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    • J Offline
      jorge2011
      last edited by

      Hello sr thomthom.
      I think I'm doing something wrong or is there a bug in the plugin.
      1 - Remove From Selection.
      Error: # undefined local variable or <NameError: ents' method for TT::Plugins::MaterialTools:Module> C: / Program Files / Google / Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/tt_material_tools.rb: 270: in remove_all_from_selection '
      😄 / Program Files / Google / Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/tt_material_tools.rb: 256: in each ' C: / Program Files / Google / Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/tt_material_tools.rb: 256: in remove_all_from_selection '
      😄 / Program Files / Google / Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/tt_material_tools.rb: 62
      add
      Groups only erases materials or components. If you edit a component or group and select faces and edges were deleted material.
      If I select faces or edges that are not in a group or component, the materials are not deleted.
      If I select a group / component, which contains within groups / components nested, the materials are not deleted.
      if I apply a material to a group / component and other material to the face that contains this group, only delete the material applied inside to the faces in the group / component

      2 - Remove Specific Material
      only works with colors. Textured materials does not work.
      In addition, when shown the list of materials to remove, it only shows the name of the texture of the material, rather than the name of the material

      is possible to solve this problem.
      Thank you very much for your time

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      • TIGT Offline
        TIG Moderator
        last edited by

        Is this the latest version 2.2.0?

        if so it looks to me like you have some code 'missing' in the script - you haven't opened the .rb script with a wordprocessor and then saved or edited it with say Notepad.exe ??
        Line #270 is actually about if e.respond_to?( :back_material ) while the offending error for ' ents' should occur earlier in line #260 where it first appears as parent.entities.each { |ents| or the next three lines #262/263/264 - so there's obviously something wrong here...
        Try reinstalling the tool and come back...

        TIG

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        • J Offline
          jorge2011
          last edited by

          tig thanks for your reply.
          But reinstalling the plugin and the library. The plugin still generates the same error.
          I use sketchup in Spanish, has something to do this?

          Error: #<NameError: undefined local variable or method ents' for TT::Plugins::MaterialTools:Module> C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/tt_material_tools.rb:270:in remove_all_from_selection'
          C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/tt_material_tools.rb:256:in each' C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/tt_material_tools.rb:256:in remove_all_from_selection'
          C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/tt_material_tools.rb:62
          C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/tt_material_tools.rb:270:in `call'
          C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/tt_material_tools.rb:270

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          • TIGT Offline
            TIG Moderator
            last edited by

            I think we must wait for thomthom himself to reply.
            As far as I can see you can't get that error with a correctly installed script 😕

            TIG

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
              last edited by

              I have an update for this in an unreleased version. I'll get it online soon.

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

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              • J Offline
                jorge2011
                last edited by

                many, thank you very much. is a very useful tool

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  Version 2.5.1

                  # 2.5.1 - 29.06.2011
                  #    * Fixed typo bug in Remove From Selection.
                  #
                  # 2.5.0 - 15.12.2010
                  #    * Paint roof.
                  #
                  # 2.4.0 - 15.12.2010
                  #    * Ensure Unique Filenames.
                  #
                  # 2.3.0 - 31.10.2010
                  #    * Remove All Textures.
                  

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

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                  • J Offline
                    jorge2011
                    last edited by

                    thom excellent update.
                    still not cleared yet assigned to groups of materials / components.
                    You can correct this?


                    Sin título.skp

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                    • thomthomT Offline
                      thomthom
                      last edited by

                      @jorge2011 said:

                      thom excellent update.
                      still not cleared yet assigned to groups of materials / components.
                      You can correct this?

                      ? You're still getting errors?

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

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                      • J Offline
                        jorge2011
                        last edited by

                        no, no errors.
                        but does not remove the materials assigned to a group.
                        if you remove the materials assigned to faces and edges contained within the group.
                        see the file

                        and
                        Remove Specific Material
                        only works with colors. Textured materials does not work.
                        In addition, when shown the list of materials to remove, it only shows the name of the texture of the material, rather than the name of the material

                        is possible to solve this problem.
                        Thank you very much for your time

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          Version 2.5.2
                          Fixed bug in Remove From Selection

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

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                          • J Offline
                            jorge2011
                            last edited by

                            Thank you very much. 😄

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                            • irwanwrI Offline
                              irwanwr
                              last edited by

                              thank you very much for this plugins. 👍
                              it's very useful for me to keep the file size as small as it could.

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                              • halroachH Offline
                                halroach
                                last edited by

                                1. Does the 'remove specific material work on textures?

                                2. I've got a problem when trying to remove a specific material. Have many many materials in my model and the list of materials in the plugin is not long enough for me to see all of them. Any solution?

                                3. The reason I am trying to use this plugin is for removing a material that has a TGA in it (which causes annoying errors when I first open the model). I am not able to find the TGA in the model, but am able to find the material it is in. When I try to right click on the material in the regular materials window, sketchup freezes for 10 seconds or so, and then I see the context menu for only a fraction of a second, and I am not able to actually delete the material. This happens a lot when I have a lot of materials in a model.

                                This is a sketchup bug that's been around for quite a long time! Any suggestions?

                                1. 'List textures in console' doesn't seem to do anything other than opening the console box, but nothing happens.

                                (I'm using latest sketchup pro 8 with windows 7 64bit)

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  @unknownuser said:

                                  1. Does the 'remove specific material work on textures?

                                  You mean removing texture from material?
                                  The plugin would remove the material - entirely. Making no distinction if it is textured or not.

                                  @unknownuser said:

                                  1. I've got a problem when trying to remove a specific material. Have many many materials in my model and the list of materials in the plugin is not long enough for me to see all of them. Any solution?

                                  That's a bug in SketchUp. Only way around it is to create a WebDialog instead - which I don't have the time for right now.

                                  @unknownuser said:

                                  1. The reason I am trying to use this plugin is for removing a material that has a TGA in it (which causes annoying errors when I first open the model). I am not able to find the TGA in the model, but am able to find the material it is in. When I try to right click on the material in the regular materials window, sketchup freezes for 10 seconds or so, and then I see the context menu for only a fraction of a second, and I am not able to actually delete the material. This happens a lot when I have a lot of materials in a model.

                                  Have you tried assigning a different texture to that material - if the purpose is to avoid the errors when you open the model? (What does the error say btw?)

                                  @unknownuser said:

                                  1. 'List textures in console' doesn't seem to do anything other than opening the console box, but nothing happens.
                                    Huh! I see that as well. Sure is a bug.

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

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                                  • halroachH Offline
                                    halroach
                                    last edited by

                                    1. cool

                                    2. I imagine the sketchup team is aware of the bug... I really wish I could just mark a bunch of selected materials in one go, and delete them...

                                    3. That's a good idea! I just unchecked the texture in the material, purged, saved, and the error doesn't appear anymore.
                                      The error I get looked like this:
                                      TGA Error - must be from a really old component I downloaded

                                    4. happy I could be of assistance


                                    @thomthom said:

                                    @unknownuser said:

                                    1. Does the 'remove specific material work on textures?

                                    You mean removing texture from material?
                                    The plugin would remove the material - entirely. Making no distinction if it is textured or not.

                                    @unknownuser said:

                                    1. I've got a problem when trying to remove a specific material. Have many many materials in my model and the list of materials in the plugin is not long enough for me to see all of them. Any solution?

                                    That's a bug in SketchUp. Only way around it is to create a WebDialog instead - which I don't have the time for right now.

                                    @unknownuser said:

                                    1. The reason I am trying to use this plugin is for removing a material that has a TGA in it (which causes annoying errors when I first open the model). I am not able to find the TGA in the model, but am able to find the material it is in. When I try to right click on the material in the regular materials window, sketchup freezes for 10 seconds or so, and then I see the context menu for only a fraction of a second, and I am not able to actually delete the material. This happens a lot when I have a lot of materials in a model.

                                    Have you tried assigning a different texture to that material - if the purpose is to avoid the errors when you open the model? (What does the error say btw?)

                                    @unknownuser said:

                                    1. 'List textures in console' doesn't seem to do anything other than opening the console box, but nothing happens.
                                      Huh! I see that as well. Sure is a bug.

                                    FlexTools - Super Quick Windows, Doors, Slats...

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                                    • TIGT Offline
                                      TIG Moderator
                                      last edited by

                                      If you have a long list in a UI dialog you can click in the list pane and then use the up/down arrow keys to scroll to the item you want.
                                      If you want to jump a long way up/down a list [i.e. to somethings that's off screen!] let's say you are on 'Aardvark' but you want to jump to 'White' then press the W key and it'll jump to the first W - perhaps 'Wheat' [assuming alphanumeric sorting], then you can press the down-arrow until 'White' is the select item...
                                      It's not perfect... BUT it does allow you to access any item in an overly long list in a standard UI dialog... 🤓

                                      TIG

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                                      • halroachH Offline
                                        halroach
                                        last edited by

                                        @tig said:

                                        If you have a long list in a UI dialog you can click in the list pane and then use the up/down arrow keys to scroll to the item you want.
                                        If you want to jump a long way up/down a list [i.e. to somethings that's off screen!] let's say you are on 'Aardvark' but you want to jump to 'White' then press the W key and it'll jump to the first W - perhaps 'Wheat' [assuming alphanumeric sorting], then you can press the down-arrow until 'White' is the select item...
                                        It's not perfect... BUT it does allow you to access any item in an overly long list in a standard UI dialog... 🤓

                                        For some reason my list is not sorted alphanumerically... but your tip is good to know!

                                        FlexTools - Super Quick Windows, Doors, Slats...

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                                        • TIGT Offline
                                          TIG Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          If you have an array of strings then array.sort! will sort it...
                                          I'm unfamiliar with the code producing this list - but it should be easy enough to have an ordered list ??

                                          TIG

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            @tig said:

                                            If you have an array of strings then array.sort! will sort it...

                                            Since the list of SketchUp material names which is UTF-8 - meaning there can be multi-byte characters. And Ruby's #sort will mangle these characters because it treat each byte as individual characters.

                                            This is another reason why a WebDialog is better - since one can make a dropdown box with scrollbar and utilize the fact the JS is Unicode compatible. (In addition I have a natural sort algorithm that would ensure that you get numbers in correct order ( 1,2,3,10...etc instead of 1,10,2,3... )

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

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