[Plugin] Selection Toys

Dave R · 11 Jun 2009, 13:59

You're a champ!

mitcorb · 14 Jun 2009, 13:16

Thomthom:
I would make a suggestion here.
I think the title of this ruby should be Thomthom Selection Toys, in your own honor and ownership.
You have advanced Sketchup to a new level here!
Thank you.

mitcorb · 17 Jun 2009, 22:24

hmmm. perhaps my last post here was a bit effusive and over the top. excuse me.

Chris Fullmer · 17 Jun 2009, 22:44

@mitcorb said:

hmmm. perhaps my last post here was a bit effusive and over the top. excuse me.

Too effusive? No such thing around here!

thomthom · 18 Jun 2009, 06:23

heh, no worries. I'm glad you liked it.

mitcorb · 18 Jun 2009, 11:58

Well, then, you guys must have been napping. And I reinstate what I said about naming that plugin.
Best Regards,
mitcorb

thomthom · 18 Jun 2009, 13:14

I think I'll keep the name as it is. But I do accept donations in the shape of cookies*.

*** Cookies can be replaced with beer. (Excluding white beer and Budweiser and Spitfire).**

mitcorb · 18 Jun 2009, 14:21

Thomthom:
I do not know how to do the cookies thing in cyberspace. I am sure they would taste a little bit flat, and I'm not sure if you would want one of those giant cookies or just "byte" size.
It is ok with me if you want to keep the name as is.

Now to business. I tried to do a Select Loop on a roughly cylindrical model with a lot of triangular faces. The target loop was a fairly direct series of segments. I first set Edges only, then select loop. This portion of the model is contained inside a group.
What I got was the edge and the two adjacent triangular faces highlighted. I was obviously expecting a loop around the circumference to be highlighted. What did I do wrong?
mitcorb

thomthom · 18 Jun 2009, 14:25

It only deals with faces with four edges at the moment.
Loop is one of the functions I plan to improve at some point.

EarthMover · 18 Jun 2009, 17:39

Thanks so much Thomas!!! Any way to be able to create a shortcut for Select>Loop function? I use it a lot and would like to assign it to a key on my keyboard, but it doesn't show up as an option in preferences.

thomthom · 18 Jun 2009, 17:59

@earthmover said:

Thanks so much Thomas!!! Any way to be able to create a shortcut for Select>Loop function? I use it a lot and would like to assign it to a key on my keyboard, but it doesn't show up as an option in preferences.

You have to select one edge first. You can only assign shortcut to menu items if they apper in the menu's at the time.
I use the loop function myself allot. I really wish it was smarter though.
And I want to make a function that select the next connected edges if they are under a given angle.

alz · 18 Jun 2009, 18:39

Holy crap! Fantastic work -- thanks for sharing it

simon le bon · 19 Jun 2009, 22:52

Dear thomthom,

@unknownuser said:

And I want to make a function that select the next connected edges if they are under a given angle.

perhaps you should take a look at Matt plugin Selection Manager I think he had already well-done made the development you are thinking of

*simon

thomthom · 20 Jun 2009, 08:57

Ah, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the heads up.

majid · 23 Jun 2009, 03:09

Dear TOM....
you have made a section (included in yr plugin ) that can find copies of the same group
at the same time yr plugin is able to finde "same area"s.
the question is: (for the next step) is it possible to find smae shapes--->convert them to copies of 1 component?
.....
if it is possible then SU would be really poweful , bkz then it could import from other application , with less polygon... and it would be great step ....

thomthom · 23 Jun 2009, 06:18

I have considered this - as lately we've been using more and more Revit at work and when I import via DWG windows that should have been the same - isn't. It's certainly something I'd like to see myself.

thomthom · 8 Jul 2009, 10:11

Added filter support for 3D Polylines (Drawn with the freehand-tool)
Fixed a flaw in the .typename optimisation code to detect dimensions and 3D polylines
Fixed a flaw in the circle filter where arcs that made up a full circle wasn't recognised if the start_angle wasn't 0.
Worked around a SU bug where an extruded circle is reported as being 720 degrees. All arcs that report more than 360 degrees is considered a circle.

thomthom · 8 Jul 2009, 10:27

Added the menu elements for 3D Polyline filtering
Fixed a bug in two of the filter methods for Drawingelement based entitites.

EarthMover · 8 Jul 2009, 12:24

Thom,

Anyway to have the selection tools work with multiple selections or by adding to a selection? Let's say I select two faces with two different materials and I want to extend the selection to connected by material for both faces, is this possible?

Same with Select Loop. It would be nice to select a line, run select loop, then while holding shift select another line and get to run select loop to add to selection. Don't know if this is possible though.

thomthom · 8 Jul 2009, 12:43

@earthmover said:

Anyway to have the selection tools work with multiple selections or by adding to a selection?

In it's current state: no.
But it's something I wish for myself. But it requires complete rewrite of all the functions - making them into tools. It's something I'd like to add to version 2.