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    • S Offline
      Sir
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      ok, not actually thousands of components! you have lots of instances, but with the others added you'll only have a hundred or so, maybe 200!

      have you found the components window yet? this is a good way to keep track of the components in your model. you can also use it to add materials to specific components by

      1. insert a new copy of the component into the model, doesnt matter where
      2. add material to that new one. this will update all instances (copys) of it throughout the model
      3. delete the inserted component

      repeat

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        Tomi
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        @sir said:

        ok, not actually thousands of components! you have lots of instances, but with the others added you'll only have a hundred or so, maybe 200!

        have you found the components window yet? this is a good way to keep track of the components in your model. you can also use it to add materials to specific components by

        1. insert a new copy of the component into the model, doesnt matter where
        2. add material to that new one. this will update all instances (copys) of it throughout the model
        3. delete the inserted component

        repeat

        Thanks. Still getting my head round the nitty gritty. Thomthom's simple suggestion achieved what I wanted to do - add materials according to layer - by using the colour by layer option. But that's a great tip - my drawings is mainly organised into layers, but supposedly by this way I could have more control if needed and change individual components on the same layer. Thanks for your help.

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          Sir
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          very useful plugin thomthom. is it possible to add the functionality to remove ALL materials but ONLY from the selection?

          fantastic!

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
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            @sir said:

            very useful plugin thomthom. is it possible to add the functionality to remove ALL materials but ONLY from the selection?

            fantastic!

            Yea, that would be possible. I was thinking of doing that anyway. πŸ˜‰

            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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              Sir
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                thomthom
                last edited by

                Only one thing; what would be the expected behaviour if the selection contains an component instance?

                Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                  Sir
                  last edited by

                  id have to say that remove from all instances too, as you'd want them all the same, no? suppose it could always be a check before compleating the script tho, im sure someone would want it both ways!

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                  • TIGT Offline
                    TIG Moderator
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                    Can't you just use my GlobalMaterialChanger.rb ? ... It works on a selection, OR the whole model... and it asks if you want to 'mine' down into groups and instances etc...

                    TIG

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                      Sir
                      last edited by

                      i wasnt aware of it... ill go take a look πŸ‘

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                        Pout
                        last edited by

                        great! Thx!

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                          Gaieus
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                          Hi Thom,

                          sorry for bumping the topic... Could you add "Remove materials applied to back faces"? (Or is there a plugin that does that already?)

                          Gai...

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                            thomthom
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                            Al-ka-zam!

                            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                              TIG Moderator
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                              @gaieus said:

                              Hi Thom,
                              sorry for bumping the topic... Could you add "Remove materials applied to back faces"? (Or is there a plugin that does that already?)

                              http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=264134#p264134 = My recent tools include three options:

                              1. If a face has no front-material but does have a back-material it reverses the face and moves the back-material onto the front keeping the UV mapping etc. It works on selected faces, and after a confirmation-dialog faces in groups, components, or just 'all'.
                              2. If a face has a front-material and also has a back-material it reverses the face and moves the back-material onto the front keeping the UV mapping etc and erases the other material - i.e. the back-material is finally defaulted [it is 'forced' - use with care!]. It works only on selected faces.
                              3. It removes back-materials from all selected faces, and after a confirmation-dialog faces in groups, components, or just 'all'.

                              TIG

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                              • GaieusG Offline
                                Gaieus
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                                πŸ‘

                                Cool, TIG, thanks! I knew I remembered reading something but you guys spoil us with the abundance of new plugins every day so it's really hard to keep up with the development!
                                πŸ˜„

                                Gai...

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                                  Ben Ritter
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                                  Thomas, thank you.

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                                    Zacchia
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                                    thanks for this plugin!!

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      Some various updates to this plugin - renamed it as well.

                                      Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                        caleidos4d
                                        last edited by

                                        Thanks thomthom πŸ‘ πŸ‘ πŸ‘

                                        http://www.caleidos4d.it

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                                          CAntonis
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                                          Thank U.

                                          It 'll come in handy! Thats for sure!

                                          CAntonis

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                                            dedmin
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                                            Instance Material to Faces paints materials also to the back faces. Apply Color Adjustments bugsplats SketchUP when nothing is selected. The names are somehow misleading because this tools work on a selection - maybe to put them on the right click menu when click on the selection or add "selected" to the name.
                                            WinXp SP3
                                            SketchUP 8

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