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    • K Offline
      kwistenbiebel
      last edited by

      Hi all,

      It happens to me a lot, when working on a project, that I tend to hide a lot of objects and geometry on the way.
      A lot of these hidden items are nested.

      At the end of a design session, when I am happy with what is on screen, I would like to get a clean file and purge all that is hidden out of the scene.
      Unfortunately, doing this manually, is very tedious.

      I was wondering if it is possible to have a ruby that purges all those hidden elements, even if they are nested.

      Would be wonderful.

      What dou you think?

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
        last edited by

        You want a plugin which deletes all hidden entities?

        Should be fairly easy to write. But I'm thinking there might be a gotcha creeping up. What about lines in a mesh which are hidden? If they are deleted the connected faces will disappear. I suppose ignoring edges connected to visible faces would work...
        And what about geometry on hidden layers?

        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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        • K Offline
          kwistenbiebel
          last edited by

          You are right. I didn't think about hidden lines defining surfaces.
          Maybe just hiding the lines that do not define surfaces?

          Yes, hiding hidden layers could be a nice option...although doing that manually isn't that diffcult.

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