@thomthom said:

But I find it hard to imagine this to be an endeavour that can replace my current job

I think I am one of the happy exception - been freelancing in SU world for 7 years now and enjoying it to the max compared with my 3 years at Siemens which I hated (still a good experience to not go back)

@unknownuser said:

Sketchucation represents the ability to 'get the word out,' but not enough.

feel free to post (here or in a new thread) or PM me any ideas that you think that it will boost the word out using SCF as the medium.

maybe even implement something like Readability for plugins - you allocate a sum per month and it will be distributed to authors based on the plugins usage

does nothing as well (SU 8.0.4810)

but UI.show_model_info("Credits") does only changes the selection and not the pane (you can see the Units pane that I have previously selected)

@unknownuser said:

could geometry tied to colour by layer

so you want the edge have the same color/material as the face ?

can you put the exact and complete thing that you use ? why do you send a file to set_html ?

file:/// = file:// + / (root directory)

ps. funny how I joined SCF exactly 1day and 10hours later

used Murky when I worked with Hg. and another one MacHg

it seems logic to me and looks like Windows implementation has the "bug" - set_html just sets the html code and there is no location available
it is the same as when loading a file in ruby with eval and there is no error info regarding the file

another article about software pricing, or pay whatever you want - http://2dboy.com/2009/10/19/birthday-sale-results/
most of them payed $0.01 , 2nd place $1-$2 range and 3rd $5-$6 range

look at iOS AppStore statistics average is $2.43 but 90% of them are crap imho (poor design, use once and forget, lot of copycats)

have you tried to push your local repository directly to bitbucket ?

hg push http://bitbucket.org/user/repo

Sublime Text 2 is a multiplatform (Win, OSX and Linux) editor with a lot of promise

• Goto Anything - quickly navigate to open/recent files and within files (e.g. ruby methods)
• user customizable via Python - wished it had Ruby
• multi pane editing - good for big monitors

I am currently working in adding SketchUp support - run code inside Sketchup from Sublime and dynamic code completion.

Costs $59 but you can evaluate for free (nag screen)

yeah. I am doing the same thing now - reinventing the wheel of intersect. got some crashes after doing some .intersect_with and also a lot of the frozen UI.

I think I will do an outside process monitor of the SketchUp Ruby system - I hate unresponsive UIs

@tig said:

simply work out the % the point is away from each edges' start.position and split each of the two edges at that point as desired.

you don't need the % calculation, you can use the Point3d as well in the .split

Cubits lets you download, view, and save 3D models from Google 3D Warehouse, or load your own KMZ files exported from SketchUp.

Tested and it works on iPad quite nice. Speed is decent and I wished it had layer on/off support.

website

iTunes link

Features:
• Load KMZ files exported from SketchUp — sync them using iTunes, or open them from Mail attachments (or other apps that support document sharing, such as Dropbox).
• Pan, rotate, and zoom with intuitive, orbit-style multitouch gestures
• Reveal a model's location on a map, then jump to the Maps app for directions
• Find nearby models based on your current location
• Take screenshots to sync back to your computer or use in other iPhone apps
• Tweak many custom settings — toggle lighting, textures and axes, change backgrounds, or adjust advanced options like mipmapping
• Enjoy the pleasant, well-designed user interface
• Supports iOS 4 and the iPhone 4 Retina display
• Multisampling for iOS 4.0 devices

maybe start with http://betterexplained.com/articles/the-quick-guide-to-guids/

also TIG said sometime ago about using Time.now + random

system  "open '/your/path'"

from a programmer point of view (mine) Mac is a way better alternative :

• Ruby comes preinstalled,
• all extensions work and are compilable,
• Quartz Composer and Core Images filters,
• 64bit system,
• more polished applications
• not wasting time with malware and viruses

will not get back to Windows (even if I spent 18 years on that platform)

works ok here (Chrome/OSX). see if the user doesn't have any antivirus that mess things up. or you can use TeamViewer and debug on his machine

I am working with http://min.us guys to implement Sketchup .skp support for their drag and drop dropmocks clone.

Dropmocks was a open source proof of concept by Google Chrome UI lead Glen Murphy and I dont think that it will evolve more.

@rabidcicada said:

On the sketchup side you would sit in an infinite loop reading from the named_pipe_file and then parse and handle everything that comes through.

you will have a lot of fun with Sketchup stucked in an infinite loop. or you can use the existing Sketchup Bridge that I made in 2006.

my first computer - Sinclair ZX Spectrum