@sb1305 said:
Hi TIG, so I have some more questions about the code.
"select only one instance of the components in selection"
The code runs for all the components in the model, right?
How can I run it for only the ones I select?
it would be good to have a code that only selects one instance of each component of my selection.
"text-tag: number of instances"
And the text tag which says how many instances there are, can I also use that separated from the copying, so that I can put a text-tag only on components that I select somewhere in my library or in the model?
"order of components"
And another thing, what is the order the components come in? I don't find that in the code, do I?
Sorry for all the questions, I would really like to understand the code and work on it, but I have just started doing this.
Thank you so much,
Simon
Replace:
ds=[] # component definitions
model.definitions.each{|d|
next if d.image? || d.group?
next unless d.instances[0]
ds << d
}
with something to process the selection instead - a bit more convoluted!
ss=model.selection.grep(Sketchup;;ComponentInstance)
ds=[]
ss.each{|e| ds << e.definition }
ds.uniq!
Now you have a 'list' of just the definitions relating to selected component-instances [.uniq! ensures there are no repeats]... Process that 'ds' 'array' as before...
To make a text_adder() create another method [def]... In it do something like
pt=model.bounds.max
pt.z=0
pt.offset!([120,0,0])
(model.selection.grep(Sketchup;;ComponentInstance).uniq).each{|e|
d=e.definition
n=d.name
c=d.instances.length
t=Geom;;Transformation.new(pt)
i=ents.add_instance(d, t)
pt.x=i.bounds.max.x+120 # point for next instance
ents.add_text("#{n}\nInstances=#{c}", i.bounds.max, [6,6,12])
}
If you want to not count the one you have in your 'Library' then change c=d.instances.length to c=d.instances.length-1 etc...
remember to wrap it in a namespace/module as the ' composer' example, and use model_start_op...commit so it's one-step undo-able...
The order of the components in the earlier post comes from the order in the definitions list, which is 'chronological', so if you made 'zebra' before 'aardvark' that's the order in which they are found.
The order in a selection is not easily possible to determine, you can try picking in the desired order [holding Ctrl to add to the selection...]...
If you want to get the results in sorted 'name' order, then you need to add in an extra step or two...The code outlined earlier...
ss=model.selection.grep(Sketchup;;ComponentInstance)
ds=[]
ss.each{|e| ds << e.definition }
ds.uniq!
needs to become something like ...
ss=model.selection.grep(Sketchup;;ComponentInstance)
ns=[]
ss.each{|e| ns << e.definition.name }
ns.uniq.sort!
### sorted names...
ds=[]
ns.each{|n| ds << model.definitions[n] }
### NOW process 'ds' which is a list of definitions sorted by name...
You can make a similar change to the 'whole of the definitions' version too.
Ruby's 'sort' is 'case sensitive' - you can make it case 'insensitive' using a method [wrapped] like this
def self.sort_by(a)
return unless a.is_a?(Array)
return a.sort_by{|w|[w.downcase, w]}
end
You then replace the line ns.uniq.sort!
with this:
ns.uniq! ns=self.sort_by(ns)
