Is there a way to "define the scale" of a group of objectsin SketchUp?

alexpacio2013

Is there a way to "define the scale" of a group of objects or multiple selected components simultaneously, with the option to also scale nested objects and components? For me, it’s a useful command, but I haven’t found a solution.

alexpacio2013

I’m not a programmer, and I don’t know Ruby. I tried using artificial intelligence to create a plugin, and it works, but only on main objects and components, not on nested ones.

TIG

If your AI is clever enough. you need to ask it how to process the entities inside definitions [i.e. components and groups] using an iteration...

alexpacio2013

@TIG I didn't manage to do it. In your opinion it's not a useful function. I would need it. there is a solution

TIG

I'm not AI.
BUT I'll outline the steps for you...

Run these snippets in the Ruby Console.

Find all 'containers' [i.e. groups and component-instances].
Decide if you want to process all of them in your model. OR those in a selection. Here are the two ways a and b.

3a. #code

model = Sketchup,active_model
containers = model.definitions.to_a #an array of ALL groups and component definitions, including any nested ones.

OR
3b. #code

model = Sketchup,active_model
selection = model.selection
containers = [] #an empty array
selection.each{|e|
  next if ! e.is_a?(Sketchup::Group) || ! e.is_a?(Sketchup::ComponentInstance)
  containers << e.definition
}
containers.uniq! #ignore duplicates
#containers is now an array of selected groups and component-instances' definitions, BUT not any that are nested.

#use puts to see the results, e.g.

puts containers

Process [scale ?] the array of the 'containers' as you desire... one at a time e.g.

containers.each{|e|
  # whatever...
}