Hi Coen,
The rubies are categorized in some way at my site (8 different sections)
I would like to have your opinion about these categories and about what should I do to enhance the listing. Any hints ?

@kwistenbiebel said:

(Is there a categorised list of all plugins?)

Working on it.

Hi K, (too long for a name )

@unknownuser said:

Just a question more: is there also a ruby that let's you select all the instances of a same component?

As a suggestion you could try my quick selection command.
It can select what you want in the model, it is based on filters, Autocad-like.
Download it at my site, "Selection-Layers" page, or here:
http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/EM/quick_selection.zip
Hope this helps,

Hi,
Rick Wilson developed a script that may help you, almost exactly what you want: applyto.rb.
Here is what it does:
Context-click on a component or set of components.
Select "Component Definitions>Get Definition" to get a definition to apply.
Select "Component Definitions>Apply Definition" to apply a selected definition to selected components.

You can download it at my site (see signature). Go to "Metric Plugins" page, then click on "Editing" section. Scripts (right-most column) are sorted alphabetically, so it is the 5th

hope this helps,

Hi Ton,

Don't worry, I don't give up
You just have to RENAME your new folder "HouseBuilder".
Either your Zip app isn't configured as to maintain directory and pathes information (that's why it has renamed the new folder "HouseBuilder_metric_1.2Folder" by itself) or the Mac version of Winzip doesn't work the same way than on PC.
I'm sure you aren't the only one who uses HB on a Mac, and I've never heard of such problems so far.
Regards,

Hi Ton,

I'm sorry to say that your files/folders organization is completely wrong...
A ruby script doesn't find its way by itself, so there are some rules to follow in order to make it work
When I release a package I always save the folders information when building the Zip so the user have just to unzip it in his Plugins folder and that's it. No folder(s) creation needed, no file(s) renaming, no nothing.
If you delete all "housebuilder" files you have installed and unzip the package again in your Plugins folder, it MUST work.
After having unziped, you should have:

• "HouseBuilder_extension.rb" in your Plugins folder, as well as "readme.txt"
• a folder named "HouseBuilder" under the Plugins folder
• in this HouseBuilder folder: all Gif's and PNG's, 2 rubbies and "housebuilder_sections.txt"

If it doesn't work, I give up

Hope this helps this time

Hi Ton,
Thanks for helping me track the bug
If I'm not completely mad, I understand from your results that the method "find_support_file" doesn't work the same way on a Mac than on a PC 8O
BUT just an idea comes to mind now: the Sketchup executable on Mac is not named "sketchup.exe" (no file extensions on Mac, right ?)
That's why the method returns nil, eh eh...
Could you try (sorry, no Mac here...) in the Ruby console:

Sketchup.find_support_file("Sketchup") 

If it returns something else than nil, problem is solved.
Thanks again for helping,

Hi Kmead,
Let's try something else:
Could you open the Ruby console and type:

a = Sketchup.find_support_file("Sketchup.exe") ENTER

and then type:

a + "Plugins\HouseBuilder\" ENTER

Please post the 2 results you've got, just to check if really it's a path problem or a backslash string problem or
Let's debug online...

Hi Daniel,
Done. See depository and replace houseBuilderTool.rb in your HouseBuilder folder.
Cheers,

Hi Kmead,

I noticed that the path to HouseBuilder is wrong:
/Library/Application Support/Google Sketchup 6/Plugins/Housebuilder/

Please rename the Housebuilder folder to HouseBuilder, because pathes are case-sensitive.
Hope this will solve the problem

I'm sure this one will work !!!
Please download it at the depositary and re-install ALL files.
Regards,

SORRY all for the inconvenience (related to icons)
I think I've got the solution: for an unknown reason scrambled extension code doesn't seem to work OK on some platforms (wether PC or Mac).
I'll publish in a few hours a "non-scrambled" main script to replace the 'offender'.
Regards,

What's going on with these icons

Still searching.
Anyone has my layer manager script with similar problems ???

Hi all,
I've released a new set of icons at the depositary (same post than the main prog).
Tell me if this one works for you
Reagards,

Hi Kmead,

@unknownuser said:

I run on Mac OSX so that may be some part of the issue

That's true, but my fault
The text file "housebuilder_section.txt" is loaded from a path which is hard-coded and I suppose it is different on PC and Mac.
What the program does is that it searches the SU executable and it adds "Plugins/HouseBuilder" to the path
of the exe to find the text file.
What is the absolute path by default to the SU executable on a Mac ?
And what is the relative path of the HouseBuilder folder ?
Thanks for helping me to fix this problem.

Edited. Thanx for pointing out.

Hi all,

Juju requested a version of HouseBuilder to handle metric sections used in South Africa.

I've just uploaded at the depositary a new version of the HouseBuilder package.
Here it is: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=153&t=1518
This version 1.2 can load customized lumber sections from an external file, so everybody can input its own used sections.
Unzip in Plugins folder and please READ readme.txt

Have fun,

Gaieus,
Kerkythea loads XML files format (among others) but has its own set of objects and parameters. SU2KT reads all the SU model geometry and settings (sun,cameras...) and roughly converts them to what is most a sort of "Kerky's XML". So this will not be similar with "3D for all" XML, IMHO. Will look further into it.
Cheers,

Hi,
Maybe I'll give this one a try, if it is of some interest. I have developed several exporters so far, one of them for a private company which wanted to handle 3D laser scanner, bluetooth devices and XML files (soory for rusty english ).
I have used REXML to achieve this and must say that it was quite easy. So if 3DXML is a sort of XML clone, maybe it could be done.
I'll check Dassault's site and make my mind (I'll have some easyness to understand the docs if they're in french .
Wait and see.

OK OK OK
Thanks for answering., have a nice day