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    • J Offline
      jorge2011
      last edited by

      Thank you very much. 😄

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      • irwanwrI Offline
        irwanwr
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        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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                      • EarthMoverE Offline
                        EarthMover
                        last edited by

                        Thom, possible to add removing materials from all groups and components? Not the materials on the inside surfaces, just anything applied to a group or component itself and replacing it with default?

                        3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
                        Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
                        Content Creator at Skapeup

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                        • TIGT Offline
                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by

                          Something like

                          Sketchup.active_model.definitions.each{|d|next if d.image?;d.instances.each{|i|i.material=nil}}
                          

                          for every group/instance in the model, ignoring whether visible/locked etc...
                          OR

                          Sketchup.active_model.selection.each{|e|e.material=nil if(e.is_a?(Sketchup;;Group)||e.is_a?(Sketchup;;ComponentInstance))&& !e.locked?)}}
                          

                          to process all groups/instances in a selection, ignoring locked ones...
                          Copy/paste one-liners into the Ruby Console...

                          TIG

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                          • R Offline
                            rv1974
                            last edited by

                            Fantastic tools! 👍 Thank you.
                            What I really miss 😒 is additional script to assign the front faces material to backfaces (at least
                            on geometry with transparent mats).

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                            • massimoM Offline
                              massimo Moderator
                              last edited by

                              @rv1974 said:

                              Fantastic tools! 👍 Thank you.
                              What I really miss 😒 is additional script to assign the front faces material to backfaces (at least
                              on geometry with transparent mats).

                              http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=155759#p155759

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                              • thomthomT Offline
                                thomthom
                                last edited by

                                Transparent.png

                                ❓ ❓

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

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  oh... I might have forgotten to upload this little update... 😳

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

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                                  • R Offline
                                    rv1974
                                    last edited by

                                    @thomthom said:

                                    [attachment=0:37kfn04k]<!-- ia0 -->Transparent.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:37kfn04k]

                                    ❓ ❓

                                    What exactly do you ask?
                                    If it's already there (the last line) I for some mystic reason don't have it (the version is updated)
                                    If it's a printscreen of the latest future update- it looks awesome (exactly what I mean (if it processes entire model)).
                                    P.S. How do you make the printscreen of the dropped down list???

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                                    • R Offline
                                      rv1974
                                      last edited by

                                      @thomthom said:

                                      oh... I might have forgotten to upload this little update... 😳

                                      unpardonable forgetfulness
                                      💚

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                                      • thomthomT Offline
                                        thomthom
                                        last edited by

                                        Give me a couple of days. I need to release an update to TT_Lib2 first.

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

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                                        • R Offline
                                          rv1974
                                          last edited by

                                          Yet another thing:
                                          Assign component\group mat to its front faces (to the inner geometry with default mat) would be amazing feature.
                                          There's already the great 'remove C-G materials.rb' , something the opposite is also needed.

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            How would you handle groups with faces of multiple materials? It's just not an symmetrical operation.

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

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