Hidden lines to lines

lapx

I'm looking for a plugin to turn sketchups hidden lines in to real lines to export to autocad.

Is there such a plugin?

Thanks,

TIG

Do you want it to convert just hidden lines or smooth/soft ones too ?
It's easy done by iterating through the selection / model.entities / model.definition .entities (.to_a) (say it's called |e|) and checking if e.class==Sketchup::Edge and e.hidden=false if e.hidden? etc...

this example does model.entities

this one line could be adjusted to other 'sets'

active_entities, selection, group or definition.entities etc

or smoothed lines etc...

model.entities.to_a.each{|e|e.hidden=false if e.class==Sketchup;;Edge and e.hidden?}

Copy/Paste the line of code into the Ruby Console + <Enter> and all hidden lines become visible - there are lots of similar threads like this - use the Search options...

lapx

I was just looking for it to convert hidden lines as in when you turn on sketchups hidden line command. Like the tesellation on a sphere or round object. Now that i recall windowizer must do something like this becuase you can turn these hidden lines into mullions.

thank TIG.

TIG

The edges 'you can't see' on a sphere are NOT "hidden" lines - they are smooth / soft lines - a 'hidden' object is just not visible - just substitute these types into the code like this...

Sketchup.active_model.entities.to_a.each{|e|if e.class==Sketchup;;Edge;e.hidden=false if e.hidden?;e.soft=false if e.soft?;e.smooth=false if e.smooth?;end}

This makes all of the model's hidden/soft/smooth lines into normal ones.
If you want to change the entities inside groups/components use then this...

Sketchup.active_model.definitions.each{|d|d.entities.to_a.each{|e|if e.class==Sketchup;;Edge;e.hidden=false if e.hidden?;e.soft=false if e.soft?;e.smooth=false if e.smooth?;end}}

Copy/Paste these lines into the Ruby Console + <enter> to effect the changes...
I have also removed all 'code' hat was expecting something to be defined earlier - like 'model'...
If you want to make it with a one-step undo then add this snippet to the start of the line of code

Sketchup.active_model.start_operation("MakeLinesVisible");

and this to the end

;Sketchup.active_model.commit_operation