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The Ruby API can only be used from within SketchUp, correct.
As for the C SDK, where are you stuck? What prevents you from creating terrain geometry? The C API is generic, there is no limitations imposed to what it creates - so creating terrains will be possible.
In deed - I typed in a hurry and made a mess out of it. I made changes in a hurry now as well, but I still haven't checked it properly. Sorry. I'll get back to this next week. Now I need to get to bed as I'm catching a plane early in the morning.
<span class="syntaxdefault"><br />model </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> Sketchup</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">active_model<br />face </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> model</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">selection</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">[</span><span class="syntaxdefault">0</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">]<br /><br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">if face<br /> edges_and_curves </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">[]<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault"> face</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">outer_loop</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">edgeuses</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">each </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">{</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">|</span><span class="syntaxdefault">edgeuse</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">|<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault"> edge </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> edgeuse</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">edge<br /> edges_and_curves </span><span class="syntaxkeyword"><<</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> edge</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">curve </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">||</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> edge<br /> </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">}<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxcomment"># Because we will have added the Curve entities for each edge segment.<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault"> edges_and_curves</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">uniq</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">!<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">end<br /></span>
It will be. No one knew that existed any more.
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Oh, right - yes I noticed that there's a bug under OSX. Sorry, I mostly use PC so I'd forgotten. I think there's an issue for it, but I'll check again and bump it.
@slbaumgartner said:
Is there a way to create a button in a toolbar that works like the zoom extents button? That is, when you click it the underlying Tool/Command does its one-shot action and then the Toolbar button returns to un-selected?
That is the default behaviour, unless you implement validation procs or make the button activate a tool. When you activate a tool the button will remain pressed for as long as that tool is active.
You can also use .extend() on single instances:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.8.6/Object.html#method-i-extend
Note that extending Entity instances would not be allowed by EW because the instances are global to everyone using the SketchUp environment. But for other types such as Point3d, Vector3d, String etc that would work.
True that - they are meta-entities.
An Edge can be part of an ArcCurve or Curve.
Use Edge.curve to check this, it will return the curve instance if it is and nil if it't not.
http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/edge.php#curve
I think the topic of intersect_with is blog post worthy. I'm making a note of it.
hm.. missing a stacktrace there.
Can you try these commands in the Ruby Console:
load 'tt_cleanup.rb'
load 'tt_cleanup/core.rb'
?
See if you get a more detailed error message?
Also, what version of TT_Lib and CleanUp do you have installed?
I'd recommend you contact ChaosGroup and make a feature request.
@tig said:
Assuming your code is in a module set
@model=Sketchup.active_modelat every critical step...
This ensures that you don't get 'cross-threaded' references to another MAC model.
+1
Remember many classes related to the model will have a .model method to return the model that given object belong to.
That being said, we do need a way to iterate open models.
@garry k said:
Where can I go to find a set of plugin standards?
The Extension Warehouse has a set of technical requirements which is based on patterns to avoid plugins clashing. These requirements are parts of what we consider good practice:
http://extensions.sketchup.com/developer
A couple of years ago I wrote a short article with some key things to remember:
http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2012/01/golden-rules-of-sketchup-plugin-development/
Followed up by this check-list:
http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2013/02/sketchup-plugin-checklist/
(Edit: did you mean standards in terms of security when transferring data over the internet?)
What is the question here? What is it that you're stuck with?
What settings did you use? I just ran it with default settings on a fresh installation of SU and no faces were lost.
It appear to be because the ray traced hit the component it tried to drop. Apparently I forgot to make it ignore itself. If I moved the axis to the bottom of the component it worked fine.