Scarpino Matthew. Automatic SketchUp. Creating 3-D Models in Ruby

Baltimore, USA: Eclipse Engineering LLC, 2010. — 456 p.Automatic SketchUp presents the Ruby scripting interface to popular SketchUp modeling tool. It explains how Ruby classes are used to form points, edges, and surfaces, and then proceeds to more advanced topics such as animation, web dialogs, and transformation matrices. It also discusses the important topic of plugins, which make it possible to extend SketchUp's capabilities with new tools, menu items, pages, layers, and dialogs.Introduction to SketchUp Scripting
Ruby Lesson #1: Data Structures
Fundamentals of SketchUp Scripting
Transformations and Additional Geometry
Ruby Lesson #2: Control Structures and Files
Colors, Textures, and Materials
Managing Geometry: Layers, Groups, and Components
Ruby Lesson #3: Classes and Modules
Attributes, Options, and Observers
The SketchUp Interface: Dialogs, Menus, Commands, and Plugins
The SketchUp Interface: Views, Cameras, Pages, and Tools
Actions & Animation
WebDialogs