Hi, all of a sudden, SU's default material has been replaced with one of my glowing materials, therefore all translucent materials have the back face glowing through(SU default).
The problem doesn't show so much in SU, its when its rendered in Shaderlight. I tried Deleting this glowing material, which SU replaced with a black material.
Even more of a problem, the default material in SU's material browser shows up as normal.
How do i restore SU'S default material to default?
Thanks
Cheers TIG, can't believe i missed that, all this time. That little bit of info is worth its weight in gold, should save lots of time now.
Thanks for the codes too, they should provide some good avenues for me to explore ruby coding.
yes I understand that using the in model-tab of the component-browser, will place additional instances, however the component I want, is nested within another component, in the currently open file. Therefore it does not appear in the model-tab of the component browser, so i cant get at it. So what should i do?
As you said importing from the file menu doesn't solve the problem, so I thought making a component library, within the component browser to import from might solve the problem as shown in this youtube video(not mine):
cheers
Hi TIG, sorry I should have been more clear. I always import components, from my component library, in the component browser. I save them here, too.
To explore the issue further, I tried importing a component(definition name:spectacles), to a file which already had this definition nested within a component(definition name:spectacles display). It was appended to spectacles#1.
To remedy this, I tried repeating the process, but reloaded the spectacles nested within the spectacles display (via right clicking them in the outliner), to ensure they were exactly the same component. They appended again 
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As a last attempt, I repeating this process, but saved the spectacles display component, after reloading the nested spectacles, in order to prompt SU to update, before I imported the spectacles, which this time were not appended 
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So I guess it's about being diligent & making sure SU is updated, unless there's anything i'm missing???
Secondly, I'm new to coding, would you put:
model.definitions.load('fullpathtoskpname.skp')
in place of "defn" in your second snippet?
Cheers
Hi,
A lot of my component instances, rename themselves, ultimately creating new component definitions, increasing file size & leaving me unable update all instances at once by editing one instance.
For example, I have components saved in the component library, with a component definition name of my choice e.g "spectacles" which I have imported into my model:
Then when I import this file again, the component definition changes(#1,#2 etc gets added):
Does anyone have a solution? or any way round this problem which would allow me to rename all instances as one definition quickly? I am starting to learn ruby code to try & solve the issue & have the following code(thanks to TIG and Abdullah) to locate all families of a particular component, which can then be then be replaced with a desired definition:
n="match";m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;s.clear;m.definitions.each{|d|s.add d.instances if d.name=~/#{n}/}
but it is still a slow process & i am wasting valuable time doing so, so any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Thanks TIG and Abdullah for sorting out a that code 
I was frantically, searching the forum for a solution that i missed this code.
Alot of my component instances, have annoyingly renamed, with #1, #2 etc added to them, ultimately creating new component definitions, increasing file size 
now that i can select multiple instances at once, I can replace them with one component definition.
However I still don't why this is happening, other people have this problem too:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=22523
might start a new post to see if there is any more info
cheers
Hi, Is there any way of selecting component families even if they are in groups or nested within other components? The only way i can get it to work with this plugin is if i explode until all desired components are no longer grouped or component nested.
Hi, great simple little tool works perfectly, except the material being replaced, did not inherit the same scale of the texture. Any ideas?
thanks
thanks, is there any way to find out what the interfering plugins are?
Hi
In trimble SU 8 I double click Susan (SU's default component) to enter it for editing. Click her grey shirt so only that is selected. right click it, then click select & then hit "coplanar faces". nothing changes.
the exact same process in google SU 8 works how it should.
ruby console displays nothing in both cases
there are no missing menu items, it appears the same in both su versions.
thanks
Hi, great tool. Works on my google su 8 but not my trimble version. Any thoughts? the plugins are installed, but when you context click nothing happens
