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    [Plugin] Unhide ALL (Edges) - Inside Groups / Components ???

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    • A Offline
      azuby
      last edited by

      I've written an extension, unfortunately my web provider had a problem and my website has old content 😞 (I'll fix this).

      azuby


      HideEdges - Hides/Unhides edges of selected elements

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      Bad English? PM me, correct me. :smile:**

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        tbd
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        azuby: unfortunately it suffers from the same problem - somehow duplicated groups have the same entities as in a component

        SketchUp Ruby Consultant | Podium 1.x developer
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          TIG Moderator
          last edited by

          I wrote this 'group_miner' script some time ago. It mines down through into any groups and makes sure that all groups are unique... Put it into your Plugins folder and it auto-runs at start up to ensure that the model is initially 'fixed'. You can invoke it in any script (remember to 'require' it if needed BUT it's a short bit of code to copy/paste inside any script anyway)... OR just type 'group_miner(Sketchup.active_model.entities)' to repeat the process 'live'...


          ~group_glitch_fixer.rb

          TIG

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          • tbdT Offline
            tbd
            last edited by

            and here is the fix (thanks TIG) - works with both .skp from JClements & Howard L' (for the cube in JClements .skp you need to triple click to select all connected as it is not a group)


            unhide_all.rb

            SketchUp Ruby Consultant | Podium 1.x developer
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              JClements
              last edited by

              Thank you TBD and TIG.

              This will be useful.

              John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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                Howard leslie
                last edited by

                Tomasz / TBD / TIG,
                Thanks to all of you for working on this script.
                Now works really well.
                Regards
                Howard L'

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                  Jim
                  last edited by

                  Is the fix posted in this thread still needed for the latest SketchUp versions?

                  Hi

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                    Pout
                    last edited by

                    @jim said:

                    Is the fix posted in this thread still needed for the latest SketchUp versions?

                    i just did the test, and yes it is still needed

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                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      @jim said:

                      Is the fix posted in this thread still needed for the latest SketchUp versions?

                      Currently the failure to ensure that copies of a group become single instances of a definition is not fixed - group.make_unique still reports as being deprecated, but it is needed - it is possible to have several copies made of a group definition where they act like component instances, and so changing one instance changes the lot - it's what Components are supposed to do BUT that's NOT what groups are supposed to do... When you copy a group it should automatically become a single instance of its definition - there should never be the equivalent of group.definition.instances[1]. It doesn't currently work properly - either manually or scripted... 😒

                      TIG

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                        hygicell
                        last edited by

                        yesterday and today sketchup 2013 completely froze when using the unhide plugin (which I have used many times before witout problems)
                        the only difference I can see is that I twice had the outliner and components windows open, which I didn't before
                        both these windows were on a second monitor which I didn't have before either
                        anybody else had this experience?
                        Frank

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                          mitcorb
                          last edited by

                          I have seen it discussed before, quite a while back, that Outliner especially, and Component windows can cause issues with your work when they are fully open. If you click on the top bar of each, they will "roll up". This, I have read, will reduce the problem.
                          Hope this helps.

                          I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                            michaelhund
                            last edited by

                            Alas, I too have found this plugin freezes in Sketchup 2013. I tried closing all dialogs, particularly the outliner, scenes and layers, and no luck. Pity.

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                              AirWindSolar
                              last edited by

                              @michaelhund said:

                              Alas, I too have found this plugin freezes in Sketchup 2013. I tried closing all dialogs, particularly the outliner, scenes and layers, and no luck. Pity.

                              No freeze here, just doesn't appear to do anything at all. Won't even unhide elements within the currently open component, even after view>hidden and Ctrl-A.

                              Will fiddle with it a bit more when I have time.

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                              • TIGT Online
                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by

                                Here's v2.0 - I tweaked it to unhide from the active_context downwards - unhiding everything, even in deeply nested sub-containers...
                                If you start in the model it unhides 'all' entities.
                                If you start in a group it unhides 'all' entities inside that group etc...
                                It is one step undo-able.
                                http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=unhide_all

                                TIG

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                                  AirWindSolar
                                  last edited by

                                  Latest update seems to be working.

                                  This should save a lot of time when I'm having to shuffle stuff around and hide/unhide a lot to clarify something for the fabrication crews.

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                                    peebo22
                                    last edited by

                                    TIG, your plugin makes Sketchup 2015 crash when there's lots of edges.

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                                      TIG Moderator
                                      last edited by

                                      @peebo22 said:

                                      TIG, your plugin makes Sketchup 2015 crash when there's lots of edges.
                                      If you do it in smaller batches, does it succeed ?
                                      Also have you tried Model Info > Statistics > Fix Problems... in case there's some corrupted geometry ?
                                      Also, when you say 'crash' do you mean a BugSplat!, or does SketchUp just become unresponsive ?
                                      In the latter case it should still complete, even if it takes a while...

                                      TIG

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                                        acarl720
                                        last edited by

                                        Thanks for creating this plugin. I had "lost" a group in a model and no matter what I did, I couldn't find it. There was no loose geometry and all components were in groups. I knew it was there when I copied and pasted from an older model and SU said there were two in the current model. This plugin saved me from brute forcing a solution or redoing a lot of work.

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                                          bsfranza
                                          last edited by

                                          hi there,

                                          with sketchup 2020 we now have isolate which is pretty cool...
                                          and toggle visible active (whatever thats for - i have not found out what this is intended for so far) ...

                                          however, the su internal unhide command still does not unhide recursively all inside groups and components ...

                                          so here is my humble request > make it possible to unhide all recursively except for softend edges 😄...

                                          often times edges are hidden inside groups or components on purpose and its bad when thhat information is lost due to a unhide all command...

                                          maybe you can add a seperate command to this plugin 😄

                                          thx and all best, franz

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                                            Dave R
                                            last edited by

                                            @bsfranza said:

                                            with sketchup 2020 we now have isolate which is pretty cool...
                                            and toggle visible active (whatever thats for - i have not found out what this is intended for so far) ...

                                            Those are not native commands that are new to SU2020. They come from an extension that you installed.

                                            @bsfranza said:

                                            make it possible to unhide all recursively except for softend edges 😄...

                                            So you want to unhide everything including hidden edges or faces? What if there are intentionally hidden edges and faces that need to remain hidden?

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