Jim/Dan,

Thanks for the reply.

Adding material (and back_material) to grp works for me.

Understanding why this happens is even better.

Hi,

I am a real newbie when I comes to Sketchup and Ruby I was introduced to Sketchup and Ruby last week.

I have been trying some of the tutorials, etc..., but I am (obviously) not really familiar with all details of the object model of Sketchup.

I have an issue with putting colored text on a face (of a cube or just a 2d square).

I can see the text, but applying a color or material to it, is not so obvious, as far as I can see (newbie

The only think I could find is applying material to each individual face of a 3d_text string. See code snippet at the end of the message.

I hope there is an easier and more importantly faster way to do this

All help is welcome

Kind regards,

Jan

` grp = ent.add_group
grp.entities.add_3d_text("My Labels", TextAlignCenter , "Verdana", false, false, 4.inch, 1.mm, 0, true, 1.mm)

txtFaces = grp.entities.find_all{|f| f.is_a?(Sketchup::Face) }
for f in txtFaces
f.material=[0,0,255]
end #for`

Running Sketchup 2014 make, windows 8.1