Thomthoms Vertex tools has a gizmo like 3ds max.

Thanks. That was what I suspected.
Now I need to find a way to do what I want to do from the selection.
A side question. What about getting the selected material?
Sketchup.active_model.materials[0] won’t do it then either I guess?

Short question.
Is:

Sketchup.active_model.active_entities[0] 

the selected entity?

Would be good if one admin could report the false positive to Bitdefender as I can’t access Sketchucation from my work pc anymore.

I get this warning from Bitdefender that Sketchucation forum contains JSTrojan Cryxos 2081 and the page has been blocked.

I think I read it was Peter Guthrie and his company The Boundary.

Thank you!

I need to make a dialog with three dropdown menus where the user can choose from the scenes materials and one input where the default value would be say 1000 mm.

I have looked at other scripts and tried to create it but I've messed up somewhere as I haven't done my menus in the exact same way as the examples. Could someone please guide me to a working solution?
Here is the Dialog part of the script:

	@@first_mat = nil
	@@second_mat = nil
	@@third_mat = nil
	@@distance = nil

	model = Sketchup.active_model  
	mats = model.materials 
	ent = model.entities  
	sel = model.selection  
	
	matNames=[]
	matNstmp=[]
	mats.each{|m|matNstmp.push(m.display_name)}
	matNstmp.sort!
	matNames=matNames+matNstmp
	matList=matNames.join('|')
	
	@@first_mat = matList unless @@first_mat
	@@second_mat = matList unless @@second_mat
	@@third_mat = matList unless @@third_mat	  
	@@distance = 1000.mm unless @@distance	
	
	# dialogs
	info = [matList]
    	prompts = ["Material 1; ", "Material 2; ", "Material 3; ", "Distance; "]
    	results = inputbox(prompts,["", "", "", 1000.mm], [matList, matList, matList, nil],"Settings")
	results = nil if results and results[0] == ""

@tig said:

In Firefox I do the following...
I first get to the page I searched for...
But I'm not logged in to the PluginStore.
So I login to the PluginStore using the dialog that pops up - and after that it awkwardly reverts to a general search.
So I use the Back Arrow to return to the previously searched-for-page - there's still a login dialog showing.
I just ignore that [cancel] - then I use the Reload Page option and now the searched-for-page is accessible, and I'm logged in.

There must be an easier way to do this...

That is exactly how it is for me with chrome.

Maybe this one: http://www.fluidinteractive.com/products/sketchup-extensions/ambient-occlusion-plugin/?src=cpc&campaignid=357289378&adgroupid=30199809658&creative=219679561624&keyword=%2Bambient%20%2Bocclusion%20%2Bsketchup%20plugin&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3cnujdX04QIVj9CyCh0cJgF_EAAYASAAEgL0OPD_BwE

I would look at the price for new ink for the different brands. That is what costs.
I would also look for one that has separate ink so you can change just the ones that are empty.

Maybe you could import the collada file into some other 3D app and see how it looks there?

I think that to have any success in convincing the Blender team to add SketchUp like features it needs to be done both in mass and in detail.
It's easier to understand how to implement something if it is described in detail and broken down into digestable chunks.

Thomthoms UV Toolkit 2 has Frontface material to backface.

https://sketchucation.com/plugin/740-tt_uv_toolkit

Without the file on this PC I can only guess but I think the textures were rather small. Just some leafs and flower textures. Most of the size was geometry I believe.

This was the model by the way: https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-spirea-model-1214293

I usually have SU files in the range of 100 to 800 MB.
Today I converted three plant models to SU and the SU file was 1.4 GB!
I managed to open it even though it took a while.

What's your biggest SU file?

What kind of model is it?
Have you imported highres models? In that case hide the edges if you are not modifying them. Set view to wireframe, select the edges and right click to hide.
Do you have lots of ungrouped geometry? I have noticed that SU is a lot faster if you group geometry than if it's lose edges and faces.
Also put groups on different layers and turn those layers off while working.
And NEVER model with shadows on.

I regularly work with SU models that are up to 700 MB without much problem except long saving times.

EDIT: After downloading and checking your model I turned off Dashes and Profiles under Styles>Edit>Edge settings.
Then I could rotate without problem even on my old laptop.
You should consider putting stuff on different layers so you can hide them while working on other parts.

Here is how I do it from another thread: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=68246&p=624733&hilit=3dsmax+to+sketchup#p624726

I use Notepad++ as well but use the ruby code editor when testing out snippets without having to restart SketchUp.
Now I’ll continue with the main work.

Thanks for all the help so far. I'm sure there will be more later on...
If only the Ruby console was multi lines. It's hard to edit in the small window.