Add entity to a group

Didier Bur

Hi all
Is there a way to add an existing entity to a new group created by a script ?
I haven't found anything that sounds like "new_group.add_entity(old_entity))...
Thanks in advance,

wikii

entities.add_group(old_entity)

Matt666

Hi Didier !
Perhaps create a group with existing group and entity to add, and explode the existing group inside the new...
Tu pourrais créer un nouveau groupe avec le groupe existant et l'entité à ajouter, puis exploser l'ancien groupe ?
Le problème est si tu veux à tout prix garder le groupe existant (genre si tu as un nom, etc...)

sel.add groupe
sel.add entite
model.active_entities.add_group sel
groupe.explode

RickW

Be careful, though, as you cannot add existing entities to a nested group. The group will exist in model.entities, and not as a nested group.

model = Sketchup.active_model
entities = model.entities
group1 = entities.add_group
face = group1.entities.add_face(points) #points should be defined, of course

#============================================================================
#  the following group, while coded to be a nested group, will not be nested
#============================================================================

group2 = group1.entities.add_group(face)

Google is aware of the situation, but I doubt we'll see a fix before v8.

Matt666

What's the problem if you create a new group with existing group and the entity to add, and AFTER you exploding the existing group inside the new group ??? All entities of the exploded group are in the new group, with the entity to add !
You don't agree ?

Didier Bur

Hi,
Thanks all,

Sketchup.active_model.entities.add_group(old_entity) works
Sketchup.active_model.entities.add_group(Sketchup.active_model.selection) also works !
Sketchup.active_model.entities.add_group([entity1,entity2,...,entityN]) works too.

Could be put in the Wiki, because this is not mentionned in the regular doc.

Matt666

Ah ok... I have not read the question enough...
I understood : "Is there a way to add an existing entity to a existing group created by a script ?"

Hum hum

Jim

@didier bur said:

Hi,
Thanks all,

Sketchup.active_model.entities.add_group(old_entity) works
Sketchup.active_model.entities.add_group(Sketchup.active_model.selection) also works !
Sketchup.active_model.entities.add_group([entity1,entity2,...,entityN]) works too.

Could be put in the Wiki, because this is not mentionned in the regular doc.

The most recent documentation has been updated. See below for a link.

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=10569&hilit=+ruby+doc+

Didier Bur

@unknownuser said:

The most recent documentation has been updated

Oops, apparently the problem for me isn't to know if an information exists, but to know where it is...

Jim

This is the documentation page I use - it's the most up-to-date:

http://groups.google.com/group/SketchUp-Plugins-Dev/web/Ruby-classes.html

Todd and Rick get all the credit for updating the docs - it's a thankless chore, no doubt.

I wish there was a way to see what changes have been made to the documentation. I've asked that document updates be logged for us, but maybe I'm asking too much.