Looking for two possible plugins?

xiombarg · 12 Sept 2012, 03:54

I'm hoping there are possibly plugins that have been written to do the following:

Something that lets you pick a group within a "tree" of nested groupings (possibly by designating a name?) so that you don't have to click through the hierarchy of groups to get to the one group you want.
Something that allows you to designate a locking rotation point on an object, so that when the rotation tool is selected (or when a modified rotation tool is selected) it will automatically snap to the designated point on an object or group.

Any suggestions or possible work arounds?

thomthom · 12 Sept 2012, 07:27

Something that lets you pick a group within a "tree" of nested groupings (possibly by designating a name?) so that you don't have to click through the hierarchy of groups to get to the one group you want.

Then what do you plan to do with it?
It is possible to select entities outside the current context - but SketchUp's tools, and many plugins isn't designed for it and it can often lead to very strange things happening. Not recommended.

xiombarg · 12 Sept 2012, 21:23

What I'm doing is working with multi-hinged product parts that work like a skeletal system where I'm often moving or rotating many different groupings of parts in order to check for clearances and contrasts with other parts or groupings. It wouldn't be much of a big deal except that by changing the position of one object can entail having to change the position of multiple other objects (or groups). So not being able to select a group directly (from a hierarchy) ends up taking a lot of time just to move and check position changes.

pilou · 12 Sept 2012, 23:28

@unknownuser said:

So not being able to select a group directly (from a hierarchy)

Menu Window / Outliner ?

xiombarg · 13 Sept 2012, 02:20

@unknownuser said:

@unknownuser said:

So not being able to select a group directly (from a hierarchy)

Menu Window / Outliner ?

smacks head Thank you Pilou! I can't believe the Outliner has been there in front of my face the whole time and I never knew about it! I was doing all these web searches under words like "group tree" and "group diagram" etc. but had no success.

thomthom · 13 Sept 2012, 07:32

@xiombarg said:

@unknownuser said:

@unknownuser said:

So not being able to select a group directly (from a hierarchy)

Menu Window / Outliner ?

smacks head Thank you Pilou! I can't believe the Outliner has been there in front of my face the whole time and I never knew about it! I was doing all these web searches under words like "group tree" and "group diagram" etc. but had no success.

Jsut beware that keeping it open slows SU down. I keep it rolled up when I'm not interacting with it.

xiombarg · 13 Sept 2012, 19:22

Good to know.
I've noticed that SU isn't exactly highly efficient in the way it deals with high polygon counts and my current project has a lot of radii so the lag is noticeable.