Thanks all for yur help. I have encountered very weird things with this 'bug', like: create a new empty group, put a face in it, pushpull the face, and list all the entities of the group. I got several faces and a component instance . @unknownuser said: I think the secret is to make the empty new group AND put something into its entities asap. Yes, I've tried that too, it works most of the time but not 100% Pfff, I'll let you know if I find a way to eradicate this bug. Thank you,

Didier, Gentil d'avoir pensé à moi, mais j'avoue ne pas avoir le temps en ce moment ni la compétence pédagogique. En tous cas, il est interessant de savoir que des utilisateurs cherchent à se former à Ruby Sketchup. Fredo

Having a hard time now. Rarely is anything being sprayed, no matter the setting. No groups or components on the receiving end. FloatDomainError? [image: 0KeM_componentsprayfail-1.JPG]

here is how you do it using TBD's bridge sollution http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=169&t=6903#p137855

Hi, No need to convert it to CSV. Here is what Autode$k says about ptsb format: @unknownuser said: Pointcount X Y Z Intensity R G B (Intensity is a float value 0-1) Example: 2 0 0 0 .5 128 128 128 1 1 0 .5 128 128 128 Quite simple isn't it So open your file in a text editor, erase first line (number of points), save it to 'somefilename.txt' and it should work. Just set the points cloud reader first dialog to use a space delimiter, and second dialog to set X,Y,and Z coordinates as the first, second and third datum of each line (see below). I've tried this example and it works. [image: qLov_cloud1.jpg] [image: mITv_cloud2.jpg] Regards,

Thanks Whaat, it seems to works here too, even with a single element array. Fingers crossed !

didier, my mouth was watery after i saw the animation! i wish you find a way of making it public. it would be a success, for sure. congratulations.

WOW an "official" recognition that there is or will be a SU 7

Hi, Nothing specified in the docs concerning normals. Doc is so sparse you know... I guessed that passing points in a counterclockwise order was orienting the normal up (assuming that these points are on an horizontal plane) ? You can notice that once drawn, quads are visible from both sides. Is the normal useless or am I completely wrong ?

Salut, ton truc ne fonctionne pas

Hi @Didier-Bur, thank you for the tool. Is it possible to make <double line from selection> to work with line on a surface? I am trying to use tool to create grooves on a surface from a single line. My hack now is to use it to create a "groove" or Ridge with negative or positive values and join one by one to surfaces that I need a groove.

Using Object#respond_to? should also be possible. And if you really want to use "OnTransactionEnd", set an alias on "OntransactionCommit" azuby

This is the documentation page I use - it's the most up-to-date: http://groups.google.com/group/SketchUp-Plugins-Dev/web/Ruby-classes.html Todd and Rick get all the credit for updating the docs - it's a thankless chore, no doubt. I wish there was a way to see what changes have been made to the documentation. I've asked that document updates be logged for us, but maybe I'm asking too much.

merci pour ce plugin et pour la traduction !

Being 'unsigned' need not be a problem. Edit your native Extension Manager settings - Loading Policy > Unrestricted Restart SketchUp and version-compatible, but 'unsigned', extensions [i.e. usually older] will then load OK. Only install extensions from trustworthy sources - like SketchUcation, the Extension-Warehouse and a few developers' sites which offer direct downloads...

Merci Didier pour toutes ces améliorations MALAISE

Does it work on 2013? When trying to do a circle spray the plugin will not accept the second point of the circle (or any of the available shapes for that matter).

Merci, je vais lire.

Thank you so much Didier for making all these wonderful plugins for free. All of them are saving from hours of extra work, very useful for architectural work ! Sketch Up users have almost nothing to envy to 3DS Max users, with a good practice skp can do almost anything thanks to developpers like you, TomTom, Tig, Fredo etc Good work guys

@kat said: I don't get the tangent = (normal * binormal) multiplication. Isn't B supposed to be the cross product of N and T? Makes no odds. Binormal and tangent both lie in the plane. @kat said: And why is gives @adamb said: (xform * binormal).length * (xform * tangent).length you the scale factor? I'm taking the unit vectors in the plane of the face and transforming them by the Group transform which may scale them. Getting the length in the binormal and tangent direction allows me to figure out how much to scale the area of the face accounting for the transform. Adam