@watkins said:

Dear Physicsguy,

As a work around, make the polygon a group, edit the group, and then use the tape measure tool to set the length of the segment.

Regards,
Bob

Watkins's solution is the straightforward and easiest... Draw polygon, group it, use tapemeasure tool, pick two adjacent vertices, type in require length, hit enter key, accept to scale group, exit group-edit, select group and explode - you have the polygon with the required length of side...

Alternative structure for a Ruby: drawn a polygon, select and pick 'Set Polygon side length' tool, in dialog enter new 'length'. The tool takes the length of curve.edges[0].length [polygon's edge length] and then applies a scaling transformation to the polygon's curve, about it's center, based on the 'desired length' and actual 'length' ratio...

Ok i will help.

start with a circle

pushpull it

modify the face that pushpull created

keep pushpulling it and modifying the new faces until the whole aircraft is finished

I use this teachnique a lot, F22

Hope it helps 😄

@chris fullmer said:

I'm not sure what one you are thinking of Chris, but this article talks about web dialogs:

The trouble you see is that I cannot open anything with blog in it (nor you or tube) but the date seems right. Perhaps the other other Chris will let us know if it is useful. As you know I am very keen to interest more people in web dialogs, because, for example, I agree with this chap.

@unknownuser said:

Vic Gundotra, Google Engineering vice president and developer evangelist, told the Mobilebeat conference in San Francisco on Thursday that the web had won and users of mobile phones would get their information and entertainment from browsers in future.

...

“What we clearly see happening is a move to incredibly powerful browsers,” he said.

“Many, many applications can be delivered through the browser and what that does for our costs is stunning.

“We believe the web has won and over the next several years, the browser, for economic reasons almost, will become the platform that matters and certainly that’s where Google is investing.”

I can imagine some ways to do it, but they are too complex to follow manually. I can only suggest to try and retry until you get the right balance.

@unknownuser said:

Does anyone know if there is a way to align the view so that the print-out component profile dimensions are equal to those in reality? For example; If you laid out a rectangle in SketchUp, and the dimensions were 1"x1", how would i determine the right view so that the square turns out 1"x1" on printing paper? Is there a CAD program capable of this?

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=68460#p68460 is one way... search for 'print to scale' - there are lots of helpful suggestions...

http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/menu.html#add_submenu

plugins_menu = UI.menu("Plugins") submenu = plugins_menu.add_submenu("Test") submenu.add_item("Plugin Name") { plugin_method }

That should do the trick.

It gets a little trickier if you want to multiple different plugins to the same sub-menu, but its possible. I use a global variable, but Jim showed me a way to do it without the global.

Chris

First thing would be to talk to someone who knows about web dialogues 😄

As far as i know theyre basically an IE window inside SU, so in theory you can just feed it a URL and it opens it.

Heres the api page: http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/webdialog.html

OOh that is a nice animation!

Would it be possible to just write a script that selects only outer edge lines, and then uses .find_faces to cover them?

Kinda depends on how you did it. Then again, convex hulls are pretty tempermental...

AAahhhhh prisoners, shame on me, shame on me !
I'm working with Atl since three or four years, and I've never take a single look at this preference panel... 😳 😳 😳 ...

So, many thanks for that !

Cool

I've written a beginning Ruby tutorial. Since I'm very new to Ruby, its all still very fresh in my mind what I needed to learn to get started writing scripts for SketchUp. So I tried to put all into a simple tutorial. This includes pre-script writing info, like where to find the necessary info, what text editor to use, how to test code inside of SU, and then I write a script and explain what all the code does. This is all in about 10 pages. So its short and very direct (unlike this post). So check it out. See if it helps.

It shows how to write a code that iterates through all geometry in the model and make an array that holds all the edges, one for the faces, one for the components, and one for groups. So all you would need to do is to take one of those arrays (I'll use the faces array I made in the example below) and do something like:

entities.erase_entities faces

Hope that helps. Feel free to post over in the Ruby forum once you get into the coding and have direct questions about it. Hope that helps,

Chris

It will change the pivot direction of the joint.

OK. Nice, love the idea of a help window!

Hoping for the Rube Goldberg Machine, it could be nice to render..

i think to weeks for the competition should be a minimum

He said he put it in his second post.

hey guys, what about something like transformable architecture. i don't know if this will be too difficult to pull off, but its worth a try.

here are some links 😄

http://www.gatewaycoalition.org/files/patents/site/graphics/hoberman_1.gif

http://www.gatewaycoalition.org/files/patents/site/graphics/hoberman_2.jpg

http://www.gatewaycoalition.org/files/patents/site/graphics/hoberman_3.gif

http://i.treehugger.com/images/2007/10/24/chuck28.jpg

I noticed it when i got a new computer. Sorry for leaving that out.