[Plugin] Selection Toys

thomthom

Select Only -> Polygons ?

Note that Select Only and Deselect modifies your current selection - doesn't add to it.

Khai

that's exactly what I'm doing.
select the model, then Select Only -> N-Gons and nothing is selected, even tho I can see Ngon's.

to clarify :

pilou

Better if you post your SKP file

Khai

@unknownuser said:

Better if you post your SKP file

sorry cannot do that, it's copyrighted work that will be for sale, and it's not just the mesh in the image above.

thomthom

Polygon and N-Gon refer to entities where the Entity Info display Polygon.

Khai

erm... pardon?

ok I must be being dense... that made no sense at all?

pilou

In fact i believe this N Gon function shown only figures who are made with the tool "Polygon"
And not geometric figures that you can see as Ngons

thomthom

@unknownuser said:

In fact i believe this N Gon function shown only figures who are made with the tool "Polygon"
And not geometric figures that you can see as Ngons

Exactly - the selection tool doesn't look at the shape of the geometry, but filters the selection based on the types of entities SketchUp reports.

When you select something in SU, the Entity Info window will say what type it is - all the filtering is based on these types.

Khai

ah. thanks for your help then.. this explains all my problems with this Ruby. we're not compatible.. but thats ok.

N3TO

@thomthom said:

I can make so sense why you would not have a Selection Toys menu item under tools and various Context Menu entries (which depend on what you right-click)

I was about to ask if you'd checked the Preferences for Selection Toys, but if you have not menu... I'm really stomped.

Can you post a screenshot of your Tools menu?

Hello Thomas!
It happens with me also! You can see a screenshot here
http://www.netcond.net/N3TO/Screenshot_toolsmenu.jpg
I see all posts but I can't resolve the trouble.
apologies for my bad english...
Thanks

thomthom

Check the Tools menu.

Tools -> Selection Toys -> Enable Toolbar
then after you do that - check the menu you showed in the screenshot.

thomthom

Version 2.2.1

Fixed Select DC Instances

thomthom

Sorry - I forgot to include a file. Redownload.

brookefox

It was working in V7, but I can't get Sel Toys working in V8. Feeling stupid for a number of reasons.

My configurtion of Sel Toys:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins\TT_Lib
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Tools\TT_Select_Toys

After SU8 re-start:

no context picks for Sel Toys
no pick for Sel Toys in Tools menu drop down

thomthom

@brookefox said:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins\TT_Lib
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Tools\TT_Select_Toys

Don't put plugins in the Tools folder.

There should be

C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins\TT_Lib\ - (inside, lots of .rb files)

C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins\tt_selection_toys.rb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins\TT_Select_Toys\

brookefox

OK. Thank you. I thought that since it is accessed by the tools menu..., but thinking is not my strong suite.

@unknownuser said:

You must enable it from Tools->Selection Toys->Enable Toolbar before it appears under View->Toolbars->Selection Toys.

While the install didn't seem that clear to me, I didn't notice many install problems in the thread, so likely I am being thick. Perhaps because I assumed it was different than the norm when it is not. (Is the download count related to this, only 141 for such a useful tool? Or is that count only since the last update or somehow not reliable?)

Thanks, again.

thomthom

Since last update - there's been thousands of downloads all together of the previous versions.

With my more recent plugins I've started to add more detailed descriptions of how they should be installed.

brookefox

I will remove and try to re-install as now for me under Tools, there is no 'Selection Toys'; and so not surprisingly, under View->Toolbars there is no 'Selection Toys'. After entity pick, context menu does not show sel toy choices.

Folders TT_Lib and TT_Select_Toys are both in Plugins, as is file tt_selection_toys.rb.

sel toys.JPG

thomthom

@brookefox said:

and so not surprisingly, under View->Toolbars there is no 'Selection Toys'.

You need to enable the toolbar under Tools -> Selection Toys -> Enable Toolbar

brookefox

Thank you, but under Tools there is no 'Selection Toys.'