I'm guessing the issue here is that Layout doesn't display hidden lines in vector mode (I wish it did!). Correct Gaieus? Ideally one wouldn't have to explode a model, thereby losing the capacity to remodel it in Sketchup.

Update: Seems as though the name of the action 'RenderbyLayer' was the problem. I switched it and it worked fine! I wonder why.

A tip for anyone else trying to script Podium renders:
The Podium Rendering Manager gives an error 'File not found' if it receives more than one request per second. This seems to result from its naming convention, which uses a time code. I inserted a the command 'sleep(1)' into the script for each layer, pausing it for one second and preventing the error. Maybe there's a better way to do this, but it worked!

Thank you so much Jim! Much appreciated.

I threw that code in a script file, along with a menu item definition, but for some reason it's not executing anything. The menu item shows up, but it doesn't run anything. Here's the whole .rb file:

require 'sketchup.rb'

def RenderbyLayer

	# Set all Layers not visible

	for layer in Sketchup.active_model.layers
		layer.visible = false
	end

	# Iterate Layers, show next Layer, then
	# either create a Scene, or export and image.

	for layer in Sketchup.active_model.layers
		layer.visible = true
		Podium;;render
		layer.visible = false
	end

end

unless file_loaded?("renderbylayer.rb")
	file_loaded("renderbylayer.rb")
	add_separator_to_menu("File")
	UI.menu("File").add_item("Render by Layer using Podium") { RenderbyLayer }
end

I have Podium v2 loaded, and I've used the Podium::render command successfully before, but not this time round. Any more suggestions? If you have a moment...

Thanks, O

Hi there,

I'm looking to write a script that will run an export image (or Podium render) command with one layer visible at a time. Any hints? I imagine it needs to be some kind of 'for each layer' loop:

-Make current layer visible
-Hide others
-Render image
-Move on to the next layer

I know the export image commands pretty well, but the rest I'm still working out.
I understand basic coding ideas, though I'm not too well versed in Ruby.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,