The information is vrey important .And I want to import some components into coordinates by ruby scripts and locate the components by parameter form the user,What methods need to refer? Please give me some suggestions.Thanks!

The size of components add a lot of difficulties,because space of the components need to taken in my ruby script.Now ,I have trouble to deal with that. Does some solutions be gave?

Everyboby ,I want to have the method relating to import and location of the components.Please give me help .Thanks!

@chris fullmer said:

Hi winzard, yes you can controol those things. It is all in Transformations.

Or if you you just want the z height of something, you can also iterate through all vertices and compare their heights. Take the highest and loset z values and compare them to see how tall the object is. Do the same for lengths.

Or you can also get the bounding box of an object and then use the boundingbox methods to get the length and size of the bounding box.

More info would help narrow down the best answer,

Chris

Thanks !The information is great help to me.

Everyone,I want to know that whether some methods which control the long(wide or height) of the model or components is exist. If have,please give me the methods.Thanks!

The ruby script can not run in sketchup 6,but can run in sketchup 7.

I find the answer in the community forums.

I ues SciTE to compile ruby script ..Because I need to sketchup ruby API.I find that the tools is difficult to debug.And please give some suggestions. Thanks!

require 'sketchup.rb'
def create_model()

  @lengthl=100.m if not @length1
  @widthl=50.m if not @widthl
  @number=4 if not @number
  @blength=10.m if not @blength
  @bwidth=5.m if not @bwidth
  @bheight=5.m if not @bheight
  @spacing=5.m if not @spacing
  prompts=["Length of Land; ","Width of Land; ","The Number of Building; ","Building Length; ","Building Width; ","Building Height; ","Building Spacing; "]###
  defaults=[@lengthl,@widthl,@number,@blength,@bwidth,@bheight,@spacing]
  input=UI.inputbox(prompts,defaults,[],"Create Model")
  return nil if not input 
  @lengthl,@widthl,@number,@blength,@bwidth,@bheight,@spacing=input
  amount=@number 
  model=Sketchup.active_model
  entities=model.active_entities 
  
  if @blength>@lengthl
    UI.messagebox('The Building Length is more than Length of Land!')
  elsif @bwidth>@widthl
    UI.messagebox('The Building Width is more than Width of Land!')
  else 
    model.start_operation("Create Model")### for the 'undo'
    x=0;y=0 ### also don't muddle the width/height !!!
  amount.times{|i|
      pt1=[x,y,0]###
      pt2=[x+@bwidth,y,0]###
      pt3=[x+@bwidth,y+@blength,0]###
      pt4=[x,y+@blength,0]###
      new_face=entities.add_face(pt1,pt2,pt3,pt4)
      new_face.pushpull(-@bheight)
      ### pushUpull typo !!! -ve = pull up as the face is reversed...
      y=y+@blength+@spacing ### set in a line
      x=x+@bwidth+@spacing   if y>@lengthl
      UI.messagebox('The area of land is inadequate !')  if x>@widthl
    } ###
  end #if##
  model.commit_operation ###
  
end#def ###
if not file_loaded?("2.rb") ### so only get menu item once...
  UI.menu("Plugins").add_item("Create Model2"){create_model} ###
end#if ###
file_loaded("2.rb") ###

I have difficult to the script,help me .Thanks!

Thank you very much!It is greate help to me!

require'sketchup.rb'
class Model
   def create_model
      UI.messagebox('The number of the building less than 6!')
     prompts=["length of land","width of land","The number of building","building length","building width","building height","Spacing"]
     input=UI.inputbox prompts,"Create model"
     lengthl,widthl,number,blength,bwidth,bheight,spacing=input
     amount=0
     model=Sketchup.active_model
     entities=model.entities
     if(amount>6)
         then UI.messagebox('The number of the building more than 6!')
     pt1=[0,0,0]
     pt2=[0+bwidth,0,0]
     pt3=[0+blength,0+bwidth,0]
     pt4=[0,0+blength,0]
     new_face=entities.add_face pt1,pt2,pt3,pt4
     new_face.pushupull bheight
   end
end
UI.menu("Plugins").add_item("creat_model"){
object=Model.new()
object.create_model
}

I want to Creat Geometry by the code,but I can't find out where the error.