How to import group to skp using ruby?

[AmjadKhader]

how can i use skp ruby api to import group with known name to skp?

[eneroth3]

What do you mean by import? From where?

[DanRathbun]

You can use …

• Sketchup::Model#import()

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OR, (for more control) convert the group to a component, and save it to disk as an SKP file. Then …

• Sketchup::DefinitionList#load()

Then place an instance of that component definition into an entities context …

• Sketchup::Entities#add_instance()

[AmjadKhader]

That is what i am doing ( the second option ) , but when using group.entities.add_instance i should set the transformation,
i want to do something like importing and set the model position = mouse position when click first time .

[DanRathbun]

@AmjadKhader

i want to do something like importing and set the model position = mouse position when click first time .

Then use Sketchup::Model#place_component() instead of Sketchup::Entities#add_instance() after you load the component definition.

• Sketchup::Model#place_component()