Group the selected entities and give them a name[Solved]

niccah

I want to automate following event with a script:

I group the selected entities, right click: "Elementinformation" and enter a name like "result"...

So, that's what I already have:


model = Sketchup.active_model
selection = model.selection # all the selected entities

Now I want to add a group, give them a name and add "selection" to the group:


group = model.add_group
group.name = "result"
group.entities. ... (?)

How can I add the "selection" to that group? It tried a lot, but without success

Do you have a tip what can I do?

Thanks a lot for your help!

Dan Rathbun

In the index for [Code Snippets] by Subject there is this entry:

Copy selection to new group?

niccah

@dan rathbun said:

In the index for [Code Snippets] by Subject there is this entry:

Copy selection to new group?

absolutely perfect! That's it!

Thanks a lot!

Just for other interested people:


model = Sketchup.active_model
selection = model.selection.to_a
	
group = model.active_entities.add_group(selection)
group.name = "result"

mitcorb

Just out of curiosity, is there any significance in the white space between "...to_a" and "group=model.active......"?

TIG

Nothing!
Just to make reading it easier ?

Note that gp=some_entities.add_group(some_stuff)
is ONLY successful if all of the some_stuff entities are in the some_entities context AND it's the active_entities: otherwise you'll Bugsplat!
So it's fine when you are adding a selection to a group in the same entities - as to select them they must all be in the same [active] entities context and you make the new group in that context too.
Just be wary of grouping groups and adding things that are in one context into another context - to do that IS possible but involves either complex 'cloning' of geometry OR getting the definition of groups/instances and repeating their instances [temporarily] in the new context before erasing the original one[s]...