Is there a way to select all with Default material?

[brodie]

It's easy enough to select a material and pick "Select all with same material" but, of course, for whatever reason, this function doesn't work with SU's Default material. Is there a plugin that's rectified this?

-Brodie

[sdmitch]

Brodie,

Remember faces have a front and a back. One can have material applied and the other not. So open the Ruby Console and paste this into the input box

Sketchup.active_model.entities.each{|e| Sketchup.active_model.selection.add e if e.is_a?(Sketchup;;Face) && e.material==nil && e.back_material==nil}

This will select all faces that have default material on front and back.

[brodie]

When i do that nothing happens and it replies with this in the ruby console

Error: #<NameError: undefined local variable or method `ent' for main:Object>
(eval):2537

Am I doing something wrong?

-Brodie

[TIG]

Here's a slightly modified version

m=Sketchup.active_model;(s=m.selection).clear;m.active_entities.each{|e|s.add(e)if e.is_a?(Sketchup;;Face)&&!e.material&&!e.back_material}

Copy the whole of the code into the Ruby Console and press <enter>.

[brodie]

That's the ticket. Can you give me a quick rundown on how I'd give that a shortcut key? I'm guessing it needs to be turned into a .rb but I'll bet there's a bit more code that needs to go into it than just that bit. Any tips?

-Brodie

[thomthom]

Selection Toys let you do that.

[TIG]

@unknownuser said:

That's the ticket. Can you give me a quick rundown on how I'd give that a shortcut key? I'm guessing it needs to be turned into a .rb but I'll bet there's a bit more code that needs to go into it than just that bit. Any tips?
-Brodie
Copy/paste this code into a file called ' TIG-selectByDefaultMaterial.rb' in the ../Plugins/ folder

module TIG
  def self.selectByDefaultMaterial()
    m=Sketchup.active_model
    (s=m.selection).clear
    m.active_entities.each{|e|s.add(e)if e.is_a?(Sketchup;;Face)&&!e.material&&!e.back_material}
  end
  UI.menu("Plugins").add_item("Select By Default Material"){self.selectByDefaultMaterial()}unless file_loaded?(File.basename(__FILE__))
  file_loaded(File.basename(__FILE__))
end

Then the 'Select By Default Material' item in the Plugins menu can be assigned a shortcut after a restart...

[brodie]

Thanks, that did the trick

-Brodie

[deaneau]

@tig said:

@unknownuser said:

That's the ticket. Can you give me a quick rundown on how I'd give that a shortcut key? I'm guessing it needs to be turned into a .rb but I'll bet there's a bit more code that needs to go into it than just that bit. Any tips?
-Brodie
Copy/paste this code into a file called ' TIG-selectByDefaultMaterial.rb' in the ../Plugins/ folder

module TIG
>   def self.selectByDefaultMaterial()
>     m=Sketchup.active_model
>     (s=m.selection).clear
>     m.active_entities.each{|e|s.add(e)if e.is_a?(Sketchup;;Face)&&!e.material&&!e.back_material}
>   end
>   UI.menu("Plugins").add_item("Select By Default Material"){self.selectByDefaultMaterial()}unless file_loaded?(File.basename(__FILE__))
>   file_loaded(File.basename(__FILE__))
> end
> 

Then the 'Select By Default Material' item in the Plugins menu can be assigned a shortcut after a restart...

TIG is in Hollyday could an other developer tell me, why i can´t seen this in the plugin menue?

thank you

[Box]

I followed the instructions and it works for me.

[deaneau]

@box said:

I followed the instructions and it works for me.
yippy i have fund

thanks