@glro said: How did you guess it was coming from sketchtruct? Lucky guess, but the Ruby Console gave a bug hint... [image: dj1O_177a.png]

FYI .. file_new() will close the active model only on Windows (because it's not an MDI interface.) On Mac.. another document window is opened, and becomes active, but the old one with the old model is still open. This post belongs in the Ruby forum.

@gaieus said: Jim's custom toolbar plugin has such a button. [attachment=0:381h7ksq]<!-- ia0 -->CustomToolbar.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:381h7ksq] The one right to it will toggle endpoints - also a good thing when trouble shooting or connecting mesh. thank you yes, i realized it later, and that i could do it myself... As an alternative to buttons, i like to use keyboard shortcuts; so i slightly modified Jim's plugin to assign a key to it Here is the code, without any garantee; it works with me, but i only copied and pasted, cannot explain what i did in detail ... require 'sketchup.rb' # Add a menu item to launch our plugin. UI.menu("PlugIns").add_item("colored_edges") { colored_edges } # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- def colored_edges mod = Sketchup.active_model # Open model ent = mod.entities # All entities in model sel = mod.selection # Current selection ro = Sketchup.active_model.rendering_options ecm = ro["EdgeColorMode"] if ecm != 2 ecm = 2 Sketchup.set_status_text "Egde Color Mode; by Axis" else ecm = 1 Sketchup.set_status_text "Egde Color Mode; Default" end ro["EdgeColorMode"] = ecm end def axisedge_validation_proc if Sketchup.active_model.rendering_options["EdgeColorMode"] == 2 return MF_CHECKED else return MF_UNCHECKED end end

Bonjour, Le code ruby Sketchup.active_model.rendering_options["EdgeColorMode"]=0 2 pour par axe a plus

@thomthom said: hcal.to_f doesn't modify hcal, it returns a float. So you need to write it like so: hcal = hcal.to_f thanks to both you... yes, both codes work nicely; i spent 3 hours to look for a solution, and i get 2 different, in a few minutes, on sketchucation... learning ruby on the internet is an exciting experience

@tig said: You can't add 'arguments' to a UI.openURL() - it's a 'path' only tool. BUT you can write a cmd/bat file with the needed data and then open that [it 'executes'] and that can pass/use arguments written into it thus... START mailto;"someone@somewhere.com?subject=The%%20Title&cc=%%20&bcc=%%20&body=Hello%%20testing%%20123 See here for more details http://www.robvanderwoude.com/email.php or http://www.paulsadowski.com/wsh/cmdmail.htm There are ways to escape the used special characters if you want... Just compile the message File.write to a temp file called say 'C:/Temp/emailer.cmd' then UI.openURL('file:///C:/Temp/emailer.cmd') to run it. You can even make it erase it self as it ends... i am not familiar with batch programs, but i shall try to understand the way to do it; thank you!

So I was wrong in everything I said Yes it was part of some longer piece, I copy and pasted it wrong, sorry.

@tig said: @glro said: @dedmin said: http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rubylibrarydepot/plugin_details.php?id=198 the text written by this plugin shows one line for each instance of a component it doesn't make the total for each component You never asked for that your plugin "ComponentReporter++.rb" produces 3 text files: *_CR-Component+Report.csv *_CR-Instances+Report.csv *_CR-Parentage+Report.csv With the included example: "essai_CR-Component+Report.csv": DEFN-NAME,COUNT,DESCRIPTION,GUID Composant#1,1,,29b53a7c-2e6c-40b9-9f78-41e4abc0a62f Composant#2,1,,2306d93d-9156-46c9-bf4a-5a4e8a2f5e38 Composant#3,4,,c969203b-e788-468f-b495-5936ea9bdd48 As you can see, Composant#1 and Composant#2 are counted once only, when in reality, they appear 4 times in the model; the problem comes from the fact they are nested within Composant#3 If Composant#3 instances are exploded, Composant#1 and Composant#2 are counted 4 times, and it is what i am looking for. But would be possible to get this result without exploding anything, using the information in your file "essai_CR-Parentage+Report.csv": 'essai_CR'<Model>,''Composant#3<Instance>, 'essai_CR'<Model>,''Composant#3<Instance>, 'essai_CR'<Model>,''Composant#3<Instance>, 'essai_CR'<Model>,''Composant#3<Instance>, 'essai_CR'<Model>,'Composant#3'<Definition>,''Composant#1<Instance>, 'essai_CR'<Model>,'Composant#3'<Definition>,''Composant#1<Instance>, 'essai_CR'<Model>,'Composant#3'<Definition>,''Composant#1<Instance>, 'essai_CR'<Model>,'Composant#3'<Definition>,''Composant#1<Instance>, 'essai_CR'<Model>,'Composant#3'<Definition>,''Composant#2<Instance>, 'essai_CR'<Model>,'Composant#3'<Definition>,''Composant#2<Instance>, 'essai_CR'<Model>,'Composant#3'<Definition>,''Composant#2<Instance>, 'essai_CR'<Model>,'Composant#3'<Definition>,''Composant#2<Instance>, By counting the last definition instance of each line, and produce the result in a file like "essai_CR-Component+Report.csv"? This is what sketchup does in the statistics windows, when you ask to developp for the component hierarchy, and it was my first question... nested components example