@fredo6 They already were in the latest version (otherwise I wouldn't come here to write).
There was no "one single" bug - SU and the entire OS were almost frozen, you had to wait for a few minutes before you had any access to SU and also to the OS (W 11)... for about 1-2 minutes, and then the same cycle... (flashing and freezing... and couldn't use no other app).

Experience (a lot of it) and intuition finally drove me to LOTT - and I made no other changes in my PC other than downgrade LOTT (LibFredo seems to be fine at the second to last version) - It has been a few hours and everything is alright (I mean as much as it can it can be after W7).

This kind of problem started on many levels with SU (and its plugins) only after W7, but unfortunately, we are not in the driver's seat... and we have to move forward, everything was flawless but starting with W10... many headaches for users and developers, concerning many other software.

After version 2.4a there is a very big compatibility issue with SU 2022 (and maybe also with previous SU versions.!), that makes SU barely usable - I've spent 6-8 hours trying to understand what the hell is wrong with my SU...
Now maybe I would have to pair it with a LibFredo version..., but today I've spent my energy reserves.
Sometimes (rarely) I use SU 2022, for compatibility with other plugins or for printing options that have disappeared starting with SU 2023.
Anyway, a bug (any bug.!!) in LOTT affects the SU engine, so you have the choice to use it or throw it away completely.

Please, if it is possible, to make the Layport names longer (with much more characters).!
Thank you.!

This one doesn't work - everything seems to be fine, but at a later time, when I open the model (second or third time...), I'm able to delete all the guides, although Fredo Guides report them (and show them) as being locked.
Tried and tested in SU 2022, 2023, and 2024.!

This extension is one and only, but until it is fixed I'm using EA Locked Guide, which works pretty well, but is infinitely simpler than Fredo Guides.

@fredo6 This one has at least one bug - doesn't allow Lord of the Toolbars to add/remove icons, neither in the toolbars and neither in palettes.!

Edit: For SU 2023.!

Guys, this tool is exceptional, yet (instead of complaining about it), you should give yourself the chance to try at least for 3 weeks a Space Mouse (or 3D Mouse) from 3D Connexion.
No opinion from YouTube (or from yourself) doesn't weigh as much as 3 weeks of day-to-day use of this device - 3 weeks is the minimum your brain needs to understand and use this device, and after that, you will ask yourself how could you ever work without it, and you will never work without it (i have 3 of them).
This device is priceless.!

@Dan-Rathbun There si also another one (maybe with more pleasant UI), component_edit_notify...

@TIG Maybe somebody can do something about it, because right now we have no option to convert construction lines to edges (the reverse it is possible, at least with Curvizard).
I know only one option (DBur Guide Tools) but it can do only one line at a time....

@Sketcheldar Something is wrong with this code...!!??

@Didier-Bur Your text code is wrong (different than the one from your picture) - the one from your picture is correct.!
Thank you anyway - it worked, after an error from SU 2024, I figured it out.!

@TIG Yes, i know that, and I've seen it, but so far nothing bad if you try and manipulate them locally, without changing the geometry (change the properties or colors of the edges and faces, delete them, and sometimes even replace them with TT Component Replacer which also can manipulate groups - you copy in one context the new sample, select all those that you're interested in, and replace, then delete the sample..., this one from TT works across contexts because it doesn't change the geometry and doesn't care about groups and components, it recognizes the bounding boxes and works in those boundaries).

@TIG This ruby has the purpose of recognizing and selecting all the instances of components (even if there are one or more that have been made unique) - it just recognizes all the instances (unique and not unique), that is why it is called "families".

So all the options that appear in its submenu, apply to selected components even if there is at least one that has been made unique.

What I do with the selection... it is up to me after that.

@TIG Right now it has 4 options (Select all; Select Active; Select Active from same Layer; Select all from same Layer), right now I don't see the need for a fifth option.

I don't know if it can be combined in menus/submenus for groups and components, so it better has a different name (e.g. Families Group instances...) in order to eliminate confusion with the one for components.

Thank you.!

@TIG No, Dezmo's code makes everything unique (one single instance for each object), but this is what I asked him for.
Eneroth extension is the only one that does what logically it is supposed to do in this command - no matter the number of nested levels, no matter the type of objects (groups or components - yes, I made a mistake in the previous reply.!), whatever you select, Eneroth unlinks all of them from the rest of the model, but keeps all the relations between them in your selection, with the same structure of nesting.
I mean the same thing that SU does when you select some non-nested components and make them unique, but it is doing the same thing in whatever nested combination of groups and components. All other extensions that pretend to do this... just create a mess in your nested structure, especially if you mix them up (components inside groups...).

I asked to Dezmo for one command that breaks everything (groups) to the last object because I couldn't find anything reliable, I mean the only one reliable is 3DS House extension, but that one requires internet to open its UI, and sometimes I'm in places that for short periods I don't have internet.

I hope Dezmo (or somebody else) can do the Families selection also for groups, because mine works only for components; that one I found it on VBO Facebook page.

@dem Yes, with Eneroth Deep Make Unique, but works only for components, if you want the same thing for groups... there is a much more complicated process...

In SU 2024, in a newly created and empty file, the first line (even formed from multiple edges) is not visible, only the second is visible, or if the file is not empty.
I tested in SU 2023 and 2022, and this bug is only in 2024.

Edit: It is a problem in my custom template that occurs only in SU 2024...!
The problem doesn't exist with the same template in SU 2022 or 2023... I don't understand yet...

The only thing that's missing from this tool is that it doesn't see the grip points from the middle of the edges of the bounding boxes of groups/components, not for the objects you move, and not for the objects you move to.
Maybe the API doesn't provide this information, but that would be absurd because those grip points are available in the SU native move tool, and you can cycle through all of them by repeatedly pressing the ALT key.

Re: [[Plugin] Fredo Layport - v1.1a - 23 May 24](/topic/16370It recognizes dimensions, but not text labels.!

9/plugin-fredo-layport-v1-1a-23-may-24)

This is a great idea, to make grooves I often had to take a few steps, but with this one... in just one step.
But, Sketchup sometimes freezes with this one installed, but when not, it certainly messes with Fredo's Lord of the Toolbars all the time... so I had to disable it (rename the extension, because it does not stay disabled.

P.S.: All DBUR extensions I've tried (and use) so far do not run from a folder other than the native one (except Align_2D_3D and Align_2D).
For this thing I use TT Extension Sources, which is in fact the only true Extension Manager that Sketchup has; the native one is just a shame.