This is very cool. SketchUp has needed something like this for a long time.

For me, SketchUp crashes every time, when the rotation is applied. I've tried different components, rotation axes, and parametric values. Each time, when the rotation is applied, I get a crash.

Hi Alan -

Welcome to the boards, and thank you for this incredible plugin. I've wanted something like this on multiple occasions, and I think this approach makes more sense than the built in walk through tool.

Here are my thoughts after trying it out:

It looks like, if I've mapped a custom shortcut to WSAD, that over rides this plugin (even if I use shift). There may not be a way around this.

Could you display the eye height in the VCB, and allow the user to specify and eye height?

Strange. I wonder if I have an obscure conflict with other plugins that doesn't result in an error message, but which prevents selection toys from operating normally. Is such a thing possible?

I'll scrub through my plugins and see if it works when it's the only plugin installed.

@thomthom said:

@danbig said:

Here's a sample model. I can't get the selection toys plugin to select all the instances of either component. I'm pretty sure that there is something simple about operating this plugin that i'm missing.

@thomthom said:

Can you post or send me a sample model?

I tried both Instance -> Select Active and Instances -> Select All and both of them worked...

Here's a sample model. I can't get the selection toys plugin to select all the instances of either component. I'm pretty sure that there is something simple about operating this plugin that i'm missing.

@thomthom said:

Can you post or send me a sample model?

Test 1.skp

In the model, I have 420 instances of a single component.

I select one of the instances, and right click.

Under the "Instances" context menu, I choose "Select All".

What I want to happen, is that all 420 instances of this component to be selected. In my case, nothing happens. Nothing posts to the console. Am I trying to use it correctly?

@thomthom said:

@danbig said:

I get no error message, but the context menu doesn't seem to do anything for me. I'll check the console next time I try.

@thomthom said:

That button is to filter the selection.

To select similar instances, use the context menu.

Can you describe more specifically the steps you are doing? And what you have pre-selected etc?

I get no error message, but the context menu doesn't seem to do anything for me. I'll check the console next time I try.

@thomthom said:

That button is to filter the selection.

To select similar instances, use the context menu.

Hi Dave -

Yes, that would work. Thanks for the tip. I haven't used the component library to browse components in my model very much, so I wasn't aware of that function.

Gai - that's exactly how I'm trying to use the plugin, to no avail. I'm stumped.

I think I'm still missing something simple on how to operate this incredibly helpful plugin.

I have a model with hundreds of instances of multiple components. I want to select all the instances of a single component definition. I cannot seem to get the plugin to do this; can someone go through the steps to perform this function?

Is there a way to put an instructional diagram in the Component Options menu?

Hi tspco -

I have a few thoughts about a suspended ceiling grid.

First, a ruby script could make suspended ceilings quick and easy if it was done right.

Dynamic components could also be used, depending on how refined the tool needed to be (for example, trimming corners on non-square rooms, etc..).

For tasks with that are essentially a series of arrays or copies, I would also suggest levering the basic sketchup tools to do the job manually. I say this without knowing your skill level in this area, but my first impression is that if it's taking you a few hours working on a ceiling grid, you may have an opportunity to improve just by understanding how to exercise the native sketchup tools to create your grid. I would suggest looking at the move tool and array functionality to create copies.

How detailed does your grid need to be? Are you going to do quantity takeoff from your model, or is it just a visual model? If I was doing it, I would setup the way I built the grid based on how I wanted to use the end product.

For some reason, I can't get the component selection tool to work.

I'm selecting a single instance of the component, then choosing instances > select all from the context menu. Nothing happens.

This has to be something obvious that I'm not seeing?
Thanks in advance.

@gaieus said:

Also, if you colour everything (not just edges but faces as well) by layer and set your edge styles "by material", SU will apply the layer colour to the edges, too.

Thank you, sir. I'm sure this isn't the first time you've shared this tip.

Hi all -

Just confirming: there isn't a way to color edges by layer in sketchup, is there?

I wish this had been taken down before I tried it.

It completely reset my local copy of sketchup. All my plugins were gone, and it has wiped out all my keyboard shortcuts. All style settings, default templates, etc.. were reset when I installed the roozz plugin.

I have restored my plugins by uninstalling the software, but I still have at least a few hours to built the rest of my settings back to how they should be.

Consider yourselves lucky if you didn't get to try this. I don't know exactly how it worked, but I think it just displayed your local copy of sketchup in a browser.

@jim57 said:

Often the scale goes one off of what I want—

This happens with me, too, with other menu options in LayOut. I would say maybe 10% of the time I'm selecting something from a list, and it executes the item directly below what I think I'm choosing. I'm not 100% sure if it's me letting the mouse slip at the last second before clicking, but I don't have this issue on other applications (I spend 95% of my working day in front of a computer).

Hi David -

This is interesting. Is the intent to develop a method that will report the volume for each room?

I don't think this is possible, but I'll ask anyway:

Does anyone know how to have different page orientations in the same LO file?

I'd like to have some of the pages in portrait, and some in landscape.

On a related note, is it possible to have different page sizes in a LO file?

It seems like these settings effect the entire document, as opposed to a single page.

Also -

How does the linking of positions and scenes work if you rename your scenes?

Does the Position 3 always link to the third scene that was created?

Hi Morisdov -

Thank you for the incredible tool.

Is there any limit on the number of positions that can be set?

I'm more interested in the raster images that are not part of the sketchup model (logos or other elements), that I've imported directly into LayOut.

I would assume that the resolution settings would be the same for any raster image.

Here's a question:
If my original raster image is at least 300 dpi (assuming I don't change the physical size in LayOut), will it still be resampled upon export to PDF?