Newbie here! I've been using SketchUp for about two months now and wouldn't pick up AutoCAD, Catia, Patran, and Unigraphics again even if I could throw away that kind of cash. I have just started delving into Ruby. I’ve added several scripts including SU2Pov so I can render my projects and have also walked through the Box.rb example.
I would like to create a translator in Ruby to output to a Finite Element Analysis program… and possibly suck back in the data to display deflections and stresses. Basically, I would need to get to the geometry, materials and such… pretty much what SU2Pov.rb does. Unfortunately, SU2Pov seems to be encrypted.
Can anyone suggest a publically available script translating to anything. If there are multiple ones out there, maybe you could suggest one for its verbose comments… helping me to learn Ruby while I’m modifying it for my task.

Thanks for your help.