@chrisglasier said:

Here is an explanation I posted on Three.js forum.

... and a link to the new web workshop

@builder54 said:

Possibly a rivet joining to 2 clamps together.

Thanks for your input but my problem is really how to model a path that binds one tube to another at right angles when extruded as a tape or wire. Actually, I am thinking of trying plastic coated electrical wire as a durable and readily available material. It needs to have a waist to really tighten the binding; the salt-laden tropical winds can be really vicious.

@aikibrown said:

...Building Regulations have become more onerous.

Ah yes I remember them ... But here in Sri Lanka we can trip the light fantastic with homegrown teak and a wish and a prayer. Public liability insurance ... what ho!

Hi All
hmm, instead of doing all this via the SkUp Style- or Material Settings you could also export different content PNGs (always with the same scene camera!) and then combine them later on in Photoshop, Gimp etc. as desired or needed by the use of transparencies or lines for example. Might sound awkward at first, but works very simple and is very flexible.

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Thanks again TIG. I had a look at edges helper but I don't think there's anything there (at least that I can understand!). I posted http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43152833/sketchup-model-collada-three-js-no-edges. Maybe it's more a Threejs oriented question.

I generally agree with your comments on this matter. This is not about "elitist attitudes". It's about dilution of meaning in light of responsibilities to society.
Others would argue that it is just colloquial or informal language or (computer) industry jargon. Certainly, there are alternative terms that do not diminish the important work of Computer Software and Hardware Designers, Engineers, Scientists, Technicians.

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NO problem.

Chewin' on it helps. Sleeping on it helps. Brainstormin' helps.

@chrisglasier said:

Did not mean to offend!

Ya' did not...

It was a half-tease... 😛

... and a half devil's advocate, asking the obvious question (that a novice might ask.).

@tig said:

There are new API methods with the latest v8M2 to extract files/subfolders [into Plugins] from zip/rbz files.
However, if you already have ways of extracting them, then the moving to their new locations can be done with vanilla Ruby Dir and File commands...

Or the extended library FileUtils

FYI.. there is a Pure Ruby (beta) edition of the Zlib library that is cross-platfrom (no need to deal with compiled so/dll, Ruby version, compiler versions, etc. etc.) It is by Park Heesob (who is involved with Daniel Berger's win32-api project.)

😳 😄 thanks Chris
I use http://www.savevid.com/ to download you_tube videos
and http://www.nchsoftware.com/prism/index.html in its free edition to convert them
salud ¡

I'm not very familiar with the pied noir of Algeria, Chris. I was expecting something in Wyoming or Montana. 😄

@ Tim

I mean WWW is not owned by a single entity. All those companies you mention are replaceable. And the same is true about those parts that are patented or copyright protected; something Berners-Lee refused for html. I guess something similar happened with JavaScript. These languages are then free just like the spoken ones.

Apple decided not to include floppy disk drives in one of their computers and it seems everyone else followed suit. I'm not saying the decision was wrong just that in pursuit of the cloud other local storage devices might just go the same way, fait accompli.

Yes the net has become terribly concentrated and will become more so as less companies control bigger server farms, just as, in its case because of all the failures, the financial sector has become more concentrated than ever before.

I think the problem is when the general public get mixed up in things corporate, which is true with server farms. If banks were able to add personal mortgages to unrelated instruments in their derivatives, maybe IT can do something similar with access to information. Then if one farm or corporation went down all may be affected like the Japanese national grid after the Fukushima tsunami or any of the other OP concerns.

I think your idea of distributing information is well worth discussing (even though you spelled PRON wrongly).

Now I have got to the stage where I can pop my freestanding php file into a web dialog but so I can run Sketchup either via my localhost or website I need to have a ruby version of this php:

class IP{ public function Iptrue() { if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == "127.0.0.1"){ echo true; } } }

Can this be done with Sketchup ruby API?

Thanks

Thanks