Created geometry on auto-move mode

[Jim]

Ah, this one took me a while to find too.

The method you are looking for is a method of the Model class called place_component. It attaches a ComponentDefinition to the mouse pointer for placement.

[lekonna]

wow that was a fast reply, thanks jim!

Now i'll just have to dig out how the ComponentDefinition class works, as my geometry is at the moment only a group.

[lekonna]

[Jim]

@lekonna said:

wow that was a fast reply, thanks jim!

Now i'll just have to dig out how the ComponentDefinition class works, as my geometry is at the moment only a group.

Nah, just try it with the Group, it might work. But if not, you just create a new ComponentDefinition instead of a new Group and use the Defs entities. You shouldn't need to change but one line of code (maybe.)

[lekonna]

Error; #<TypeError; wrong argument type (expected Sketchup;;ComponentDefinition)>

dang model.definitions seems to retrieve the list of component definitions in the model, but how do i go about creating one and assigning this group to it?

[lekonna]

[Jim]

cdef = Sketchup.active_model.definitions.add("Component Def Name")

Oh, you already have a Group. I forgot about Group.to_component !

[lekonna]

alright. the documentation seems to be bit incomplete on that method.

what i tried was:

  component = group.to_component
  status = model.place_component component

and what i got was

Error; #<TypeError; wrong argument type (expected Sketchup;;ComponentDefinition)>

so it would seem that it doesn't return a componentdefinition

[lekonna]

[lekonna]

haa gotit!

the to_component returns a componentInstance which has the
definition method returing just what i needed.

Thanks a ton Jim!

[lekonna]

[lekonna]

hmm it seems that now i get double geometry, the one i place with the place_component and one created at 0,0,0 duh.

[lekonna]

[lekonna]

Geez it seems i'm lost with this coding business, well it's been like 5 years, thats what managering stuff does to you i suppose.

Can you guys point a good way to get rid of the double geometry for me? If i just go ahead and upload the script here. Though i have to appologize for the code since the variables and texts are in finnish. Was bit too sure i could pull one simple script off by myselfs

So the problem being on how to get rid of the double geometry thats not folling the place_component.

Thanks in advance, should be no-brainer for you guys.

-Janne

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[lekonna]

[Jim]

You want to create a ComponentDefinition from the start. Try these changes:

33; definition = Sketchup.active_model.definitions.add("New Def")
34; entities = definition.entities 
...
113; (removed)
115; (removed)

[lekonna]

perfect, thanks Jim!

[lekonna]