After Installing your tools, it wouldn't work as described and it froze up my regular mesh tools so that they also didn't function. I tried to uninstall it and no matter what I did it still shows up on my Extensions Manager as installed. It have really frustrating not to have a reliable tool that not only will not function properly but then doesn't have an appropriate and reliable method to uninstall. The product may work for others, but for me I just want to get rid of it. HOW CAN I REMOVE THIS UTILITY FROM MY SYSTEM????

Is there a method in the API that will allow you to collapse the set of sub groups within a selected group shown in the Outliner (tagged by the + or - signs)?

I have created sub groups and would prefer not to go to each group and collapse the sub groups or I could generate a methods that would allow me to collapse a single group or a collection of group containing subgroups.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Hi,

I'm not sure how to report this problem. I'm currently using Sketchup 2018 Pro. Every thing has been working great until last week, when a license agreement screen popped up while I was launching Sketchup. Since then the selection tool has been responding slowly, 5 to 6 seconds to select an object. Everything else is functioning perfectly, but it's so frustrating not having the response like it was. I'm not sure whether I was hacked.

When I select from the Help menu, Help Center, or Contact Us, responds with: This site is not secure.

When I click on Details:

The website’s security certificate is not yet valid or has expired.
Error Code: DLG_FLAGS_SEC_CERT_DATE_INVALID

I can't go to clients and help them with their projects when the system is not working the way it should. Yes, I know that this could probably be corrected with an update, I'm simply not in a position to purchase the update at this time.

I reset the system to a vanilla setup, disabling all of the extensions. Nothing helped.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Or can someone point me in the right direction to get this resolved.

Thanks,

Scott.

Thanks for your input. It appears that all of my default applications are missing, showing only "/" in the field item. If I have not paid attention to these applications prior to this, where would I start with respect to accessing these applications?

Thanks,

Scott.

Greetings,

For the last several weeks I have been trying to resolve an issue where the Open with Image Editor is not opening. I insert a photo, and I can usually edit it by right clicking on the photo and select from the context menu Open with Image Editor. But nothing happens and yet it had worked flawlessly for years and I actually depend on it.

I cannot find any documentation as to how it gets triggered, or how to resolve the issue.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Scott.

Thank you. Your solution works great.

The sample file is attached.

I have three objects, colors, red, gray, and blue.

The 1st DC is ParentSet, with an interact movement set to move along the Y axes 10 units.
The 2nd DC is a ChildSet, with an interact movement to rotate 90 deg.
The 3rd DC is ChildSet2, with an interact movement along the X axes. This is the one that behaves oddly, and springs back into a different position, and I can't seem to resolve it.

Thanks for checking it out for me.

Scott.

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DC_NestedSets.skp

I've not posted a model before, can you direct me to a link that explains how this is done? Thanks.

I have a project in which I'm needing to animate several (3) nested dynamic components. We'll call the first one the Parent, which contains ChildSet_1 dynamic component, and ChildSet_2 dynamic component. Each of these components are unique.

The Parent DC moves along the Y axes, 0 to 50.
The ChildSet_1 DC rotates -90 on the X axes.
And ChildSet_2 DC moves vertically down 0 to 50.

Parent DC works great, and ChildSet_1 DC moves according to the parameters.
However, the 3rd nested component ChildSet_2 DC doesn't move according to the parameters and seems to just spring back to its original position, or springs to a different position altogether and stays there.

Is there a limit to the number of nested DC components one can implement within that particular scenario?

I encountered a post from newnoob that was posted several years ago, and that person was experiencing the same thing. There wasn't a post indicating the they had success in resolving this issue.

Is there a solution to nested DC with more than 2 levels of nesting?

Thanks.

Hi,

I seemed to have hit another road block. This time in terms of trying to use the send_to_layout method within Sketchup.

My objective is as follows:

1. create a routine that creates a copy of any of the selected assembly to a single component
2. save that component to a file
3. open the file and separate each component so that it is viewed from a side view
4. space them apart within a Scene based on predefined margins
5. send each Scene to a Layout file, each Layout Page/Sketchup Scene
6. then manipulate the Layout tools to attach the dimensions to each object

But I can't seem to get past getting Sketchup to create a new Layout file.

Using the console here's what happens. I created the directory and made sure it existed.

x_layoutDir = x_dirPath + "/" + "LayoutSets" Dir.exist?(x_layoutDir) true

Then used send_to_layout to create a new Layout file.

x_result = Sketchup.send_to_layout(x_layoutDir + "/MyTestLayoutFile.layout") false

No luck. Found another command and tried it.

objLayout = Layout::Document.open(x_layoutDir + "/MyTestLayoutFile.layout") Error: #<ArgumentError: File does not exist> <main>:inopen'
<main>:in <main>' SketchUp:1:in eval'`

No Luck. Found another option by just using the send_action.

Sketchup::send_action("sendToLayOut:") false

Again no luck. So, I tried this from another angle. I first created the file.

objLayout = Layout::Document.open(x_layoutDir + "/MyTestLayoutFile.layout") #<Layout::Document:0x0002751b936538>

Success!!!

However, it was somewhat short lived, because I couldn't view the file from Layout that I had just opened. And even though it appeared to be successful I couldn't get Layout to open so that I can view the results of using the methods.

Plus, it brought up another question. Is there a way to have Sketchup create and open the Layout file, without having to have a file already existing?

I tried...
objLayout = Layout::Document.new(x_layoutDir + "/MyNewLayoutFile.layout") Error: #<ArgumentError: The template file could not be found> <main>:ininitialize'
<main>:in new' <main>:in <main>'
SketchUp:1:in eval'

I couldn't find where I could implement Layout template file and when I created a Layout template file, there wasn't any type of method that would allow me to create new file using it.

So, I would like to have 2 questions answered.

1. How do I get Sketchup to create a new Layout file?

2. Is there a method to open the Layout application and view the document that was just opened using the Layout::Document.open method?

Thanks,
Scott.