Is there some way a script could analyse scripts as they are being loaded when SU opens to produce some "useful" statistics?
For instance: what is being loaded (the script's filename), how long each takes, and the relative time for each compared to the total time. Then display and/or print the results.
Regards, John
TIG:
Could the script have an option to make the color of the each edge equivalent to the color attribute of the surface it intersects? I suppose it could be tricky if the surface had different colors assigned to it's front and back face.
This is not a ruby script but some of you might be interested in this utility.
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=8696
Perhaps there is way to do something similar (the mathematics and interface) in ruby?
Dmitry Malutin has created some clever vector pattern generators. They were originally designed for use in Xara and other MS Windows apps. One of his tools is a spiral generator.
I thought a spiral creator might be useful for SketchUp folks so I asked Dmitry if he could adapt his current tool/utility to create DXF files.
Dmitry kindly responded and now you can download SPX-DXF.exe from http://xaraxtv.at.tut.by/spx.htm
Attached is a screen capture of the interface and an .skp file with an example of how a spiral pattern could be used.
If you see other utilities at Dmitry's site which you think would be useful in DXF format, Dmitry might be able to adapt them ... no guarantees that they can, however. The site has email link where you can submit your comments to Dmitry.
Regard, John
Rick, looks like you just beat me to the punch. Thanks anyway. 
and to RV.
RV:
I think you've got a good procedure.
1- Select the 'original' component
2- Right-Click, choose "Save As" from the Context Menu and name it 'version 2'
3- Save current model and open version 2.skp
4- Select all geometry that needs to remain in 'original' component. Make that selection a component and call it "Original". Select the remaining geometry and make it a a different component with a unique name (lets call it 'PasteMeInPlace') and then edit it and group all the geometry within it. Save the version2.skp file.
5- Open the first model. Right-click on the component named 'original' and choose Reload from the Context Menu and reload with version 2.skp. Pick Smustard's "Select All Instances" from the Context Menu and then EXPLODE that set of instances.
6- What remains should be a new version of 'original' and the other geometry which is the component 'PasteMeInPlace'. Select it. Right-click and use Smustard's "Select All Instances" again. You can then EXPLODE all those instances if you want. .....Optionally, you could edit 'PasteMeInPlace' first and ungroup the contents before exploding all of it's instances.
Rick it sure would be worth investigating. The use of components has been emphasized and encouraged as the way to go when modeling, but this issue now causes me to think twice before setting up an assembly of components. Anything that could be done to make this a more efficient process would be appreciated.
Regards, John
Yes, father, I will experiment with your suggestion... but give a while to do so.
I do a lot work with piping and the like. If I have a cylinder passing through another cylinder, sphere, or object with compound surfaces I would like to display edges where the surfaces intersect each other. To do this I have to perform intersections in one form another. It is time consuming, can be tricky, and messy when geometry changes and the intersections have to be redone.
It seems to me if SketchUp is sophisticated enough to display and control Profiles, the programmers should be able to develop a viewing mode where you turn-on/off the display of "apparent" interections of surfaces. Also have an option where you could assign this property on an object by object basis similar to what can be done with casting and receiving shadows.
G:
I'll give this a try in a bit. I think I may have problems, however, due to the way I use layers, for example I have layers for certain elements for each entity, group, etc., such as a layer for construction points-center lines and hidden edges/surfaces. Most all my groups and components contain geometry assigned to those layers.
G:
No, I haven't tried the select memory.
In one model I had to convert the parent components to a groups, then go into each group and cut and paste in place, etc.
I suppose could have then (but I didn't think of it at the time or not did I have hour to waste) save the file to a new name. Delete the groups, save and close that file, open the old file, select all the original parent components, CTRL_C copy them, close the old file, open the new, and Paste-in-Place, and then go into the parent component and delete the duplcate geometry ..... UGLY.
This project I am working on is becoming more challenging every day.
The challenge. I have several instances of a component spaced and aligned along, you guessed it. a couple of Sine Wave paths. This "parent" component consists of several sub-components and groups. Alot of effort was spent placing other miscellaneious geometry in model around to each instance of the parent component.
Today the designer told me that one of the sub-components has been radically redesigned into 3 options. Because of this it can no longer be contained within the parent component; each instance needs to be cut out and placed outside of the parent component in it's same place relative to the model origin.
Is there a script that can accomplish a "Cut-and-Place" geometry from an instance of a component and then paste-in-place outside of all of the instances?
Rick, I understand perfectly what you and others are saying about the "eventual/emminent?" release of v7. I did want to test the waters ... if there were some scripts in near "beta" phase, then it might warrant a change in my strategy for the near term.
There is an opportunity (a big one perhaps) where my manager would like to use some of my sketch up models to create animations. The animation would be for a "how it works" promotion for our client and potentially for manuals to be used by maintenance personnel.
There are existing scripts which are very clever in animating objects via copying component instances along a path and animating cameras along paths. But none do both well enough for what I have in mind.
What I am looking for is a way to animate the movement of objects and do so in sequence; so for example, CarA drives along a road, CarA stops at intersection, CarB passes across the intersection from left to right, CarA resumes driving forward. The camera might follow CarA from a above along the same path or it could be at a constant point but zoom in and then zoom out when CarA is at the intersection. If the script were to create multiple pages and or layers to simulate the movement of an object and control time, then there would need to be a way to EASILY edit the sequence in which objects are sequenced.
I realize SU is not meant to be a primary animation tool, but if I could use it to produce an eyecatching "animated storyboard" that might be good enough. Then I am thinking the objects in the model and their respective paths and the camera location and/or camera paths could be exported to a more sophisticated program like 3D studio Max or LightWave for Final Production by a professional animator. This way, costs and time for the final highend animation could be optimized, but the initial development of the animation storyboard could be kept inhouse.
Soooo ... I was wondering if anyone has anything in development along these lines or something else even more specialized or perhaps be interested doing so if there were "adequate inducements"? . Bottom line the script must be "user friendly" with regards to creating and then updating an animation storyboard.
You can email me directly if you don't wish to discuss online (JClements at BrwnCald dot com).
Anyone know why you can't add a construction point directly to the origin [0,0,0]?
You can create one and move it to the origin and [update]it will be visible as well[update], but not create one directly at the origin. None of the scripts that create cpoints seem to be able to do this either.
Just curious.
John
Thank you, Jim!
It works beautifully.
Regards, John
Hi Gata.
I do use the copy along path script and it works nicely. But the trick here is to space (subdivided) equi-distant if you will, along an existing curve. The functions that Fred06 has provided are flexible enough to aid in doing this, plus, re-manipulate/smooth some complex curves.
