Excel VBA - Sketchup API integration

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See here for information about downloading the SDK.

Download SketchUp lastest sdk

I’m c++ developer. I’m creating a c++ project on window to convert skp data to opengl. So a need a download a latest sketchup sdk. I register on sketchup homepage but not have mail confirm. Can you show me how to download sketchup sdk? Thanks a lots.

You will not be able to use the binaries in VBA though. They are not compatible.

Instead you can use the Ruby API inside SketchUp to read the Excel files and draw a model from them.

Reading and writing to Excel from SketchUp is not a trivial task since SketchUp doesn’t really support gems. See here for more info.

Cross-platform Generate xlsx Document

Since this thread is closed I’m creating a new one. In my extension I currently create spreadsheets using WinOLE. There are several reasons I’d like to find an alternative. Excel needs to be installed for this to work. It only works on windows. It is slow because Excel needs to be started. In c# I use ClosedXML which is realy fast, but only works on windows. I’ve done some searching but it seems most of the methods use gems, and installing gems in SketchUp is not something I want to dea…