This is probably a pretty stupid question, but do you know if there are any policies in sketchup against using core ruby code?
The reason I'm asking is because of .methods. This allows you to see all the public methods of an object.
I noticed some undocumented methods, and was wondering if they were purposefully left undocumented, or just overlooked.
Can you explain how you select the components?
The easiest way would to be what chrisglasier suggested. However, if you want to do it in a ruby script, one way would be:
add a group, add the instances inside the group (group.entities.add_instance(instance.definition,instance.transformation)), delete the previous instances, and use group.to_component
if you add a group, you don't have to worry about transformations.
I have been using a web dialog as an interface and lately I've been getting the error "#<Exception: Invalid Dialog>" if I submit more than once. Does anyone know why this is?
I am using mostly get_element_value instead of parameters.
Ruby in Steel just allows you to type .rb files in VS, although I think I misunderstood you. Are you trying to find an IDE to write scripts or are you trying to find a way to connect .NET Applications with Sketchup?
I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but have you looked into Ruby in Steel? it's a VS extension for Ruby. I found the free version works well for me. I'm not sure what you mean by using the Windows forms tools, though.
As for the SketchupLib, that's a bit over my head. I'm still a .NET noob.
I've looked into it a little bit, but the problem is that iron ruby is meant to run ruby code in .NET, not the other way around.
Not to mention that sketchup uses it's own class library.
What are you looking for, exactly?
EDIT: After looking some more into it, Iron Ruby can run .NET code. But because Sketchup uses it's own API you can't attach iron ruby, as far as I know.
not really. I pretty much just stumbled across it, and saw that it worked.
I don't really know much about DOM events or even html in general. Maybe you know how to execute a script that will show what state the browser is in, and execute that on show?
This gets an alert from a file, at least for me:
wd = UI;;WebDialog.new "foo", true, "", 100, 100, 100, 100, true
wd.set_html "<html><body>Hello World</body></html>"
wd.show{
wd.execute_script( 'alert( "hello from foo" );' )
}
What problem are you having, exactly?
you should definitely add the faces by points instead of by edges, because edges are entities, so if you export to a model that doesn't already have those entities, you will get an error.
I haven't worked with JSON at all, so I don't know how much help I can be.
I tried some tests with your script, and I found that .transform! applies a transformation to an instance, and .move! applies a transformation to the definition.
So, if you have multiple copies, when you use move!, it will move them all to one place.
@artofseeing said:
i want a messagebox to show me the following:
the single weight of each selected component
the sum of weights of all selected.that's practically it.
do you want one messagebox with each weight and one with the sum, or do you want one with both the sum of the weights and each weight?
I haven't actually tested this, but I'm guessing this should work
@tig said:
> gewicht=gewicht + e.definition.get_attribute("dynamic_attributes","gewicht",0)
>
to:
gewicht=gewicht + e.definition.get_attribute("dynamic_attributes","gewicht",0).to_f
@thomthom said:
Not sure what you mean by using classes to group attributes though...
Basically, what I am trying to accomplish is to reference a group of entities in the code by what it actually is, for example, car, boat, etc. By doing this, I should be able to greatly simplify the code by saying boat.height or car.door.length. Like TIG said, It would also allow users to change those attributes through a dialog.
@tig said:
You CAN make 'parametric entities' with a script - there is a sample script that makes parametric shapes like cones and boxes etc that's downloadable from the Sketchup Script page... There's a special 'parametric.rb' that helps.
That was what I was referring to. perhaps I wasn't using the right terminology.
Have you used the parametric.rb script before? What I am really interested in is the pros and cons of using it, and whether anyone has tips regarding it.
Possibly. From what I can see, parametric entities can be created with either version, but I don't know much about them.
I am thinking of learning how to use parametric entities, but I would like to see if anyone else has used them, and if they like or dislike using them. Right now, I am using classes to group attributes, so it hopefully won't be that big of a leap.
Well, I haven't had many replies, although I do have another question.
When you use ASP in the web dialog, as far as I can tell, the ASP post-back doesn't work. I've gotten it to work in the development server. Do I need to use javascript post-back, or am I just missing something?
Thanks for the suggestion. I was able to do almost the opposite of your suggestion, and put the components entities inside of a group, create a vector between the groups origin and the components, and transform the two so they match. Does anyone know of a simpler way to do this?
I'm sure this is a pretty common topic, but do you know if there is an easy way to set the component axes to the corner of a component if you push/pull one of the sides. I've tried using the bounding box, but that doesn't work if you have the component at an angle.
thanks,
Chris
I'm not sure if you've caught this yet, but transformation.xaxis, yaxis, and zaxis return vectors, not points.