Welcome to SketchUp-STL

A SketchUp Ruby Extension that adds STL (STereoLithography) file format import and export.

3D printing is awesome, and the STL format has emerged as a standard way to share printable 3D models. To support this community, SketchUp has gathered a couple of Ruby plugins and packaged them into a single Extension. Stay tuned! This is our first foray into Open Source, an experiment we hope to repeat.

Installing

The latest and greatest is available as an RBZ file. Download the file from this URL:

https://extensions.sketchup.com/extension/412723d4-1f7a-4a5f-b866-281a3e223337/sketch-up-stl

Then inside SketchUp, select Window → Preferences (Microsoft Windows) or SketchUp → Preferences (Mac OS X) → Extensions → Install Extension and select the RBZ file you just downloaded. Voila! SketchUp installs the extension. You'll find a new import type under File → Import and a File → Export STL menu option as well.

Contributing

Members

If you're an owner of this repo, here are some steps.

Get a local copy of the files. This will create a sketchup-stl folder.

	git clone https://github.com/SketchUp/sketchup-stl.git  
	cd sketchup-stl  

Use your favorite editor to edit README.md. Then...

	git add README.md                     // Marks README.md for edit.  
	git commit -m "Editing our README"    // Records changes in the local branch.  
	git push                              // Submits to repository. Yay!  

Community

If you're a SketchUp Ruby community member, you need to fork this repo (If you don't know what that is, that's okay, we barely know ourselves. Go google some GitHub tutorials and give it a try. Please improve our README.md file with better instructions!)

Steps

1. Fork this repo (tutorial). Forking will create a copy of this repo under your GitHub user name.

2. Clone your fork. For this you will need git installed on your personal computer. GitHub for Windows is a good choice.

3. Add this repo as a remote so you can pull in updates to your clone.

		git remote add upstream https://github.com/SketchUp/sketchup-stl.git

1. Make your changes to the code in your cloned repo, then commit. (git commit ...)

2. Push your changes to your GitHub repo. (git push)

3. From your GitHub repo, send a Pull Request.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Trimble Navigation

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.