@leeyong This error message results from your Korean user-name, which cannot be read properly. Ruby used to fail with any file-path containing non-ASCII characters. Ruby requires UTF-8 text-encoding. The newer versions of Ruby do try to re-encode strings in many languages into usable strings, and are often successful. However, your particular encoding [CP949] seems to cause issues with Ruby's built-in [re]encoding methods. I am trying to resolve a similar issue with someone else, on another set of scripts, where he has a Cyrillic text-name... If I manage to resolve that I will almost certainly update my popular scripts to match... However, it is a very convoluted and difficult process...

I know this thread is kinda old, but I Just came across this and it really made my day. Exactly what I was looking for! Saved me from some long a** hours of line drawing! Thanks a lot

Yep!

Thanks, TIG. Groups are powerful in SketchUp.

Good solution TIG, thanks. Mike

Here's v5.0 https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=importDXFtext It fixes the recently reported glitch with certain ACAD diameter symbols in some strings...

This is a great little tool. I know this thread is probably "dead" at this point, but worth a shot. Is there a way to update so that there would be a Elevation Datum and an Actual Datum? Say, Elevation: 97'-6", Actual: 6203'-6". Or even decimal points on the Actual. Thanks!

I've updated this code as it was well out of date and new versions drifting around on the forums has typos etc - this is the definitive version [as of today at least ]

You can add chamfer tool same auto cad

LOVE PLUGIN

TIG, I didn't realized it was such an old plugin. So sorry if I revived this old post. I typed the command exactly like you did but as you said it probably fails before it completes. So I think it's important to tell people not to try it on an important scene that cost days of work at first. Anyway it's finally your export_by_layer plugin (probably another old one) that I'm more interested in, because it can export in separate files in just one go. And as far as I know the other export plugins don't have the option to export groups or components in separated files without exporting them one by one. I have a scene with 330 components that must become 330 DXFs. And I won't click on each of them, launch an exporter, give each file a name, etc. It would take me a all day! So I will keep on using export_by_layer (sorry to post that here but I'm not going to revive the other thread too...) until I find another way to perform this task. If it doesn't work as expected with SU2015, I will use it on an old SU2008 version. Thanks for your efforts, patience and explanations TIG. All the best.

Hi everyone, Is the script supposed to work with 'skp' extension too? I am on Skethup Make 17, *dae and *kmz are exporting correctly but is there any way to save a native skp file by layer? The console reports: X files exported by layer, as 'skp' altough there is nothing in the model folder. Thanks a lot for the help! Andrea

Sorry for coming late to the party, but what a fastastic plugin ! This tool has the potential to be developed to a fullworthy 2D CAD plugin for Sketchup. My wish list: -user can place of the 2D plane, like for elevations, aligned to surfaces, etc -dimensjons in 2D plane -annotation text with leader line

Why do you need an update ? The current versions should work...

Typo corrected in v1.3 in first post...

Why not try something newer, like Universal Importer ? https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=universal_importer

@alskaro do you mean something like this? As TIG says, apply whatever materials you want to the various faces in the SectionCut Face. [image: 1761569581070-uniflow-steam-engine-cut-away-small-resized.png]

@mustafashredder said: @TIG Could you please post a download link to the .rbz file for your script. I cant load .rb file and it wont show up in sketchup when I copy the .rb file to the directory. This thread is superseded by a new one - linked in the first post. That in turn had the v1.2 .rb - but it is now linked to the RBZ at the PluginStore entry http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=175613#p175613 Please learn to use the search at the PluginStore page... e.g. http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?listtype=1%26amp;author=0%26amp;category=0%26amp;search=triangulate%26amp;submit=%3F However, if you are having trouble manually adding a .rb, then loading it you might have inadequate permissions to add files to your Plugins folder... which might also affect the AutoInstall of RBZ content... Fix these in Properties > Security > Edit... giving every entry in the list FULL read/write permissions...