Sure, I can. If you feel like dropping it in it's own thread for proper indexing, let me know and I'll remove the bracketed plugin wording. Or feel free to edit it yourself if need be. I don't mind at all.

Thanks TIG. That's even better!

Thanks for the tip Jeff. Been banging my head for the past hour trying to fix these callouts. Grouping worked. I should always know to check here first!!

Works on almost any face. Faces created by the freehand tool seem to fail to resize properly. Not sure why.

Works great now. Thanks again.

If you have time. If not, no worries. I just figured I'd mention the issues in case anyone else needed to use the plugin.

Thanks TIG. It works as long as I am using a decimal unit type. With fractional units, it deletes everything in the model. Not sure why, just have to remember to switch the units before using the plugin. Thanks again. I'll update the first post with the rb file.

Also it is still stating inches in the dialog even when the units are feet. No big deal though. Works for what I need. Thanks again!

Thom, excuse my ignorance, but how would I going about testing your code?

Very nice Richard. The subtle shadowing is great. Clean and soft overall. Very appealing!

TIG, having an issue with your script loading properly. I copied and pasted the code exactly into a notepad file and named it - TIG-scale_face.rb. Upon loading Sketchup, I get no errors, but none of my toolbars load. When I delete the script, all the toolbars load again.

You guys both rock! THANKS so much!

Is it possible through ruby (or does something exist) to scale a face to a desired area size? Let's say I draw an irregular shape which needs to be a specific square footage. Is it possible to have a plugin which let you click on the face and set a desired square footage and the face automatically scales to that area?

I'm drawing a bunch of different free form (lagoon style) pools for a client, but have a target square footage the shapes. I can get close with trial and error and scale tool, just thought it would be nice to do it exact through a script.

EDIT - Plugin attached. Thanks TIG.
EDIT: by TIG - code fixed for all unit types !
TIG Donations==

Original version

Alternate version to work with any unit type.

Amazing! I love this and wonder if it is available in the States? I love the integrity in European masonry and architecture. Profit motives in the US have atrophied our artistry through the years, although glimpses still remain in our most crumbling of cities.

After you intersect to derive the shape of where the two surfaces meet, you can take a look through this thread where some good pointers are given for achieving what you want - http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=46136&p=412325&hilit=fillet+between#p412325

Hugely grateful for all the time you put in bro. You've definitely enhanced my 3D experiences with all your plugins. The gizmo looks great and can only make a perfect thing better.

This is great. Thanks Fredo! Would also like to see a divide (length & increment) curve, comparable to the one in BZ Convert, except that respects angles in the manner of your simplify tool. Simply put, a polyline divider that respects corners over a certain degree.

Good tip Rich. Thanks!

@d12dozr said:

You guys...Adam is scanning hand drawings...he can't use a PDF to DXF converter.

@unknownuser said:

we generally scan all of our hand drawings into a plotter and it creates a .pdf.

Adam, I bet there is a setting on the scanner to make a JPG rather than a PDF. What kind of scanner/plotter is it?

Good point. I'll have to check on that. Technically I guess it's not a plotter, just a 36" printer / scanner made by Ricoh.

I know the scans are raster pdf's and don't expect to glean vector lines from them. I have Vector Magic as well, but for what we do, it's faster to trace.

I work with .pdf files generated in CAD though as well.

I guess the whole thread was an attempt to not let Mac users feel special.

I know the free Acrobat reader doesn't even convert a .pdf to an image. Free Sketchup doesn't import .dxf. I have illustrator, SU pro and acrobat pro, so I can get a pdf in. However, other folks in my office don't have either and we generally scan all of our hand drawings into a plotter and it creates a .pdf. Generally those get brought in and traced. I end up doing a lot of conversion for everyone. It would be rather convenient to just have a viable import option which would recognize whether it is a vector or raster pdf and bring it in accordingly. I just always found it odd that sketchup doesn't support such an industry standard design format on Windows, yet Mac, who doesn't support Adobe flash on their platform, does support pdf import. Just a little odd.

Is there one floating around or possible to make this an available import function through plugin for windows? Apparently it's possible on Mac. Importing a .pdf to scale would be a huge benefit for me and other windows users.