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    [Plugin] Selection Toys

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    • Al HartA Offline
      Al Hart
      last edited by

      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.

      Al Hart

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
        last edited by

        I'll make a note of that. ๐Ÿ‘

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

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          danbig
          last edited by

          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?

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          • Dave RD Offline
            Dave R
            last edited by

            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?

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            • GaieusG Offline
              Gaieus
              last edited by

              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)

              Gai...

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                danbig
                last edited by

                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.

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                • Dave RD Offline
                  Dave R
                  last edited by

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

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    @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?

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

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                    • Dave RD Offline
                      Dave R
                      last edited by

                      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.

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        That button is to filter the selection.

                        To select similar instances, use the context menu.

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

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                        • Dave RD Offline
                          Dave R
                          last edited by

                          Thanks Thomas.

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                          • leedeeteeL Offline
                            leedeetee
                            last edited by

                            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.

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                            • leedeeteeL Offline
                              leedeetee
                              last edited by

                              @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. ๐Ÿ‘

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                                danbig
                                last edited by

                                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.

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  @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?

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

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                                    danbig
                                    last edited by

                                    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?

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      Can you post or send me a sample model?

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

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                                        Lorelalala
                                        last edited by

                                        Really useful stuff!

                                        TT, Thank you so much!

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                                          danbig
                                          last edited by

                                          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

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            @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... ๐Ÿ˜•

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

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