[Plugin] Layer Tools (1.1.0)

pibuz · 9 May 2011, 12:58

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 · 9 May 2011, 13:18

@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 · 9 May 2011, 15:28

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

Could have been useful, anyway

thomthom · 15 Jun 2011, 14:28

@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 · 15 Jun 2011, 16:27

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

any clue ?

EDIT :

yes it is !

sorry about that...

pptoppto · 21 Jun 2011, 07:48

thanks!

sergey2402 · 24 Jun 2011, 04:53

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 · 25 Jun 2011, 21:26

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

tt_layer_button.rar

sergey2402 · 26 Jun 2011, 05:53

Sorry. This was repeat post

Abilio3d · 6 Aug 2012, 20:40

Big thx!

bagatelo · 11 Oct 2012, 16:40

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

rwarchpc · 23 Apr 2013, 15:56

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

pipingguy · 25 Feb 2015, 13:02

does this work with 2015?

thomthom · 25 Feb 2015, 16:50

Should do, yes.

pipingguy · 25 Feb 2015, 18:48

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

ruby script icon.pdf

thomthom · 26 Feb 2015, 00:30

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

pipingguy · 26 Feb 2015, 14:05

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.

amalthee · 6 Feb 2016, 09:35

Not working in 2016.

pbacot · 27 Jun 2019, 02:20

THANKS!

Bis3d · 26 Dec 2019, 11:46

This is really simple to use yet great extension. Sketch up should include this as a feature.
Thom you are really doing great. Your extensions are free and saved my life many times.Thanks is not the word can explain my gratitude but THANKS.