@pilou said:

Menu Display/ Tool Barr / New
and you can put anything you want inside this new Tool Barr?

Hi good day
I tried that option as you mentioned it several times
But this is very limited
That's what i comment
Has the same options and does not give you more
Plugins can not be installed or moved to that tray

Hello everyone
Asking if there is a plugin or some way to add plugins to the
Default tray on sketchup
example
The default tray only works with this option
Information of the entity
materials
components
styles
layers
shades
etc etc
And if you want to create a new bar or a new section
The only options you get are the same
Information of the entity
materials
components
styles
layers
shades
etc etc

There should be a way to customize this
example
Entity information
materials
(V-ray)
round corner
skater
1001 bit tools
etc etc

And for what reason
Constantly the community creates more plugins and that is very well
But the more you have more saturates the screen leaving a minimum working space
Please if someone sees this and can change something I would be very grateful
regards

@tig said:

So, what I see is a parametric 'box', which is an effective 'wall'.
What is it you are trying to do in a SketchUp Plugin ?
There are already some examples of parametric forms - e.g. su_shapes available from the EW...

THANKS TIG

i want to do a block workflow
this is a older research i made with autocad and sketchup

sorry its in spanish language because its an older research i made
its like revit or archicad

the problem i have in this research its the time for export and the materials
and my new research i want to do its

make a plugin can swap 1 component and other instances
for other component with no exactly the same name example

in autocad i use component bed-A
if i export to sketchup i want to select and replace for bed-B or bed-C
bed-A its a line block in autocad
bed-B its model for sketchyp in the same folder the bed-A is
and the bed-C its proxy

the final result you can swap or replace every autocad blocks you work for sketchup 3d models or proxys with a few clicks in sketchup

@tig said:

Are your doors [etc] all separate components or scaled versions of the same one?
If they are scaled then the swap should be seamless.
If they are separate versions [which is more likely because scaling will affect rail/stile sizes] - e.g. Door-18-24-A, Door-20-24-A, Door-24-24-A etc then to use a scripted 'swapper' you at least need the replacements to follow the same pattern of 'name-coding' - e.g. Door-18-24-B, Door-20-24-B, Door-24-24-B etc - i.e. let's say the coding is Element[Door]-Width[18]-Height[24]-Code[A].
Once you have a logical way of encoding an element's name I can show you how to make a script that will go through the selected components and find their Element, Width, Height and Code and then swap for available elements with another code. A version that would run in the Ruby Console [initially at least] would take the form swap_components('-A','-B') - it would find all code-A instances in your selection and swap them with any available code-B versions - either using those already loaded into the SKP or perhaps available in a specific set of folders in the ../Components folder - e.g. a /Doors folder and a /Drawers folder... It relatively easy to find components that have a name ending in '-A' and find and the source equivalently name one, but with its name ending in '-B'. The secret is in having a logical naming convention for components that might get swapped - I used A, B etc as the 'Code' but it could be more complex - swap_components('-A-Oak-Antique','-B-Maple-Limewash') etc etc...

hello TIG can you help me for 1plugin i want to made i have the idea but i dont know about ruby console if you are interested please send me a private message
thanks a lot

im working in autocad and sketchup and i made this

you can stretch if you want

you can rotate if you want

and you can align with any point you want

and you work in 3d at same time

but i made other things and sell in autodesk exchange but i have in my ming something brilliant
to increase autocad and sketchup workflow but i need some help to make 1 plugin does anybody help me please