Paste In Place a Copy to Current (Active) Layer

JClements

I was wondering if someone would be willing to create a script that would Paste In Place a copy of a selection to the Current (Active) Layer.

Pasting in place geometry over itself in order to put the copy onto a another layer can be fiddly.

Regards, John

DOD3R

+1
Yes please that would be great.
I would like it even as a deafult beahvior of the sketch up to paste geometry on active layer.
Or make a switch for it so we can make this feature work for every scenario.

sdmitch

It appears that Sketchup wont allow two entities to occupy the same location even if they are on separate levels. I think you would have to group them first. Something like this

mod = Sketchup.active_model
ent = mod.active_entities
sel = mod.selection
org = ent.add_group sel; org.name = 'org'; org.layer = 'Layer0'
new = org.copy; new.name = 'new'; new.layer = mod.active_layer
new.entities.each{|e| e.layer = mod.active_layer}

JClements

[Update]
see posting below

JClements

The attached will copy and paste in place a group or component to another layer.

It will appear in the Edit menu as "Paste In Place Copy of Group/Component to Layer".
Paste In Place A Copy.rb

Select a group or component and run the script. You will then be asked to choose a layer to paste the copy. The current layer will be initially displayed in the list.

Thanks Sdmitch.

Here is a test file to experiment with (SU2015 format).

paste in place a copy, test.skp