Thanks John and especially SDmitch.

The attached will copy and paste in place a group or component to another layer. It will appear in the Edit menu as "Paste In Place Copy of Group/Component to Layer". Paste In Place A Copy.rb Select a group or component and run the script. You will then be asked to choose a layer to paste the copy. The current layer will be initially displayed in the list. Thanks Sdmitch. Here is a test file to experiment with (SU2015 format). paste in place a copy, test.skp

@sdmitch said: ... This will reverse the selection so that everything outside the area to keep is selected and delete. It won't drill down through all the layers, groups, components... If used with 'Outliner' and a 4 walled locked guide group, it certainly speeds up a manual split... john

Here's one example... [image: KT2b_furstone.jpg]

@jimtyp said: I got the drill plugin installed and it works great as long as I have parallel faces, so a rectangular block. I have an angle block that I need to drill a hole in, and it doesn't work for that. Any ideas on how to make this cool plugin work for angle blocks? That is, where the bottom face and the top face are not parallel. You can have a look at Fredo6s VisuHole plugin.

Thanks a million

Thanks a lot!

Or get Rich's "Pen Tools" which, along with all the other goodies, has a "Point Pen". http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=Pen_Tools

Excellent, I was only looking at this yesterday.

Fantastic!

@whaat said: What about having the Z axis aligned to the world Z axis and the Y axis aligned to the vector from 0,0,0 to 100,0,0? Can you explain in more detail how it is an inconvenience? Hi Whaat, I will try to explain: When making a 3d model of a building, I have a 'fixed' idea what I see as the length (x) , width(y) and height(z). I use your plugin to build all kinds of building parts(see pic). Some of them are on multiple axes (the wall for instance, partly aligned with x and partly with y axis). Sometimes the result of profile builder needs a little extra moving of edges / faces afterwards (see foundations). Because of the 'fixed' idea about x/y/z during modelling, the 'mis-alignment' of the axes in the profile builder groups, causes a problem when 'automatically' pressing the arrow keys to force movement in one axes. So, in short: it causes a few seconds hick-up in my modelling flow. I build a profile, go into the group, select a face and 'automatically' press an arrow key and start trying to move the face... turns out its a different axes.. few seconds hick-up. Only changing the z axes to the world axes doesn't help me. Totally aligning to the world axes does. Just a small 'problem' to me though - at the moment I immediately explode and recreate the group after creation of a profile but for me, it would be nice if it could be fixed. regards, Max [image: 1AXa_pbAxes.jpg]

Thanks for the tips guys. Somehow, I managed to use Sketchup for years without using Glue to Faces. And sincerely, I don´t know what I am doing wrong. I create the component as "glue to" set the axis I think correctly, and yet and copying and pasting, the component doest glue to the face. **Anyway, I solved my problem for now with a plugin... Chris Fulmers "Components Onto Faces". The plugin has placed one copy of the component at each of the glass pane faces (the glass panes are not groups nor components, so I can select all faces at the same time) all in the same height and perpendicular to the face. So I just deleted the components that werent needed (left the ones at approximate correct distance to left and right borders of the panels) and selected them all and corrected their height.** I had checked Chris Fulmer plugin before (I already had it) when thinking on how to solve my problem, but I had not thought about this solution. Btw, I am not the architect, I am just doing the 3D. I told the architect that having each glass panel customized would be a pain in the ass, but he wanted that way because apparently the client wanted that way (client probably has not seen the cost yet), so I am not in a position to enforce logic in this case. I think it will look better in the 3D but in the end (after trying to minimize costs) they will change to flat panels and maybe a few ones curved for smaller curves. Thanks.

Thanks.. but are you trying to get closer to RHINO MAKE 2D command?? If you work a litle bit more, you gone win on this. I which you could add choose layers when projection are done, because it is very dificult to diference VIEW LINES from a CUT Line. And try to get better performance, because i try it on a small example and it took like 1 minuto do complete. (and i have a great machine workstation and SU 2015 x64bits) Thanks

I'm always the last to know...

Ah - I see. Yea tapping into the handles of applications like that will usually be fragile and one usually need a good amount of error handling.

Thanks guys for all the great comments. I've been tinkering with programming for years and this is the first time I've released something into the wild. Rich: Thanks for adding me to the store. The plugin interface will take me a few days to figure out and if I have any questions I'll let you know. Thanks again guys, Walter

Thanks a lot!!!

Wow this is just what I was asking for just the other week, but no one who answered seemed to remember it. Maybe it is just my machine but backing out of components is a PITA. So slow sometimes. Thanks guys for creating and posting this! Now for the opposite (key command)+click on an entity inside a component to open (edit) that entity's component (/group) to raw geometry level.

Boooom... You rock Tig. [image: IDvi_2015-2014-Plugins-List.JPG]

Didier has agreed that I might update some of his scripts in the PluginStore, so that they are compatible with v2014/2015. Please get the latest version of Munsell-Maker from the PluginStore http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=Munsell_Maker