You might also be thinking of this Eclate_Deplace

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=24390

Thank you.

What about the Mac and SU version 7.1?

Red,
Here's a quick video I made for you.

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I sometimes draw a couple of boxes as outliers to ensure the plane is large enough not to appear in the Layout scene - or you can also use layers/scenes in SU to control section plane visibility - they won't then show up in Layout.

Set up a new layer for section planes and move them to that. Turn visibility off before saving the scene, update your Layout reference, make sure the Layout page is showing the scene with the section plane layer visibility turned off.

Hi John,

I have only started playing a bit with Ruby - when I get the time, I am following a couple of basic primers. I have used Smultron for this but I also have Textmate and tend to use that (it's not a free editor however).

Like most editors, you can change the syntax colours as you wish, I find it useful to change the colours to match those used in whatever textbook/example I am trying to learn from. There is apparently a Ruby standard but I haven't found too many folk using it! The Syntax definitions are picked up by Smultron according to the file extension unless you wish to override this by picking the "always Use" and one of the many language choices. I use the automatic choice setting and it works well for me.

The Encodings is similar in usage to Syntax definitions - let Smultron do its thing or tell it to always default to some particular encoding. I just use the default setting. Unicode UTF-8 is understood and displayed correctly by most modern programs, web browsers etc. and that is the fall back if Smultron can't figure out which encoding is in use. The default settings will work fine for all the SU plugin rubies, web pages in html etc.

You can of course remove the break. The weld plugin would do that. Also if two lines are themselves in a straight line, constructing and then erasing a small line at the break, will "heal" the break.

For some reason, it took me a couple of tries to load your model - it locked up SU one time and crashed it without warning the other.

I did get it loaded on the third attempt and my first action was to use Thomthom's Cleanup script on it. The script found and erased 63 lonely edges - I have no idea if this was a cause of my problems or yours but as far as I can tell, Outliner is working fine on the cleaned-up model.

You need Ortho projection. Turn this on with the menu item Camera > Parallel Projection and view you image from the top.

The slant you are seeing is only present in Perspective view.

LibTraductor.rb should be located in Macintosh HD / Library / Application Support / Google SketchUp 7 / SketchUp / plugins

Evidently from the error message, it's not there. I have attached a copy to this message which you can download.

LibTraductor.rb

I hope the piles are good and long.

Nice render!

I have a feeling that Hungarian might be harder to learn than French..

I think the guy needs a dictionary or Economics 101. Someone who won't demo or sell his stuff is not a capitalist, he's the kid in the playground who says "I know something you don't!"

And here is a searchable index:-

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A related behaviour is seen by push/pulling a hole through a cube - deleting the top surface of the cube and reinstating it by drawing a line along one edge. The surface so created fills the hole (as well as the cube) which then acts like the copied variety discussed earlier.

Not for me - even as a cutting component

Jim,

It works for me. Are you quite sure you selected everything of the hole?

Edit - I have just twigged - you want to array copy the hole. I can move a single hole anywhere but it won't copy, indeed only the circle moves.

It's lost on me I am afraid.

@unknownuser said:

Terribly talented child, at least now you know what to get him for Christmas/Birthdays etc.

A Pro Licence and Arroway Textures, nothing too expensive

Don't forget a Space Navigator and Vray!