Yes. That's the link. Sorry. I went to bed after my last post.

I wasn't thinking about the copyright but more the ethics. I think it would be ethical to talk to him before you start posting rewrites of his plugin.

If the beams would be used in standard increments of length, I would suggest you settle on some number convention that identifies the length of the beams. Perhaps that would be 10, 20, 25, etc. So you might have "Beam 10", "Beam 20", "Beam 25", etc. If you also have beams of differing cross sections, you might want something like "Beam 1.5-10" which would represent a 1-1/2 inch square beam that is 1 foot long.

If you are using CutList don't add commas to the Definition names or names as that will create issues in the CSV file when you generate it.

Add the word Beam to the Parts Words so that they get listed in the Parts section. This will prevent CutList from calculating how many board feet of beams you'll need and give you just a shopping list containing quantity and name of each beam length. If you are also including fasteners in your model, add words like Bolt, Washer, Nut the Part Words list so those parts will also show up in the Parts section.

Once you have the CSV file created, you can massage it in Excel or another spreadsheet application to make it look like you want.

Pilou will be along directly and suggest that you use Shape Bender which you could certainly do but you can also do it manually without problem.

Draw a cylinder for the hole, Rotate/Copy to make a radial array of the holes, copy the array up and rotate halfway between to get the staggered holes.

Draw a cylinder centered on the the array of holes

Intersect the "holes" with the cylinder. Delete the waste.

Copy the section up as many times as needed.

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If you have the pro version of SketchUp, you could use Solid Tools to create the holes more quickly.

Set your length snapping to 1.5" and use my WorkPlane with a 1.5" grid set, to to make a planes to snap to to its intersections etc.......