Visual programming for sketchup

SketchUp Dynamic Components
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Hi all,
this is just a suggestion that I believe could breathe new power into sketchup:
Most 3d apps have some kind of visual programming in them. I don’t know if this has ever been discussed again but having used Rhino’s grasshopper for ages I often feel that it would be amazing to have a visual canvas within sketchup that would make it easy to handle dynamic components.

The mocap picture above is the equivalent of “onclick / animate(RotZ,0,60,90)”
You have a canvas where you can logically connect actions to dynamic components in the form of blocks. If you wanted to create a dynamic window next, you could just copy the door’s blocks, plug them in your window and have a new dynamic window in seconds without having to worry about syntax.

David Rutten, the creator of Grasshopper started it as a plugin for Rhino and now it has made it probably the only reason of its existence. A visual Dynamic component editor could possibly open new horizons for sketchups use as well.

just a thought…

edit: in the image, "click’ should be connected to ‘trigger’ and ‘0,60,90’ should be connected to ‘angles’ receptor.

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Nice, but this only for creation of basic solids within the canvas, It doesn’t seem to be able to reference geometry from sketchup…

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Trimble has put their money into the new Live Component program, so it is unlikely Dynamic Components will get any more “love”.

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You posted this in the Dynamic Components category, so I conclude you want this interface to control a DC. A major impediment to doing so is that there is no published API or Ruby specification for dynamic components. Although people have sniffed out a lot about how they work, DC’s are proprietary. So, the implementation would necessarily have to be a reverse-engineered hack, with all the license, support, and other issues that entails.

Not saying it wouldn’t be a nice thing, just that it would not be easy.