Save selected plugin?

j_forrester · 12 Nov 2010, 16:06

Hi guys,

Just wondered if there is a "save selected" plugin about? I used to work on a mac where you could have multiple sketchup files open and copy and paste in place. It seems on a PC this is not possible?

I have a large model with many buildings which I want to work on individually in serate scenes to speed things up.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Jaimie

thomthom · 12 Nov 2010, 16:27

@j_forrester said:

I used to work on a mac where you could have multiple sketchup files open and copy and paste in place. It seems on a PC this is not possible?

Under Windows you can Copy and Paste in Place between windows.

@j_forrester said:

Just wondered if there is a "save selected" plugin about?

You mean right clicking a component and then Save Component ?

j_forrester · 12 Nov 2010, 17:22

thanks thom,

I thought opening another session it would not reconise what it was copying. Also save component way as you suggest works well, I thought there may have been a option to save selected but saving as a component first is hardly going out your way.

Many thanks.

jeff hammond · 12 Nov 2010, 17:41

@j_forrester said:

thanks thom,

I thought opening another session it would not reconise what it was copying.

i'm on mac but i don't think it matters for this..
copying goes to the clipboard so it's stored there, not within sketchup..

for instance, i can copy an object and quit sketchup.. relaunch sketchup then paste it.. (and weird as it may sound, i have done this in that past )

TIG · 12 Nov 2010, 22:09

I think [?] I wrote a 'save selected tool' once...
[Also a 'similar save layer'...]
It simply erased everything that wasn't selected [and not needed]... and did an export as a 'skp'... and then 'undid' the erase back to where it had been [luckily an 'export' is not undoable]...
I can't be bothered to find it/them now... but it's/they're around here somewhere...

mitcorb · 12 Nov 2010, 23:27

TIG
If you were old as the Sphinx, I could understand your forgetting what you have done, but your statement scares me

TIG · 12 Nov 2010, 23:37

If I [or you for that matter!!] could have been arsed to do a simple search on this forum you'd have got this 'export by selection' = http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=183756#p183756
OR this one that does it by 'export by layer' = http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=183609#p183609