@unknownuser said:

The People's Voice has been established to balance mainstream media bias which refuses to give voice to people with views at odds with mainstream thinking and belief. You can expect to hear all aspects of mainstream society questioned and debated. What viewers choose to accept or believe is for them to decide after hearing the evidence and opinion broadcast by The People's Voice and the information and opinion broadcast by mainstream sources.

The TPV is crowd funded and supported by donations so far.
It starts live program today, 10th October.

They will be broadcasting live programs from 17:00 - 22:00 GMT, which is 12PM - 5PM Eastern Time in the US and 9AM - 2PM Pacific Time.

(www.thepeoplesvoice.tv)

I have hard time figuring out what object should I query to get the ISkpRenderer*. There is no info on it in SDK docs.
I have tried with ISkpAppliaction, ISkpDocument, ISkpView(Current), but without success.

I want to use member function called RenderToBitmap.

HRESULT ISkpRenderer;;RenderToBitmap 	( 	[in] unsigned long  	width,
	[in] unsigned long  	height,
	[in] unsigned long  	bytesPerPixel,
	[in] unsigned long  	bytesPerRow,
	[in] unsigned long  	backgroundMode,
	[in] unsigned long  	format,
	[in] unsigned long  	type,
	[in] BOOL  	topToBottom,
	[in] BOOL  	nprSpeedMatters,
	[in] float  	outputDPI,
	[in] float  	linewidth,
	[in, out] unsigned char *  	bitmapBytes	 
) 

There are some intriguing parameters I am not really sure what they stand for or what options they offer: bytesPerRow, backgroundMode, format, type. My guess it that 0 will work fine for backgroundMode, format and type. The most mysterious for me is bytesPerRow.

Does anyone know?

@dan rathbun said:

You do not need to open the file(s) using:
Sketchup::save_thumbnail
.. just that you must use it from within SketchUp Ruby.

Right, I didn't realize that there is a path parameter in this method!

Thanks! I have checked 3 or more pages with search result, but didn't find the snippets post. I will be checking it first now.

I want extract them directly from files, without opening them in SU.
Jim's extract_png.rb looks like a good solution.

@tt_su said:

Good news is that I got the SLAPI example compiling under OSX. I need to test on Windows and clean up the extconf.rb file a little.

It will be very good indeed to have those examples easy to compile and ready to expand.

Hi,

I have made a search but haven't found a solution yet.
Does someone know a way to read a thumbnail stored in SKP file?
If SU Team could give us info on where we can find its location and a size, that would be enough

Tomasz

Robert Kubica's victory today in the WRC 2 category of Rally de Espana was sufficient to clinch the world title in his debut season.

http://www.wrc.com/news/kubica-secures-wrc-2-title/?fid=19333

His wants to get behind a wheel of a single-seater. We will see what 2014 will bring.

In the last event of WRC 2013 - Wales Rally GB - he will take part behind a wheel of WRC top level rally car.

Here is an interesting and insightful interview with congressman Neil Gallagher who was fighting Invasion of Privacy and introduced Privacy Bill in 1972, which was rejected. If a use of private information was a tool for controlling politicians already then, just think how it is used as a leverage today.

A Profile In Courage, Congressman Neil Gallagher - YouTube

[flash=854,480:3j67n9m9]http://www.youtube.com/v/byul-xnPFCM[/flash:3j67n9m9]

We have just made Thea Studio 1.2 and Thea for SketchUp publicly available as a demo version.
All of you have now a chance to try the new Field Mapping engine and also Presto GPU running on Nvidia cards.

Great patience and excellent result! I admire your passion for the design & construction.

This is excellent! I am thrilled.
Congratulations Thomas and SU Team! It was a wise decision

@jolran said:

The only one I could think of is Pilou

@thomthom said:

Use the second item in the returned array, with is the instance path array. Traverse through this and check if any of these entities are hidden on on a hidden layer. Works in all versions of SU.

Thomas, it is not what I have been looking for. I know that this works, but I doesn't give you an info on whether an object is hidden by 'Group/Component editing' option from the 'Window/Model Info/Components'.

The Model.active_path solution works very well. I have to obviously traverse whole active_path and compare each element with the second element of rayrest return.

I have found Model.active_path from SU 7.0+. It looks I will have to compare an oldest entity in a family I get from the raytest with oldest entity from the active_path...

Are there users still using SU6?

I have two tools that are using model.raytest(ray) and have bumped into a problem with DrawingElement visibility in Group/Component editing mode.

All DrawingElement methods dealing with visibility - visible? and hidden? they refer to a state of the element in a model, but are completely unaware of a visibility of the element on a screen (OpenGL 3D space to be "precise").

Group/Component editing options allow to Hide elements from a view, but how can we check it from Ruby?! Is there a way to figure out whether such an entity is really "visible on a screen".

Sketchup.get_resource_path "Materials.strings"

doesn't work in SU2013.

Thanks for the workaround, although it works only for SU2013.

Sketchup.get_resource_path "Materials.strings"

returns an empty string on Mac in SU8. Same applies to "Styles.strings" etc.

Sketchup.get_resource_path '' returns:
'/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/Resources/en-US'

The file is located in 'Sketchup.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Materials.strings'

I haven't checked in SU2013.

Hi All,

Without writing too much let me introduce you new Thea Presto Edition 1.2 with FieldMapping and Presto GPU engines.

Thea for SketchUp comes additionally with an animation support. In the trailer a "construction" of a church is shown. I have rendered it inside SketchUp with the Presto(BSD) engine. I have used proper_animation plugin to animate all objects.

Thea Presto Edition 1.2 Trailer - YouTube

[flash=640,360:3m58j6bw]http://www.youtube.com/v/SOw3IcxQD_0[/flash:3m58j6bw]

Initially this version is available to licensed users only and comes with an interesting discount.

You can learn all details here at Thea Forum.

Best wishes,

Tomasz

There is a bug with flipped groups.
A group on the right moves 1 m upwards, but on its way it forgets it is flipped.

Bug with flipped group

@jars121 said:

I'm having this exact problem. Scenes 1-7 are working perfectly. I have followed the same method for Scene 8, but the component jumps from position 7 to position 8 without actually animating. What's the problem?

It looks, that the plugin doesn't apply a default value for animation easing for those additional positions. To solve the issue open and close the 'animation easing' options.

@Moris
Proper_animation takes into account also those scenes that are not used/included in the animation. They have [] around their names. If such a scene is preset at the beginning of the animation, it ruins the whole thing.