Select based on Entity Info

ryangarnett

Hello All,

Is there way (existing script or developing ) of saving groups of features as an individual SketchUp model based the name stored in the Entity Info (see attached jpeg). The problem I have a single model that has a number of models within it and I want to save each of the individual models as their own model, without having to do this manually.

Thanks...

TIG

You can save all of the Model's component definitions 'outside' using the Component Browser > Model tab and choosing the pop-out/drop-down menu's 'Save as local collection' item...
All components are then saved as individual SKP files in the folder you specified...
You can also use 'Save_as' on individual component's icons in the Browser [context-menu]... or even do the same on a selected instance in the Model by using the main context-menu equivalent item...
This is the way you save parts of your Models for reuse in future projects - making coellctions of them...

ryangarnett

Thank you TIG, that is really helpful. I am hoping to do this in a more automated fashion, do you know of a way to make things components? My models are not saved as components (as it is not in the workflow). Would there be a way to make all the groups into components based on the Name stored in the Entity Info?

Thanks....

Dave R

Why not change the workflow to make components instead of groups? It isn't any more difficult than making groups and you can save all the components as a local collection if you wish in one step.

ryangarnett

Because the plugins in that I am using saves them as Groups, so its out of my control.

Dave R

It's entirely within your control. You could easily convert the groups to components. It's a small thing to do if the things are worth saving.

TIG

This one-liner copy+pasted into the Ruby Console +<enter> will make all groups currently in the model into components, using each group's name [or #1 etc if already existing]. Unnamed Groups become a component called Group#1 etc... It is one step undo-able.

m=Sketchup.active_model;m.start_operation('g2c'); m.definitions.each{|d|next unless d.group?;d.instances.each{|i| next unless i.valid?;n=i.name;c=i.to_component;next if n.empty?;c.name=n;c.definition.name=m.definitions.unique_name(n) } };m.commit_operation;

BUT don't use it as an excuse for not modeling 'right' in the first place...

ryangarnett

Thanks TIG. I agree with the "right way" comment, but when you are bound by something, you are bound by it.