For me, it's a little tough to see if faces are rendering with the wrong color/material, or whether said face is missing entirely. If it's the latter (a problem that I had), you can go to the settings in Maxwell for SketchUp and disable instances. That should fix issues of missing faces when you use cutting components in SketchUp. Hope that helps!

Could you post any more information on how it works/what it does? Is it something similar to Thomthom's Selection Toys?

Thanks!

Thanks Dan, coincidentally I just bought the pick axe. I'll be hammering though my way through that starting this weekend

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Ah, I see. Fixed. I've definitely got more digging and learning to do. I don't understand the ruby syntax very well yet. Thanks guys! I'll post whenever I update more/have another question.

Hi Devs,

A while back, I tried to start working on a script to create spot elevation markers here http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=51558, which turned out to be far too ambitious for my limited knowledge of ruby. So here's what I'd figuring I'll start doing to write my plugin(s).

I'm going to start by creating the menus, the organization, and extension information, and get that working in SketchUp first, essentially just as a proof of concept. If I can just get the plugin working as a working "shell" as it were, I can then replace the methods calling Messages Boxes with actual working methods.

So as my first question: What is causing the script to only return "You clicked YES!" instead of the expected response? [Line 24-29]

Here's the GIT for those of you that want it:https://github.com/mattgordon320/GB_Tools.git

Let me know what you think and that'll get me a start!

Thanks gents!

-Matt

GB_Tools.rb

@box said:

Perhaps you'll find this layer plugin by jiminy-billy-bob useful.
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=53906

Hi Box, could you share what way you'd recommend using it to manage scenes? I'm mildly familiar with the the Layer Panel Beta, but I can't seem to figure out quite what you meant. I was more speaking to scrolling through either the scene bar/scene dialog box and updating scenes, but if there's something I missed or you have a cool tip, I'd really appreciate it! Thanks!

I'm sure I'll have to edit this as I think of more "wishes", but here's one:

A more accessible way to work with large (100+) numbers of scenes. I frequently have to create views for lets say 10 different homes with a view from 4 different rooms. I typically export linework, shadows, textures, false Z-Buffer, and other maps separately so I can comp them in photoshop. Obviously, this leads to a LOT of scenes. Scrolling through the scene manager or the scene bar gets a little tedious.

Hi Marieke, I think I need to know a little bit more before I try to answer. The area that is circled you want to be completely white?

As far as I know, the color bleed-over from the beige wall on the right is an effect that would take place in the real world in that physical situation, so it looks like that's what is happening. If you're willing to post a Maxwell Model to "Pack'n'Go" then I'd be happy to take a look!

Matt

Would you be able to post the model and reference photos?

Just a head's up if you decide to go forward with using SketchyPhysics...it's on the Quarantine list because it interferes and modifies some things about SketchUp.

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=47371&p=456723&hilit=quarantine#p456723

You can of course still install and use it, just know that you might get some funky behavior and busted tools/behavior. I didn't know this when I first used it, and it gave me a lot of headaches.

Haha no worries Dave. I've frequently found that publicly making a fool of myself is the best way to learn, and I'm ok with that I'm sure you experienced programmers will have a good laugh when I finally get around to releasing an actual plugin.

@dave r said:

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FWIW, you can already make vertically stacked text. It would be nice to be able to control things like leading and kerning, though.

Dave/TT - I'm glad to hear it's already capable, but here's the embarrassing part:I can't figure out how to do it . I've updated to the most recent version, but maybe I have an older version floating around in Virtual Store or something?

Thanks!

EDIT - Ok I'm stupid. I just realized what you meant @Dave.

download screenshot

Hi Thomthom, thanks again for an awesome plugin. I have an idea for a feature that some might find useful if they're doing visualization work - vertically stacked text (like the following, perhaps).

Any way, just a thought! Thanks for creating so many awesome tools, it's inspiring. I'm slowly learning code, and it's great to see what you've written.

Thanks!

Matt

Thanks Renderiza! Great work as always...I do have a possible request if there think there'd be a place for it. I usually precede my component names with symbols (like !, @, #, $, %, ^, etc) so that they show up in the order I want in the component menu. It's a little odd to get used to, but it lets me organize my components by importance and amount of detail. Would there be a possibility of appending a customizable section in front of the renaming the script does? I can give an example of a model if you like, of course.

Thanks!

@mitcorb oslocadiz is correct, the script is not at a point where it's useful in any way. I'm just in the first stages of learning Ruby, so this post was more as a way of asking the skilled developers in the forum for advice and feedback, not as a usable script at this point.

Furthermore, TIG's produced (as usual) a very capable script that does Datum measurements, I'd recommend that. I may shelf this project for the time being anyway, as it's a little to ambitious for my knowledge at the moment. I wish I knew more, but I just haven't had the time to devote to it enough, or enough understanding at this point.

Thanks for the interest,

Matt

Thanks both TIG and Rich!

I'm still (extremely) new to ruby scripting and Git, but I'd be happy to help where I can!

Hi Rich! Thanks again for releasing what has been one of my favorite plugins. I've started setting up the SketchUp installs for my firm, and I've got a little quirk to pass by you:

I'm using Fredo6's 000_Additionalpluginsfolder.rb to pull scripts from a network hard drive to each individual station. For some reason I can't work out, the icons for PenTools don't show up, I just get a blank tool bar, though the buttons and the menu items under the draw menu work fine. In short, the script works, but the icons are missing!

Any thoughts on where to start looking?

Thanks!

-Matt

There's a plugin called Material Maintenance by Myhand. I use it daily, and if I understand what you need out of it, it'll do exactly what you need.

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=48933&hilit=material+maintenance#p437121

Hope that helps!

Matt

Thanks TIG, we appreciate all your hard work!