[Plugin] Selection Toys

Dan Rathbun

Sorry.. I will bow out of this.

thomthom

My bad... didn't read the list of requirements at first. But, now it is asking for win32api. In installed it in the main plugin folder, and no go.... Does this plugin work on macos?

Would you by any chance happen to have Organizer installed? That could explain why these files are being loaded.

Selection Toys uses only a very tiny subset of TT_Lib - the rest of TT_Lib isn't even loaded. the .so file should be inert as there is no other plugin using TT_Lib and certainly not the functionality of the .so.

Organizer does do some weird things such as load going into subfolders and load the files there, which causes problems as files might be loaded in the wrong order.

But I still don't get why the .so and registry files are being loaded as the code calling it is wrapped in guards that should prevent them from loaded directly. So it almost seems that something is bypassing this is loading the files directly.

I'm not quite sure how Fredo's Additional Folders plugin work though - which you appear to be using.

thomthom

@dan rathbun said:

Sorry.. I will bow out of this.

No worries. Enjoy the jolly times ahead!

caronte01

Hi all.

Yes, I use dropbox to sync my plugins folder between 2 computers, 1 windows pc that I use at work, and a macbook that I have at home. I've had no issues with this system so far. Almost all plugins work ok, the few that don't, I install locally.

I had compatibility problems between podium 2 and 000_AdditionalPluginFolders, but uninstalled podium and everything went back to normal.

No, I don't have organizer installed.
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caronte01

BTW, Happy holidays!

thomthom

Can you try, just for the sake of it an place Selection Toys and TT_Lib into the actual plugins folder and see if that avoids the errors. Then we'd know if it works without Additional Folders handling this.

caronte01

Hi ThomThom.

Test 1: Moved TT_Lib and selection toys to the native plugin folder, left everything else untouched. Got this error:
Test 1

Test 2: Moved TT_Lib and selection toys to the native plugin folder, removed 000_AdditionalPluginFolders. Selection toys loaded correctly.
Test 2

Test 3: TT_lib, selection toys and 000_AdditionalPluginFolders in the native plugins folder, dropbox folder left empty. Got this error:
Test 3

Test 4: Just in case, 000_AdditionalPluginFolders in the native directory, TTlib and selection toys in my dropbox plugin folder Error:
Test 4

So it is some kind of incompatibility with this two plugins?

thomthom

Hmm... need to check with Fredo on this.

Dave R

In a case like that, you might be better off deleting all of the layers and putting everything back on Layer 0. Then start over with making layer associations.

gonashvili

Is there a way to select everything within a particular layer?

I've got big mess, components within components with each of them on various layers and I'd like to clean up, reduce the number of layers. It would help to 'see' whats on a particular layer....

I mean when I try to remove a layer thinking its empty, the dialog appears [wants to move the contents] and often times I have no idea where to look for them as unclicking the 'Visible' box in the Layers dialog might make it seem like its empty/there's no change, visually...

Cheers

gonashvili

Guess you're right, such a feature would rule though, I think

thomthom

@gonashvili said:

Is there a way to select everything within a particular layer?

"Select all on Selected Layer" - That means the layer the selected entity is on.

thomthom

Version 2.2.2

Added Select Active with Materials
Removed dependency from TT_Lib
Repackaged as RBZ

cotty

Thank you for the update.
(I will not ask how to install it )

caronte01

Hi Thomas,

Installed the new version. It now works, no conflicts or errors!

Thanks a lot!

Santiago

Mra

Thanks for the amazing plugin. I was wondering if for future that some extra things could be implemented although I ponder if this is impossible with SketchUp.

Basically Maya has some sweet tools in this regard;

Select an edge ring
Select a path of edges between two edges

http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2013/en_us/index.html?url=files/Polygon_selection_and_creation_Polygon_selection.htm,topicNumber=d30e139508

Just an idea.

driven

like TT other plugin?

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john

thomthom

@unknownuser said:

Thanks for the amazing plugin. I was wondering if for future that some extra things could be implemented although I ponder if this is impossible with SketchUp.

Basically Maya has some sweet tools in this regard;

Select an edge ring
Select a path of edges between two edges

http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2013/en_us/index.html?url=files/Polygon_selection_and_creation_Polygon_selection.htm,topicNumber=d30e139508

Just an idea.

Check out QuadFace Tools: http://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/quadface-tools

It doesn't have Select path between two edges yes, but it's on the todo list.

clubber2k

Is there, or will there be, a select all "seemingly" connected segments (lines)?

when you have a few lines on a complex component and you want to select all of the connected ones you touch but not all the lines and not the faces.

double clicking a line when theres no face selects all the lines but double clicking a line when on face selects the face as well and all lines around. I'd like to be able to select all the connected lines and nothing else..

thanks!

cotty

What about double click and deselect the unwanted face(s)?