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      rv1974
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      Awesome! I had no chance to check it out today, gonna try it tomorrow
      Many thanks in advance!

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        rv1974
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        Tried it right now and I happy to confirm this is awesome tool ☀
        I highly recommend to all good people of Sketchucation to adopt it their arsenal.

        Briefly it serves to grab the instances of entourage randomly delete\diversify them
        just with a couple of clicks.
        Jim many thanks once again.
        P.S. Should we expect v8?

        P.P.S. It appears there's a free bonus- the script 'fixes' the bug of 3ds Max that in bizarre way flips the instances originally mirrored in SU. So when you insert v8 skp file
        into the Max all items look OK.

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          rv1974
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          Jim don't forget to put it into PluginStore as separate tool

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            juju
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            Jim, correct me if I'm wrong, but a little tweaking this could very well work as a proper proxy plugin?

            All you need is to provide the component instances of high poly and low poly and have it swapped out using the script?

            The location for the saving of the instances might need customization depending on whether or not the component instances are unique to the model or library items.

            An interface (like layerspanel or outliner perhaps) for easier component management might also be useful if it develops into a commercial plugin.

            Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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              rv1974
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              Or, it could turn to some king of Skp Xref Manager.

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                juju
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                @rv1974 said:

                Or, it could turn to some king of Skp Xref Manager.

                TIG already did a plugin for XREF, it works great but the interface needs scrolling bars (which he isn't keen to implement due to time/coding implications)

                Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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                  rv1974
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                  Never could make it (the TIG's one) work for me. Just gave up

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                    pcucka
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                    Hi there!
                    For some reason I cannot seem to install this plugin on SU 2015.
                    Thoughts?

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                      sdmitch
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                      @pcucka said:

                      Hi there!
                      For some reason I cannot seem to install this plugin on SU 2015.
                      Thoughts?

                      Since this a '.rb' file, it can not be installed as an extension.

                      option 1 is to simply copy it to the Plugins folder and restart Sketchup. You should find '[jf]Save Copy As ...' under Files.

                      option 2 is to Zip the .rb file and change the .zip extension to .rbz. This file can be installed as an extension.

                      I was able to load and use this plugin in SU2015.

                      Nothing is worthless, it can always be used as a bad example.

                      http://sdmitch.blogspot.com/

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                      • bigstickB Offline
                        bigstick
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                        This is a really useful plugin - thanks!

                        One small request which many people might find useful - would it be possible to have a right-click menu to save an individual component as a previous version?

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                          rv1974
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                          TIG, what in save-copy-as-2.0-jf.rb should be changed in order to save the file in older version (2015) withoutaltering its name? Ideally, pop-up window with ' the File file with the same name exists, do you want to replace it?' should be suppressed as well. In short, regular Save command (but to v2015).
                          Thanks

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