@tig said:

Try this v2.0...
It offers a new Y|N option at the start to save each definitions into the main folder = N, or =Y to save any nested definitions into subfolders named after their parent.
Then you can choose to ignore those - e.g. those nested inside other components, or those in groups [which you might want to consider keeping ?]

My man!!

@tig said:

This is more than 7 years old !

It in effect does that already.
Nested components are saved into a subfolder named after the parent definition ?
Just ignore those in subfolders if you only want the parents...
Or am I missing something...

It does, just not perfectly.

Some of the nested components don't go into sub folders and end up being in the main export. So you have to sort through and delete them. A bit of a nightmare as I was working through a collection of portraits from the warehouse, hence the reason I asked.

@tig said:

It's now published properly: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=530343#p530343
PluginStore: http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TIG_save_all_components

Hello TIG,

Can you please create a version of this script that executes its function only at the top level? Doesn't have to placed in the plugin store if its too much trouble.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Fredo,

I will love to purchase a license for this tool and forget BezierSpline, but seeing Daniel's response does give me concern, so I have to ask:

Must this tool be constantly updated for it to work, even after purchase of a perpetual license?

@rv1974 said:

@ludnid said:

...forcing an update on a user who's paid for the tool

How did you come to conclusion this individual paid for this? My reply was based
on assumption he used trials.
Now though I agree the mandatory updates for permanent license holders are questionable, but I really wish you that the need to click a button for a 10€ plugin update once in a while will remain the biggest concern in your life

Actually, I didn't. That's why I asked Fredo directly in my subsequent response. But you made a rather insensitive assertion–without fact I might add– for a legitimate concern raised by a user.

However, I imagine if it is a paid plugin, the tool will cease to work after the trial, hence no possibility for updates. Unless Fredo's pay wall system is such that it removes requirements for having to use the tool yearly without update which will be quite generous, but I haven't seen this anywhere for a paid plugin, on any software for that matter, so it doesn't make much sense.

Some of us enjoy working offline. I typically do and only update when and if I have a compelling reason to do so. That has nothing to do with the cost of the tool. So, provided it isn't a subscription based tool (which I mostly avoid anyway), I don't see why I MUST update to use a tool perpetually paid for.

@rv1974 said:

Buy it, write your own or use free alternatve. Tons of options

That's a rather silly thing to say. Its a recommendation and it makes a lot of sense.

As much as I love Fredo's tools which are great, forcing an update on a user who's paid for the tool and has a business to run still remains a major inconvenience, so your statement lacks perspicacity. The user should have a choice to decide if they want to update or not. I understand this whole "forcing of an update" is built on the subscription model, but in a case where a perpetual license exists, that option should be available.

@hdpv said:

Hi Pilou!
it only explore all Component and Group IN Components(or Groups)
Carefuly explore Component.Make unique!
Thanks Oxer!

Appreciate your hardwork man. As I understand it, this plugin of yours is free. Is there a particular reason why it now asks me to update each time I click on it when I have no reason to? Especially when the plugin still functions as it is meant to?

@tig said:

I'll PM you an old RBZ...

Hi TIG,

Any chance you can shoot me the same rbz? i.e the 2.0/2.6 version that is.

Thanks.

@cleeman10 said:

Hi guys. I just downloaded a bunch of vismat files. When I open them in V-ray, the material looks different from the preview jpg included with the vismat file. When I open the vismat and see the preview IN v-ray (not the preview jpg) it looks different and much worse from what it should look like. It is a different color from the diffuse bitmap texture entirely, the reflection is out of whack... I don't know what's going on. It's like this for every vismat I just downloaded from vismats.com

I've attached some pictures to explain my situation. Thanks in advance!!!

It's a colour space issue. Go to the diffuse slot of the material and click on bitmap. Change the colour space from screenspace to linear space or vice versa. I personally, would prefer to go with custom gamma and specify what I'd like the material to look like instead. Usually a value of 0.5 works for me.

@thomthom said:

@ludnid: what is your user path? I'm still confused by the byte array shows a different path than the error message...

C:/Users/Ludnid/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/