@jeff hammond said:

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(is this a ruby question or an ill_located thead?)

Am I not in the developers forum?

Vector normal to the plane seems to simply be the first 3 elements of the 4 that denote a plane. Thanks everyone. CB.

I know I'll say "duh" when someone tells me the answer, but I need to know if a plane (section_plane, actually) is horizontal.

Working fine for me. My plugins still seem to work.

@penumbra said:

i'd read the notes if i could find them...

Here's where I found them:

http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=release_notes.cs&rd=1

But it doesn't show anything after 8M3 (5/23/2012).

@bmike said:

An update on the Round Barn project.

Incredible! Remarkable detail.

Probably the result of dividing by "almost zero". Which in turn could result from a floating point roundoff error.

It seems what your after is simply the component instance's transformation property.

I've experimented with faster video cards, and it really doesn't make SU any faster. It might be because nvidia disables certain features in their "GeForce" "gaming" models. Their "CAD" models, which go under the "Quadro" brand use identical technology, but enable these features. I believe "Quadro" is Spanish for "costs four times as much for the same hardware". But I've never had a Quadro in my machine, so I can't give any first-hand advice.

Quadro - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

I use this all the time. Thanks again Rick. By the way, SU8 seems to have fixed the problem that required a prompt between scenes. I can now save them all in one go without problems. CB.

Worked Perfectly. Thanks, Tig!

I want to execute a script (create a title block) if SU was started without a model loaded. Is there a way in ruby to detect that?

This already exists here:

http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=345

and here:

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=9739&hilit=rot90

Perfect for mapping to a shortcut key.

Sorry, but I don't speak a lick of Japanese. I can tell from the first two characters that this was addressed to me, but the rest is lost on me. As a professional timber framer, the Daiku are my heroes. We had a group come to one of our conferences, and the level of skill and craftsmanship was amazing.

And of course I was only trying to be clever with my first post. Nothing personal

OBFUSCATORS!

Your goal should be to write the most readable code possible. This is the opposite.

Expose the dimension objects in the API.

And this, from Google themselves:

https://mail.google.com/mail/help/promos/tap/index.html

@unknownuser said:

@solo said:

@unknownuser said:

Is not a 1 first April ?

Have you this custom April Fools' Day. of the old continent in the new world ?

forgot about it being fools day.

ha. right. the Internet has really latched on to April 1..
I mean, it used to be something for grade school kids.. now it's a whole new animal

A tradition with deep roots:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_Comments

Got my hands on this pre-beta copy. Only runs on Ice Cream Sandwich. Here it is on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

Uses the accelerometer to orbit and pan. Pinch to Zoom, etc. I think it's going to be great in the field, demos for client, etc.

@dan rathbun said:

@thomthom said:

Cubificator?

Polyhedronizer ?

Orthogonizer ?

Orthographizer ?

OrthograFixer ?

It's like Autotune for cad! They can make you sound good, even if you can't sing.
If you are editing digital music, and you need to make the drum beats perfect, you can move the beats to the nearest sixteenth note, or whatever. It's call "quantizing".