Mac OS X 10.4.10, SketchUp 6 (6.4.120)

@malaise said:

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N Lindenthal has the same strange behaviour. …

My Mac has proper animation with proper_animation, if I drag the folder »extensionmanager« out of Tools folder. Then the right mouse click menue on marked objets has the item »Transformation«.

Now the question would be, whether this same folder »extensionmanager« also disturbs the context menue of SketchUp on Windows PC.

Qui!
Now your script runs, Matt666. My component is selected by name/definition. As it is selected, I can »Get Position - X« (Proper_animation.rb from RichW).

Matt666, you have my elevator model with arrow buttons. With Links.rb the arrow up buttons will select the elevator and »Get Position - 2«. The arrow down buttons will select the component elevator and then »Get Position - 1«.

But my question is, whether I can start a ruby.rb script by clicking a button.

@Matt666
I did understand you. First changes did not delete my error. Hm? What could it be?

Matt, here is my model to select a component by name "Stein"

FahrstuhlF.skp.zip to selcect component by name

@Matt666
Thanks for your corrections.
When your script runs fine, in the end you have the component "Stein" selected?

@Fredo6

This is my ruby script »Aar_Select_comp_by_name.rb« in the Plugins folder:

@unknownuser said:

def select_comp_by_name(comp_name)
   model = Sketchup.active_model
   sel = model.selection
   sel.clear
   compdef = model.definitions[comp_name]
   if compdef  #There is a component
      sel.clear
      sel.add compdef.instances
   else
      UI.beep
   end
end
#def select_comp_by_name(comp_name)
#@sel = Sketchup.active_model.selection
#@sel.clear
#@sel.add Sketchup.active_model.definitions[comp_name].instances
#@sel
#end

If I repeat loading by ruby console:

load "Aar_Select_comp_by_name.rb"

then come the following notes
@unknownuser said:

/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/Plugins/Aar_Select_comp_by_name.rb:6: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/Plugins/Aar_Select_comp_by_name.rb:7: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/Plugins/Aar_Select_comp_by_name.rb:7: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/Plugins/Aar_Select_comp_by_name.rb:8: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/Plugins/Aar_Select_comp_by_name.rb:8: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/Plugins/Aar_Select_comp_by_name.rb:8: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/Plugins/Aar_Select_comp_by_name.rb:10: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/Plugins/Aar_Select_comp_by_name.rb:10: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
true
… but also »true«.

Now with ruby script line

Sketchup.active_model.definitions["Stein"]

I get
@unknownuser said:

nil

and with

> select_comp_by_name("Stein")

@unknownuser said:

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method ` ' for main:Object>
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/Plugins/Aar_Select_comp_by_name.rb:2
(eval):197

… nothing is selected.

@Fredo6
Now my model has no group "Stein", but one component "Stein". But I have no luck. To select my component "Stein" by script in ruby console does not work. Did you try your script lines and you could select your component by name?

@unknownuser said:

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I wonder what you call "an Object named "stein"", as in Sketchup, you only give a name to Components or Groups, but there is nothing like an 'object'.
…

Please excuse me, I have a group named "Stein", no object.

I see no difference. My elevator in scene 1 is as fast as my elevator in scene 2. But to change from one scene to the other takes 8 or 2 seconds.

@Fredo6

@unknownuser said:

Sketchup.active_model.definitions[comp_name]
Error: #<NameError: undefined local variable or method `comp_name' for main:Object>
(eval):197

This comes from ruby console.

I had an object named "Stein". And your question to a component named ”Stein" let me make also a component named "Stein". Same error.

@unknownuser said:

Just remove the exclamation mark to @sel.clear

Then come the following error:
@unknownuser said:

stones=select_comp_by_name("Stein")
Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `instances' for nil:NilClass>
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/Plugins/Aar_Select_comp_by_name.rb:4
(eval):197

Unfortunately I don’t know, what to type in the Ruby console line (I am Ruby beginner).

@Didier

def select_comp_by_name(comp_name)
@sel = Sketchup.active_model.selection
@sel.clear!
@sel.add Sketchup.active_model.definitions[comp_name].instances
@sel
end

From this I made a text file "Aar_select_comp_by_name.rb" in the Plugins folder. Restart SU.

stones=select_comp_by_name("Stein")

This I wrote in the ruby console line.

Then comes the following error:

@unknownuser said:

stones=select_comp_by_name("Stein")
Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `clear!' for #Sketchup::Selection:0x1afaa3b0>
(eval):11
(eval):11

How to select an object by name?

@morisdov said:

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and right mouse click "Transformation->Get position 2". …

Ah, I understand. Get Position - 2 is only available to those object, which have Set Position - 2. Now my question is, how not to use right mouse click, but to »Get Position - 2«. So my idea is, to us the ruby console to select one object (by name). Now my question is, how to tell the selected object to »Get Position - 2«?

How can I tell the ruby console, to »Get Position - 2«?

I ask this to have a proper animation, without getting all other remembers of a scene.

@azuby
Deine Frage ist gut und berechtigt. Leider mußte ich eine lange Pause für SU einlegen. Da habe ich vieles vergessen. Vom extensionmanager verspreche ich mir, in die mehreren Skripte im Plugins- oder im Tools-Menü insofern eine eigene Ordnung zu bringen, daß ich Unterordner dort einrichten kann, die ich selbst benenne.

Aber soweit bin ich noch nicht und könnte auch eine Anleitung dazu gebrauchen.

Kann proper_animation.rb losgelöst werden von Szenen?

Über proper_animation.rb von Morisdov kann man sich gar nicht genug freuen. Es dreht Türen, verschiebt Fahrstühle, explodiert Einzelteile einer Maschine (oder »schraubt« sie zusammen). Es verschiebt oder dreht Objekte filmisch zwischen zwei Positionen.

Aber proper_animation.rb bindet die Objektpositionen gleichzeitig auch an Szenen, die wiederum viele andere Einstellungen (Blickpunkt, Richtung, Neigung, Tageszeit [Sonnenstand], beteiligte Schichten usw.) festschreiben.

Meine Frage ist nun: Wie entkoppele ich die propperen Bewegungen von Szenen? Denn ab dann könnte im Treppenhaus der Fahrstuhlschalter den Animation Observer starten und den Fahrstuhl fahren lassen. Oder der Kran über der Baustelle könnte schwenken durch Starten der Animation im Steuerhaus des Krans, egal von welcher Richtung der Kran gerade gezeigt wird.

@n lindenthal said:

Am Mac bleibt im Kontextmenü (rechte Maustaste) der zum Proper_animation.rb-Skript gehörige Menüpunkt »Transformations/…« aus.

Dieses Problem wurde gelöst durch Neuinstallation des extensionmanager.rb-Skripts im Tools-Ordner.

Der bei mir auftretende Fehler (Proper_animation.rb hat keinen »Transformation«-Eintrag im Kontextmenü für markierte Objekte) konnte dadurch gelöst werden, daß das installierte Ruby-Skript extensionmanger (von azuby) ausgetauscht wurde gegen die neue Version v0.2.

Danke an alle für die hilfreichen Hinweise.

Is ruby mighty to ask SU, which preferences are collected in scenes?

This would be an other way to export scenes.

I ask this to turn it opposite. I would like to tell SU by ruby script, how to show, what a scene could show.