Deep nest

Dave R

Since it is in the Context menu, you need to have something selected such that there'd be a Context menu entry for the plugin. Open a component or group within a nest and select an edge or face. It'll then be available for setting the shortcut.

halroach

@dave r said:

Since it is in the Context menu, you need to have something selected such that there'd be a Context menu entry for the plugin. Open a component or group within a nest and select an edge or face. It'll then be available for setting the shortcut.

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Right!! thanks!!!
Excellent!!!

massimo

Not so easy I'm afraid, but i might be wrong. It will work only depending on what you have selected when you assigned the shortcut and not in any situation and at any "level" of selection like the "normal" right click does.

Dave R

Massimo, you're right. However the plugin isn't available to select from the Function list unless an entity within a component is selected. It doesn't have to be a face within an inner component. It could be a component that is selected. Unless an entity is selected, though, the keyboard shortcut won't work. Weird.

Bob James

@jim said:

Paste this into a file with the .rb extension in your plugins folder.


> UI.add_context_menu_handler {|menu|
>   menu.add_item("Close All Contexts") {
>     Sketchup.active_model.selection.clear
>     while (Sketchup.active_model.close_active); end
>   }
> }
>

Called it BackOut.rb, assigned a shortcut to it, added it to a key on my P.I. Engineering x-keys keyboard and now I can back out from within any group/component with one key. Sure beats pecking at the Escape key
Thank you very much

Jim

You're welcome.

I will be adding 2 commands to Custom Toolbars named "CloseActive" and "CloseAllActive" for those who like toolbar buttons.

Jim

Bob, I could put "BackOut.rb" in the Plugin Store, if that would be alright with you.

Although I wonder if it's worth it for what is practically a one-liner; but I suppose code size isn't always related to usefulness.

kaas

@jim said:

Paste this into a file with the .rb extension in your plugins folder.


> UI.add_context_menu_handler {|menu|
>   menu.add_item("Close All Contexts") {
>     Sketchup.active_model.selection.clear
>     while (Sketchup.active_model.close_active); end
>   }
> }
>

Thanks a lot! Those few lines of code make working with more complex object trees much easier.

tt_su

@kaas said:

Thanks a lot! Those few lines of code make working with more complex object trees much easier.

The Outliner will let you jump directly in and out of the model hierarchy.

kaas

@tt_su said:

The Outliner will let you jump directly in and out of the model hierarchy.

I know, I use it all the time but using a keypress is a bit more quick than moving the pen to the outliner and back again.

Bob James

@jim said:

Bob, I could put "BackOut.rb" in the Plugin Store, if that would be alright with you.

It's your plugin, all I did was give it a name

@jim said:

Although I wonder if it's worth it for what is practically a one-liner; but I suppose code size isn't always related to usefulness.

This one is worth it

BackOut.rb

Krisidious

looked for this in the plugin store... didn't find it. needs to be there. doesn't seem to work in 2015?

Box

Works fine for me in 2015

Dave R

It does for me, too.

Krisidious

Hmmm...

Krisidious

~~Did you save the rb or make one yourself?~~

That was it... I made the rb last time and this time I downloaded it. it's called backout now instead of close all contexts as I'm used to.

Thanks guys.

Dave R

You could easily edit the text to say that again.

Krisidious

I have... I named it GTFO!

pbacot

Wow this is just what I was asking for just the other week, but no one who answered seemed to remember it. Maybe it is just my machine but backing out of components is a PITA. So slow sometimes.

Thanks guys for creating and posting this!

Now for the opposite (key command)+click on an entity inside a component to open (edit) that entity's component (/group) to raw geometry level.