Thanks, Todd. I'll add it to Scott's wish list.

I'm adding both screen text and leader text via ruby, but can't find a way to set the font size. Anyone know how to do this? CB.

This is music to my ears, Scott. Here's another vote for ruby control of dimension objects. CB.

One of the guys in my shop did this with one of our cutoffs and something he found in a dumpster...

Well, that last fix broke it for me. I like doing one wall at a time, and it now lays them down flat instead of upright. I'm adding walls to an existing framework, so there are planes adjacent to where I'm adding the wall. PS: if I could undo one wall at a time, that would be great - if I make a mistake and undo, I lose all the work I've done with the tool so far. Thanks, CB.

This is fantastic, Didier. I have one suggestion (for now Each time the user hits the enter key to draw the walls so far, commit the operation so the wall sections can be undone one at a time. Thanks again, this is really useful. CB.

Thanks, Jim. Not sure why the version I had was encrypted.
I haven't really played with this script yet, and as a script writer myself, I must say, I'm humbled! This is some awesome work - kudos to Mr. Hurlbut. No doubt I'll find some useful tricks while pursuing my own skin quest. CB.

Andrew: Thanks for the tip, but housebuilder is encrypted, so I can't crib from it.

Todd: I can certainly collect all the faces and/or vertices I want to use, and transform them all back into global coordinates. I'll take a look a makefaces for further inspiration. Thanks, and further tips and suggestions are most welcome. CB.

Thanks, Frenchie, but I already looked at that and it doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for. It only connects 2 existing faces (unless I'm misunderstanding what it does). CB.

I need to create a "shell" around my models. Here's a before and after of what I want to do:

Before I try writing one, is there an existing script that does this? If not, I'd love to hear some strategies for where to start with such a script. CB.

Anything inside this kind of code:

if( not file_loaded?("motish.rb") )
...
end

won't get reloaded. I have another guess, though. Are you running Vista?

Pierce:

The scripts I just wrote about automatically create the mortises from the tenons. It may not be exactly what your looking for, but you may watn to check it out. CB.

I just discovered this special interest group on woodworking. I participate in the Ruby forum here on SCF, so some of you may know me already. I'm a professional timber framer, and former programmer. I wrote an extensive set of ruby plugins for SU specific to the mortise and tenon work we do, but I thought some of you might find them useful for general woodworking. Plugins and instructions can be found here:
http://www.northernlightstimberframing.com/su/
CB

The other bug I've noticed with Vista has nothing to do with ruby, but with dialogs in general:

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10719

Not sure if it's affecting your web dialogs. CB.

See if transformation.origin returns the result you are expecting.

This is obtained through the object's transformation.

kwistenbiebel:

Is this vista's security "feature" biting your behind? Copy the rubies to your desktop first, then drag them into the plugins folder from there. Also, look at the top of the explorer window when you are in the plugins directory. Is there a folder icon for "compatibility files"? That's were these things often end up. CB.

Thanks for all the help, guys. I'm off and runing now. And I have to say, it's a pretty cool trick - the excel window opens and stuff starts appearing in the cells like magic! CB.

Nevermind - I found it on Didier's site. Thanks everyone.

Thanks, Moris. I'm sorry, but I'm feeleing really dense, here. Where do I get the win32ole.so file? It's not in the win32ole-0.5.2.zip file in the link you posted. The excel scripting looks pretty straightforward, and exactly what I'm looking for.