Thanks I only make furniture and seldom add texture. My dell is dying it only runs 2016 so I’m sure to ok if the last version of make runs

Will a portable with a nvidia GeForce rtx3050 graphic card run sketchup
I need a new computer

Keith

I sent a pm and also ansered on you tube. Or ask here I check to see if I think it canbe done

Keith

I have not looked at the forum for while so I just saw your question. Are you wanting to make the detail in both parts at the same time? That would be a difficult program.

You could use the dowel tool to make the thru hole for the bolt in both parts by making the hole in part2 a thru hole and using dowel data to get the proper dept in part 1. The cross hole would be a problem for my program an programing skills as it requires a intersection. You would need to draw a cylinder and use solid substract tool to create that detail. Booltools2 is a free plugin that would do that.

Search for wudworx the board maker is free and makes a board component after dragging a rectangle and entering thickness value. Download the zip file and change the file extension zip to rbz and the file will install with the install extension feature. works on 2016 which is as far I can test.

Been woxrking on that. Sent a pm

Keith

Thanks Mitch your code worked very well once I figured out the transformation I needed. The code also left the component entities on Layer0 which was a problem for my code.

The forum is an amazing source of info thanks to the many people who are willing to share their knowledge.

Keith

I will try Mitch's code. Question there are 2 constantans I am not familiar with in your code. SKETCHUP_CONSOLE.clear and IDENTITY.

The problem with my version is that the entities that make up the final are on the Components layer not layer0. In the code I thought I was moving them back to layer0 but it didn't work and it didn't flag an error.

@sss.clear
		ents = []
		@entities.each { |e| ents << e if (e.layer.name == @assy_Name) && ( ! e.is_a?(Sketchup;;Group) && ! e.is_a?(Sketchup;;ComponentInstance) )}
		ents.each { |e| e.layer.name = "Layer0" }
		@ss.add(ents)
		copedRail = @entities.add_group(@ss)
		@ss.clear; @ss.add copedRail
		copedRail.layer = @assy_Name

Thanks
Keith

I worked on this some more and found a Solution.
Created a new layer
added each comp to that layer
exploded each comp
cleared selection
added all entities on the layer to the selection
added selection to new group
cleared selection
added group to selection
I could now make the group a solid I did not need a component at this point.

I am bringing 3 parts (components) which are placed such that if all 3 are exploded and then all selected and made a single component. I have not been able to accomplish this with the API. Any suggestions

Keith