[Plugin] Layer Tools (1.1.0)

thomthom

Overview
A small utility I made to quickly hide layers by click on entities.

Access
Tools > Hide Layer by Pick

Features
Hide Layer by Pick
Hides the layer of the picked entity.

Requirements

SketchUp 7 or newer - ( Other versions untested )
TT_Lib2 (v2.0.0)

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tt_layer.rb

Rich O Brien

149 downloads and no thank you's? There are some really ungrateful bastards out there

Thanks Thom, I just needed something like this

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!

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'?

ruby script icon.pdf