Did this event happen? I've seen nothing about since this post. No YouTube vids, write ups or anything. Was wondering if it was any good as I couldn't make it at the time.

Congrats Chris, I am happy the team is continuing to choose very talented and driven individuals to fill out their staff.

I hope you enjoy Boulder.

Karl

Well, what will (or might) be done during that development, is still open but thanks for the report, Dan: I have now completely removed this experimental goldilocks code to fix the plugin index.

2015, 'Child 44' was a great book, hope they do not mess it up.

wow thanks for sharing its beautiful

Hey Andrew. "gender confused bear? Confused I am 😕

@myhand said:

@dan rathbun said:

(1) I said inside your module (not your directory!) ...

Sorry Dan, I am being really thick here 😕. Are you saying I should cut and paste the code in common.rb into MyPlugin.rb file...?

It is what I told Chris to do (in case he didn't wish to have users of his code do a full Ruby install.)

%(#8000FF)[An aside rant to any reader who won't read a book, and learn the basics,
before diving in and attempting to write complex projects:]

If you don't know what I meant by "inside your module" you likely did not follow the advice in my Newbie Guide, and have skipped over learning the nitty-gritty basics of Ruby. Yes it can be boring, but your just running into frustrations because you don't know the simple things.

Really .. print out a chapter a day from the ol' "Pick-Axe" book, and put it next to toilet. Don't waste the time when your sitting on the pot.

In a nutshell... you need to be writing all your code within YOUR unique top-level namespace (which is a module in Ruby.)

Unwrapped code runs within the TOPLEVEL_BINDING, which is the global instance of Object ... and everything is a descendant of Object, so everything inherits whatever is defined in Object.

Other authors do not want your objects, variables etc, propagating into their plugins.
OK ... back on subject, ... "uri/common.rb" ... for now just leave it in the Ruby lib directory, where it belongs, and use a script similar to the one posted to push paths for a full Ruby install.
See: Ruby LOAD PATHs script (Win32)

💭

Glad you got it to work. I use Civil for site planning work, yes. It's a beast. That's both good and bad. I'd be happy to talk to you about it more if you have specific questions.

Yup, its rendering, I'm working on a quick script and for a small task and I need to look up how to work something out in the developers forum. All sorts of good reasons to be on here 😄

@chris fullmer said:

I think I can see that I'm conflating the concepts of editor vs. console. If so, I guess I only see the need for a built in simple editor, and I don't comprehend what a single line console is good for.

I think this is the key here. You use it to develop plugins / snippets directly into SketchUp. (Which makes sense as you get a direct result.)
Personally I'm too paranoid that SketchUp crashes and bye-bye goes all my work. And I have grown to rely heavily on the features Notepad++ or Sublime2 gives me that I always write my code in an editor.

I use the console for debug output, reloading, and minor testing (multiple command over multiple lines, or multi-command-one-liners.)

(Btw, isn't it Shift+Return for the new-line in the SU developer console?)

You are right, your copy of revit was upgrading an older version. And yes they won't be able to use what you change. As far as what is best for them that is really up to them. It also depends on who is doing the final drawings. If you are producing the construction documents for the landscape then they only need to modify their model in those areas to match. I would just ask them which is the best. Personally I would probably prefer a SKP to import then modify my Revit model to match.

@driven said:

I did wonder the same after cloning the new version and losing that fix, at the same time I added

</body> > <script> bodyLoad() </script>

and deleted it the top tag, again.

I'm away for a few days but will try your version hack, does it work with gems?
john

The only reason it wouldn't work with gems is that SketchUp doesn't set up a library load path to anything except their own stuff. To get any other ruby code you need either to copy it into SketchUp's area or manipulate the ruby load path before you access it.

Steve

Thanks, that was very helpful

...........Though does not look easy at all.

download the ruby file...
open SU menu >> 'Window' >> 'Ruby Console'
copy/paste/return the first line

load "~/Downloads/rgb_picker.rb"

should return true in 'RC' if that's of your path...
copy/paste/return the second line...

Sketchup.active_model.select_tool(Col_pick.new)

should work...
hit spacebar to close the color picker...

john

@arcad-uk said:

So why not grab a copy of the earlier version while you can...

http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60107

import through the earlier version then bring it into v8?

1+ - I got SU7 and the importer plugin on disk archived.

@solo said:

Excellent, got any panoramas? I'd love this as a HDRI for renders.

+1!!

I use two samsung monitors at work that I really like as well. I was planning to replace the LG with a Samsung, but in the end this ASUS was quite a bit cheaper, faster refresh, and 2 inches bigger. But I do agree, those Samsung monitors are great!

That chart scares the crap out of me as I am well past the center of the time line and it looks like death is the only event left.

good tip, chris. considering the time he will spend teaching sketchup skills the cost is a bit steep. thanks anyway.

Excellent, thanks Dan. It is working as expected, but I'm still very confused what the error was. This code works:

id = "113" t = %Q^<form><input type="button" value="Click me!" id="#{id}" onclick="change_time(this.id)" /></form>^

But this one causes errors:

id = "113" t = %Q^<form><input type="button" value="Click me!" onclick="change_time('#{id}')" /></form>^

As I've been playing with it over and over, it seems everytime I introduce the single quote into the function arguments, it crashes. But I'm doing it that was in other very similar onclick functions.

Oh well, its beyond me. Thanks for helping everyone, I've got a wokring version now!

Chris