You cannot inherit or sub-class the DrawingElement type of classes we provide. They are defined in C in such a way that it's not possible.

Further more, we don't condone this - nor do we allow extensions that modify the Ruby or our Ruby API classes to be submitted to the Extension Warehouse.

The reason for this is that if people modified existing methods they would break the behaviour we promise with our API and it would be impossible to develop for the Ruby API as all extensions share the same environment.

We also don't allow people to add methods to our classes or modules because:

1. It'd be the same as adding methods to the global namespace. What if someone else implement a Entities.add_sphere? Then there'd be a conflict.
2. We reserve the namespace for us. Maybe we would like to implement an add_sphere method - in which case we wouldn't want it overridden by third party extensions.

So you should instead be writing it with an alternative syntax. Make a method that accepts the Entities object where the sphere will be added. It's not as pretty, but for the sake of integrity and the sanity of the developers that use the API it's the way to go.

You'll find me at the bar. I've had enough snow!

That will be released later as we get closer to releasing SketchUp 2014. We cannot release all the details publicly yet. We do have a great amount of recordings from the event.

SketchUp makes use of the OS render engine - under Windows that means IE and under OSX that is WebKit. Many other applications also uses embedded web controls - which will mostly mean IE. So keeping IE up to date is important - because it affects not only the browser but IE as a development platform. Ensuring you have the latest IE also makes your system more secure as IE is deeply embedded into the OS.

Adding to wish-list. Will take a look at it.

Flattening a non-planar face into a planar one would affect connected geometry - cascading to the entire mesh. Such would be insanely complex and difficult - if not impossible.

Maybe To Components can be reworked to handle QuadFace quads?

Can you send me the RB and RBS file you are working with? I'd like to hook this up to our own debugger.

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

That's not possible, unfortunatly

Workaround suggestion, size the window and leave a small clickable header in the HTML itself.

Do you have sample data we can look at?

If you want to push a bunch of points into a set, and merge points that SketchUp thinks of as identical, you can use the PolygonMesh class. Just add the points and SU will merge similar points.

FYI, the reason for this tolerance is due to floating point tolerance: http://floating-point-gui.de/

@jolran said:

Getting position values from a mathematical computation one should convert results to Point3d objects before comparison, right?

What would ensure the data is treated fully as 3D points and handled using the internal tolerance, correct.

@jolran said:

If you got duplicates Array.uniq! should do the trick though

That would only work when the numeric values are identical. But that would not filter out points from this error. If they are within tolerance they are considered identical.

@garry k said:

The second point is the culprit. Does anyone know how close 2 points can be without producing an error?

SketchUp's internal tolerance is 1/1000th of an inch. Comparing two Geom::Point3d objects using == will use this tolerance.

Try to remove TT_Lib completely and then reinstal it. (Make sure to exit all SketchUp windows first.)

What error where you getting? (The actual error messages are usually the most useful when debugging.)

@john sayers said:

6. Somewhere down the line Google screwed the zoom in. Now construction lines also disappear if you zoom in too far. This never happened in earlier versions.

Under Preferences there is a checkbox labelled "Disable pre-pick on Push/Pull Tool" which will return the behaviour to the old style.
Alternatively, hit Ctrl+T to quickly deselect and you can use hover over a face to push pull it.

@rich o brien said:

Someone on IE8 please test pluginstore 2 for me?

Clear cache beforehand to force new css update

The IE Compatibility Mode is rather good for testing backwards compatibility in IE.

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