eneroth3 / eneroth-face-area-counter

Eneroth Material Area Counter

This simple plugin counts the area used by the different materials in the model and shows them in a messagebox.

This extension can be seen as a SketchUp Ruby extension example. The original extension was written in June 2016 when I was much less experienced than I am today. Going through the commits and see how the code base has changed may be a helpful reference for your own extension development. The code can be used as a reference to better understand:

• the value of source control,
• the value of writing short, concise and re-usable methods (you may want to copy several methods straight into your own project),
• how the SketchUp model can be iterated over,
• Vector3d cross and dot multiplication,
• Transformations and Transformation multiplication, and
• YARD documentation (though the syntax might be wrong, I'm quite new at this myself).