Plugin to quickly open nested Component or Group?
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I'm currently working on a rather detailed model which has a lot of nested Components and Groups.
To speed up editing these Components and Groups, that are often nested tens of layers deep, I was wondering whether there was a Plugin out there that would instantly drill down through all the parent Components and Groups to the Component or Group that I've just clicked on with the mouse cursor?
It would effectively be like clicking directly on the particular instance of a Component and Group (boy am I sick of typing that!) in the Outliner, without having had to expand the parent tree.
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Use the Outliner.
You can then expanded the 'tree' and select the nested Container, and double-click it in the Outliner to edit it that way. -
@TIG The issue I'm trying to avoid with using the Outliner, is the amount of visual searching, scrolling, and clicking that is required. I have to know and look for the name of not just the Group or Component I want to edit but also it's top level parent, and any child Group(s) or Component(s) it's part of. Which is something that's not always easy even when everything is logically named and arranged, both in the model itself and in the Outliner, let alone when I've been lazy and have a bunch of Groups all named "Group" or numerous variations of "Component#123".
I do want to stress though, that the issue I'm trying to avoid is not solved by naming everything properly... I still have the issue when working on my models that are meticulously organised.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to hold down a keyboard key, such as Alt, and then click on what I want to open for editing. Some of the Plugins I've found so far, require the use of the context menu and one or more submenus. Or they have you use one of the dropdown menus on the title bar area. Again, that's something I'd like to avoid if possible.
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maybe vbo jump to levels-https://extensions.sketchup.com/extension/584dba2f-6938-4f03-a1de-df61213cc672/vbo-jump2levels
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@sashapepperspray said in Plugin to quickly open nested Component or Group?:
maybe vbo jump to levels-https://extensions.sketchup.com/extension/584dba2f-6938-4f03-a1de-df61213cc672/vbo-jump2levels
Seems really useful, didn't know about that. I'll try it.
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