Very nice and useful !
One question: shouldn't be better suited under DRAW menu, instead of Extensions?
There is a uncanny tendency to put the plugins under Tools or Extensions menus... leaving all others with too little entries, even if the plugin in cause should better fit in other menu.
Cheers.
I was looking for a way to IMPORT svg into sketchup when I stumbled about this old one... known to blow up SU because of its bad programming... but now it seems fixed. I tried it and SketchUp survived.
Generate 2D SVG shapes from SketchUp faces. Contribute to simonbeard/sketchup-svg-outline-plugin development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub (github.com)
By the way, if any Trimble staff reads this... SVG became damn popular !! maybe you will think to include at least an importer for this format. Would be extremely useful.
Cheers
UNDO issue ...
sometimes when I cancel JPP it lets the geometry with missing faces. Then I undo to get it back to its previous state...the problem is that i have to hit A LOT of UNDOs.
Maybe the undo function should be reviewed and pack multiple phases in a single undo command.
I tried to reproduce it now, Couldn't. Will keep an eye on it, as it happened many times while working.
If this forum is still read, especially by Fredo, I would like to thank him for this plugin at first, then to ask if a small addition to it would be possible to be made.
I was thinking to a kind of "time splitting" like in lap stopwatch. This feature should be used for sequential billing, but without the need to reset the total time of work on a project.
The idea would be to have a button (inside settings menu is fine, to be less accessible) and when that button is pressed, then "lap timer" would be reset and the user would have the total time spent to the project until that moment. The work that will follow will be counted from zero, but still the main counter will work undisturbed.
So, let's say every week or when enough working hours have built together for a payment, the "lap" is reset, the client has the invoice for those hours and then the work can continnue, then reset again after a while, invoice sent and so on. And after each reset, the "lap timer" should reset to zero, but the general timer should continue.
What I had in mind is simple, but I am afraid I over complicated it with explanations. I hope it makes sense anyway.
Would be really nice to have this. Thank you very much.
I completely understand that this tool is not meant to replace a native SU tool. I was merely talking about the way of use of the similar commands (eg. selecting faces).
But this is not the biggest problem I got into. I could accommodate to it. The problem is that ENTER cancels the push-pull. I do it, i set custom value in VCB, then i press ENTER. And voila: no pushhpull. 
And I get confused: did I pressed ESC?
Unless there is any reason to assign a canceling to ENTER key.
By the way... "before" JPP wasn't behaving like this. It's like this change was introduced recently...couldn't tell which release.
Thank you very much, Fredo
Hy, I am a bit confused on how to PROPERLY use this plugin... Ok, I understood that I should keep the mouse button pressed while pulling the face, because click will only select/deselect (which is a bit annoying, honestly). But there is a funny behavior AFTER I do the push pull... sometimes (couldn't figure out in which conditions), when I press ENTER it actually CANCEL my pushpull.
Until now, every successful pushpull i did was out of luck... I have no idea how I confirmed the operation, because apparently I do the same thing like when it's canceled.
In my opinion it should do better use of ESC and ENTER keys (first to cancel, second to confirm). Also, selection of faces would be best to be key-assisted, as in regular SU behavior.
Is very confusing when plugins ask for different commands to do similar SU actions... is like two different programs. Select should be performed the same in native Su and under plugins (same key+mouse combinations), other operations should be similar.
Wish you best.
Well, as it turns out,this thing should be considered a bug... a material that EXISTS but can't be seen in library.
Still one can change its name, operate texture mapping on it.
@pbacot said:
No... I could get the material to show in the library by choosing it with the picker then dragging from the top bar into the library.
Please clarify... if you didn't have it in library, where did you dragged it from, to show in library ?
So, the relativity strikes again...
See in the attached screen that I have a painted face and by all means it seems texture, not Image.
I can select it with Material Picker, I can edit its name, I can even use Texture Position on it, but the material doesn't actually EXIST in model... at least so it seems from Materials Library...
The model is from 3DWarehouse. https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=e7d1b782f8446c3565b77a565916c7f
Any idea what's happening here?
By the way,I gave that material name... in the original model is called Image1, or something like that.
I just "Discovered" the wheel... 
using "deg" or "mm" when setting the camera focal distance, can switch between actual focal distance (35mm equiv) and fov (field of view) measured in degrees. 
@tig said:
Googling 'dxf reference guide' return lots of interesting hits - e.g. http://www.autodesk.com/techpubs/autocad/acadr14/dxf/dxf_reference.htm
Also there are several RB file plugins in the PluginStore which do DXF import/export manipulation - so using those as 'cribs' would help too...
So what more do you want ?
Thanks for this... i did a lot of search, but I guess I used the wrong keywords 
) never found this. Thanks a lot.
Umm, nothing? Is like DXF is the biggest kept secret in the world )))
I need a GOOD dxf guideline to include as much as I can take from a SU file (layers, line types, colors-based on materials), etc.
Also I want to be able to produce the file compatible with CNC (i don't know if there is some specific requirement or file architecture)
I tried to find something...either I find general info only, or really old.
Autodesk seem to have only dead links: http://www.autodesk.com/techpubs/autocad/acad2000/dxf/writing_a_dxf_file_dxf_aa.htm (other dxf-related links are equally dead)
Thanks for any help.
@pilou said:
Not luminance here but just colorized mood!
Colorized ... what?? can you explain? Cheers. 
@rich o brien said:
LightUp can do it.
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Does lightup accept other light sources others than SUN? And if so, can they be made realistic in terms of light power and distribution (do they accept ies files) ?
Thank you.
I am interested that it can be done somehow in SU, or with any rendering software that is available for SU.
I need a luminance simulation that will display the the illumination of a room in lux, as in the following image:
@bob james said:
Actually it's Awesome Bump 4.0
and soon it will be 5 and so on... i don't think this detail is of major importance.