I’m interested in trying to experiment with Ruby, and I want to build a tool that will place an “arrow” pointing in the direction of the down slope of the clicked surface, and place a text entity that displays the slope. This is something I’d find really useful with site modeling analysis. I’d just …

You will save yourself hours of frustration if you learn basic Ruby first. [image] Learning Ruby and the SketchUp API Ruby API Continuing the discussion from LineTool example :

My very old [but functioning] Plugin SketchUp Plugins | PluginStore | SketchUcation Does much of what you want. Feel free to borrow parts of its code [for non-commercial use]. It adds text for slopes as 1:19 etc, but changing it to 2.4° would be a simple edit. Also ‘flat 3d-text’ could be substi…

Hi TIG, Thanks for the link. This is very helpful, exactly the kind of guidance I was hoping to find.

Newbie Developer, wanting to build "slope arrow" plugin, any advice?

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DanRathbun August 25, 2015, 9:54pm 2

You will save yourself hours of frustration if you learn basic Ruby first.

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Newbie Developer, wanting to build "slope arrow" plugin, any advice?

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