Unfocused thoughts of a procrastinator
A.k.a. BunnyGuard 2000 When you need to protect your interweb wires from being nibbled up! Step 1: Create Marquette Step 2: Convert to SketchUp model Step 3: Extract 2D profiles Step 4: Assemble and send for inspection: Before: After: Continue reading →
I’ve recently gotten myself the Sony FE 200–600 mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS lens. But given its size I always unmount it from the camera when I’m not using it. I didn’t have any vertical space for it to stand upright. Laying the lens horizontally the Continue reading →
One of the boardgames I really enjoy is Caverna: The Cave Farmers. It comes with so many pieces that often we just didn’t pack down the game for a few days. Trying to organise the everything is a challenge. Forget zip bags, the cave tiles Continue reading →
I recently started playing Cities: Skylines, Colossus’ recent city builder game. I was really impressed to how well it simply “just worked” – especially given how fresh it was. What also intrigued me was it’s reported good support for user modding. Creating assets from existing Continue reading →
At last I finally got around to update CleanUp to not touch instances that are locked. So now you can safely lock your imported plan drawing and CleanUp will not nuke all the line work. Note that locking one instance means that all the other instance Continue reading →
Introducing SKUI, a GUI framework for SketchUp. It’s a library that lets you create and manipulate WebDialog GUI using only Ruby code. It saves you from needing any knowledge of HTML, CSS, JS or browser compatibility issues in order to create a UI for your Continue reading →
Here’s a simple overview of important items to remember when developing and distributing a SketchUp plugin. Where I have already written about the topic or other sources exists it’s been linked. Otherwise it’s a just simple brief description where a topic eventually will be written. Continue reading →
I’ve put together a visual guide to the PickHelper class in SketchUp’s Ruby API. When I first tried to use the PickHelper class I was confused over what the different methods did, and found that the class has multiple purposes which makes the class somewhat Continue reading →
