[Plugin] Selection Toys

Dan Rathbun · 17 Jun 2014, 01:00

The exposure of dimension objects changed in the Ruby API for SU2014.

Do you have the latest version of of Selection Toys ?

thomthom · 23 Jun 2014, 12:57

Ah, yes - new classes where introduced in SU2014. I'll have to fix that.

thomthom · 27 Jun 2014, 08:32

Fix live on EW. Found a couple of other small bugs that I need to fix in another update. Will post that soon and make sure to update on PluginStore as well.

plot-paris · 25 Aug 2014, 09:15

I have a selection question. I guess if any plugin can help me, it is this one. But I am not sure how. Maybe someone can help me.

I have this model with many (non-quad) faces. And I would like to soften all the triangulation-edges so that I am left with seemingly quad faces.

I guess the best way would be to soften everything, then select the edge loops and unsoften them. But I don't know how.

Is it possible at all with this plugin?

If yes, how?

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Jakob

thomthom · 25 Aug 2014, 12:26

It's unpredictable to try to determine the diagonals of pseudo-quads. I've tried but what is easy to our eyes is not easy to a script.

How did you create that mesh btw? Several extensions have support for QuadFace tools. which will create what you want.

jumpjack · 19 Oct 2014, 15:31

I can't understand if and how I can use this plugin to select only edges delimiting holes inside a surface, rather than also external edges of the surface itself.

For example, in this case:

I want only this selection:

pbacot · 19 Oct 2014, 16:19

You might be able to select those edges more easily if you soften/smooth the surface first.

Dave R · 19 Oct 2014, 16:23

Indeed! And then you could probably drag a selection box around the edges of the hole to select the edges. No plugin needed.

jumpjack · 20 Oct 2014, 07:13

This is only a small part of a very large model, it would take years to edit all holes by hand:

That's why I'm looking for some automation.

thomthom · 26 Oct 2014, 10:02

Right Click > Select Only > Border Edges

josephkim626 · 5 Nov 2014, 09:45

For some reason, "Select Coplanar Faces" results some other parallel faces selected that aren't necessarily "Coplanar"?

Dave R · 6 Nov 2014, 18:32

@josephkim626 said:

For some reason, "Select Coplanar Faces" results some other parallel faces selected that aren't necessarily "Coplanar"?

Could you post an example SKP file that exhibits this behavior?

And please complete your profile with SketchUp version and operating system.

tt_su · 6 Nov 2014, 20:49

@josephkim626 said:

For some reason, "Select Coplanar Faces" results some other parallel faces selected that aren't necessarily "Coplanar"?

The menu name is misleading - it's Same Direction instead of truly coplanar.

josephkim626 · 11 Nov 2014, 00:11

@dave r said:

@josephkim626 said:

For some reason, "Select Coplanar Faces" results some other parallel faces selected that aren't necessarily "Coplanar"?

Could you post an example SKP file that exhibits this behavior?

And please complete your profile with SketchUp version and operating system.

Sorry, it is tested on windows 7 and sketchup 2014 (in different machines)
Red circled face was the face that was used to execute "select coplanar face"

skp file

Dave R · 11 Nov 2014, 09:18

@tt_su said:

The menu name is misleading - it's Same Direction instead of truly coplanar.

So there's no bug. Just a naming confusion. it would appear that "Coplanar Faces" should read something like "Parallel Faces with Normals Facing the Same Direction". Select>Parallel Faces selects Parallel Faces regardless of the normal orientation.

TIG · 11 Nov 2014, 11:07

Perhaps 'CoNormal', rather than 'CoPlanar' ?

Esense3d · 6 Feb 2015, 12:18

Hello
Tomtom
Can i Translate this somehow?
Please Help

Roland F.

acheilman · 6 Mar 2015, 11:16

This is by far the plugin I use the most. Does anyone know if there is a way to make hot commands similar to 3dmax or softimage for the selection toys. I know you can right click and get to the tool from there when you have a selection, but I do not see an option for a hot key in my preferences. I find myself wanting to press the 2 or E keys frequently.

TIG · 6 Mar 2015, 16:22

You can set up a shortcut to any native or plugin generated menu/context-menu command.
But for that command to appear in the filtered list, then that command must be available when you open Preferences > Shortcuts dialog.
So for example, if you want to shortcut 'Reverse Face' you must have a face preselected before opening the dialog, otherwise there will be no matching entry in the list.
Pressing a shortcut key when the command is not available just does nothing.
Remember you can assign the F-keys too, and keys in conjunction with modifiers like Shift/Ctrl/Alt
Do not shortcut plain .,;[]<>/*- x s, TAB, plain-numerals, or the arrow-keys - as these are used by SketchUp and/or several plugins...

acheilman · 13 Mar 2015, 18:01

The methods above did not seem to work. "reverse face" is in the dialouge box already as an option to apply a shortcut, but selection toys only has options to create shortcuts for the UI Settings, Edge Loops, And Cheat Sheet. Apologies if I am missing something