[Plugin] Hide Overlapping Geometry (Updated 20150511)

JQL · 12 May 2015, 18:35

If you're developing that, could we define the layer's name by tinkering with rb?

ntxdave · 12 May 2015, 19:04

Feeling really dumb. I created a box and then duplicated it and drug the corner of one box to the corners of the other box. I tried double clicking one of the boxes and then used the selection box to select both boxes. When I clicked on the Hide Overlapping Geometry, the overlapping geometry was not hidden.

I tried Dave's approach of flipping one of the boxes (that was the only change), clicked the Hide Overlapping Geometry and it worked as it should.

Not sure what I did wrong with the first approach.

CAUL · 13 May 2015, 19:01

@jql said:

If you're developing that, could we define the layer's name by tinkering with rb?

The current version lets you select an existing layer.

@ntxdave said:

Feeling really dumb. I created a box and then duplicated it and drug the corner of one box to the corners of the other box. I tried double clicking one of the boxes and then used the selection box to select both boxes. When I clicked on the Hide Overlapping Geometry, the overlapping geometry was not hidden.

I'm not sure what you're doing wrong (if anything). Do you have a sample model?

ntxdave · 13 May 2015, 19:25

@caul said:

@ntxdave said:

Feeling really dumb. I created a box and then duplicated it and drug the corner of one box to the corners of the other box. I tried double clicking one of the boxes and then used the selection box to select both boxes. When I clicked on the Hide Overlapping Geometry, the overlapping geometry was not hidden.

I'm not sure what you're doing wrong (if anything). Do you have a sample model?

I have attached a VERY simple model that just has two boxes. Flipping one of them works fine. Where I am messing us is with the double click method. When I double click on one, how do I then select the other one so that I can then apply your plugin to the 2 of them. This is making me feel really dumb........

Two Boxes.skp

CAUL · 15 May 2015, 08:41

@ntxdave said:

I have attached a VERY simple model that just has two boxes. Flipping one of them works fine. Where I am messing us is with the double click method. When I double click on one, how do I then select the other one so that I can then apply your plugin to the 2 of them. This is making me feel really dumb........

You should not enter (double click) any of the components, just select the two components and run the script.

ntxdave · 15 May 2015, 16:39

@caul said:

@ntxdave said:

I have attached a VERY simple model that just has two boxes. Flipping one of them works fine. Where I am messing us is with the double click method. When I double click on one, how do I then select the other one so that I can then apply your plugin to the 2 of them. This is making me feel really dumb........

You should not enter (double click) any of the components, just select the two components and run the script.

The problem I am having is exactly as Pilou described in this post:

@pilou said:

Ok! But seems there is a little glitch!
A simple copy box (Group)
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In another post, @JQL summarized the situation very well:

@jql said:

@pilou said:

YEP! Excellent!
What make exactly this double click ?

When you create a group and copy it, it is just like any component, and you get duplicate instances of the same definition (duplicate groups behaving like duplicate components).

However, if you double-click it, you edit it, and even if you do nothing on it, it is made into a different definition, therefor "unique".

What happened is that the plugin hide the face of a group behaving as a component and in doing so it hid the face of both components. If you'd flipped it like Dave suggested, you wouldn't see the problem.

However, I am doing something that should be very basic, very wrong. When I double-click one of the boxes it seems to not be becoming unique so I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

Good news is that I do get it to work fine if I slect one of the boxes and then right-click and select make unique, it does work for me. So I guess my real question (based on these posts is why does the box not become unique when I double-click it or am I not understanding the instructions correctly?

Dave R · 15 May 2015, 16:54

@ntxdave said:

Good news is that I do get it to work fine if I slect one of the boxes and then right-click and select make unique, it does work for me. So I guess my real question (based on these posts is why does the box not become unique when I double-click it or am I not understanding the instructions correctly?

The answer is in your question.

Your box is a component, not a group. If it were a group, you wouldn't see the Make Unique option in the Context menu. And just opening a component for editing won't make it unique. (That would be counterproductive.)

ntxdave · 15 May 2015, 17:01

@dave r said:

@ntxdave said:

Good news is that I do get it to work fine if I slect one of the boxes and then right-click and select make unique, it does work for me. So I guess my real question (based on these posts is why does the box not become unique when I double-click it or am I not understanding the instructions correctly?

The answer is in your question.

Your box is a component, not a group. If it were a group, you wouldn't see the Make Unique option in the Context menu. And just opening a component for editing won't make it unique. (That would be counterproductive.)

See, I told everyone it was a dumb question. I deleted the 2nd box, exploded the first one, and then made it a group. Used the move tool to make the 2nd copy, double-clicked it and you guessed it, it worked.

Thanks Dave for pulling my head out of my posterior.

Dave R · 15 May 2015, 17:12

Not a dumb question. Sometimes it's the little things that make all the difference, though.