[Chris Fullmer]

Dude, the spam’s gotta stop.

[Chris Fullmer]

Hi Daniel, how’s it going? Been a while now, but I’ve been watching your book and waiting. I’m hoping to get a copy here shortly. Thanks for posting about it here, hope all is going well,

Chris Fullmer

[Chris Fullmer]

Yeah, that would be fine. Its the sort of plugin that a basic implementation is easy. But just adding a few simple features can make it rather complicated to write. So we’ll start simple and see how useful it is 🙂 But yes, email the info to me and I’ll look at it.

@Bob, yup I’ve been on here for a long time. I have not been very active, but I’m here 🙂

Chris

[Chris Fullmer]

Hi Jacob, yes that kind of thing is possible to do in a Sketchup plugin. There are a few different ways to implement it. I think the best way depends on your workflow. But I have some ideas. I could write a very simple version for you. Maybe something that just export all the surface area of different materials used in a model. Then it would be easy to use a color coding system in Sketchup. Then run the plugin and it could output the area associated with each color. Then you could take that into a spreadsheet.

I’m not good with formatting text output in Ruby. But I could get the data for sure, and then you would just need to plug it into a spreadsheet manually (well, copy and paste).

So PM or email me or something. I’ll see if I can get a quick and dirty version of the script up and running.

Chris

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