@Garry
As i said before, this only works for US or EN OS.
The output of ipconfig depends on the OS language.
In French you will have to scan for "adresse physique" and for the other languages....

It would be great to extend this plugin with jiminy-billy-bob's statistcs, to have statistics on all plugins

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180%26amp;t=56056%26amp;p=508939#p508939

@dacastror said:

very interesting!, could teach how to do this with php?
and show some code?

Yes, very usfulll.
It would even bee better to combine it with the Sketchucation pluginstore, to have statistics for all plugins !

With standard Sketchup: select a face of the ceiling (not a group...), right-click and select 'align view' in th context menu.

@masterpaul
You have it if the view direction (line between camera and viewpoint) is perpendicular to the sectionplan, with camera switched 'on'.
Any face perpendicular to the view direction is represented without (perspective) deformation, and they will have the same scale if they are in the same perpendicular plan (= same distance).

@fuzzybro
Put your code within

Sketchup.active_model.start_operation("actionName", true,false,false)
..... Your code.....
Sketchup.active_model.commit_operation

This wil enable 'undo' for 'actionName' and the second parameter (false) wil disable screenupdate after each change of the model, until 'commit_operation'. API documentation says This can result in much faster Ruby code execution if the operation involves updating the model in any way.

@jeff

@fionmacool said:

.....that it interferes with visibility. Does that make sense?

What do you mean by interfere...
In this model floorslabs, stairs, walls etc. are separated groups. But i can control visibility of the faces separating those elements.... Zere are still some .... ?

@jeff hammond said:

not sure if there's a way to make the cut color the same as the object? haven't really messed around with the settings too much in richSection.

YES
Parameters for "cut color the same as the object" :

• Set 'RichSection material name' to "prefix+materialname, default"
• Set 'RichSection materials, prefix' to "" (empty)

@fionmacool

Hi fionmacool.
I guess you want to hide section-lines between different elements?
There is a beter way to controle that. I will make (soon) some "how to" videos. I will post them with the next update.
I want to keep the nesting & layer structure of the section-group identical to the model. To syncronize visibility and invisibility if certain layers are switched off.
It can become an option if you can really convince me of the advantage in a standard workflow to produce several sections of one model.

@garyion
There have been 2 updates since mladen90 reported that bug?
Are you using the latest version : V0.0.3. ?
It will mark “Version: V00.03-2013.12.04-20:00 DEMO” in menu>Plugins>RichSection>About RichSection.
I suggest to install with PluginStore.with PluginStore.
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=SketchUcationTools
Before installing plugins, you will need full access to the plugins folder.
Select 'pgarmyn' for 'Authors' in the pluginstore and you will find the latest update.
Let me know if this lost your problem

@clayton49 said:

...
Panic over, all now installed & working o.k.
...... the fill names won't mean anything until a few experiments & perhaps re-name ..... own personal library, although all can be seen in the materials SU menu & edited/renamed from this location. I'll have to have another look a the vid's for other menu settings....I'll have to also look out for a help file, I'm sure there's one somewhere..!!! In conclusion, this extension is great & will help me ton'..... Over & out,
Clayton

The most practical way to install and update plugins is the Sketchucation pluginstore (also called 'Sketchucation Tools') from Rich O Brien. Just one click to install or update any plugin ( for SU-2013 and the last versions of SU-8)
About all the options: i will make more videos. All the existing videos are in this post. You can alse read the posts above (27 nov 2013 ...).
I'm glad my plugin is usefull. I'm still working on it. So keep an eye on this post.

@takesh h
+200 plugins : could you find your way ?
Let me know if - after installing the other plugins - you have again problems.....

In 'procesRS' I have only twice 'layer='

It can't be the first:

%(#0000FF)[grp_section.name="Section_Grp"
grp_section.**layer=**section_layer]

because if grp_section doesn't exist, the error should be in the line 'grp_section.name='

It must be in these lines :

%(#0000FF)[grp_sectionplan = grp_section.entities.add_group
f = grp_sectionplan.entities.add_face sectionplanepoints
f.hidden=true
grp_sectionplan.hidden=true
grp_sectionplan.entities.each{|ent| ent.layer= section_layer}]

The freshly created group (grp_sectionplan) contains only 4 edges and a face; but one of them (ent) doesn't exist any more, 5 lines after the creation:
Error: #<TypeError: reference to deleted DrawingElement .
I can't see why. Mystery

I will put a some errorhandling these lines...
Thanks

@fionmacool said:

Awesome plugin pgarmin. It is exactly what i've been looking for as an automated approach to the methodology in my book "Construction Documents Using SketchUp Pro & LayOut". There are one or two small refinements I would like to see ..... interested in co-authoring a publication. Thanks.

I'm still working on the 'refinements' but i don't have much time.
Co-authoring... : As you may have noticed, English is not my native language. Making a good tutoral is not evident. A small video can be very efficient .... .
I must say that there are some very good tutolals on this forum.

Good luck with your book.

Extremely usefull
Thanks Tak2hata

Seems that no one on this forum is using Maya.
Is there a Maya-forum?
Maybe you export from SU to dwg/dxf : export parameters:
http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/114293

@driven

@dan rathbun said:

DUh... I just stumbled upon GetMAC.exe on my Win 7 machine....

Yes, i have it also on Win8.1
For the MAC-world (Apple-users) is there an equivalent

@dan rathbun said:

similar:
ipa = %x[ipconfig /all].split("\n").grep /\A\s*(Physical Address)/....

Scanning for “Physical Address” only gives a result with an EN/US OS
This works also on the old continent :

def MyModule.mac_address
	platform = RUBY_PLATFORM.downcase
	iptxt = `#{(platform =~ /win32/) ? 'ipconfig /all' ; 'ifconfig'}`
	## delete DHCPv6 ;
	iptxt.gsub!(/..\-..\-..\-..\-..\-..\-..\-..\-..\-..\-..\-..\-..\-../,"") 
	# delete Tunnel ;
	iptxt.gsub!("00-00-00-00-","")
	## create array with all the physical adresses ;
	t_array=iptxt.scan(/..\-..\-..\-..\-..\-../)
	#puts t_array.inspect 
	## returns first physical adresses if one found
	return t_array[0] if t_array.length>0 
	return nil
end

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

I will soon release a fix for Layers Panel. I tested and it does not work with the current 0.9 version. But since this one I rewirted a whole bunch of code to avoid nested operations. I tested with this new version and it works fine. So it's probably related
You should thank TT who pushed me to get rid of nested operations.

THANK YOU. jiminy-billy-bob
THANK YOU TT