Posts made by Pout

Pout

i'm sort of under the impression (judging by a couple of random posts by SUteam members) that they don't want to go full on in supporting plugins..
i'm pretty sure if they set up a depot app store type of thing then they'd have a gigantic slew of new problems to deal with.. fredoscale was a decent example of what may happen so imagine if that was happening to millions instead of thousands.
it'd be sort of sweet if google had an approval process of some sorts prior to rubies going live but again, that's a big undertaking in itself + we'd miss (some of) the benefit of talking directly with the developers and offering ideas/additions etc. (that could still occur but the process would be weeks/months instead of hours/days.)

Jeff,

I would not go that far to put the ruby plugin dev under their wings. I think the way it works now is ok.
There are a lot of good plugin ideas being put in a trash can caused by the lack of some basic classes.
The handling of problems with (and responsibility for) the plugin must be handled by the plugin author, not by Google SU.

Pout

i was just looking into that set/get active cut
when you make a copy one of them gets set as non-active, so that is not an option.
I'll have a look into that TT_Lib

PITA? Like in FUBAR?

Pout

From the API:
***"The SectionPlane class contains methods to get and set the plane for the SectionPlane in a model. Note that there is no way to get a SectionPlane object using Ruby. You must manually create a section plane with the Section Plane Tool in SketchUp and then query the entities array to find the SectionPlane object. This class was primarily added for compatibility with a third-party software product.

One workaround that does work: you could create a SketchUp model that contains nothing but a SectionPlane, then import that as a component into whatever model you wish to add a SectionPlane to."***

But, it's impossible to create a section plane in an empty drawing. Correct?
What i want to do is:
Automatically generate a section plane for each group (highest level) or component instance in a model.
Group that section plane with that group or component instance so the plane only cuts that specific entity.

A work arround could be: let the user create 1 section plane and copy that.
But maybe there is a better, more logic way?

Pout

In the webdialog use this code:
<body onLoad="setTimeout('self.close()',5000)">
with 5000 being the amount of milliseconds that the message is shown

Haven't tried but should work

Pout

ok i've found it here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=24947&p=213942

use .transform! instead of .transformation
.transform adds the specified transformation to the already existing one
.transformation replaces the current transformation (like in: will put the object back to 0,0,0)

Pout

Here is what i want to do:
Scale an object in Z

Seems simple but the whole points-geometry-transformation thing is not always very clear to me
I know if i want to scale the first selected object 50% in z then this is the code:

new_transformation=Geom;;Transformation.scaling thepoint,1,1,0.5
select[0].transformation=new_transformation

Now, thepoint, should be the base point of scaling (I think). Which should be the center point of the bottom face of the bounding box.
I found this script to determine the center point of the top face of the bounding box:

bb = Geom;;BoundingBox.new
bb.add(select[0].bounds) if select[0].respond_to?("bounds")
xmin=bb.min.x;ymin=bb.min.y;xmax=bb.max.x
ymax=bb.max.y;zmin=bb.min.z;zmax=bb.max.z
apex=Geom.linear_combination(0.5,[xmin,ymin,zmax+2],0.5,[xmax,ymax,zmax+2])

Credits to who-ever wrote this!

When I use that I suspect the entity should be scaled 50% upwards (since i use the top center point) and that the entity stays on the same spot.
But somehow it moves to the origin. (with the 50% upwards scaling)
What don't I understand?

Pout

Hey Bertier,

I'll look into the questions! That is if i find some time...
Normally the zoom extents should already work. If you have added elements, run the plugin again and it must show all elements.

So in short:

all except ISO in parallel projection
can you send me a screenshot of the bug you are talking about?

Pout

Thx, first one I already knew, i thought maybe there was a more extensive one(explaining more and having more api updates)

Your link is very interesting! Thx for sharing!

Pout

Ah? Really?
Do you know there is a list of debugged things available?
Perhaps you know if the scene observer is now also fired when creating an animation?

Pout

There are a lot of questions/suggestions available in this topic:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=13666

All of them for the use of developers.
But if those people get the right tools, they can make better plugins and extend Sketchup possibilities.
It's like Pixero wrote:

'extend the API'!

I know it is impossible to adress everyones wishes. But if you make the API better, then more people can try to answer those wishes...

Pout

nope, i mean this one:

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=13666

but maybe indeed it could be more structured and 'reset'

Pout

@thomthom said:

What might help is if we make a thread with what methods we are missing and where we each give examples of how it hinders it works. Might help Google prioritize for the next release. (Maybe we can get something before SU9 - it has happened before.)

Wasn't there already a thread on this?
I remember adding some stuff there... can't seem to find it...

Pout

so if i understand correct you want a file with on each line:
groupname1-location1
groupname2-location2

?
If so I think you need to:
loop all SU entities
check if entity is group
if so:
get the name
get the location info
store those in a array [[name,location],[name,location],[name,location]] or hash
end of loop
then put the array in a file with File.open

Something like that i think

Pout

Pout

@unknownuser said:

Pout!! aka Reinhart! This account is used by at least three people in my company, and Alessandro is not among them. By the way I've got him to read your post. He wanted to let you know that not only he received the compliments for his charm from the policegirl who stopped us, but she also gave him her contact details....maybe she wanted to be invited for a drink...if only I was in his place!!

Say 'hey' to Alessandro and Grazione from me! Italians and their charm! I bet he told you guys back there he was pulled over because he's good looking
So if I understand correct, if that other policegirl was not there, the alcohol test would have been of a completely different nature?
He indeed got the contact details... never saw that before... must have had a true connection there (Is he sure the details are from police girl nr1 and not police girl nr 2, if so, burn the card quickly, it probably has some tracking device in it )

Can you tell them i will contact them soon?
Ciao!

Pout

happy bday John and Csaba!

Pout

it really aint that far from Boulder City it seems, 6-7 miles.
I hope everyone is ok.

Pout

Well, seems like we just got away from Boulder in time:

http://boulderoem.com/component/content/article/5

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=nl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nieuwsblad.be%2Farticle%2Fdetail.aspx%3Farticleid%3DDMF20100908_004

Pout

In one word: great!
An excellent opportunity to see and meet the people behind the avatars and names.
The unconference could indeed be organised a bit more (like indeed making the topics the day before)
It was very frustrating to not be able to attend some sessions which I wanted to attend!

But, Boulder was great (except for the 2 oclock closing hour), met a lot of fine people and had a lot of very good laughs.
Glad that 1/2 of Augmented Reality did not end up in jail (you should have let your brother drive ) and that Guiseppes' backpack was very popular!
Great time at the bar next to the hotel where the waitresses were nice and friendly, the food was good and the company was excellent.
Glad the conversations were not 100% of the time about Google Sketchup

Hope to see you all soon again (on basecamp euro?!-->Gaieus?)

Pout aka Reinhart

Pout

is there any news concerning material.name etc?