How to retrieve the structure of instance up to model?

[areal3d]

hello,
i just stuck at one point:

wirh onmousemove i can get the instance/component - structure easily:

pickhelper = view.pick_helper pickhelper.do_pick(x, y) pickhelper.count.times { |pick_path_index| pp=pickhelper.path_at(pick_path_index) }

i can the iterate pp and get for example all transformations.

now when i iterate thru entities of a certain instance and want to get the parent, i do not get the higher INSTANCE, but the DEFINITION LIST.

how can i get the whole path as in the pickhelper from a selected instance?

thanx a lot for helping .

stan

edit1 : found this interesting topic:

https://forums.sketchup.com/t/what-is-the-way-to-get-an-instance-path-to-the-root-given-a-group-componentinstance/47274

starting to check it out!

edit 2:

this works, but interesting:

not the returned arry of elemnts holds the row, but the array[0]

BUT IT WORKS FINE !!!!

[Dan Rathbun]

@areal3d said:

hello,
... now when I iterate thru entities of a certain instance and want to get the parent, i do not get the higher INSTANCE, but the DEFINITION LIST.

Instances do not have Entities collections. Only definitions and the top-level model have an Entities collection.

[Dan Rathbun]

@areal3d said:

hello,
how can i get the whole path as in the pickhelper from a selected instance?

You will either need to build an InstancePath as you drill down or get the Model.active_path and add the selected instance to it.