[Plugin] Selection Toys

TheButtersShow

Thanks! A Great Plugin.

For my purposes most useful for digging through nested Components and groups and selecting only the particular entities I need without the time consuming process of having to explode or enter the context of every single one.

66searcher

@ thomthom:
thanks for your great plugins.recently I've installed Sketchup 8 pro .and i have some kinds of problem with using selection toys ! many tools in toolbar are not loaded?!
would u help!?

thomthom

Do you get any error messages?

66searcher

i found it out !
i haven't checked tools in UI !
thank u anyway

Al Hart

I have a suggestion for carrying over the name of the group as the name of the component definition as well:

The last three lines in this snippet:

		# Iterate through the rest of the copies
		protodef = proto.definition
		if (group_name != "")
			protodef.name = group_name
		end#if

It seems to work pretty well, and SketchUp adds #'s as needed to make the name unique.

thomthom

I'll make a note of that.

danbig

I think I'm still missing something simple on how to operate this incredibly helpful plugin.

I have a model with hundreds of instances of multiple components. I want to select all the instances of a single component definition. I cannot seem to get the plugin to do this; can someone go through the steps to perform this function?

Dave R

Dan, this doesn't help you with the plugin I know but for something like what you want to do, couldn't you just right click on the component's thumbnail in the In Model component library and and choose Select Instances?

Gaieus

With the plugin, you should just right click on one instance and go to Instances > Select all or active (it can select instances even inside other components/groups)

danbig

Hi Dave -

Yes, that would work. Thanks for the tip. I haven't used the component library to browse components in my model very much, so I wasn't aware of that function.

Gai - that's exactly how I'm trying to use the plugin, to no avail. I'm stumped.

Dave R

FWIW, Csaba's directions work for me but using the Components tool on the Selection Toys toolbar doesn't seem to do anything.

thomthom

@dave r said:

FWIW, Csaba's directions work for me but using the Components tool on the Selection Toys toolbar doesn't seem to do anything.

Can you provide a sammple model and/or video?
Any errors in the Ruby Console?

Dave R

Maybe I'm using it wrong Thomas. I've tried selecting a component which I know has more than one instance. Then I click on the tool with the two green boxes. Nothing changes. I've tried getting the tool first and then clicking on a component. Nothing different there, either. I'll send you an example model though.

thomthom

That button is to filter the selection.

To select similar instances, use the context menu.

Dave R

Thanks Thomas.

leedeetee

Hi,

Could someone help me with this ...

I'm trying to get the Selection Toys to work, I have the following fodlers in Plugins:

TT_Lib TT_Lib2

and then also tt_selection_toys in there, too.

SU loads up fine but then nothing is shown in the plugins.

What am I doign wrong?

Thanks.

leedeetee

@leedeetee said:

Hi,

Could someone help me with this ...

I'm trying to get the Selection Toys to work, I have the following fodlers in Plugins:

TT_Lib TT_Lib2

and then also tt_selection_toys in there, too.

SU loads up fine but then nothing is shown in the plugins.

What am I doign wrong?

Thanks.

IGNORE ME! Sorry, Sorted.

danbig

I get no error message, but the context menu doesn't seem to do anything for me. I'll check the console next time I try.

@thomthom said:

That button is to filter the selection.

To select similar instances, use the context menu.

thomthom

@danbig said:

I get no error message, but the context menu doesn't seem to do anything for me. I'll check the console next time I try.

@thomthom said:

That button is to filter the selection.

To select similar instances, use the context menu.

Can you describe more specifically the steps you are doing? And what you have pre-selected etc?

danbig

In the model, I have 420 instances of a single component.

I select one of the instances, and right click.

Under the "Instances" context menu, I choose "Select All".

What I want to happen, is that all 420 instances of this component to be selected. In my case, nothing happens. Nothing posts to the console. Am I trying to use it correctly?

@thomthom said:

@danbig said:

I get no error message, but the context menu doesn't seem to do anything for me. I'll check the console next time I try.

@thomthom said:

That button is to filter the selection.

To select similar instances, use the context menu.

Can you describe more specifically the steps you are doing? And what you have pre-selected etc?