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Sketchup.active_model.close_active
will close a group or component that you have open for editing, and return to the base model, or group/component if the group being edited is 'nested' inside others. It returns 'true' if successful. It will return 'false' if you are in the base model itself as there's nothing to 'close'...
TIG
Have you put the terrain on a layer called, say, "SITE", that's switched "off" OR have you just hidden the terrain objext(s), which is quite different ?
Here's v1.8. For some reason it's just started to Bugsplat on my new PC (Vista). It didn't before ! This new version avoids a splat since it has a two step undo. The splat seems to come from after it's intersected the volume slicing disc group to make entities inside another vol group and then it is trying to erase that disc group within the same commit/undo as the rest. By making 2 undo steps it doesn't splat - go figure ? 
My script - SectionCutFace.rb - which adds faces to selected section plane cuts makes about as much use as you can through Ruby. You can check if what you've selected is a SectionPlane [if ss[0].typename=="SectionPlane"...] and then get its plane [section_plane=ss[0]; plane=section_plane.get_plane] that's about it...
@tobobo said:
TIG,
Dense question Alert!
Is there a tut on how to used it?
Open any .rb file in NotePad [or a similar plain text editor (NOT A word-processor)] and there is usually a set of instructions at the beginning...
Simply put: if you have a shape that you'd like the volume of, then make it a group or component. Select it and right-click to get the context-menu and near the bottom is the "Volume" option. Pick that and follow the instructions / options...
HOWEVER - when I just tried using now it Bug-splatted ! It was OK before and is unchanged - testing for causes...
EDIT: see http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=153&t=1532 for the fix...
@archtrot said:
TIG,
I'm looking for your cut/fill calculation tutorial. Links in the Google forum no longer work.Thank you.
I'll have it somewhere at home... I'll post it a soon as I find it !
Here it is attached...
VolumeCalculator v1.7 script now uploaded.
Options now include ability to choose the volume's layer, including making a new layer 'on the fly' if required, to hide/show the volume's face's edges, and to pick the volume's face colours from any standard colour or model material...
Here's v1.6.
It sorts out file/folder paths slightly differently, which might avoid the Mac crash. It also corrects the typo in a dialog reported by Didier...
@didier bur said:
Little typo line 189 "intances" for "instances".
Nice script as always :thup:
Didier
Thanks for those 'eagle-eyes' of yours.
Since the typo is only in the text in an error dialog that shouldn't appear much anyway I'll leave it until v1.6...
Here's v1.5
Areas now report in current units, NOT always sq in.
Note: if you always work in say mm but want areas in say sq m then edit the script around lines ~155-165 - there are guidance notes there on how to fix it easily...
Here's v1.4
Main Changes:
Report always located with Model.
Miner goes whole depth of nesting.
Commas in names etc trapped into ';'.
3rd report of 'parentage' added.
If any report is already open error now trapped.
Here's v1.3
Much as v1.2 but...
The error message if the report was already made and left open in Excel so it can't be written to with a new report is now disabled pending a proper implementation.
If the script fails it is likely the cause is this - close the report and re-run.
Here's v1.2
It now offers the opportunity to 'Mine' down through nested-groups/components - either all or in a selection - and then report on all component instances it finds.
Here's v1.1.
It now looks to see if there's a Selection containing at least one Component, if so then you are asked if you want to base the report on the Selection. If 'Yes' then the Instances report is limited to the Selection's Component Instances: if 'No' then a full report is made on all of the Model's Component Instances. In either case a report of all the Model's Components (Definitions) is made first.
I was asked to rehash my old script to make a bigger report. It now makes two csv's - one of the Component Definitions that have been used [def-name, number, description and guid] AND the other of the Instances that have been placed [def-name, inst-name, layer, material, area(of faces), ID and bounding-box's xyz]...
Having said, "Do it manually...", I'm now thinking that perhaps a sloping soffit (or even a sloping fascia) option isn't so difficult for some roof types and I might look at incorporating it in a future update... watch this space...
@utiler said:
Cheers Digby, I guess you could do that. Sure, a little extra work in re-creating soffits but it is certainly quicker that modelling from start.
I wouldn't think it is out of the question though, I think it would add quite a scope of tasks to the script....
Maybe also a gutter!!!
As for the vegemite-coated Roos; more of the beer-battered kind over here.....
Andrew
The proto-Roof.rb HAD a sloping soffit type... BUT I removed it because the maths hurt my head... There were also add-gutter, add-verge etc... but again I didn't have time to implement them...
As was said, it's pretty easy for you to make the roof higher up that you want with a flat soffit then move it down to suit, THEN edit the roof group and select the inner rim of the soffit and move that up, with auto-fold the soffit will crease and become raking as you want.
To add a gutter etc you just need to draw the vertical cross-section of the desired gutter against a corner of the fascia, and then select the edges of the roof you want to have the gutter, then pick follow-me and then the cross-section's face and you'll have the gutter you want...
If you use particular gutter sections you could save a suitably shaped vertical face as a component, then when needed you simply insert it where you want, explode it and use its face for the follow-me as above...
Thanks for all of your thanks...
So far so good... no bugs reported with v2.1 yet...
Please continue to feed back: any suggestions for practicable enhancements etc are welcome...
Here's v2.1 of Roof.rb.
The two fixes are:
A glitch with some fascia materials being set incorrectly on some combinations of gable roof verge types (only I noticed it so far !).
The pyramid roof making has been made more 'efficient'. This might also fix a reported 'inside-out' faces glitch (although that hasn't been reproducible yet).
As before, download Roof.rb and replace the current one in the Plugins folder. IF you haven't had it before the zip file contains the script (Roof.rb) and the v2 help .mht file: if you already have this help file it's not changed in this update...
Feed back please...[mod=:1fpxar2q]Install this much newer version http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=17156#p17156[/mod:1fpxar2q]