Delete all faces in one step

ipsketchpi

Hi

Is there a chance to delete all faces in one step and leave only lines?

gilles

Activate wireframe mode, select all, group, return to normal mode, erase unwanted geometries.

Or Thomthom selection toys.

massimo

Or this one if you are in hurry.

massimo

Or, following gilles, all with native SU's tools:
-go to the wireframe mode-->ctrl+A in order to select all;
-rigth click-->make group;
-triple click on an edge (of course you can do that with every non-connected objects with the ctrl key pushed in order to add selections) and press canc.

Gaieus

Without grouping:

Go wireframe
Select all (Ctrl+A)
Copy the selection (Ctrl+C)
Triple click to select all visible edges + invisible faces and Delete
Under Edit menu, select "Paste in place" (I also have a custom shortcut: Shift+Ctrl+V for this)

ArCAD-UK

Again for ungrouped entities...

Select all (Ctrl-A)
Hovver over a selected face Right Click and choose "Select Only" > "Faces"
Hit Delete
Job done.

massimo

@unknownuser said:

Hovver over a selected face Right Click and choose "Select Only" > "Faces"

Uh? That's a plugin's feature I suppose.

gilles

I think it goes with Selection Toys.

massimo

Ah! Thank you.

ArCAD-UK

Huh, I don't recall ever installing a selection tools PI. This is what I get in SU8...

jeff hammond

@arcad-uk said:

Huh, I don't recall ever installing a selection tools PI. This is what I get in SU8...

that's recurve.rb

jeff hammond

@gaieus said:

Without grouping:

Go wireframe

Select all (Ctrl+A)

Copy the selection (Ctrl+C)

Triple click to select all visible edges + invisible faces and Delete

Under Edit menu, select "Paste in place" (I also have a custom shortcut: Shift+Ctrl+V for this)

hey csaba..
you can skip the triple-click step.. if you delete all the edges which are already selected via your previous steps, the faces will delete as well.. but this is the method i'd recommend as well

wireframe --- cmmdA --- cmmdC --- delete --- shift_cmmd V

gilles

I have two select only, I'm the winner.

Sometimes I don't remember what is native and what is plugins and what plugin it is.

jeff hammond

@gilles said:

I have two select only, I'm the winner.

Sometimes I don't remember what is native and what is plugins and what plugin it is.

there's also the native select option at the top of the context menu (cropped out of your screenshot) though it doesn't have 'all faces' in there..

but yeah, i have selection toys and recurve installed as well.. not sure why the selection options are included in recurve.rb? maybe diggsey just liked the feature but didn't want to make a separate plugin for it? i already hounded him about making a few changes in recurve, which he did (and seriously, it's probably my most used plugin.. it's great) so i'm all out of request opportunities on that one

TIG

Without any 'scripting'... here's a one-liner that adjusts any existing selection so that it then only includes faces.
Copy/paste this code into the Ruby Console + <enter>

s=Sketchup.active_model.selection;s.each{|e|s.remove(e)unless e.is_a?(Sketchup;;Face)}

Then... to erase the selected faces click the top-bar to regain focus on the main-window and press the 'delete' key.
You can adjust this to include/exclude any type of entity in a selection...

Gaieus

@unknownuser said:

...you can skip the triple-click step.. if you delete all the edges which are already selected via your previous steps, the faces will delete as well...

True...

ArCAD-UK

@unknownuser said:

Without grouping:
wireframe --- cmmdA --- cmmdC --- delete --- shift_cmmd V

Or...

wireframe --- cmmdA --- cmmdX --- shift_cmmd V aka "Paste in place" (mine is shift_I)

That's one step less. What a great thread for showing how powerful SU is in it's native form; an apparently tedious issue solved in four simple steps.

ipsketchpi

Thank you, very useful as always.