and figured ‘How hard can it be?’ to develop an extension for it. I was also curious as of how the process of developing an extension in the SketchUp world and making it public works.
Used some AI-magic and got a resulting script(s) which I submitted for review and behold, got approved:
This was version 1, It automated the printing of each page separately with a set prefix in the same folder of the LayOut document.
It didn’t take long for the first feedback, (select a different prefix, select a destination folder) So I needed some (html) dialog and end up with version 2.0
Currently, only version 1 is published but I did create a version 2, still only .rbz which I am trying to submit for review, but it fails somehow.
Therefore, the current pictures in the Extension Warehouse do not comply.
I noticed that it fails for some pagenames (namely pagenames containing character like ‘:’,‘/’ etc, so I think I need to have some control over that part.
I tried it too, and indeed, the sheets containing characters are not exported.
Speaking of which, I installed another @vbo extension that operates in the same mode and separates the LO sheets individually. I tried looking for the extension but can’t find it anymore. Maybe the developer will reupload it. (works with SU24)
I’m excited to try this. My favorite thing about ConDoc tools was the way it was able to send all the views to a temporary scrapbook file, at scale. It was a really smooth transition from being in sketchup to being able to just drop in viewports into my layout files. @Cyentruk said that Curic Scene Manager was able to do this but I had problems with crashing in the past when I’ve tried using that.
So, it turns out, getting a nice UI with the right responses is taking longer than the actual print functionality working. Gaining respect for developers:)