Remove Group/component materials and apply to faces

Pixero

I was looking for this function in one of Thomthoms scripts but cannot find it. Am I wrong that it was there before?

I have this file from an architect where all materials are applied to the groups which makes it very difficult to edit. Now I can't find the required plugin.

TIG

If you want to simply find each group's material and apply it onto the default-material faces within that group, and then default the group's material, then a 'one-liner' will do it.
However, note that copied groups will get made unique, and any nested groups will get the material of the outer most wrapper where appropriate - which might then be nil ?

m=Sketchup.active_model;
m.start_operation('ma',true);
m.definitions.find_all{|g|g.group?}.each{|g|if g.entities.parent.instances[1];g.entities.parent.instances[1..-1].each{|i|i.make_unique};end};
m.definitions.find_all{|g|g.group?}.each{|d|g=d.instances[0]; ma=g.material;g.entities.grep(Sketchup;;Face).each{|f|f.material=ma unless f.material;f.back_material=ma unless f.back_material};g.material=nil};
m.commit_operation;

Box

Its not a Thomthom one. If you had searched by the first two words of your thread title you would have found
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=Remove_CG_mat

Pixero

Thanks TIG. I'll try that.
@Box: I found and tested it but weird things happened when it applied same material to entire selection. I was just so sure Thomthom had it in his Material Tools.

TBoy

Are you talking about "Material Replacer" ?
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=tt_mat_replace

'Remove material from All...' is inside Thomthom "Material Tools"

pbacot

I've tried the same thing and had trouble with Remove_CG_mat. It's not the same as material replacer. Still looking.