[Plugin] Selection Toys

Gaieus · 9 Jun 2011, 21:45

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 · 11 Jun 2011, 05:19

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 · 11 Jun 2011, 11:13

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

thomthom · 11 Jun 2011, 16:33

@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 · 11 Jun 2011, 17:11

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 · 12 Jun 2011, 16:51

That button is to filter the selection.

To select similar instances, use the context menu.

Dave R · 12 Jun 2011, 17:02

Thanks Thomas.

leedeetee · 19 Jun 2011, 14:15

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 · 19 Jun 2011, 14:17

@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 · 20 Jun 2011, 04:51

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 · 20 Jun 2011, 06:33

@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 · 20 Jun 2011, 22:54

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?

thomthom · 21 Jun 2011, 06:37

Can you post or send me a sample model?

Lorelalala · 22 Jun 2011, 17:26

Really useful stuff!

TT, Thank you so much!

danbig · 23 Jun 2011, 05:20

Here's a sample model. I can't get the selection toys plugin to select all the instances of either component. I'm pretty sure that there is something simple about operating this plugin that i'm missing.

@thomthom said:

Can you post or send me a sample model?

Test 1.skp

thomthom · 23 Jun 2011, 07:13

@danbig said:

Here's a sample model. I can't get the selection toys plugin to select all the instances of either component. I'm pretty sure that there is something simple about operating this plugin that i'm missing.

@thomthom said:

Can you post or send me a sample model?

I tried both Instance -> Select Active and Instances -> Select All and both of them worked...

Gaieus · 23 Jun 2011, 08:01

(Okay, so this was when I got stumped for losing my toys.)

Now I am fine and I also tried and can select all or active instances with no issues.

danbig · 24 Jun 2011, 06:28

Strange. I wonder if I have an obscure conflict with other plugins that doesn't result in an error message, but which prevents selection toys from operating normally. Is such a thing possible?

I'll scrub through my plugins and see if it works when it's the only plugin installed.

@thomthom said:

@danbig said:

Here's a sample model. I can't get the selection toys plugin to select all the instances of either component. I'm pretty sure that there is something simple about operating this plugin that i'm missing.

@thomthom said:

Can you post or send me a sample model?

I tried both Instance -> Select Active and Instances -> Select All and both of them worked...

thomthom · 24 Jun 2011, 07:49

It would be very odd.

And you are sure you have the latest version..?

monkeybss · 2 Jul 2011, 06:30

I don't know what happened, a few days ago everything was fine, but this mornig I opened Sketchup and I got this message"
"Error Loading File tt_selection_toys.rb
no such file to load -- TT_Lib/ui_manager.rb"
I have the latest updates for TT_LIB2 and TT_SELECTION_TOYS .I can't see a file called ui_manager.rb anywhere.
Has anyone an idea about what's going on?