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      dtolios
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      Hello all. Glad to post for the first time in your amazing community. I have been following you for some time, but didn't have something to add to most of the conversations so...

      No I came up with a question:

      I want to procuce arrays of a given number of components, along a pattern I've made.

      Say I have a pattern produced, either manually or through an automated process: for example using Chris Fullmer's random painter plugin + Jim's Protrude or any kind of combination of the above...

      If I am not wrong, there is no "select similar" command / plugin in sketchup. There are ways to do that, selecting similar components/families, but not just geometry/faces, thus I am taking the texture/material way, as you can actually select surfaces with the same material across the model.

      So, to stop making it more complicated, is there a way to "spray" for example 3 different components over a giver surface, which I have subdivided and "painted" in a pattern of 3 different materials using randompainter, creating arrays of those components in a rationalized way?

      The goal is producing what would be appear to be random patterns for building facades using a finite number of tiles/components.

      EDIT: found a way to do sort of what I was after through the "components onto faces" tool, again by Chris Fullmer. πŸ˜„
      If there are better ideas around, plz share

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