Thanks TIG it is a good point

Thanks TIG your generous script prints out unique arrays and it is not realy the exact case.

thomthom -> name, value
h{"name" => value, "name" => value,}

Looks like I havn't told all the details.

1. I have multidimensional array[] in Ruby
2. I want to send array[] to Webdialog using dialog.execute_script()
3. I want to send to PHP and arrange and do stuf with array[]

My array[] looks like this array[[value1, value2, value3,...],[value1, value2,...],...]

Im trying to transform array[] to hash{}
hash{0=>[0_0=>value1,0_1=>value2,0_2=>value3,...],1=>[1_0=>value1,1_1=>value2,...],...}

maybe I don't need transform, maybe I can send directly from Ruby to PHP without sending to Webdialog ?

Hi is there a fast way or some ruby libraries how to convert array[] to hash{} ?
Example of array[]:
a=[] a << [test1, test2, test3, test4]

How can I fill in hash{} with entity name and value?

Thanks Gábor and jiminy-billy-bob I combined both scripts and now understand how to do it

Does some one know how big(length) array ("v") I can send through ?
window.location='http://myserver.com/myfile.php?v=' + v;

Thanks I thought about it too, but could you pleas post small code example ?

It gives me blank page and doesn't transfer
data
array to that page

I will try to look at AJAX thanks.

Have some one tried to send data from Webdialog to PHP.
How to do it ?
I found that post_url could help but it doesnt.

data << [aa,bb,11,22] dlg = UI::WebDialog.new dlg.post_url("http://localhost/sketch/index.php",data)

Thanks it was the thing I was looking for

@jolran said:

Hi!

No response ey? I give it a try.

Maybe this code is part of a larger piece, otherwise I have a little trouble following your logic.

Have never used shadow info, and do not have time to look up the methods revolving that.
Does it really return an angle?

What is entity ? a face?

Unless you are going to use those variables later why not just enter:

tr = Geom::Transformation.rotation(ORIGIN, Z_AXIS, rotation)
Does not really matter for solving this problem though..

Try putting a bang to it! Edit in place..

north_vector.transform! (tr)

I just wanted to automating angle between north and face.
With entity I meant "face".

Here is updated code

` north_angle = Sketchup.active_model.shadow_info['NorthAngle']
flat_normal = entity.normal.clone
flat_normal.z = 0
north_vector = Y_AXIS.clone
north_vector.z = 0
point = ORIGIN
up = Z_AXIS
rotation = north_angle.degrees
tr = Geom::Transformation.rotation(point,up,rotation)
north_vector.transform! (tr)
angle = (north_vector.angle_between(flat_normal)).radians

    if flat_normal.x < 0
       angle = 360-angle
    else
       angle
    end`

And here is Sketchup screenshot with my experiment.

For this example script gives that angle between will be 100but not 50, where is the problem ?

Can some one see:

1. why if I change north angle result is not changing?

` north_angle = Sketchup.active_model.shadow_info['NorthAngle']
north_vector = Y_AXIS.clone
north_vector.z = 0
flat_normal = entity.normal.clone
flat_normal.z = 0
point = ORIGIN
up = Z_AXIS
rotation = north_angle.degrees
tr = Geom::Transformation.rotation(point,up,rotation)
north_vector.transform (tr)
angle = (flat_normal.angle_between(north_vector)).radians

    if flat_normal.x < 0
       angle = 360-angle
    else
       angle
    end`

I have come a cross several posts about angle between but none of them answered my question.

I want to calculate angle between north and any face in model.
There should not any restriction if i change north or model.

#the way how i get north angle north_angle = Sketchup.active_model.shadow_info['NorthAngle']

Below is algorithm what I want to achieve:

[pre:2rvuqfdo]x=north_angle
y=face_angle
z=angle_between
if(x>360)
z=y
else
if(x>0)
if(x+y>360)
z=x-360+y
else
z=x+y
end
end
end[/pre:2rvuqfdo]

I was looking for face lower left corner coordinates.
Thanks TIG it helped me alot, all day I was looking for it

Hi,

How can I export Sketchup::Face xyz coordinates ?
For Components and Groups I managed to do it.

Best regards
Krisjanis

Thanks TIG there can be made changes in my code even more later

Thanks it helped

Thanks

Can some one say why this is working: (where 's2' is Sketchup::Edge entity)

material_name=e2.material
if mat
cname=material_name.name
else
cname="<Default>"
end#if

but this is not working:

material_name=e2.material.name

After this code Ruby returns this error:
Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `name' for nil:NilClass>

Why i cannot strait forward access material name.

Also about entities parents.

Aim is to get parent ID in case the parent Name will be similar to at least 2 entities with:

parent.id

The code is returns me exact ID and also warning in Ruby console:

warning; Object#id will be deprecated; use Object#object_id

Is this warning very important or it is optional ?

Thanks, it helped me a lot
Basically i used

if parent.group?

to understand if entities parent is group and

parent.instances[0].name

to get parents name.

As i understand as long as I will not be duplicating my group entities I will not get in troubles.

Hi there,

I have question about, how to get parent name of current enitie.
It is no problem with ComponentInstance parents but doesnt work with Group parents.

Parent_name(Sketchup.active_model.entities.parent)

  def self.Parent_name(parent)
      if parent.kind_of? Sketchup;;Model
         pname=Sketchup.active_model.title+" <Model>"
      elsif parent.kind_of? Sketchup;;Group
         pname=parent.name+" <Group>"
      elsif parent.kind_of? Sketchup;;ComponentInstance
         pname=parent.name+" <Component>"
      elsif parent.kind_of? Sketchup;;ComponentDefinition
         pname=parent.name+" <Component>"
      end#if
  end  #Parent_name

My aim is to get Parent Name and Type of exact entity
P.S. This code snipet is something similar like TIG ComponentReporter++.rb