My workflow in SU2018 with the advice you and TIG suggest is followed but I leave it to ThomThom's cleanup tool to move everything to layer0 When I'm happy with it.

HB creates its Groups/Objects/Components No need to worry. Force Thomthom's cleanup tool to move everything to layer0

SU2021 tag system doesn't follow 2018 way of using defined layer names. This becomes a nightmare list of ambiguous names right from the start. At lease SU2018 in this sense was easier to organise into a easy list to toggle on and off.

TIG told me the same about layer0 as you've mentioned many years ago.

As for better more robust extensions, What are they?

SU2018 you could set a default layer and each new wall would be in the defined layer each skin layer would inherit the layer1_skin name. This doesn’t appear to work the same in 2021 with its tag system.

Question / Is a rewrite of housebuilder plug-in required to be tag aware ?

For those who dislike using the plugin (Extensions) menu I've modified TIGs version to use
the context menu. I find it much faster than moving the mouse all the way too
the top menu bar click and click.

pick, right click, click "Point at Center" done.

UI.add_context_menu_handler {|menu|
	menu.add_item("Point at Center") {
  	model=Sketchup.active_model
  	entities=model.active_entities
  	selection=model.selection
  	model.start_operation("Add Centerpoint")
  	selection.to_a.each{|e|entities.add_cpoint(e.bounds.center)}
  	model.commit_operation
 }
}

Thanks Tig.

Is what I am doing below problematic, Am I creating the madness my self?

What I tend todo is create North wall objects in layer0 then make new layer Named North Wall group all the objects created in layer0 off to the new layer its now a reference its either on of off depending on if I need to see it or not.
So I have east/south/west walls ... Now I do the internal walls same again NWI/EWI/SWI/WWI until I have something that resembles alot of sticks. Then I add the windows doors etc... Since everything was created in layer0 all good, but if I forget to change the layer were the object is it inherits the layer I’m currently at. That’s when the walls on off value start to get messy.

Looking for a right click context menu plug-in “jmp- activate/deactivate”
When layers are defined. Clicking on an object after activating the Jump plugin
It will automatically set the layer current for that particular object.

Noticeable with housebuilder (add-change-move) all of it is recreated in the layer it’s not already defined in. Does that make sence?

Anything exist? Could this be another great simple Jim foltz one-liner plugin?

@kachupp said:

Hi everyone; I have just started getting a pop up messages saying the model "current one open" has been modified outside of sketchup ? Anyone else getting or know anything about this.

When this happens; components names are changed to the last component I was working in. Only started noticing this when generating reports "beside the popup message" it makes it annoying to not find what you expect in the report.

Figured it out. It happens when you add a comment to the file either through windows explorer or a 3rd party util like 4nt/tcmd describe's command. So if you're trying to find out if its a bug in one of your many great plugins i use
from many different authors fair not. lol

Hi everyone; I have just started getting a pop up messages saying the model "current one open" has been modified outside of sketchup ? Anyone else getting or know anything about this.

When this happens; components names are changed to the last component I was working in. Only started noticing this when generating reports "beside the popup message" it makes it annoying to not find what you expect in the report.

@futurepast said:

Does this have the same error as the original? In the original, the first spacing from the first stud to the second was entered as "outside to outside" instead of "outside to center" (that is off by 3/4" on a 2/ imperial). The rest of the wall was run on center from that, that 3/4" error throws 4' siding off (unless you want to cut the first sheet)

Yes it does. . same error
In the code he has a TODO list thats one of them.

Perfect Jim thank you very much