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And of course, one of SketchUp's strengths is the ability to interact with Google Earth and create geography-specific structures.

But when it comes to the SketchUp API, you can go very far with just a basic understanding of the language.

But make no mistake: It would have been easier for me if the creators of SketchUp had based their API on a more popular language.

In just a small amount of time, you can master the basic classes (Edge, Face) that combine to form SketchUp figures.

By creating and executing SketchUp scripts, you can automate the design process and potentially save yourself a great deal of time.

The SketchUp API is based on Ruby, a relatively new programming language primarily used for enterprise computing (Ruby on Rails).

Generally speaking, the goal of a SketchUp script is to modify the data in these container objects.

Google's Sketchup service already provides the tech to do 3D modeling and could also be used to create avatars.

The SketchUp API contains classes whose methods draw and modify aspects of a SketchUp design, including lines, surfaces, colors, and images.

Put simply, an Entity object represents any shape that can be seen, moved, or modified within the SketchUp design window.

The goal of this article is to answer this question by discussing the SketchUp API.

When the second command executes, SketchUp automatically draws the line corresponding to the Edge object in its design window.

Then it would become more popular in academia, and 3-D designers could use all the open source tools that Java technology provides.

Instead, during the extrusion process, SketchUp creates the Edge and Face objects that form the figure.

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Figure 1 shows the results of these commands displayed in SketchUp's Ruby Console.

It returns the Model object that contains all the information in the current SketchUp design.

The pushpull method is the easier of the two methods to use, and it performs the same operation as SketchUp's pushpull tool.

This article can't cover the entire API, so I focus on the basic classes needed to construct SketchUp shapes.

Part 1 shows how to set up the Eclipse environment to create, edit, and execute SketchUp scripts.

Google SketchUp needs some Windows files, and the easiest way to install them is using a script called winetricks.

SketchUp provides a specific Color object, but it's easier to substitute a simple RGB array like [64, 128, 255].

it did this the first time I tried installing SketchUp!

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The second extrusion method is followme, which serves the same purpose as SketchUp's followme tool.

Of all the methods in the SketchUp module, active_model is the most important.

Part 1 provides an example SketchUp script and explains how to execute it using SketchUp's load command and the SketchUp Bridge.

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