I am from Czech Republic. You may know me from thea render forums as Theodor. I will sent you more info to your email, so we don|t spam this thread. T.

Got it to work. Thanks, TIG! @tig said: You can use some simple 'one-liners' in the Ruby Console... I'll explain the parts, then assemble them into a single line you can copy/paste into the Ruby Console, editing the component name 'cn'... You need to manually make the layer and assign the selected component instances to it... That process could also be included if you like... cn="^Wall" the component-definition's name pattern. note that "Wall" selects just wall, "^Wall" selects all starting with Wall, "^[Ww]all" includes those starting with upper and lower-case W, "^Wall[0-9]" limits it to those named Wall + a number 0 to 9 [and anything following]. To end a pattern use a final $ - so "^Wall[0-9]$" would NOT then match "Wall01" ! Edit this string to suit your needs... m=Sketchup.active_model ss=m.selection ss.clear as=m.active_entities cs=as.grep(Sketchup::ComponentInstance).find_all{|e|e.definition.name=~/#{cn}/} ss.add(cs) And in just one line: cn="^Wall";m=Sketchup.active_model;ss=m.selection;ss.clear;as=m.active_entities;cs=as.grep(Sketchup;;ComponentInstance).find_all{|e|e.definition.name=~/#{cn}/};ss.add(cs)

@kyeric said: Hello! I have been reflecting lately (as I have a lot since turning 40) on the idea of architecture as design and implementation. I have been using SketchUp for about 13(!) years in some form or fashion and in my growth as a practicing architect and designer I have always fallen back on the trusty, intuitive tools that SketchUp has to offer. My nature is to continue to investigate many a new whiz-bang technology that preaches BIM capability, but I continually find those types of methods too cumbersome and...well, let's face it: not fun. As I have circled back around again to a more concise SketchUp and LayOut lifestyle thanks heavily in part to Nick Sonder, Mike Donley and Mike Brightman (you all rock!) I am wanting to ask not what would be the next great feature release of SketchUp and LayOut, but what experience does this community have with moving away from the traditional CAD plans/elevations/sections/details and into a more inclusive 3D representation of a design? I still think this is such an interesting subject as plans and sections tend to rely heavily on being diagrammatic and representative, where elevations land more on becoming pictorial. Utilizing some of the methods of Nick and Mike in SketchUp and LayOut, I have found that making all of the 3D information becomes bogged back down in translation back into a more standard graphic standard format. I am hoping to hear some of this community's experience dealing with breaking away form an architect's conception of graphic standards to how an owner or contractor relate directly to visual communication in 3D? How do you all make a new standard? No wrong answers here, just appreciation of not only this wonderful software, but the users that make it sing. Cheers! interesting sir, i find su/lo good,fast,exactly fun and doing great for my job. been 6 years riding with skp/lo to reach the project completion. i see it not braking away from architecture, rather engineering graphics standard while it is adopted and acceptable by the concerned trades and professions, owner and contractors alike, with some blocking issues, i have to create and export another raw 2d plans exerpted from the 3d model for the allied proffesion use, more exactly ,structural designer, plumbing, elec engr. so on.to do their thing using their beloved 2d software. cumbersome sir, yes it is but it can do the job. but when u master the workflow. it gets better and better, and faster. interoperation is the big thing to conquer in there. the call for the software developer integrate some of it capability to work together, and make it faster, i make new standards by pursuing this creative endeavor and sharing and encouraging others the expirience and benifits of this new technical instruments of society development.

HI pbacot No charge to give it a run and I have done projects of considerable scope with Tcad and it really works for me. Of course there is a learning curve but it is pretty easy to get up to speed on and well worth the try IMO. dtr

Hi Skalp, I downloaded your plugin last week and I really love it. The only draw back I can see is that the hatches are bitmaps in Layout. This results in poor quality print outs and large file sizes when exporting PDFs. Any chance that you'll introduce vector hatches in future, or is that a limitation of Layout that is beyond your control? I've tried using the skalp export to DXF command, but it seems to only include the section cut. It would be great if there were an option to include the objects beyond the section plane as well. Great plugin, thanks a lot!

Have you checked at FormFonts...??