Yes, it has been that way since the first release of Ruby back in June 2004. We ask every release for that to be fixed. The good news is that with V7, we did get a larger COURIER font for the Ruby Console instead of a smaller ARIAL font or whatever it was. Perhaps I can do some more smooth talking with the Google developers and get them to fix this too. It is quite annoying, and really does slow performance on long running traces. Todd

@remus said: Yea, I think it might be worth mentioning this to the SU team. The problem occurred when the last component of our version number exceeded 3 digits in length. That's why SU6 (.112) works, while SU7 (.8656, .10247, etc.) doesn't. We have an open bug for this issue.

And here's a picture of a DC config box and the menu open side by side. In the configuration window, you'll see the attributes color_options, name_option, size_options. Those get alphabetized automatically. And the order that they appear in the configuration window is the order they will appear in the menu window. So to get them to change order, I would need to add a 01 02 03 in front of the in the desired order. That does not affect the user friendly name that appear in the menu. [image: 3Xuo_comp_names.jpg] Chris

Hello, I made a small page for the sketchup plugins on my website. I updated the above link for the download. Hans-Peter

Thanks again. I missed this options-button.

@unknownuser said: Can you give some examples of what you script so we can get some ideas of what to add to a scripting interface? I am not familar with Layout and it capabilitys since I am evaluating the specs for a possible future use. When I undertstand it right Layout is a separte EXE/Modul and not running in the same process then SketchUp. In Autocad the modellviews in modellspace are similar to the modellviews in paperspace. Both can be reached from autolisp and automated/scripted. So what I would expect from scripting layout: Inserting forms/templates and filling their data-fields. Drawing primitives (lines,arrows,text and whatever layout supports) in Paperspace Placing views and set them up with view-points, camera-settings, rendermodes etc. Iterating (reading propertys) through all elements in paperspace. Interfacing with the SketchUp main-modul. (Starting a layout/print process in Sketchup/Ruby, doing the job (passing a ruby call to layout) in layout/Ruby and return back to the calling point in SketchUp) Control (filenames/printers) the output (Printing/Exporting) with Ruby in Layout. So be able to give a customer a cadalog with Sketchup Components and ready made forms/templates and custom ruby code/toolbars to allow him easy product customising. (I hope I make it clear so far, since I am not native english) Greetings from germany Regards Hans-Peter

Now that I think about it, but I doubt you can get SU to link to Ruby 1.9. It's probably hard wired for 1.8.