[Plugin] Selection Toys

[thomthom]

@jpmays said:

I'm really having trouble figuring out to use this tool, but please forgive my ineptitude. I first downloaded and installed this in order to select all faces that are at a certain orientation (as Thom lists in his initial post). However, I can't figure out how to actually do that

• Select a face
• Right-click the face
• Select > Coplanar Faces

@jpmays said:

Additionally, even attempting to use the tool that selects all faces doesn't appear to work.

There is no function to select all faces. There is a function that filters out the current selection to include only the selected faces.

[JPMays]

That's not exactly what I meant. See this thread http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=35393 that resolved the issue.

[TheButtersShow]

Thanks! A Great Plugin.

For my purposes most useful for digging through nested Components and groups and selecting only the particular entities I need without the time consuming process of having to explode or enter the context of every single one.

[66searcher]

@ thomthom:
thanks for your great plugins.recently I've installed Sketchup 8 pro .and i have some kinds of problem with using selection toys ! many tools in toolbar are not loaded?!
would u help!?

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[thomthom]

Do you get any error messages?

[66searcher]

i found it out !
i haven't checked tools in UI !
thank u anyway

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[Al Hart]

I have a suggestion for carrying over the name of the group as the name of the component definition as well:

The last three lines in this snippet:

		# Iterate through the rest of the copies
		protodef = proto.definition
		if (group_name != "")
			protodef.name = group_name
		end#if

It seems to work pretty well, and SketchUp adds #'s as needed to make the name unique.

[thomthom]

I'll make a note of that.

[danbig]

I think I'm still missing something simple on how to operate this incredibly helpful plugin.

I have a model with hundreds of instances of multiple components. I want to select all the instances of a single component definition. I cannot seem to get the plugin to do this; can someone go through the steps to perform this function?

[Dave R]

Dan, this doesn't help you with the plugin I know but for something like what you want to do, couldn't you just right click on the component's thumbnail in the In Model component library and and choose Select Instances?

[Gaieus]

With the plugin, you should just right click on one instance and go to Instances > Select all or active (it can select instances even inside other components/groups)

[danbig]

Hi Dave -

Yes, that would work. Thanks for the tip. I haven't used the component library to browse components in my model very much, so I wasn't aware of that function.

Gai - that's exactly how I'm trying to use the plugin, to no avail. I'm stumped.

[Dave R]

FWIW, Csaba's directions work for me but using the Components tool on the Selection Toys toolbar doesn't seem to do anything.

[thomthom]

@dave r said:

FWIW, Csaba's directions work for me but using the Components tool on the Selection Toys toolbar doesn't seem to do anything.

Can you provide a sammple model and/or video?
Any errors in the Ruby Console?

[Dave R]

Maybe I'm using it wrong Thomas. I've tried selecting a component which I know has more than one instance. Then I click on the tool with the two green boxes. Nothing changes. I've tried getting the tool first and then clicking on a component. Nothing different there, either. I'll send you an example model though.

[thomthom]

That button is to filter the selection.

To select similar instances, use the context menu.

[Dave R]

Thanks Thomas.

[leedeetee]

Hi,

Could someone help me with this ...

I'm trying to get the Selection Toys to work, I have the following fodlers in Plugins:

TT_Lib TT_Lib2

and then also tt_selection_toys in there, too.

SU loads up fine but then nothing is shown in the plugins.

What am I doign wrong?

Thanks.

[leedeetee]

@leedeetee said:

Hi,

Could someone help me with this ...

I'm trying to get the Selection Toys to work, I have the following fodlers in Plugins:

TT_Lib TT_Lib2

and then also tt_selection_toys in there, too.

SU loads up fine but then nothing is shown in the plugins.

What am I doign wrong?

Thanks.

IGNORE ME! Sorry, Sorted.

[danbig]

I get no error message, but the context menu doesn't seem to do anything for me. I'll check the console next time I try.

@thomthom said:

That button is to filter the selection.

To select similar instances, use the context menu.