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).

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paste in place a copy, test.skp