[Plugin] Layer Tools (1.1.0)

[pilou]

(not yet tested)
If I click a composant, Layer of this component will be hidden?

[JClements]

Thanks, Tom

I can see where this would be useful in certain circumstances. How often, for me, I am not sure.

[Bob James]

Thanks, TT, it's a useful tool and I've used it several times.

(ungrateful bastard #127)

[pibuz]

You must be some kind of mind-reader Thom!
Excellent tool, as always! You're so generous..

I noticed a little thing: the layer taken into cosideration is only the one which contains directly the faces of the objects. It means that if you have 6 faces making up a glass box on "layer0" and a group holding them together on layer "glass", if you click on the group nothing happens, at least for me.

Could be useful to extend the turn-off-layer ability to groups and components too (if they're made of homogeneous sub-entities). What do you say?

[thomthom]

@pibuz said:

Could be useful to extend the turn-off-layer ability to groups and components too (if they're made of homogeneous sub-entities). What do you say?

That will make the tool very slow when interacting with groups/components of heavy meshes as it'd involve inspecting all related elements.

[pibuz]

Yes...you're right... Think about some trees or cars!

Could have been useful, anyway

[thomthom]

@bertier said:

not in the tools drop down menu ...

You screenshot shows the Plugins menu...
The tool is under the Tools menu - named "Hide Layer by Pick"

[Bertier]

not in the tools drop down menu ...
but in the plugin folder ...

any clue ?

EDIT :

yes it is !

sorry about that...

[pptoppto]

thanks!

[sergey2402]

This is a very useful tool! Thank you very much!
But there is no button on the toolbar panel. How to make a button?

[sergey2402]

I can not wait for an answer. Drew the button itself. Here it is!

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tt_layer_button.rar

[sergey2402]

Sorry. This was repeat post

[Abilio3d]

Big thx!

[bagatelo]

Is there something like "Put selected objects on a new layer and hide this Layer".

[rwarchpc]

This is very handy...thank you for posting!

[pipingguy]

does this work with 2015?

[thomthom]

Should do, yes.

[pipingguy]

I am not seeing the tool in the menus. Why does the icon appear without a blue 'book'?

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ruby script icon.pdf

[thomthom]

Please see this Help article on how to install extensions for SketchUp:
http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/38583

[pipingguy]

all done, but still not seeing 'hide layer by pick'................sorry, I do see it. did not realize I had to re-start sketchup when using this new method of installing extensions. however, the functionality of the extension seems to be amiss. maybe it's conflicting with my layers panel extension.

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