ok thanks guys, i have to start looking into this.

i would transfer these faces manually but since the models are not originating from
sketchup it means that they are pretty high on polycount (30k-100k) and flipping even 1000 faces manually is bit, well, horrible

Before i start to climb this particular hill i'd like to ask if you know of such a script already.

The point is that i have some acad models that include a staggering amount of faces which for some reason are facing in random directions. However the model should be always solid so it would be enough for me to just check the normals of the faces and compare those to the camera and if they are not opposite i could just reverse the face.

Can you spot a fatal flaw in the reasoning or provide a good starting point for this work ?
I guess it would involve selecting all faces in the FOV and doing some vector-magic on them?

Br,
Janne Kotka

perfect, thanks Jim!

[lekonna]

Geez it seems i'm lost with this coding business, well it's been like 5 years, thats what managering stuff does to you i suppose.

Can you guys point a good way to get rid of the double geometry for me? If i just go ahead and upload the script here. Though i have to appologize for the code since the variables and texts are in finnish. Was bit too sure i could pull one simple script off by myselfs

So the problem being on how to get rid of the double geometry thats not folling the place_component.

Thanks in advance, should be no-brainer for you guys.

-Janne

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/sas/Ruby/windower.rb

[lekonna]

hmm it seems that now i get double geometry, the one i place with the place_component and one created at 0,0,0 duh.

[lekonna]

haa gotit!

the to_component returns a componentInstance which has the
definition method returing just what i needed.

Thanks a ton Jim!

[lekonna]

alright. the documentation seems to be bit incomplete on that method.

what i tried was:

  component = group.to_component
  status = model.place_component component

and what i got was

Error; #<TypeError; wrong argument type (expected Sketchup;;ComponentDefinition)>

so it would seem that it doesn't return a componentdefinition

[lekonna]

Error; #<TypeError; wrong argument type (expected Sketchup;;ComponentDefinition)>

dang model.definitions seems to retrieve the list of component definitions in the model, but how do i go about creating one and assigning this group to it?

[lekonna]

wow that was a fast reply, thanks jim!

Now i'll just have to dig out how the ComponentDefinition class works, as my geometry is at the moment only a group.

[lekonna]

Greetings all,
This is my first post to the forum, what i've read here so far, seems like an excellent forum, good work guys!

So to the question at hand:

I've impleneted a small script that prompts for values and creates a window element from the values input, the problem is that the element pops into existance at 0,0,0 which in case of modeling a large house for example is not very handy. Is there a way to activate the move tool from ruby and set the grab point as one of the corners of the just created group? This would make my life a lot easier

Br,
Janne

[lekonna]