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    • JClementsJ Offline
      JClements
      last edited by

      I searched the forum and I don't believe a script has been written to do the following.

      Select a surface or edge > Right-click > Context Menu > and then Select All Other Geometry On the SAME LAYER (in the current context).

      John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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      • TIGT Offline
        TIG Moderator
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        You don't need a new tool - it's already built-in to SUp. Select an object on the layer and get right-click context-menu, a few items (4?) down from the top is 'Select', its pop-out sub-menu includes 'All on same Layer', as well as 'All with same Material', bounding edges, all connected etc...

        TIG

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        • JClementsJ Offline
          JClements
          last edited by

          Duh, I looked and looked ... too many hours and too many listings in my context menu.

          I can see part of the problem (besides having a cloudy head), it was a huge CAD file I imported (10 meg+). Everything slowed terribly and the context menu most often had the select menu greyed-out.

          I am glad you set me straight though πŸ‘Š Thanks, TIG

          John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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          • Didier BurD Offline
            Didier Bur
            last edited by

            Hi,
            If your context menu is HUGE, maybe the next release of my Layer Manager will better suit your need: click on an object to select all objects of its layer (iterative,cumulative), click on a selected object to deselect the entire layer, and so on.
            Here is the "layers tools" toolbar, tool I'm talking about is #7 from left on:lm_tb.jpg
            Regards,

            DB

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            • JClementsJ Offline
              JClements
              last edited by

              Hi Didier:

              Only thing is I wanted to compare the selected geometry relative to the rest of the model (or context); therefore, the geometry on the other layers must be visible. I was looking for a way to highlight the edges selected geometry without the bounding box being displayed.

              I know you could probably do tricks with toggling edge display defaults and layer display modes, but I'm guessing that would tax things significantly if a large selection was involved and be very slow.

              John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
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                @tig said:

                You don't need a new tool - it's already built-in to SUp. Select an object on the layer and get right-click context-menu, a few items (4?) down from the top is 'Select', its pop-out sub-menu includes 'All on same Layer', as well as 'All with same Material', bounding edges, all connected etc...

                It only seem to work on Faces/Edges. Groups/Components isn't selected.

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

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                • JClementsJ Offline
                  JClements
                  last edited by

                  Thom:

                  I think that is a major gothcha in SU when selecting geometry ... you can only do it for one context (no subgroups or subcomponents) not the entire model.

                  I suppose if Outliner (or something akin to it) could deal with geometry of non-groups and non-components and then had a way to filter for these (I think this function has been submitted for SU8), then we'd be home free.

                  John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    With the SU API it's possible to select items inside groups/components. It's just the SU UI that doesn't do it.

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

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