Re: [Edu-sig] anyone using Python with Sketchup (free Google tool)?

2011-04-20 Thread Lee Harr
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2008/12/coffee-shops-network.html (top one by me, bottom by Russell Towle) You might like this talk from PyCon : PyCon 2011: Algorithmic Generation of OpenGL Geometry http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4882916/ Actually, it hadn't really occurred to

Re: [Edu-sig] anyone using Python with Sketchup (free Google tool)?

2011-04-19 Thread kirby urner
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Lee Harr miss...@hotmail.com wrote: Is there an advantage to using SketchUp over Blender? Hi Lee -- I've been meaning to reply to this. I have only the utmost respect for Blender, which I've tackled a number of times. I mostly cut my teeth on POV-Ray

Re: [Edu-sig] anyone using Python with Sketchup (free Google tool)?

2011-04-18 Thread Lee Harr
Is there an advantage to using SketchUp over Blender? I tried getting in to SketchUp a few times but I never got to the point where I could do anything very interesting. Also, it is not really free. SketchUp Pro cost about $500. Blender, on the other hand is totally free, and has Python built

[Edu-sig] anyone using Python with Sketchup (free Google tool)?

2011-04-17 Thread kirby urner
sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2009/02/supy-scripting-sketchup-in-python.html ___ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig

Re: [Edu-sig] anyone using Python with Sketchup (free Google tool)?

2011-04-17 Thread Vern Ceder
Now, that's a cool idea! I'll have to pass that along to our engineering class, which uses sketchup some... Thanks, Vern On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:34 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote: sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2009/02/supy-scripting-sketchup-in-python.html

Re: [Edu-sig] anyone using Python with Sketchup (free Google tool)?

2011-04-17 Thread kirby urner
I've been going through Ruby tutorials this morning, trying to decide if the easiest way to program Sketchup is to use Ruby first, then mentally translate to Python and start using that. It's a real question, because all the documentation is about Ruby, given SuPy is a tiny pioneering project