@fredo thanks for your reply...

So if I understand what you're saying, I need to find all the nested parent components first and there location and from there iterate the nested child components of each nested parent component to get the cumulative location?

Sorry I think I even confused myself!

As the title says... I want to get the coordinates of all nested components.

I've searched but admittedly I don't really understand how transformations work so I might not be searching correctly.

When iterating a component I can get the origin of each nested component but that only returns the coordinates relative to it's immediate parent but not relative to the whole component tree... if that makes sense.

I'm assuming I would have to add each relative component transformation but I have no idea how to do that.

Is there a way to change the axes of a component instance like you would by right clicking and selecting change axes?

I've searched but haven't found anything, I tried applying a transformations and nothing works!

Thanks

Where can I find info and/or examples on how to set this part of the loader file? I'm searching but not finding anything...

require "Author_MultiClassPlugin/MultiClassPlugin_SharedConstants.rb"

include SharedConstants # mixin the constant module

And this from the SharedConstants file?

SOME_SEARCH_PATTERN ||= /^Author/

Thanks

Thanks for the info Dan... I'll check out those forums. I wasn't even aware that the Sketchup API had it's own require method and it explains why I'm having problems. I guess I have some more learning and reading to do!

I've been trying to get a plugin signed and running into some issues which seem to be related with require... I get these errors...
@unknownuser said:

Error: #<LoadError: cannot load such file
.

I found this post https://forums.sketchup.com/t/cant-load-required-rb/42755/3 where Dan uploaded some templates but I'm not sure how the
@unknownuser said:

MultiClass_MultiFile.zip
works. Does anyone have a sample code that I can look at or can someone please explain how those files should be structured and how they work together?

Frank

Thanks for the info Dan... I didn't check to see if there's a difference when loading different versions, just haven't had time and other than being annoying I don't see any problems in my plugin.

When I get a chance I'll look into it more and see if there are other errors as you suggested.

I'm getting this error
@unknownuser said:

C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2021/Tools/extensions.rb:197: warning: Win32API is deprecated after Ruby 1.9.1; use fiddle directly instead

My plugin was working before today and I haven't changed anything, what can be causing this error all of a sudden?

Thanks

Found this post which helped me find the solution...
https://forums.sketchup.com/t/transform-a-model-vertex-by-vertex/38771/7

Here's the code I'm using with some notes... if something can be improved or changed please let me know? I can also add the code to iterate the faces if needed?

Basically you need the vertices of all the faces you want to move and each vertex needs a cooresponding vector to be moved to. That way you can pass the 2 arrays to

transform_by_vectors(vertices, vectors)

. Andif you're using sub components like I am, make sure you're in the correct entities context (not sure I'm using all the proper terminology here) oe else you get a mess as a result.

Like Tig explained in the post I shared...

@unknownuser said:

... if every vector has a separate vector-transformation you need to pass two full arrays - in one go!

                
vectors=[]  //array of position to move vertices
vertices=[] //array of face vertices from the individual faces that make up the surface

vertices.flatten!  //in my case I need to flatten the array
vertices.uniq!     //make sure there are no duplicate vertex

vertices.each{|vector|
  position=vector.position.clone    
  position.x +=distance
  vectors.push vector.position.vector_to(position)
}
                                
component_entity.transform_by_vectors(vertices, vectors)

Hopefully this helps others out because it wasn't easy to find or understand... but it works!

As the title says, how do I move the curved face/surface? I'm able to iterate and get the individual faces and I tried

face[0].pushpull distance

within the loop but the faces take off in different directions.

I tried

face[0].transform!(Geom;;Transformation.new([0, distance, 0]))

but that doesn't work.

I also tried adding the faces to selection and doing something with that but I can't get anything to work.

Thanks...