Thanks Dan that worked and was just what I needed. Keith

Keith.. updated the template example. Moved the definition of WIN and MAC constants up to the Object level. I had an inline comment, that said they'd be inherited by all nested namespaces. They would not have been. I've been working with mixin modules and subclasses lately, and got some braincells crossed. We've asked Google to define these when Sketchup starts but they have not, as yet.

do you read your PM's or check for answers? john

Thanks for the code it worked just fine. I had finally found the piece I was missing and this is what I had come up with model = Sketchup.active_model entities = model.entities ss= model.selection entity = ss.first selection_bb = entity.bounds max_dir = "blue axis" if selection_bb.height > selection_bb.depth max_dir = "green axis" if selection_bb.width > selection_bb.height then max_dir = "red axis" end else if selection_bb.width > selection_bb.depth then max_dir = "red axis" end end case max_dir when "blue axis" tr = Geom;;Transformation.rotation [0,0,0], [0,1,0], 90.degrees entities.transform_entities tr, entity when "green axis" tr = Geom;;Transformation.rotation [0,0,0], [0,0,1], 90.degrees entities.transform_entities tr, entity end Similar and the results are both ok.

Thanks TIG That was exactly what I needed!!! Keith 11

Most helpful. Many thanks for taking the time. dh

Hi Keith, You are a genius! As you suggested to me, I erased files and everything works normally. Once again thank you for your intervention! Richard G.

Thanks Dan that worked just fine. I think I will only need to show the file once as the joint tools are not extreemly complicated but it is importsnt to know what edges the program is expecting you to pick. Thanks Keith

Not sure what the problem is? What are you trying to do?

My idea of using a temporary group means that the faces in the group are all that's needed to consider for reversing - so it very quick; if you are making lists of all entities before and after a pushpull then there might be thousands of them to sift through, twice! ... So why not make a group, add a circular face, pushpull it, reverse the faces in the group, re-add a circular face to the group and erase it, then add a circular face to the main-face and erase it to leave a hole over the grouped 'recess', and finally explode the group? It will be much quicker in most circumstances... and 'safer' too...

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Keith, I don't have a clue as to why your BoxJointTool splats but I know where it happens. I added a number of statements to print to a file then ran the program several times and in all cases it reached assentially the same place before crashing. The referenced zip file contains the output files, your modified .rb file, and my own version of a BoxJoint tool. The procedure for using mine is a little different in that instead of selecting the component then two edges, in mine, you select the component then the end face. BoxJoint files

Thanks TIG that was exactly what I was looking for and it works perfectly!! Keith

If the values are in inches then you won't need to convert from a float to length if you are only passing it to Point3d.new. Looking I your code I would have made your hard coded values into reusable variables or constants. Easier to maintain and you'll be creating less objects. The only time you need to convert to a Length is when you need to output the unit to the current model unit as Length.to_s will do that. Otherwise, make sure any hard coded lengths are in inches, or use the helper methods that converts it to Length object.

Thanks TIG as usual you were right on the problem and I found the error earlier in the code and it resulted in dir_y did not exist and program did not actually reach the point I thought was the problem. Keith

Try: cface=codef.entities.add_face(@pt) It's good that the API allows both ways... entities.add_face(pt1, pt2, pt3, ...) entities.add_face([pt1, pt2, pt3,...])

Hi Keith, Is the scroll wheel working in other apps? Did you install a driver lately?

Keith, I think this is the way to do, because it speeds up the start of the Sketchup application. I introduced this approach for my own plugins with LibFredo6 3.6. I called it "two-phase loading" (only the files bootstrap_... are loaded at SU startup time). Actually, you may see a small message in the status bar indicating the file loading the first time you use the plugin. Also the time for the second phase is indicated in the About... box. I use a slightly different method but it does not matter. This save a few hundreds milliseconds for each plugin, so seconds at the end Fredo

Hi, I just found your plugin for mortise and tenons but am having trouble understanding how to use. Could you re post the videos showing how to do it?

Here is one of the files. Most features work similar Keith LooseTenonJoint.swf