Kill dynamic components?

Marron

How do I make a dynamic component non dynamic. Sometimes I want to make some changes in the dynamic component, but the "settings" of the groups make the components unmovable. For example move the legs of a table to another position. I want to keep the groups of the object that the dynamic component exists of, but clear all settings.

Thanks in advance.

TIG

This one-liner copy+paste+<enter> in the Ruby Console will stop a selected DC from being dynamic

Sketchup.active_model.selection[0].definition.attribute_dictionaries.delete('dynamic_attributes')

use wisely...

Jim

I have a plugin that can "strip DC attributes", optionally delete sub-components which are hidden, and reset the scale mask. I wrote it for a business that uses DC's internally but wanted to protect their IP and reduce file size before making their models public. I have been meaning to get it posted.

Anssi

How about exploding and immediately creating a new component?

Another way is to insert the DC in a new model, save it and import that. The DC attributes won't be usable until you explode the component once. Exploiting a common error with DCs.

Anssi

Marron

@jim said:

I have a plugin that can "strip DC attributes", optionally delete sub-components which are hidden, and reset the scale mask. I wrote it for a business that uses DC's internally but wanted to protect their IP and reduce file size before making their models public. I have been meaning to get it posted.

I'm very interested, could you send it to me in some way?

Marron

@tig said:

This one-liner copy+paste+<enter> in the Ruby Console will stop a selected DC from being dynamic

Sketchup.active_model.selection[0].definition.attribute_dictionaries.delete('dynamic_attributes')

use wisely...

Hm, yes it worked. But I want to keep the groups in the component. Now I get the same problem as when exploding the component as many times as possible and then making a new component.
Thanks anyway

Chris Fullmer

You asked to "kill dynamic components" - thats what his one line script does.

So what do you REALLY want to do?

Marron

@chris fullmer said:

You asked to "kill dynamic components" - thats what his one line script does.

So what do you REALLY want to do?

In my first post I wrote: "I want to keep the groups of the object that the dynamic component exists of, but clear all settings."

I just want the component attributes to be cleared. But I want to keep the groups in the component.

TIG

Sketchup.active_model.selection[0].definition.attribute_dictionaries.delete('dynamic_attributes')

just stops the selected DC from being a DC!
If you have nested DC's within a DC you'll need to run the tool recursively like this

def dck(c);c.definition.attribute_dictionaries.delete('dynamic_attributes');c.entities.each{|e|dck(e)if e.class==Sketchup;;ComponentInstance};end;dck(Sketchup.active_model.selection[0])if e.class==Sketchup;;ComponentInstance

where the method 'dck' is the 'dc_killer' applied to a selected component AND all of its nested DCs down to any depth... use with care

skavan

@jim said:

I have a plugin that can "strip DC attributes", optionally delete sub-components which are hidden, and reset the scale mask. I wrote it for a business that uses DC's internally but wanted to protect their IP and reduce file size before making their models public. I have been meaning to get it posted.

Hi, I know this was a while ago - but any chance I could snag the plugin you reference? Thanks.

s.

skavan

@tig said:

Sketchup.active_model.selection[0].definition.attribute_dictionaries.delete('dynamic_attributes')

just stops the selected DC from being a DC!

If you have nested DC's within a DC you'll need to run the tool recursively like this

def dck(c);c.definition.attribute_dictionaries.delete('dynamic_attributes');c.entities.each{|e|dck(e)if e.class==Sketchup;;ComponentInstance};end;dck(Sketchup.active_model.selection[0])if e.class==Sketchup;;ComponentInstance

where the method 'dck' is the 'dc_killer' applied to a selected component AND all of its nested DCs down to any depth... use with care

I tried pasting this into the ruby editor - but it didn't work

"Error: #<NameError: undefined local variable or method `e' for main:Object>"

I'm in SU15. The single line top-level version did work....but I'm really trying to zap the tree.

s.

halroach

@skavan said:

I tried pasting this into the ruby editor - but it didn't work

"Error: #<NameError: undefined local variable or method `e' for main:Object>"

I'm in SU15. The single line top-level version did work....but I'm really trying to zap the tree.

s.

I'm getting the same error. Ideas?

sdmitch

@halroach said:

@skavan said:

I tried pasting this into the ruby editor - but it didn't work

"Error: #<NameError: undefined local variable or method `e' for main:Object>"

I'm in SU15. The single line top-level version did work....but I'm really trying to zap the tree.

s.

I'm getting the same error. Ideas?

Try

def dck(c);c.definition.attribute_dictionaries.delete('dynamic_attributes');c.definition.entities.each{|e|dck(e)if e.class==Sketchup;;ComponentInstance};end;dck(Sketchup.active_model.selection[0])

after selecting the dynamic component.

Oly80

I'm not sure what other aspects of sketchup may be lost?...But saving as sketchup version 6 or below removes dynamic attributes, retaining the component and sub components.