Running SketchUp API functions without SketchUp

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Yes, but not with SketchUp’s Ruby API, which is only exposed by the SketchUp executable.

You’d have to use the SketchUp C API.

Either you’d …

  1. Write your utility in C and compile it as a standalone CLI utility

… or…

  1. Try using the Ruby Standard Fiddle library to have a Ruby script access your folder of SKP files and make the changes.

There are several topic threads in the SDK category on attribute dictionaries.

… and some in Issue Tracker comments …