Globally select all groups in model?

[fullyfledgeded]

haha, yeah thanks Box. Unfortunately I have about 1500 groups, so going through the outliner or using the comp dropper would take till Christmas! TT's script converts all my groups to comps, but makes each group copy unique component definitions, thus increasing file size. which is the opposite of what i'm trying to achieve. Still progress though

[Box]

Ok, but once they are components, if they stay selected it's one click to replace all of them with one.

[fullyfledgeded]

yeah, they don't stay selected & what one click would it be? make component. That wouldn't decrease the file size

[Box]

You can replace selected, therefore you would be changing all the components to instances of one. so file size would be drastically reduced from multiple groups.

Try on another file, select various different components, then in the component browser right click on a component and select Replace component.

[fullyfledgeded]

Sorry, maybe i didn't make myself clear. I have 1500 groups, comprised of many different group copies(different objects). E.g there are multiple copies of doors, windows, ceilings etc & replacing these with one component definition, would replace the multitude of different objects with one.

[Box]

That's what I thought and why I said above, if it's more complex than that.........

and I was explaining my one click comment.

[thomthom]

@fullyfledgeded said:

Sorry, maybe i didn't make myself clear. I have 1500 groups, comprised of many different group copies(different objects). E.g there are multiple copies of doors, windows, ceilings etc & replacing these with one component definition, would replace the multitude of different objects with one.

Ah, you had group copies of many different types of doors and windows etc - and wanted to convert geometrically identical groups into components? That is a very difficult task! I made an attempt a few years ago: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30143
Partially worked, but doesn't work with nested groups/components. Need to do some major rewrite to make that work - and I've simply not had time.

[fullyfledgeded]

Yes thomthom, that's right. I have had some success with http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30143 even on nested comps'!!!:

but it doesn't work as well on the subject of this post, partly because loads of the comps' are grouped.

Is there any way of selecting every set of group copies globally,nested or not? It takes ages manually, using the outliner & anyway, context clicking them > group copies > covert to components, only seems to do one set at a time? Plus, the selection, can only be in one nested group/comp' at a time.

I would even pay good money for a script that does this, as if i can't find an alternative, i will have start the slow process one by one.

cheers

[thomthom]

Didn't my snippet I posted earlier convert all groups to components?

[fullyfledgeded]

It does, but it gives each group, it's own unique component definition name regardless of whether or not it is a group or group copy. I need the group copies to inherit the same component definition. Can the code be tweaked?

[thomthom]

So - are all groups supposed to be the same component? the geometry is identical between all of them?

[thomthom]

Ah - so the identical doors and windows etc are actually copes of each other? Entity info will say that there are copies of that group?
In which case it should be possible to tweak the script.

[fullyfledgeded]

There are multiple geometrically identical:

1. doors
2. windows,
3. walls

etc, going up to about 200 different architectural objects.

Way too many to convert manually with selection toys, as follows:

context click > group copies > covert to components

As it only seems to convert one at a time.

[fullyfledgeded]

yes, the identical doors and windows etc are actually copies of each other. Entity info does saythat there are copies of that group.

Your selection toys, allows the doors and windows etc to be converted to comps' one by one, but not globally all at the same time(what i need) . Oh & its kinda imperative that the code can globally locate them all too, so i don't have to do that manually.

cheers

[thomthom]

Try this quick mashup.

---

tt_g2c.rbz

[thomthom]

@fullyfledgeded said:

Oh & its kinda imperative that the code can globally locate them all too, so i don't have to do that manually.

"Globally locate"?

[TIG]

TT posted his ahead of me, perhaps it is better...

So to put this another way...
You want to find all groups in the active_entities collection that are duplicate copies.
Then to make the first one into a component-instance, and then to replace all of the other copies with instances of that new component...
Try this one-liner in the Ruby Console...

m=Sketchup.active_model;m.start_operation('g2c');m.active_entities.grep(Sketchup;;Group).each{|g|next unless g.valid?;s=g.entities.parent.instances; next unless s[1]; n=s[0].name;d=s[0].to_component.definition;d.name=n if n!='';s[1..-1].each{|e|i=e.to_component;b=i.definition;i.definition=d;b.entities.clear!;};};m.commit_operation;

It's one step undoable.
It processes duplicated groups in the active_entities.
It names the new component after the group, but if that's '', then it is called 'Group#123' etc...

[fullyfledgeded]

TIG, your code works perfectly, provided groups that are duplicate copies to be found, are in the active selection set. I have attachedTIG code test.skp in case this doesn't make sense.

In the outliner, Please select the contents of "test 1: in active selection set" & run your code. Then repeat for "test 2: not in active selection set".

I need the script to find them all for me, as there are hundreds nested deep within the outliner, which i hope explains why I said "globally locate".

thomthom's code achieves this, but makes each duplicate group copy a unique component , so a synergy of your 2 codes would be perfect, but this is probably asking a lot.

thomthom, i installed your mashup with your quick install plugin, but i cant find it? I've searched "g2c" in the launchup plugin too.

Cheers

[thomthom]

Under the Plugins menu. "Convert Groups to Components"

[fullyfledgeded]

cheers thomthom, i confused it with http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29462

worked perfectly, my only concern is that I undid it, to check the stats via model info & it bugsplatted. So I have saved a new copy to be safe.

I put enough in your cookie jar for two beers in the uk, so you can atleast afford one in Norway.. damm expensive