Hi, Jim (et.al.) Last month, there was an article in PC Magazine,... ...How to Upload High-Quality YouTube Videos I haven't tried it myself, but the article might provide the info you need. (It's apparent that vimeo still beats YouTube, hands down.) Taff

The other bug I've noticed with Vista has nothing to do with ruby, but with dialogs in general: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10719 Not sure if it's affecting your web dialogs. CB.

[quote="bik"] "If your first click on the "Front Face mode" and then (whatever reason) you directly click on the "Greyscale mode", you will lose irremediably your colored model. Impossible to come back, so at this moment, pay attention to not save your model after changed the mode folowing this sequence !" Thanks Bik for pointing this out, it happened to me. So here is the work around. Probably you have saved some preset views and perspectives during the design that you want to preserve. First, Save the model. Then "Save As (model name)BW.skp. In the BW (black & white clone model) make the whole model a component. Then you can apply the Greyscale plugin, with your original donor model secure in the original coloured textures. When the original is further developed, Save that and open your BW clone, right click on the model (which we made a component, remember) and select "Reload" and choose your original donor model. Or you could delete your clone component in the BW drawing, Copy the original donor from its file, and "Edit/Paste in Place" it in your BW drawing. I hope that helps.

ComponentDefinition.insertion_point returns the 'origin' axes of the Component Definition as it was originally made or they where later relocated - which affects the subsequent insertion point of instances. ComponentDefinition.insertion_point=[12,34,56] <say> will appear to reset this BUT when you repeat the above although it returns this new value it doesn't move the axes or where subsequent instances are placed... Weird...

I know what a Hash is in Ruby, but are you guys talking about the same "hash"? It's not clear how I could use a Ruby hash without running into the same problem; needing to search Entities for the matching ID. I wanted one of my plugins to handle selections in undo and redo operations, so I wrote a Selection Manager to handle it. It appears to work just fine using the entityID of each selected entity stored in an array of arrays; and stepping back and forth thru the stack. Second issue, there appears to be a que-ing, or scheduler in Sketchup? If I call Sketchup.undo followed immediately by my undo, the entities have not been "undone" in time for my undo to find them. I hacked it up using... Sketchup.undo UI.start_timer(0.1) { my_undo} Any alternative?

Ah, I used Array.instance_methods but I see that it requires an agument of "true" to get the inherited and mix-in methods also. ( 98 methods ) (Array.instance_methods(true) - Object.methods).sort ["&", "*", "+", "-", "<<", "[]", "[]=", "all?", "any?", "assoc", "at", "clear", "collect", "collect!", "compact", "compact!", "concat", "cross", "delete", "delete_at", "delete_if", "detect", "distance", "distance_to_line", "distance_to_plane", "dot", "each", "each_index", "each_with_index", "empty?", "entries", "fetch", "fill", "find", "find_all", "first", "flatten", "flatten!", "grep", "index", "indexes", "indices", "inject", "insert", "join", "last", "length", "map", "map!", "max", "member?", "min", "nitems", "normalize", "normalize!", "offset", "offset!", "on_line?", "on_plane?", "pack", "partition", "pop", "project_to_line", "project_to_plane", "push", "rassoc", "reject", "reject!", "replace", "reverse", "reverse!", "reverse_each", "rindex", "select", "shift", "size", "slice", "slice!", "sort", "sort!", "sort_by", "to_ary", "transform", "transform!", "transpose", "uniq", "uniq!", "unshift", "values_at", "vector_to", "x", "x=", "y", "y=", "z", "z=", "zip", "|"]

I use SnagIt from TechSmith - it has an option to scroll windows to capture them. Very useful for long lists like that. Bob

interesting... although it seems very cheesy... the modeling isn't very impressive.

Hi Jim Very cool, I'm planning to model a Fender stratocaster. @+

I took a look in the model.options list, and nothing there looks promising (I didn't expect it to, since what you want aren't really model options. If I have a chance, I'll do some more checking tomorrow, but I don't expect positive results...

It has "issues" with certain graphic-heavy PDF files, and printing limitations. No frills is what you get...Foxit is bigger but handles more PDF types.

It is not a sort of perversion to use Excel as a 3D program? Seems a very strong plugin!

@kwistenbiebel said: @fbartels said: They just need to get that roof curving in multiple directions ... Fred Building cost X 2. (+ a damn good structural engineer) Kwist, Probably but perhaps not, although I have a bunch of work ahead of me to prove that. I've been plugging away on experiments with PVC pipe structures and although the progress has been slow I've been reasonably pleased with the results. I'd make faster progress with a bigger research budget but that might jeopardize my marriage. Fred

Just for reference, the following works for scaling along the Group's axis: m = Sketchup.active_model e = m.active_entities s = m.selection tr = s[0].transformation trs = Geom;;Transformation.scaling( 2, 1, 1 ) s[0].transformation = (tr * trs) but this scales along the global axis: s[0].transformation = (trs * tr) as does this: s[0].transform! trs

Let me clear up a remark I made at the top of this thread, and even my followup posts. When I said "that is not the topic", I thought I was posting to Lewis's thread about a Ruby vulnerability that applies to people who use Ruby on a server for websites. However, this thread, your topic, certainly applies, and yes, you can do just about anything you want with Ruby.

Ok, good. I wasn't sure if asin was simply overlooked, or if you needed something different.

Documentation error. Page.layers should logically return an array of layer objects rather than the layers parent object, and it does. Just one of those cut-paste-forgot-to-edit errors, most likely.

You are welcome. I thought I had already done it. Thanks for the tickler. Todd

if you select open and un-check "always ..." still has the problem ? usually this appears when MIME setup is wrong