Who just loads up some guys exes and dlls with no source? Geez, just load up the vb project.

@unknownuser said: Ha, Ha, Happy New Year Oscar oscarlok.slepp 6.days azuby

@nearlyman said: I installed from download file: access to ‘extension warehouse’ failed due to a message statement “there is a script error on this page”... I am installing on the 2013 version of Sketchup Make. The Extension Warehouse hasn't supported SketchUp 2013 for a number of years. As TIG wrote in the post immediately before yours, this extension hasn't been supported. There are other options available, though.

Hi Oscar Lok I was really interested in your ex2sk ruby when I found it recently . I downloaded it from your post and got it to work and it's really good good. It is exactly what I was looking for. I actually wanted to be able to edit it a little bit but I think it's in rbs format at the moment. Would it be possible to get the rb version of this script so I could play around with it? Thanks Joe

Hi, This script is still under development? maybe another with this same 2D approach? Thanks

There is a trick that could do this... I'll use 'metres' in the example below but you can adjust this to suit whatever units you want... Make a 1m long dimension (X) against a horizontal edge - in a 'flat' XY orientation, with a 1m long leader offset (Y). Highlight the dim and make it into a component - called let's say 'Dim'. Save it externally as its own 'skp' - into a logical folder path. In a model, your script then inserts an instance of Dim.skp from the folder. In your model/script you have the required edge... The edge has a knowable length (let's say 2.1m), so your script transform scales the instance proportionately by x2.1 in X. The figured dimension will automatically adjust to 2.1m to suit. You can also adjust the leader scale (Y). Transform the instance location and rotation to suit the edge's. You now have a dimension that reflects the edge's length and orientation. You can also use this method to script a 'dimension' between any two known points... You might also be able to change the 'orphaned dim' colour to match the normal dim's colour ? Not sure how to access/set this ??? The dim's arrow heads will scale in the X... too so you might want to make a set of Dim skps - say 1-100mm, 100mm-1m, 1m-3m, 3m-10m etc and then insert instances of them to match nearest to the edge's length - so that the subsequent scaling of them wouldn't distort the dim-compo's arrow heads too much... You could also 'connect' the edge and component-dim using attributes and observers, so if the particular edge changed, then the associated dim-compo could be adjusted automatically to suit... It would then behave very much like a normal associated dimension. This could be all very convoluted to achieve, BUT it's still possible...

It IS possible to modify and add shorcuts to the PC registry using SketchUp Ruby methods [search other recent threads on this] BUT I would not recommend it unless it's for 'in-house' use only. As TBD says imagine the chaos it'd cause if your script messed up everyones pre-set shortcuts... IF you want to do this then at least offer the choice - make your script with an installer [part] which checks to see if the shortcut has already been used, and with a dialog that asks something like, "Would you like to assign 'Q' as the shortcut key for this tool ?" and if it's already pre-set, "\nNote that 'Q' is currently used for xxxxxxxxxx."; Yes/No. If Yes then you make / change the shortcut. The installer only auto-runs once - on exiting the dialog it also writes something into the registry that is checked by it when it's about to run again, and if that's found then doesn't even ask. This way the user has the option - and at least then knows that a key has been assigned...

Try ss.add(ss[0].parent.entities)

Sketchup.active_model.close_active will close a group or component that you have open for editing, and return to the base model, or group/component if the group being edited is 'nested' inside others. It returns 'true' if successful. It will return 'false' if you are in the base model itself as there's nothing to 'close'... TIG