecting '}'
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf949

I copied the text onto TextEdit, saved it as ".rb.rtf". I then renamed it and deleted the ".rtf" and it asked me which extension I wanted to use at which point I selected ".rb". The word RUBY appear on the icon and I placed it in the plugins folder. I repeated this with a number of scripts and, aside from the actual file named, I get the exact same message for each script. I tried putting the file into the tools folder to see if perhaps that's where they really belonged but achieved nothing. I still get the same message(s) for each plugin. I even attempted to add a "}" at the end the line ad then tried ";}" but I still get the exact same message but this time with "}" or ";}" after the "\cocoartf949"

What am I doing wrong? Can I fix this? Any thoughts??

I am using the SketchUp 6 Free version and all of the plugins I got were taaged as free and there were no mentions of them being for the Pro only version.

thanks

Buckaroo
basic.woodworks