[Plugin] Hide Overlapping Geometry (Updated 20150511)
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If you're developing that, could we define the layer's name by tinkering with rb?
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Feeling really dumb. I created a box and then duplicated it and drug the corner of one box to the corners of the other box. I tried double clicking one of the boxes and then used the selection box to select both boxes. When I clicked on the Hide Overlapping Geometry, the overlapping geometry was not hidden.
I tried Dave's approach of flipping one of the boxes (that was the only change), clicked the Hide Overlapping Geometry and it worked as it should.
Not sure what I did wrong with the first approach.
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@jql said:
If you're developing that, could we define the layer's name by tinkering with rb?
The current version lets you select an existing layer.
@ntxdave said:
Feeling really dumb. I created a box and then duplicated it and drug the corner of one box to the corners of the other box. I tried double clicking one of the boxes and then used the selection box to select both boxes. When I clicked on the Hide Overlapping Geometry, the overlapping geometry was not hidden.
I'm not sure what you're doing wrong (if anything). Do you have a sample model?
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@caul said:
@ntxdave said:
Feeling really dumb. I created a box and then duplicated it and drug the corner of one box to the corners of the other box. I tried double clicking one of the boxes and then used the selection box to select both boxes. When I clicked on the Hide Overlapping Geometry, the overlapping geometry was not hidden.
I'm not sure what you're doing wrong (if anything). Do you have a sample model?
I have attached a VERY simple model that just has two boxes. Flipping one of them works fine. Where I am messing us is with the double click method. When I double click on one, how do I then select the other one so that I can then apply your plugin to the 2 of them. This is making me feel really dumb........
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@ntxdave said:
I have attached a VERY simple model that just has two boxes. Flipping one of them works fine. Where I am messing us is with the double click method. When I double click on one, how do I then select the other one so that I can then apply your plugin to the 2 of them. This is making me feel really dumb........
You should not enter (double click) any of the components, just select the two components and run the script.
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@caul said:
@ntxdave said:
I have attached a VERY simple model that just has two boxes. Flipping one of them works fine. Where I am messing us is with the double click method. When I double click on one, how do I then select the other one so that I can then apply your plugin to the 2 of them. This is making me feel really dumb........
You should not enter (double click) any of the components, just select the two components and run the script.
The problem I am having is exactly as Pilou described in this post:
@pilou said:
Ok! But seems there is a little glitch!
A simple copy box (Group)
[attachment=0:1y0rgddy]<!-- ia0 -->overlap1.gif<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1y0rgddy]In another post, @JQL summarized the situation very well:
@jql said:
@pilou said:
YEP! Excellent!
What make exactly this double click ?When you create a group and copy it, it is just like any component, and you get duplicate instances of the same definition (duplicate groups behaving like duplicate components).
However, if you double-click it, you edit it, and even if you do nothing on it, it is made into a different definition, therefor "unique".
What happened is that the plugin hide the face of a group behaving as a component and in doing so it hid the face of both components. If you'd flipped it like Dave suggested, you wouldn't see the problem.
However, I am doing something that should be very basic, very wrong. When I double-click one of the boxes it seems to not be becoming unique so I am not sure what I am doing wrong.
Good news is that I do get it to work fine if I slect one of the boxes and then right-click and select make unique, it does work for me. So I guess my real question (based on these posts is why does the box not become unique when I double-click it or am I not understanding the instructions correctly?
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@ntxdave said:
Good news is that I do get it to work fine if I slect one of the boxes and then right-click and select make unique, it does work for me. So I guess my real question (based on these posts is why does the box not become unique when I double-click it or am I not understanding the instructions correctly?
The answer is in your question.
Your box is a component, not a group. If it were a group, you wouldn't see the Make Unique option in the Context menu. And just opening a component for editing won't make it unique. (That would be counterproductive.)
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@dave r said:
@ntxdave said:
Good news is that I do get it to work fine if I slect one of the boxes and then right-click and select make unique, it does work for me. So I guess my real question (based on these posts is why does the box not become unique when I double-click it or am I not understanding the instructions correctly?
The answer is in your question.
Your box is a component, not a group. If it were a group, you wouldn't see the Make Unique option in the Context menu. And just opening a component for editing won't make it unique. (That would be counterproductive.)
See, I told everyone it was a dumb question. I deleted the 2nd box, exploded the first one, and then made it a group. Used the move tool to make the 2nd copy, double-clicked it and you guessed it, it worked.
Thanks Dave for pulling my head out of my posterior.
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Not a dumb question. Sometimes it's the little things that make all the difference, though.
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