@stephen2850s : Hi, FYI, you can try my Query+ plugin: [https://sketchucation.com/plugin/2654-queryplus](link url) [image: 1755063699887-queryplusfaces.jpg] It can give you lots of informations (angles, volumes, distances...) about various objects of your model, not only edges [image: 1755063450058-queryplus.jpg] Regards

This is exactly the info I needed. Thanks guys! CB.

DC's just make parametric modeling available to non-ruby programmers. Anyone could make their own version if they wanted to.

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

I know this is an old topic, but CADSpan's free plugin has this "shell" feature. http://www.cadspan.com/tools

Thanks Clark. I copied this to the Ruby Forum so more people will see it.

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.

Red Herring: My shortcuts problem was a different bug. I was trying to map the "add scene" command, which is a known bug. You have to tweak the registry to fix it. CB.

@dave r said: Clark, this is a good idea for a script. I can see it being very useful when drawing joinery as you and I do. Since your plugin wasn't available when I first wanted a quick way to switch back and forth, I set a keyboard shortcut (I used Q) to toggle X-ray view on and off. You know, that's an even better solution. I actually developed this at the request of a student, but the shortcut key is the way to go. Sincere thanks for pointing out the obvious! CB.

@Rich-O-Brien said in [Plugin] Rotate 90 around [X, Y, Z] axis: @freestylerboo said in [Plugin] Rotate 90 around [X, Y, Z] axis: This Plugin is the bomb.. such a simple task, but mapped to shortcuts is so powerful. i use this everyday and would be genuinely lost without it. Thankyou!! Imagine if there was a tool handled rotation, translation and scaling..... [image: 1715784471672-sketchup_dvdfogvryr.gif] This looks great!

Happens to me all the time...I just thought it was a standard thing like when you draw a line to cut geometry and it creates a new white face over your existing material face.

Hi, The doc you linked to seems rather old (SU5) to me (nothing about observers for instance). BUT the ruby doc has always been (IMHO) crappy, with a lot of errors and voids, not to speak of the examples ! For me it is often a trial-error-trial-error-trial-chance-got it! process EDIT: sorry, there are some infos about observers... but it seems that there is nothing more than in the 'old' doc, if not less

I've figured out that if you set display_leader to false, or leader_type = none, then you'll get this behavior, where the text will display even if it should be hidden behind an object. Anyone have an idea on how to hide the leader without this happening? CB.

Standard ruby conversion methods include (but are not limited to): .to_a - convert to an array .to_i - convert to an integer .to_f - convert to a float .to_s - convert to string Though standard ruby, they may not be applicable to all data types. SU adds more .to_n methods: .to_feet - convert a number of inches to feet .to_yard - convert a number of inches to yards .to_mile - convert a number of inches to miles .to_m - convert a number of inches to meters .to_cm - convert a number of inches to centimeters .to_mm - convert a number of inches to millimeters .to_km - convert a number of inches to kilometers .feet - convert a number of feet to inches .yard - convert a number of yards to inches .mile - convert a number of miles to inches .m - convert a number of meters to inches .cm - convert a number of cm to inches .mm - convert a number of mm to inches .km - convert a number of km to inches There are also .inch and .to_inch methods, but since SU internal units are inches, these are almost never used (but are included, I think, for consistency).

Am Not. I thought Model.save_thumbnail was just to save a thumbnail to it's own jpg file. I'm talking about the one you see in the preview box when you do a File | Open, or if you turn on thumbnails in an explorer window. I think I may have found what I was looking for. There's an option under "Model Info | File" called "Redefine thumbnail on save". From what I can tell, the thumbnail only gets generated when you close the file, not when you save without closing, unless this option is turned on. I assume this is to improve performance on autosave, etc. Anyway, if I enable this option (manually), I get the behavior I want. Not sure if that option is available from within ruby. CB.

That's the best way to do it for now Chris. Todd

Unfortunately, no. Ruby access to dimension objects is pretty much non-existent. Sorry...