no need for more context menu item clutter!

CTRL+X to cut the object from one place

set up shortcut: Shft+CTRL+V = paste in place

open target component or group, paste in place with keyboard shortcut.

but I STILL like the eplanation for hexadecimal... I always saw that on my calculators and wondered 'what in the world is that?'

this one?

thanks Gaeius! That was an EXCELLENT explanation!

take your time, Whaat, get it right...
... have patience people! it's a virtue, and is usually greatly rewarded!

for simple line drawings, I use the shape tool in photoshop, but if you use illustrator, it's vector based, and "better".

again, the fillet.rb works fine for SketchUp... it only works on lines, if you can't get it working, it's probably a user error.

If I were going to make diagramatic drawings in SU, I would make a bunch of components that I could drag-n-drop into place. That way, you only have to make the shape once. This would save mucho time.

have you not seen Whaat's subdivide and smooth ruby (look in the ruby forum for the topic) ?

it exists. it's called fillet.rb... you can d/l it from Didier's ruby website, I'm sure.

the fillet corners on cube... asked for already, does not exist, but Whaat's subdivide and smooth ruby (look in the ruby forum for the topic) is A-FREAKING-MAZING... and is something that could probably add a 'fillet' for a cube mesh fairly easily (actually, someone asked him for that too already)

look up the protrude ruby... sounds like what you're looking for.

unfortunately the link I had for that thread is now weird - it links to a thread, but not the right one... after changing the forum, obviously the thread link numbers changed.

I think it's just called 'protrude.rb'.

Incredible work, Whaat... Google should be knocking down your door to hire you!!! This is really 'SketchUp'... with a capital "S" if you know what I mean. It's really maintaining the spirit of SketchUp but adding serious depth and power. Congrats on your amazing work.

Didier,
thank you for this great script!

I'm wondering ... Can you make it work like the follow-me tool so that you can pick the path before selecting the lines to extrude and they would follow that path?

like this image:

It would be great for creating low-poly roof flashing around a complex roof, or for low-poly sunshades with all those blades, so you don't have to make them with thickness, etc.

here's a conversation for this a few months back

salut, sfec,

désolée, mais le français n'est pas ma langue maternelle, stp faut avoir du patience avec moi

même si tu parle pas l'anglais, il faut regarder plusieurs fois les vidéos tutoriels pour SU. Je les ai regarder des tas des tas, et ça m'a aider beaucoup. Voila autres videos. Et encore des videos...

J'ai l'impression que tu as quelques experiances avec AutoCAD ou qqc de même genre, donc, tes premières attentas a SU vont pas être tellement positive, parce que les systèmes ne pense pas l'un a l'autre... pour SU, il n'y a que des lignes et des 'planes'... j'sais pas le mot en français, désolée...

quand même... avec SU je trouve que je dessine qqc, et puis, je donne a SU la distance exacte. Alors, Si on dessine avec l'utile 'rectangle'... après faire le rectangle, entre "500cm,500cm" voila... c'est changée a la taille. Donc, je 'push-pull' la face du rectangle, et puis j'entre la distance que je veux. "500cm" = la hauteur.

oh la la, c'est difficile expliquer en français! whew!... je lit beaucoup plus vite

bonjour,

je ne suis pas sur j'ai bien compris, un image et digne 1000 mots.

as tu esseyer changer les 'Shadow Settings'?
faut choisir Window>Shadows ou choisir View>Toolbars>Shadows

@ely862me said:

wooooow, i want that offset tool :-O,it s a very usefull tool,until this i have to do the contour by hand on curved surfaces. U*re the man!!!

UPDATE After searching i realised that isn t done yet,but i ll wait for it

ely862me,
what are you talking about? it's out... avail. and works quite well! download it from the ruby repository

can't wait to see it, Whaat...
(on the 'invite' list, on the 'invite' list, on the 'invite' list)

muchas gracias, amigo!

"win32ole.so"
what the heck is that?! I tried to xref in a .dwg and it says
"This requires 'win32ole.so' to be in the Plugins folder! Exiting..."

any help?!

thank you Chris! the 2D grid ability is Key!

Yes, Whaat's tool is much more sophisticated programming... but if you are looking for a quick subdivide and smooth tool while you're waiting for Whaat's lovely work to be finished, Rick's plugin does work for what it does! But, indeed, they are basically 2 completely different "animals".

of course, KT renders on all 4 threads... or 8, and also net-renders... so in future...