Delete hidden components

[Burkhard]

I was asked how to delete a bunch of hidden components.
The workarounds I can imagine are to select the Model and copy it into a new Sketchup instance without the hidden Geometrie or to make a Group of the Object and unhide the rest to select and delete.

But if the model is around 100MB and I talk about 50000 Components, it took a lot of time.

Any Idea for a more elegant solution, maybe with a plugin?

[focpt]

Try the Outliner tool in SU (Window > Outliner). Any group that hidden will be in italics. You can select multiple items and delete from this list.

[TIG]

If you want to erase ALL hidden component-instances/groups/images used in the model then this one-liner copy/pasted into the Ruby Console + <enter> will do it: it's one step udoable

m=Sketchup.active_model;m.start_operation('x');m.definitions.each{|d|d.instances.each{|i|i.erase! if i.hidden?}};m.commit_operation

you can limit it to just component-instances with this version...

m=Sketchup.active_model;m.start_operation('x');m.definitions.each{|d|next if d.group? || d.image?;d.instances.each{|i|i.erase! if i.hidden?}};m.commit_operation

If you want to erase other hidden stuff like geometry then it's more complex...

[thomthom]

My CleanUp plugin has a Erase Hidden Geometry function. anything that isn't visible when you run it is erased. (It off course ensures not to erase hidden edges that make up a visible face - or acting as the cutout profile for a cutout component.)

[Gaieus]

@burkhard said:

I was asked how to delete a bunch of hidden components.
The workarounds I can imagine are to select the Model and copy it into a new Sketchup instance without the hidden Geometrie or to make a Group of the Object and unhide the rest to select and delete.

This may not be a good method because if there are nested and at the same time hidden groups/components in top level groups/components that you are copying, it will take those to the new model, too.

[Burkhard]

Thanks to all...

[monkers]

Hi Guys, I'm trying to do similar.

Is there a way to write a script that could delete all items that get called in outliner per search term. I am trying to clean up a model for rendering provided by a client. The file has every bathroom, sink, door, light, etc for thousands of apartments. Unless I explode everything I have to delete by each level I have managed to separate everything into.

Currently I have to go through each definition X each building X each level. Each time I select and delete it takes like 5 minutes. I have already spent a day doing this. It's getting really tedious.

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