I had Thomthom's selection toys. The plugin is missing now. Also, it appears others are missing, which one, I don't know now, will have check it out. There are gaps in my toolbar.

So, if you install 2021, does that make some plugins disappear?

I have been busy and hadn't fired up Sketchup for some time. It's retirement time.

@pbacot said:

@ken said:

@box said:

Now the question is there a plugin to find identical groups sharing the same space?

https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=29462

You don't have to turn them into components, but it will highlight the identical groups after selecting one and choosing the command in the contextual menu.

Thank you. Will look into using this.

Right now, I am trying my best to modify how I use the move/copy. I guess I just need to get with the times and lean new moves. However, I well need to continually check my work as not to add to much BS groups.

@box said:

Part of the update was that they changed the way this works, they made it a toggle. So now you have to tap and tap again to turn it off.
You'll notice differences with the eraser tool and some others as well.
It isn't the most popular 'improvement' in the history of sketchup.

Thanks for the update.

Now, I have to check and recheck to make sure I haven't added dual groups. I guess I should thank the Sketchup personal for the increased work.

Now the question is there a plugin to find identical groups sharing the same space?

I have a group. I press the "M" key to move, I select a corner, press the ctrl key to copy. Move the new copy. And stop moving. Now, if I go back to the copy I just made, press the "M" to move, I see that I have two copies not one. I don't remember the "M" key and the ctrl key behaving this way.

Anyway, before I caught what was going on, I had a lot of two copies, one on top of the other.

Thanks, TIG

So, I wanted "lock by layer" moved up in the menu structure. Change name from lockbylayer.rb to A lockbylayer.rb. Also changed the code "file loaded" to the new name.

Moved up and still works.

This was not obvious just by looking at the plugins in the plugin directory.

Anyway, got it fixed. Would really like this plugin to be a toolbar plugin.

And thanks TIG.

How are the plugins that appear in the extension menu arranged? I am wondering if I rename the plugins will they show up higher in the extension menu.

What I would really like is folders like they have in the tag menu. I find the folder very helpful.

So, folders in the extension menu would make grouping like type plugins in groups.

Thank Box for the heads up. I will try that. Note, that "Lock by Layer" does not show up when you do a search for extensions. Now that is "curious".

Again thanks

It would be nice to be able to lock all the object in a layer just by selection lock this layer.

Or am I missing something. Is there a plugin that will do that?

Well TIG thanks for the reply.

I guess I will need to be more careful. One thing I did notice after that disaster, I tried to find all the places that I had added the Guides_Proxies and I guess I didn't find all the guides. Because when I exported to a 3d DWG, I saw areas that had the text, "Guide to Proxies" in my 3d CAD file. They were scattered all about the model. In the SketchUp file, I tried everything I could to locate these "guides" but couldn't locate or make visible these wondering "guides"

Anyway, thanks to reply and help.

Now just use your "plugin master" weight/charm to make the SketchUp team to make TAGs undeletable.

The above was humor. Not good humor, however, meant in jest.

I use TIG Guides_Proxies a lot. Besides the plugin to make guidelines to Guides_Proxies, I will draw alignment lines and lock the line and then tag it with "Guides_Proxies".

However, the other day on a large project with many Guides_Proxies, I accidentally erase the tag. That means all the Guides_Proxies went to the untagged position. And that meant, I had to search out every Guide_Proxies. A lot of work.

So I was wondering, is there a way to make a "tag" non-deletable.

Or am I missing something in the program?

Thanks in advance

Ken

thanks, TIG.

Hell, I don't know what "drafts" are.

Help.

Thanks in advance.

I am sorry Dave. I was just thinking about the times, Red and Blue states. It was an off the wall remark and doesn't belong in this forum.

Not winning with you. Interesting choice of colors for now. Red and Blue. Is there some hidden message?

Dave, I have each program in their separate folder. However, I did notice that the colors in the Extension Manager 2021 are red and they are blue in 2020 and 2019.

Going to update them manually.

Thanks for the help.

Here is the list.

I have Sketchup 2019, 2020, and 2021 installed on my laptop. I used the Extension Manager on version 2021 to update 3 plugins that were indicated they needed to be updated. Went well, no problems.

I then went to 2020 to update these plugins. The Extension Manager did not indicate that there were plugins that needed to be updated.

Went to 2019, the same thing. No plugins needed to be updated.

Question. Has the Extension Manager updated all the needed updated plugins in all three versions of Sketchup or has the Extension Manager just update itself, and indicates all the plugins are updated in all three versions of Sketchup, and in reality, the plugins are only updated in the 2021 version?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Fredo6

Just a note. I had checked and updated all of your plugins on my 2021 SKP last Friday. The plugin, LibFredo6 was 11.4f and your check plugins Fredo Tools indicated that 11.4f was the correct version. This morning, I find there is an update, 11.5a. So I opened Ver 2021, used your Fredo Tools and still 11.4f was indicated as the correct version.

I installed version 11.5a. Now Fredo Tools was still 11.4f. Shut down ver 2021, reopened, and went to Fredo Tools. Now it indicated that I had ver 11.5a.

Everything else seems to be working. Just informing you what happened. Could be it takes some time to get all the info correct.

Mike

Here is my take. Not a very promising outlook.

Here is a competing view of the Georgia voting fraud. Watch the video it shows their take on what was happening. Also, during the night of the election, newscasts were surprised by the number and amount of changes in the vote totals.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/focus-georgia-election-fraud-president-trump-won-state-landslide-current-results-totally-fraudulent-video/

As you watch this remember, it has been alleged, that the voting machine error rate had been changed to 68%.

“In an “Antrim Michigan Forensics Report” dated Dec. 13, the personnel of Allied Security Operations Group — a team of defense, military, Secret Service and intelligence professionals, led in part by an academic from Harvard with expertise in business and technology — found this: the Dominion Voting System in place in Antrim County, Michigan, for the 2020 election hardly passed the smell test. It recorded a 68% error rate. Oops.” Note: there is no government agency involved in this, I wonder why.

Why is this important?

Here’s how: “The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors. The electronic ballots are then transferred for adjudication. The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail. This leads to voter or election fraud,” the report stated.

And it is my personal belief, they changed the presidential votes on these ballots but not the congressional or Senate choices, because of the high volume they needed to change. This I believe is why there is a disparity between the presidential total and the congressional and Senate totals.

In the last couple of years, the behavior of the DOJ, FBI, and congress has led me and others to have no faith in any of our government institutions. This distrust is so bad, that some have told me if they watched from across the street a bank robbery, which is a federal crime, and the FBI came over to ask what they have seen, their response would be, “nothing”. A country will not survive if there is no trust.

In all honesty, we have gone crazy. I watched Seattle and Portland being burned down. The people doing this loudly proclaim, “burn it down, they have insurance”. Yes, they did, but the new cost is way more and is driving business from the downtown area. How could any city official stand back and watch business be robbed and burned down? Beyond me.

Now, the crux of the matter. It is hard to find the truth in print or TV. The TV’s are cluttered with opinion shows, that appear very similar to the newscast.

Do, I believe the previously summited video or this video. Hell, I can’t tell who is telling the truth. I do believe that there is a lot of unknowns, and a good honest investigation should be taken. Maybe, let Joe Bidden be president, but still do the investigation, even if it takes a couple of years, and send everyone that has participated in voting fraud to jail for a very long time. Lower profile participants will turn when they are facing jail time.

All I see in the future is chaos and I am hoping it does not come to an armed conflict. However, that may just be hope. To other personnel from other countries, just watch and learn.

TIG_Split_to_plane

Will cut the selection, group or component, to a plane defined from 3 points. Each new selection will be either a group if the original was a group, or a new component if the original was a component.

If you split a group, you get two groups.

If you split a component, you get the original component and a new component. Showing the cut off piece.

Oops, didn't see you wanted this to be used on non-solides.

Never mind.