@frederik said:

Not according to my knowledge - besides, I'm not sure I understand where such a feature would be needed...

Can you please enlighten us and give some examples where it would be a nice feature, where you make an object visible on the screen or in the document, however, where it's not supposed to be printed...

Why would this be useful? For the same reasons that making layers visible & invisible while manipulating your drawing is useful:

• Because your drawing has 100 layers and only a few are interesting at the moment, e.g., the boundaries and walkways of the remodel, but not the topo contours, lawn, concrete, tree trunks, tree driplines, pond, retaining walls, pipes, sprinklers, valve boxes, drainage ditch, driveway, overhead electrical, underground electrical, gas pipes, sewers, deck, and the dozens of other layers that the surveyor created to be thorough.
• Because your drawing has 100 layers and you're interesting in the interactions of only a few of them.
• Because your drawing has 100 layers and some layers obscure details in the ones your currently interested.
• Because it's annoying, every time you do something in the program, but it's not obvious what, just because you do whatever that is, that 77 layers were made visible, and you need to find and individually turn off those 77 layers, every friggin' time you do it, because there's no "Don't muck with the layer visibility" option.

I bought a 2016 Sketchup Pro license and was pleased that I could get Sketchup 2016 to run under wine in Ubuntu Linux!

However, the Sketchup "Add License" button doesn't work! Nothing happens when you press it.
The temporary license has run out, so I can't use it until this licensing problem is sorted out.

I have a sketchup design with a lot of components. One of the components is giving me some grief. All my components were created the same way, by selecting a set of geometries and then saving as a component. If I open the Components browser and select my troublesome component, then right-click on it, select Properties, it shows the file that the component is loaded from.
If I open Windows Explorer on the directory containing my component and double-click it, a new instance of SketchUp is opened and my component displayed, except that the surface of the shape is all white instead of the Material that is visible in the complete design.
How do I get the Materials to be incorporated into the Components? Some of the Components have the correct Materials "In the Model", as the Materials window calls it.

I'm thinking that the Component that's missing the Materials was created in SketchUp 2013, and that the old Components that have the Materials were created in SketchUp 8.
(But that's just a guess.)

Is there a way to write the Components used in a Model so that each Component will have its Materials?

In the meantime, I've saved my Materials in their own directory, and applied them to the one offending Component. However, I would hate to have to do that each time I edit one of the (hundreds of) Components in my complete design.

Thanks,
Chelmite

I tried to upload the design, but got a complaint that it is too big ( > 4M)!

I uploaded it to the 3D warehouse.

I had a problem with cleanup. It reported:

694 errors occurred. Please report the error and sample model to the author.

694 - Face merge resulted in lost geometry.

How do I submit the model?

Thanks,
Steve

I did a search on the aptana site for "sketchup" and didn't find anything.
Are there any installation instructions on how to pair up aptana and sketchup?

@thomthom said:

That's an interesting article.

@unknownuser said:

You can download Aptana Studio and RadRails, but the installation process is long and complicated. Besides, if you just want a Ruby editor, downloading a 30-day evaluation version of the gigantic Aptana Studio isn't worth it.

Complicated installation process? And the thing is free. http://www.aptana.org/

Anyway - are you able to set breakpoints etc in SU plugin scripts and run them from Eclipse?

I'm trying to build up a hierarchical object in ruby/ketchup using nested groups, and components where appropriate.
Most of the "add" operations seem to place things at the origin.
To put things in the proper places, I've been creating them inside a group,
then using the "transform_entities" method to translate and rotate the entities in the group.

What's puzzling me is that when I apply transform_entities to the entities in the group, it works okay.
The objects go where I want them to.
I do something like create a few objects at the origin, rotate the group.entities to the desired orientation,
then translate the group.entities away from the origin.
Then, when I create a new (drawing) object inside the group, it doesn't appear at the origin. It appears at the translated origin that I thought was applied to each entity in the group. Why does the translation appear to be applied to new objects added to the group?

Thanks for your help, or in directing me to the appropriate person/list.
Chelmite

(P.S. One of my first programming jobs was in 1972, programming transformation matrices for a robotic arm at the Stanford AI Lab, so I'm very familiar with graphics concepts, but not necessarily with how they are implemented in SketchUp.)

The attached file draws an arrow, rotates and translates the entities in the group it's in, then draws another arrow, but the 2nd is rotated and translated.