Edges, faces, etc to layers

[KrisM]

I know what I am asking for violates one of the cardinal rules of SU. I do model with all objects (edges, faces, etc) on layer 0 with groups and components on appropriately named layers.
I also work with Revit and have the need to control visibilty of the imported SU objects. I can bring the layers from SU into Revit but cannot play with visibilty because all the actual edges and faces are on layer 0.
Is there a plugin which will take all the objects (edges & faces) within a group or component and put those objects on the groups layer. This would only be used in a copy of the model which would be saved for the Revit export.
Any ideas?

KrisM

[KrisM]

That works like a charm. This will save me a lot of tedious work. Thank you.

KrisM

[sdmitch]

@krism said:

I know what I am asking for violates one of the cardinal rules of SU. I do model with all objects (edges, faces, etc) on layer 0 with groups and components on appropriately named layers.
I also work with Revit and have the need to control visibilty of the imported SU objects. I can bring the layers from SU into Revit but cannot play with visibilty because all the actual edges and faces are on layer 0.
Is there a plugin which will take all the objects (edges & faces) within a group or component and put those objects on the groups layer. This would only be used in a copy of the model which would be saved for the Revit export.
Any ideas?

KrisM

This works from the Ruby Console on a selection of components or groups.

mod = Sketchup.active_model
ent = mod.entities
sel = mod.selection

sel.each{|corg|
  ents = corg.entities if corg.class==Sketchup;;Group
  ents = corg.definition.entities if corg.class==Sketchup;;ComponentInstance
  ents.each{|e|
    if e.class==Sketchup;;Edge || e.class==Sketchup;;Face
      e.layer = corg.layer
    end
  }
}

or this from the context menu when you right click on a component or group

unless file_loaded?(__FILE__)
	mod = Sketchup.active_model
	ent = mod.active_entities
	sel = mod.selection
	UI.add_context_menu_handler do |menu|
		unless sel.empty? || (sel.first.class != Sketchup;;ComponentInstance && sel.first.class != Sketchup;;Group)
			menu.add_separator
			menu.add_item("Move Entities To Comp/Group Layer") {
				corg = sel.first
				ents = corg.entities if corg.class==Sketchup;;Group
				ents = corg.definition.entities if corg.class==Sketchup;;ComponentInstance
				if ents
					ents.each{|e|
						if e.class==Sketchup;;Edge || e.class==Sketchup;;Face
							e.layer = corg.layer
						end
					}
				end
			}
		end#unless sel
	end#do
	file_loaded(__FILE__)
end#file