3D Printing, Ruby and Solar Panels

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Shows how SketchUp plus the SketchUp Ruby API turns a roof photo from Google Earth into a to-scale model, runs SketchUp’s shadow solver for time-of-day shading, and lays out panels with 1 inch spacing and ~30° tilt. Demonstrates a Ruby SolarModule class that programmatically push-pulls faces into components, auto-duplicates rows with the move/duplicate routine, exposes a plugin via the SketchUp plugins folder and an HTML dialog, and iterates a 3D-printed cookie cutter through v1 (thin walls failed) to v2 (thicker, worked).

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1. 0:00Introduction and speaker background
2. 1:28What is SketchUp and its uses
3. 4:16Using SketchUp for solar panel design
4. 16:52SketchUp and Ruby programming
5. 23:36Automating tasks with Ruby in SketchUp
6. 28:08Building SketchUp plugins with Ruby
7. 29:543D printing with SketchUp and Ruby
8. 31:20Prototyping a cookie cutter design
9. 38:05Testing and refining the 3D print
10. 40:14Resources and closing remarks

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