when will people learn. no-one will buy a script (specially a complex one) without so much as a screen shot (preferably a video) of functionality? i would love a script like this, and have actually had my pointer on the buy now a couple times, but... i have no idea if it works like i envision or gave someone $6 for garbage. and yes i realize its $6 but its the principle. i'd rather give it to you than someone who asks for money but couldn't be bothered to post a screen shot. i would further add that it should be a prerequisite of smustards that you can't sell a script without so much as a screen shot. so Chris please make a visual menu system to group and place our icons in and i'll gladly give YOU my money instead.

Whaat, its taken me some time to get back to this, but a HUGE thank you! This does the trick quite well. I send it a face and it gives me back all connected faces. I then can remove those faces from my selection set so as to not re-examine them. Absolutely brilliant. This will get written into my components onto faces script. Hopefully have it done and updated tonight. Thanks a million, Chris

2D or 3D Puzzle? Same form of piece?

Hey, that works great Jim, thanks! [me thinking this through out loud to make sure I have the logic straight] So the VCB is being set to blank because another tool is being called (oribt). Defining a resume method tells my tool what to do when it is resumed? Excellent. Thanks Jim, Chris

@greenskp said: Hey guys! I use 2014 version and found the solution. Thanks for Didier Bur on the following link: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=27019#p311954 Open clf_vertical_line_maker.rb with Notepad++ and add the code below at line 46: require 'LangHandler.rb' $uStrings = LanguageHandler.new("clf_menu_loader") Now works like a charm. Or, if you want to take the easy path, just download and install it automatically through Window>Extension Warehouse. It's called CLF Vertical Line Tools.

Yes!!!

Hey Chris is there any way to display count components when select them too?

Todd, thanks for the details! Very enlightening. And to put your mind at ease, I have been using modules to encapsulate my scripts. So there should be no namespace conflicts. I was unaware that any method defined as "initialize" will be called automatically. That is cool, and very good to know. And that exaplins how the methods were being called. All in all very informative and thanks for taking the time to respond to each question - there werew quite a few! Chris

hello Chris, My first post on this great site, and many thanks for this very useful script! Another great implementation would be to give as well possibility to have a [highlight=#ffffbf:11vlkwjz]gradient of transparency[/highlight:11vlkwjz] (I am thinking now of cloud generation....)

Yeah, this is an old plugin known for not being being unit-smart. Maybe that would be a good thing for me to tackle in it. I do no think it is offset that is the problem. I'll try to look into it and see if I can't redo it a little, thanks! Chris

About the random Push Pull you can use the Joint Push Pull Interactive by Fredo! [image: LtxP_GIF_Nfredo.gif]

aww shucks! I've come a long way in this learning process. But don't you worry Todd, I've still got plenty of "noob" questions to come I'm sure! After all, my main goal is to write a script that is useful enough to make it to the big time, Smustard! So maybe after I figure out web-dialogs (SERIOUSLY CONFUSING), this greeble plugin will find a new home (am I dreaming, or what!) Chris EDIT: This script is outdated. Go to http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=16599 and download it there please! Thanks, Chris

@unknownuser said: Hey!! You said @unknownuser said: But I want to apply it to the selection, not the entire model. so I answered how to do it from the current selection. Kids these days... sheez. I think I wasn't clear in my post. @unknownuser said: Immediately preceeding the .transform_entities needs to be sketchup.model_active and not model.selection I was correcting my own poor logic, not anything you wrote. Your code worked perfectly and was tailored to what I asked for. Thanks for your help, and the help of everyone else on here! I'm serisouly not used to coming on to the SketchUp forum and asking for help with stuff that I know is beginner stuff. SketchUp I understand. Ruby is sort of kicking my tail, but I'm optimistic. So I'm desperately trying to balance asking for help and not wearing out my welcome So a big thanks again to everyone who helps us wannabe Ruby programmers. Chris

Curiously Loose to Groups by Chris Fullmer transform only one Guide Point (of a selection of guide points) in Group! So not very practical for numerous vertices! If a Ruby coder can look at that, my Christmas will be marvelous! Seems resolved by SDmitch in another way! http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=66175

Chris, just some more thoughts on entities.. entities, in your example, is a variable which points to Sketchup.active_model.active_entities. It is not a copy of Sketchup.active_model.active_entities, but think of it as a shortcut (aka pointer, or reference) to Sketchup.active_model.active_entities. If you want to copy the current Sketchup.active_model.active_entities, you can call .to_a also: ents_copy = Sketchup.active_model.active_entities.to_a Sketchup::Entities is single object, but it is a container of Sketchup::Entity objects. If you would like to know what is a Sketchup::Entity, you can see my API graph. The Ruby module Enumerable is mixed-in to Sketchup::Entities, which means Sketchup::Enities will respond to the mothods defined in Enumerable.

Ahh, the wiki! I had forgotten that the wiki was there. i was not looking in that. And thanks for the heads up on methods. I had seen someone else mention it earlier, so I use it once in a while. But I'm normally not great at just being able to see the available methods and choosing the one I need and figuring it out on my own. I generally need a bit of an example with syntax.....oh syntax. I'm getting there though, little by little. When this script is done, I'll post it and I'm pretty sure it will be a #1 seller Thanks Thom, Chris

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=21156 Just linking various related threads together for other people looking for the same topic.

@tina Yeah, unfortnuately DC's are not exportable as an animation. I could do a screen capture of the entire movie for people to see. But I'd rather they download the model and actually play it. I'm really trying to show off DC's, and it happened to be withint the context of a funny flick. Hopefully the next round of DC's (SU8 or maybe even 7.next) will give some improved functionality, like the abilt to export the animation somehow. Seems like it could be tied in to scene transitions or something. I've got my fingers crossed. @Gaieus Thats a funny story about Sang. Glad you got him a copy of the DC. I hope he sends it home to his mom to show hes a star in our eyes. teehheee Chris

@chris fullmer said: And for the onclick event, they all trigger simultaneously. So I have one onlick that starts animating a custom attrbiute in EVERY object that moves or hides. So all the textboxes have an attribute that animates 1-60 over 60 seconds. So one number per second. Then on the first text bubble, for example, it is set to be hidden if its "animator" attribute is less than 1 or greater than 6. So it turns on at 1 second intot he video and off at 6 seconds. Or something like that. THen Sangs bubble turns on at 7 seconds and off at 13. And so on. It took a lot of pacience to set them up. Especially sometimes while making all the timers count right, sometimes one or two would get out of synch and would start from 60 and count down while all the others were at zero counting up....yikes! Thanks for describing that. This could be very useful for making presentations. I just wish I could set the camera location and attributes in a timed DC. As far as making this easier to code. I could see this as a good ruby script down the road that let the user enter more basic data, and the ruby does the hard work.

Ha!, yeah I had too many parenthesis. That fixed it right up, thanks Jim! Chris