Searching a plugin to deeply explode nesting groups

alexandre sk

Great. Now I said bomb and exploding on the internet.

Dear FBI, CIA, NSA et cetera...

I am not a terrorist. mkay? thanks and bye.

You are on the black list now, lol

Mythos

Thank you very much for all your answers. It seems that there is no existing script that does exactly what I need. Thus I started to have a deeper look into the Ruby documentation of SketchUp. Actually it was pretty easy to implement the needed behaviour for my own.

You can find a first version of my "Flatten Hierarchy" script as attachment to this posting (just copying it to your plugins folder). Any comments or improvements are highly appreciated since even if I am a software developer I have never been working with Ruby before.

Here is a short description explaining what the script does:

Traverses through the selected entities and deeply explodes all nested groups and components that only have groups and components (but no actual geometry like edges or faces) as direct children. In other words this script flattens the hierarchy of the selected entities by bringing all nested groups and components up to the current level of selection without interfering any geometry.

op_flattenhierarchy.rb

Krisidious

That's great Mythos... It will come in handy I'm sure. Can't wait to see what you come up with next.

alexandre sk

wow that's was fast! great plug-in very simple and efficient

it's is even useful to know if the group/component have any loose geometry inside by looking the disabled button on the context menu.

Mythos

Thanks for the kind words. Actually I have had a lot of fun learning the SketchUp API.

Do you think it's worth to submit the script to the SketchUp extension library?

Krisidious

Absolutley... But, I would submit to the Plugin Store instead.

SketchUp Plugins | PluginStore | SketchUcation

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(sketchucation.com)

glro

@mythos said:

Thank you very much for all your answers. It seems that there is no existing script that does exactly what I need. Thus I started to have a deeper look into the Ruby documentation of SketchUp. Actually it was pretty easy to implement the needed behaviour for my own.

You can find a first version of my "Flatten Hierarchy" script as attachment to this posting (just copying it to your plugins folder). Any comments or improvements are highly appreciated since even if I am a software developer I have never been working with Ruby before.

Here is a short description explaining what the script does:

Traverses through the selected entities and deeply explodes all nested groups and components that only have groups and components (but no actual geometry like edges or faces) as direct children. In other words this script flattens the hierarchy of the selected entities by bringing all nested groups and components up to the current level of selection without interfering any geometry.

does exactly what is written; so:

if a component contains groups
it is exploded and disappears as a component in the component list

this might be a problem

it is not a default, but one should be aware of that

possible to choose? explode ONLY groups or ONLY components?

glro