I tested berling's file too and on the original file the face was partially triangulated, but after I redrawn the face, things came bac to normal... until I switched to wireframe Than, when I moved the section plane, the section cut edge disappeared. Indeed, there is a kind of bug! I suspect the kitchen bug

I can't wait for 2D Tools v3.0
This is the most updated plugin. And the shortest time betwen versions. Google Team could learn something from here... Thank you TIG!

@remus said:

I dont know the details of it myself, but im pretty sure you cant use threads properly in SU ruby. Might be worth asking TBD about it, as i seem to remember him explaining it at some point.

I remember also a discussion about forcing sketchup to use multiple cores by using ruby, but the answer was NO, it can not be possible. What I'm wondering is if ruby plugins could benefit of multiple cores, by themselves? Because some plugins perform complex operations and can take very long time to finish their job.

I have a directory tree some like this:
C:\MyDir
-SubDir1/SubDir1.txt
-SubDir2/SubDir2.txt
-SubDir3/SubDir3.txt

As you see, in each directory I have a ".txt" file with same name as directory which contains it. What I want is to parse each fie in each directory, but I want to eliminate "." and ".." because there is not a "..txt" or "...txt" file, and my algorithm searches for it.

path = 'C;\MyDir'	
dirList = Dir.entries(path)

dirList.each do |dir|

	file_name = dir+'.txt'
	file_path = File.join(path, file_name)
	file = File.open(file_path, 'r')
	
		f.each_line do |line|
		puts line
		end
end

In this state, the interpreter gives me this error: (eval):1258:ininitialize': No such file or directory - C:\MyDir/..txt`
And I totally agree with it

I don't understand much of this, but it seems that we can benefit of multithreading with ruby scripts. http://phrogz.net/ProgrammingRuby/tut_threads.html
If true, than several plugins could be enhanced to do their job much faster. As I said, I'm not so skilled in ruby , so maybe someone more skilled will take a look and say if it it possible to use multithreading or not.

good day and I hope it wasn't just a false alarm...

It's worse than that... I moved the plane off origin or axes and as you can see, the dimension snaps on origin.
Hope it will be resolved.

Please tell me what color names are accepted with view.drawing_color= method? Colors must be called by name, or I can use html(or other) code?
http://code.google.com/intl/ro/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/view.html#drawing_color=

Thanks.

@unknownuser said:

Isn't speed improvement the most asked for improvement to SU? "Just some speed improvement"?

But weren't other thing also "most asked" ?

I have a feeling that we are seen as rats in a lab by Google... they are watching our reactions and don't give a damn... And I bet they are laughing too! They said: "this people are expecting several features to be fixed, well... let's give them just some speed improvement and see the reaction."
It would be appreciated at least a word from them... but Google is silent like a stone when is coming about answering questions. But, in exchange they know how to promote everything. I always liked those sketchup promoting videos like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PLSlHbQ-bc, or the comic book for Google Chrome . Actually that video with Aiden convinced me to try SketchUp. But all these convince me that we ar just lab rats... they give us candies, but no answers... we don't worth such an effort?

Sorry for next dumb question:
What is COLLADA file type and how a COLLADA file can be viewed/opened/edited without sketchup?

@mogogirl said:

Thanks to everyone who has answered all of my silly newbie questions. Please follow the link to my completed model with animation. It was done using the Proper Animation and Smooth Animation plugins. If it asks for a password, the password is "sketchup".

Please let me know what you think!

Thanks,

Mary
http://www.vimeo.com/6701270

It's a little sadistic, don't you think?

@ecuadorian said:

Wow, thank you, TIG! With this line and some manual work, I can do it.
I tried with RickW's "cameralines" but it won't work when there is a photomatched camera in your model.

Can you show us what exactly want to do ? Maybe it helps us and we can help more

@dedmin said:

@newone said:

Thank you very much, dedmin! But there is one more in rop-right. And as I can figure out from icon, it makes faces perpendicular on a line. This one could be very useful for me, because right now I do this in a very hard and time consuming way.

See again

You're the man !

Thank you very much, dedmin! But there is one more in rop-right. And as I can figure out from icon, it makes faces perpendicular on a line. This one could be very useful for me, because right now I do this in a very hard and time consuming way.

Sorry for off-topic, but would you be so kind and tell me what plugins are those I highlighted with red in the print-screen and if possible to put links for them ?
Thank you!

Wonderful set of tools. I'm not a McDonand's fan, but this time i must say: I'm lovin' It!
However, one thing is annoying. As you can see in attached image, the line is clipped when drawing (the mouse cursor is not seen, but this img was captured while drawing with 2d rectangle tool). I think this is because the drawing gets out its boundingbox and if that boundingbox is updated on mouse move, this clipping will not occur anymore.
One more thing: could Set Z-Plane tool to have inference? I'd like to be able to snap on vertexes and edges.

Thanks again for all the tools you made!.

@numbthumb said:

Thanks, folks!
Sorry about printscreens, old habits die hard.
I´m feeling a little sluggish (didn´t get much sleep last night), so pardon me for being an idiot, but what "nasty profiles" do you have in mind?

the contours! You can disable them from Style settings.-see the image
Is the model uploaded on 3D Warehouse?

numbthumb, my friend, Sketchup exports images in various formats. You don't need to make print screens .

wanna be a programmer?

Some new models...