Hello, World! This is my first attempt at Ruby for SketchUp. I have extensive experience creating similar tools in Rhino and 3dsMax and decent experience with SketchUp. Just zero knowledge of Ruby. I would like to loop through a folder, pulling out each file with _d suffix and create a material fr…

[image] jonahhawk: Do I need to check if a material already exists before creating a new one with the same name? Yes, otherwise SketchUp will append “#n” where n is an integer which creates a unique name. From the docs … Add a new Material. When called with no arguments, this will generate…

Thank you for the reply. It helps me to understand how to break a loop easily enough. That boolean evaluation is much like python. And I’ll familiarize myself more with the docs. Having made this change, I see the same behavior in SketchUp and now suspect that the problem may be something else. Wh…

[image] jonahhawk: It helps me to understand how to break a loop easily enough. next only returns to the top of the loop and starts the next iteration (which may be subject to a conditional expression if within an until or while loop.) To break out of a loop … use the break statement (option…

[image] jonahhawk: I am executing this code snippet from the Ruby Console. Is there a better way I should run this? Well this depends. If these materials are something every one of your models will need, then usually is is better to add them to an empty model, and save that as a template. The…

[image] jonahhawk: This is my first attempt at Ruby for SketchUp. I have extensive experience creating similar tools in Rhino and 3dsMax and decent experience with SketchUp. Just zero knowledge of Ruby. See the resource lists I created … [image] Ruby Learning Resource…

Could this code be modified to REPLACE any texture in the model with a filename match? What if I want it to do that instead? Say I have a folder of the exact same materials as JPG files but maybe altered in some new way, and they all have the exact same name as the materials in my model and they ea…

[image] p_hennessey: How would you modify the above code to replace each and every one of those textures in the model with the JPGs in the folder specified? That sounds like a relatively simple homework assignment for you. (Ie, I am not interested in relearning what was talked about above af…

Batch create materials from directory of files

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