[Plugin] Uniquify v1.0 20130215

matt.gordon320

Thanks TIG! Great tool!

cesaro36

Hi TIG thanks for the plugin
One question
If a component "B" is contained several times inside a component "A". Is possible that after "uniquifying" the component "A" all sub-components named "B" remain the same but unified instance?
Example: inside "A", "B" turn into "B#1" "B#1" "B#1" etc instead of "B#1" "B#2" "B#3" ...

Thanks

TIG

It makes ALL instances of everything unique.

Filberts

@tig said:

It makes ALL instances of everything unique.

Is it possible to edit it? I just want plugin that recognise if some detail is connected and gives to it differiend name depending on connection and how many connections. Can anybody help, please?

crazykoala

Hi, first of all, thanks for the plugin, it works great. That's awesome work.
However, -I know I'm just about to be a real pain, sorry about that-, I was wondering if there was any chance to edit the plugin code so that once you have created, copied and "uniquified" your components, the first item/column of items/line of items will be the one closest to the origin, whereas the farthest would be the last?
the aim is to get evocative definition names

For instance, the highest shelf of the second shelves in the aisle could be named 2#1, and the shelf below 2#2.

I'm trying to model a library and particularly its many identical storage areas. With this, I want to link the library database with sketchup so that when I search for a book on a terminal, sketchup highlights its location on the plan.

...that's about it...

Krisidious

Thanks Tig.

KrisM

TIG,

First of all, thanks for your overwhelming number of contributions to the SketchUp community.This is certainly far beyond simply helping out and is greatly appreciated.
With regard to this plugin, I am in need of (like Cesoro63 above)of a plugin which preserves the components in the containing component making the the nested component unique but not all instances unique. This is the workflow that I almost always need rather than creating separate components of everything. I have looked for a plugin like this but no luck so far.
Any ideas?
Kris

TIG

How about a simple one-liner pasted into the Ruby Console + <enter>, which works on all pre-selected component-instances [selection can contain other entity types but they are ignored], it then makes them all unique where appropriate, but leaving all of their contents intact and unchanged...

m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;c=s.grep(Sketchup;;ComponentInstance);s.clear;s.add(c);m.start_operation('x');c.each{|i|i.make_unique if i.definition.instances[1]};m.commit_operation;

You'll end up with the selection now only containing component-instances and each of those is unique [xxx#1 etc] -if there is only one instance of that definition it keeps its name [xxx]. It is one step un-doable...

To make any one-liner into a menu activated 'plugin'... do something like this...
Make a copy of any existing script [ .rb]
Name the file xxx.rb where ' xxx' reflects what it does...
Empty the file [this way you'll ensure that its 'UTF8 without BOM'].
Paste in the following:

require('sketchup.rb')
module KrisM
  unless file_loaded?(__FILE__)
    IUI.menu.add_item('My xxx'){self.xxx()}
  end
  file_loaded(__FILE__)
  def self.xxx()
    ###xxxxxxx###
  end#method
end#module

Choose your own module name [here it's ' KrisM'], tool name [here it's ' xxx'], menu location/name [here it's ' Plugins' & ' My xxx'] etc...
Replace the '###xxxxxxx###' with all of the one-liner's code.
For ease in reading the code later may I suggest that you add newlines in place of the one-liner's ' ;' [note how these are used to mimic the needed newlines between the code's various parts when you are typing in a continuous string]...
You can add 'comments' [usually at the top] of any script within a =begin ... =end block or just use # in front of every line - these lines are then ignored as the code is loaded, but remain useful for reminding you what the script does etc when you re-read it months later...
It's also recommended that you get and use a good plain-text editor like Notepad++ [PC] or TextWrangler [MAC] as these will have helpful syntax highlighting, line-numbering etc, which is not available with the basic Notepad.exe etc - and they are free

KrisM

TIG,

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, the ruby script doesn't do what I am after. It still creates individual components, not linked together components. I am not explaining my needs very well.

What I am after -
-Make a copy of Comp A
-Rename copy to Comp B
-Rename nested components in B to something different than the names in Comp A but retaining the relationship of the nested components in Comp B

I can do this manually -
-Copy Comp A
-Make unique the copy
-Select all the instances of a particular component within the copy and make them unique
This works but is slow if you are doing this to twenty copies for example.

Any ideas?

Kris

Component Copy Example.jpg

KrisM

Okay, solved my own problem -
-Copy Comp A
-Make copy unique, rename as appropriate
-Open copy and select all nested components
-Make unique
This preserves all relationships and renames all the components without having to select each group of components individually.
Minimum number of clicks.
A plugin would save me a couple of clicks but I can live with this.

Kris