[Plugin] Explode2Groups

TIG · 16 Dec 2007, 21:06

This script adds a context-menu if the 1st in a selection is a group - 'Explode to Groups'. All connected geometry within that group is grouped into separate sub-groups and the original group exploded...
Get the latest version from the here...
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=Explode2Groups

matt77 · 12 Jun 2008, 14:38

Excellent script

many thanks

only just come across it..

all the best

matt

RayOchoa · 25 Jun 2008, 00:52

what do you mean by this?

cerevellum · 25 Jun 2008, 05:16

Hmm, I think this could come in handy on this model I'm currently working on. Checked it out at home and will probably DL it again tomorrow! Thanks!

Mr S · 25 Jun 2008, 07:20

Looks like another handy tool to have.
Thanks.

Mr S

bagatelo · 4 Feb 2010, 00:01

Does exist some plugin that just transforms components in groups and groups in components?

Chris Fullmer · 4 Feb 2010, 01:25

Nope. What would need such a thing for?

bagatelo · 4 Feb 2010, 01:48

Because at this time, I'm importing things from 3dsMAX to Sketchup, and all subobjects are components, always. I don't like that, I like groups for subobjects, because it doesn't pollute the components browser.

pbacot · 4 Jul 2011, 23:42

@chris fullmer said:

Nope. What would need such a thing for?

To place multiple components then turn each instance into a group for different modifications, without having to select each one and explode, then group, separately? Still this tool can be used to help in that case.

yvani · 6 Sept 2017, 17:16

does this plugin work with SU 2017? I don't succeed ....

TIG · 6 Sept 2017, 21:12

This tool does not work in v2017.
Trimble changed the way SketchUp keeps references to entities during exploding etc, so this tool now fails.

Sorry, but it is 10 years old.

Search for other similar tools which might have been update-able...

TIG · 6 Sept 2017, 22:05

You are in luck !
I checked the code and it was a relatively simple fix to make it v2017 compatible !
Here's v2.0
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=Explode2Groups

designerbursa · 6 Jun 2019, 11:41

Hi TIG
Thanks this plugin! ..
Selecting each group one by one detonates. Can the whole group or components make a single selection?

I want all drawings in the file to be a single group or component when I run the plug-in

TIG · 6 Jun 2019, 11:52

Why not just Explode everything that's selected [right-click context-menu], the results stay selected, now use context-menu Make Group or Make Component ?

TIG · 6 Jun 2019, 20:27

I'm not sue that this plugin does what you want.
However, I am unclear about what it is you want to do exactly...

The way this tool works...
Select a group, it is exploded, and then any nested geometry within it is made into separate 'connected' groups.

From your earlier description you seemed to want to take selected groups, and then combine them into a new single group.
My description explained how to do that by using the native tools...

Pleas explain step by step what you want to do.
No video is needed [indeed yours just confused me!]
Just say what you start with and what you want to have at the end, with any intermediate steps for clarity...

designerbursa · 7 Jun 2019, 08:19

Thank you for your interest in TIG.
I don't know if I got it right, but I haven't.
I am using Sketchup 2018 version

designerbursa · 7 Jun 2019, 08:28

It would be nice if there was a plug-in to create single groups when all nested groups explode.

TIG · 7 Jun 2019, 12:41

But as I said before...
If you select all of the required groups [and or component-instances] and use Explode from the built-in right-click context-menu item, the result remains selected, so then you can immediately use the built-in right-click context-menu again to Make Group...

Even if there were a tool to do what you wish you'd need to preselect the groups to process and then run the tool to group them and explode them, so the amount of work you'd have to do is about the same either way.
So making a script to do this is duplicating what's already available to you ??

designerbursa · 10 Jun 2019, 10:56

@tig said:

But as I said before...
If you select all of the required groups [and or component-instances] and use Explode from the built-in right-click context-menu item, the result remains selected, so then you can immediately use the built-in right-click context-menu again to Make Group...

Even if there were a tool to do what you wish you'd need to preselect the groups to process and then run the tool to group them and explode them, so the amount of work you'd have to do is about the same either way.
So making a script to do this is duplicating what's already available to you ??

"expode2component"

Can you make such a plugin?

TIG · 10 Jun 2019, 13:36

@designerbursa said:

"expode2component"

Can you make such a plugin?

It's easy to do...
At the end of the part that make a group out of some entities you add something like -
compoi = group.to_component
You can then choose to use methods like compod=compoi.definition; compod.name="Compo#1" to rename the definition as desired.

But if this relates to the parallel question once you have all exploded entities, still selected, there is a right-click > context-menu native-item "Make Component...", which makes the Selection into a Component rather than into a Group like with "Make Group" - the resultant dialog lets you name the component etc...

If you already have a Group then the context-menu item "Make Component..." can also make that selected Group into a Component etc...