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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      model.save
      http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/model.html#save

      So it's be

      • Save Model As
      • Erase all hidden Components (All Components in DC's only?)
      • Kaboooom!
      • Save

      ?

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

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        ericschimel
        last edited by

        You've pretty much got it!

        My hope is, after all the hidden geometry is deleted, that the DC's don't get whacky before they are exploded...

        -Eric
        http://plugin.sketchthis.net
        Sketchup Kitchen Design Plugin
        Custom Models

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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
          last edited by

          hmm... Maybe removing the DC attributes before erasing..?

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

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            But only remove components located inside DCs?

            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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              ericschimel
              last edited by

              Removing the hidden ones just inside the DC's would be nice if the script could be that smart... Not necessary though... It could just delete all hidden geometry in the model...

              Do you think there is a way to make a plugin that would strip DC's of all their "smartness"?

              -Eric
              http://plugin.sketchthis.net
              Sketchup Kitchen Design Plugin
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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                It's possible to remove the attribute_dictionaries, yes. It's from them you can detect if a component is a DC.
                But I'm not sure about any observers attached to the DC. Maybe there's some hidden API to control that..?

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

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                  ericschimel
                  last edited by

                  That would be nice if you could do that....

                  However, simply exploding everything in the model should cause the DC's to lose all their attributes anyway...

                  As long as I can get rid of the hidden geometry, which shows itself when exploded, I would be good...

                  -Eric
                  http://plugin.sketchthis.net
                  Sketchup Kitchen Design Plugin
                  Custom Models

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                    Jim
                    last edited by

                    @thomthom said:

                    But I'm not sure about any observers attached to the DC. Maybe there's some hidden API to control that..?

                    @unknownuser said:

                    However, simply exploding everything in the model should cause the DC's to lose all their attributes anyway...

                    I'm not 100% certain of how they work internally, but it would seem if simply exploding a DC and vaporizing the attribute dictionary caused a failure of SketchUp, it would be a major issue and would have come up already.

                    Hi

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                      ericschimel
                      last edited by

                      I just realized that I would have to "Purge Unused" from the model as well to get rid of all the components...

                      I would assume that is easy to access via ruby as well....

                      -Eric
                      http://plugin.sketchthis.net
                      Sketchup Kitchen Design Plugin
                      Custom Models

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        @unknownuser said:

                        I just realized that I would have to "Purge Unused" from the model as well to get rid of all the components...

                        I would assume that is easy to access via ruby as well....

                        Yes.

                        I won't have time to look at this for a few days - if any of the other scripters got a few spare minutes..?

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

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                          ericschimel
                          last edited by

                          Don't let me stop you if you want to... I was just trying to get a sense of the possibility of all of this. Im going to start researching the Ruby code site and see what I can come up with...

                          -Eric
                          http://plugin.sketchthis.net
                          Sketchup Kitchen Design Plugin
                          Custom Models

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            Well, it's a nice little starter project if you're new to ruby and sketchup plugin scripting.

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

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                              jczt
                              last edited by

                              Hello to all,

                              12 years later... Sorry.

                              I am working on model with a lot of DCs, and the .csv export of "attrreporter.rb" takes several time.

                              The TomTom's solution "model.save" maybe can hepl me.

                              Does Someone keep it safe?

                              Thank you for your answers.

                              Julien

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