@sdmitch said:

Select groups.

Copy and paste the following code into the Ruby Console and press Enter.

mod = Sketchup.active_model > ent = mod.active_entities > sel = mod.selection > sel.grep(Sketchup;;Group).each{|g| > pt = Geom;;Point3d.linear_combination(0.5,g.bounds.corner(4),0.5,g.bounds.corner(7)) > ent.add_text(g.name,pt,[0,0,g.bounds.depth]) > } >

Oh MAN! Sorry for the incredibly late reply on this. Thank you! Its crazy that sketchup doesnt have a bult in feature to do BOM with bubble callouts etc.

I don't remember for the Tape Tool but maybe you can use this other one by Matt666 ?

If you have LibFredo installed you can go to Window > LibFredo Settings... to view Trace Logs and Performances.

This does not show info for every extension but only Fredo extensions. Maybe with a gentle poke Fredo could expand it to show how other tools affect startup times.

The bounding box isn't causing the issue, the issue is causing the bounding box.
Look inside the box for stray geometry somewhere around the border of the box. Remove that and the bounding box will fit neatly around your model.

@unknownuser said:

Internet is very slow for this site.

it's your connection who has problem with this site not the site itself!

@mcgordon said:

In the components window, right click on the component to be replaced (sphere), choose "Select Instances". Find the component you want to replace it with in the components window (ball), right-click and choose "Replace Selected" and it will replace them all at once.

Is that what you meant? If you mean a plugin that would let you replace all the spheres with balls and all the cubes with players at the same time, that would be more complicated than doing it the manual way with the built in tools in SketchUp.

I know the method with the components window but I meant the second thing you said. I was wondering if there is any plugin or method that can replace all the cubes with players and all the spheres with balls both at the same time.

But thanks for your answer!

That's not a slight work around. CutList is designed to work that way.

You could make a set of colors with custom names to apply to the different components. If you apply them to the faces in the components, you only need to do that to a single instance and all other instances will get the same treatment. Save your collection of customized colors for later use.
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i am old to Autocad & Photoshop but new to SU. Learning SU is easier but using it much tough and frustrating. Many of its feature have complete dependency on Plug ins and many yet to introduce. One of them is

Unlocked Toolbar- Here you cant create User Interface profile too.

and another is
2) Unable to create your own Hotkeys. Unlike AutoCad where you can create your own Hotkeys as per your use and convenience like i do have Hot Keys, R for rectangle, RR for rotate, RRR for render but here in SU you can use only one letter not more than that thus requires two fingers or two hands to use ALt or CTRL with letter. in AutoCAd i have clean screen but in SU screen is full of toolbars

What resolution are you rendering in? I render mine to 4096x2048 then take it into adobe premier cc 2017 and start a new sequence VR 4096X2048 Ambisonics. Add the image into the sequence (you can even view VR by right click on the image and VR). Then export as H.264 and upload to Youtube.

See example of mine below:

Youtube Video

Effects are completed in after effects.

Let me know if you have any problems.

@jonathonlt said:

NOT tottally sure wot yuou are ALL on about tho there is some hint of programming a mouse to SU that would be nice to no ,,+ my little issue that --if PAN is selected WHEEL BUTTON can ORBIT (IF you have
wheel button) so ,if ORBIT is sellected . wheel button could PAN ,and mine does,nt ,,+ has anyone
usefull knowledge with PROGRAMMABLE MICE and SU ..JON..

Download 'X-Mouse Button Control' from:
https://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMouseButtonControl.htm
There is a portable version too.

Make a profile for SketchUp for upper half of the window, for "Middle Button" use 'simulated keystroke' and add {SHIFT}{MMB}. This way your mouse middle button will activate PAN in upper half and ORBIT in lower half of SU window. You can assign different key strokes for every quarter of a window if you wish, and even additional strokes for toolbar areas.

My mouse is with side scroll and if I assign different keystrokes for TiltWheelLeft, TiltWheelRight, WheelUp, WheelDown for every quarter + toolbar area I will have 20 different tools activated by middle mouse button (+ pan & orbit & zoom reserved for 'Middle Button' action).
Without side scroll I will have 10 tools/keystrokes + pan & orbit & zoom.
Pretty good for a simple mouse.
Actually I use only few and my side buttons(button4 & button5) are reserved for Undo/Redo in every program I use, but they can be customized same way too.
'X-Mouse Button Control' is useful tool. A lot more can be made with button actions as there are additional options.

Yes please. Sketchup's current inability to automatically collapse unused tray space is the main reason why Sketchup's old windowed UI behaviour is still preferable.

@jonathonlt said:

and LAYOUT...

.Jon..

And of course if you are using SketchUp for anything more than hobby use, you would have Pro and thus LayOut.

its out 😄

Also, another tool ~> click 3 point OK the model ~> lock mode in this 3point plane in 2d mode

Cross Reference Organizer

In a way you can. Group the data you wish to copy. Ctrl x or c. Open the file into which you wish the group to be inserted. Ctrl V. Because it is grouped, it can be dropped, picked up again by another snap point and placed. This is a lot of circumlocution, for a simple process. I am assuming you are talking about the related technique used in Autocad, for instance. I use this quite often, as well as the Sketchup procedure I just described. Of course, there may be other variations.

Thanks TIG, a pity just about everything has to be via a plugin but that's life. I will have to check that plugin.

@sketchgirl1 which release / version are you using?

I think the "reverse" as you say, is there in the LO Document Setup. You can see all the SU files that are referenced in the LO file, unless I am missing something.

I have wanted within SU, at least to be able to identify (and open or "go to") the LO files that are referencing a SU file. You have some good points, but I think this simple info would be a start.

You're right... fredo's joinpushpull does something very similar to what I wanted (I didn't know until now)
Thanks allot!!!