Topics created by mocathe1st

In my case it appeared to load the .rbs file, but it wrapped everything into the SketchupExtension namespace.

Built into core Ruby already...

Time.now

etc, see Ruby http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/ref_c_time.html et al...

I've just noticed, that the problem still remains with the 'Enter' key. Though it works in IE, but it doesn't if it's opened via Sketchup web dialog. Any ideas?

you can set the format for the output, so for a webDialog you can use...

html = %x(/usr/bin/sqlite3 -html /private/tmp/sp500-data.sqlite "SELECT * FROM companies;")

or there's -csv -list -line -column...

Even better: Found the defintions.load method that will load the model into the list of definitions which then loads the materials.

Be advised that execute_script is very buggy on Mac. It will mangle the string sent if it contains ";" or "," and probably other chars as well. Also "document." doesnt work. 😞

After assigning the attributes to the definition, did you save out the definition (rather, an instance of it) to an external model?

Hi Thanks for that solution, I've tried it and it works a treat.

Its a bit hackish but it works so it'll do.

Thanks again.

Hi Rick,

Thanks for your feedback and other help. I agree, the menu would be neater within a submenu especially when using many different plugins.

We've just released an updated beta version of Demeter that does this. The overall folder structure has been improved and the plugin should now be compatible with your Organizer plugin. It is also now compatible with the Mac OS X version of Sketchup and has had various other improvements.

The new version can be downloaded at:http://greenspaceresearch.com/demeter.html

Thanks,
Malcolm Murray

This code works for me:

model = Sketchup.active_model
materials=model.materials

Adds a material as an in model material

m = materials.add "Test Color"
begin

Returns nil if not successful, path if successful

path=Sketchup.find_support_file "1.jpg","\Plugins\"
# m.texture = "1.jpg"
m.texture = path
m.texture.size = 666
rescue
UI.messagebox $!.message
end

SketchUp on Windows uses IE for webdialogs (not FireFox, not Opera, etc.). Sketchup on the Mac only uses Safari for webdialogs.

Are you saying that if IE is installed on the Mac, that SketchUp is using IE in preference over Safari? This is new news if this is so. And, a pain in the hiney for webdialog developers, because some of us (err, me!) don't have IE for Mac. I bought a Mac to distance myself away from IE and MS Office.

Todd

Don't know, whether the "old" standard Ruby "require" is really needed for all scripts. If you do not need it at all, WHAT is Sketchup.require doing? Does it use the "old" "require"? If not you can think about replacing it dynamically:

module Kernel def require *args Sketchup.require *args end end

(not tested, maybe the asterisks are on wrong place)
After that you can use the "old" require and get the behaviour of the Sketchup "require"

azuby

Yes, it's possible. It sounds like you may have opened the dialog as a modal dialog.

The problem is compounded by angles generally being measured counter-clockwise, while azimuth angles are measured clockwise.

I think it would come down to determining the quadrant of the vector (by checking X and Y for +/- value), then adding the previous right-angle azimuth vector to the angle_between of it and the specified vector

if vector.x>0 if vector.y>0 az = [0,1,0].angle_between(vector).radians else az = [1,0,0].angle_between(vector).radians+Math;;PI/2 end else if vector.y<0 az = [0,-1,0].angle_between(vector).radians+Math;;PI else az = [-1,0,0].angle_between(vector).radians+(3*Math;;PI/2) end

The above example doesn't take into account cases where x or y equal zero, so you'll have to add that. It shouldn't be too difficult, though.

It's possible to use vectors to represent axes. The face.normal should be the Z axis, the X axis should be the intersection of a flat (XY) plane with the face plane, and the Y axis can be determined by the cross product of the X and Z axes.

There's also a quicker way to do this after finding the Z axis (the face.normal):
axes = face.normal.axes
xAxis,yAxis,zAxis = axes

However you do it, once you have the axis vectors, you can then either:

test the X and Y axes against the points of the face to determine which are minimal and maximal, or use an axes transform to convert the vertex positions of the face to the world XYZ coordinates and then determine the minimal and maximal XY values.