@siim11s said:

@brooklynarch said:

Hello,

This is my favorite plug-in for organizing my model.
But I am unable to get it to work in SU 2015 (Mac OS X Yosemite).

I have tried loading and unloading it several times. The layers panel open for only a split second and then disappears...I've never had this problem before and don't know when it started. only the 'layer state' panel stays open...

Can you tell me what I need to do to get this plugin to work properly?
Is it compatible with my system?
Do I need to delete older files?

Thank you!

Hi,

Same problem - it worked before and I don't remember updating anything, might have installed a plugin or two though.
SU 2015, OS X Yosemite.

Uninstalled "CutList" plugin (inactivate did not help). LP now works again.

@brooklynarch said:

Hello,

This is my favorite plug-in for organizing my model.
But I am unable to get it to work in SU 2015 (Mac OS X Yosemite).

I have tried loading and unloading it several times. The layers panel open for only a split second and then disappears...I've never had this problem before and don't know when it started. only the 'layer state' panel stays open...

Can you tell me what I need to do to get this plugin to work properly?
Is it compatible with my system?
Do I need to delete older files?

Thank you!

Hi,

Same problem - it worked before and I don't remember updating anything, might have installed a plugin or two though.
SU 2015, OS X Yosemite.

Sketchup:
Better layer management as in this Layer Panel plugin by jiminy-billy-bob. Does exactly what is needed but has bugs and is not currently being worked on.

Layout:
Components
Plugins + ruby API
Improved autotext: Create formulas re-using data from other autotext tags.
Layers as for sketchup above.

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

Sorry guys, but I won't have time to work on Layers Panel until a long time. All my spare time is now dedicated to my new plugin (which I plan to sell, hence the priority)

I'm sure you have considered this but why don't you make this plugin commercial? I'd be happy to pay 5-10€ for this if it works properly. It seems to be pretty popular already..

It's entirely up to you what you want to work on though and I hope the SU team will pick up on your work soon.

@fri25 said:

Bug in the program

Sometimes the layer order gets totally confused and can not be restored.
This happens when elements contained various layers are imported and these are not available or disabled in the current layer directory.

The whole work of the layer structure is destroyed...

I ran into the same problem yesterday. Layer groups disappeared from both source and destination model after import and the layer order was changed.

Fortunately I had kept my layer-naming convention and could manually reorder and regroup layers. Strangely, after I had fixed the layers in the source model, the destination model was automatically updated.

OSX 10.10
SU v15.0.9349

@alexpnz said:

2. On the panel Layers Panel toggle visibility is not clicking on the "eye" and slightly to the left of the separator (assuming off-panel renders) and Layer switching States of the active set is not pressing on the circle and also slightly to the left of the separator.

Same problem. Seems the icon is not clickable.

Also +1 on the sort layers alphabetically feature request.

Thanks for a great plugin!

@sdmitch said:

Here is some code for you to test. It seems to do what I understand you want.

Yes.. almost. Not quite the way I imagined it though.
It also seems to add "#1" at the end of some(?!) of the changed names.

I'd prefer it wasn't dependent on the " - " in the name, rather that the first 3 characters are numbers. And I'd like to be able to sort through the whole list of numbered components in the model.. looking for consistency errors and correct them if needed. But I'll try to understand it better. Thanks!

@slbaumgartner said:

The core issue here is to realize that there is a difference between the ordering in which items are stored in a Ruby container as they are added (which may be seemingly random - e.g. in a hash - or may be based on some optimization of the internal structure) vs the order in which they are presented by some UI or processed by code. If the order matters for the latter purposes, you should create an Array using #to_a and then sort the Array using whatever ordering rule you like.

Yes, that's where I first got stuck. I have a few Ideas I can try now, thanks for the help so far.

@slbaumgartner said:

I'd bet that the numeric prefix has external ordering significance (like number 053 has some relation to 054) so the existing higher numbered parts have to be pushed up when a new one is inserted into the list.

Exactly : )

@tt_su said:

The order is in no guarantied order. It doesn't change when definitions are modified.

Ok, thanks.

@tt_su said:

I'm afraid it's a bit unclear to me.
Are you trying to rename all definitions?

Not exactly, I'm trying to insert a new component in the middle of a name-sorted list, while keeping the numbering sequence.

@tt_su said:

What is the expected result?

List of components where the first 3 characters of the component name determine the component's position in the list.

@tt_su said:

Why do you need to rename all the other components to place a new component?

I want to place a component in position 52 in the list, so I name it "052 - ...", but there already is a component which name starts with "052" so I need all existing component names to increase their 'index' by 1.

Further:

I'm working on a wooden house frame and I need a way to get the components exported in a certain order. I have numbered the 'parts' in order of 'appearance'.

• e.g. the part you need first would be "001 - Bottom plate part - 45x95x6000". Where the "001" is the 'index' for the part and the rest is a description of it.

So, If I at some point realise that I need to insert another piece of timber, I would create a new component. But I need to place it in a certain position in the components list (which is sorted by name). If part number 052 would be a wall stud of a certain dimension and I needed to insert a new stud of another dimension next to it I want the part to be number 051 or 053 - doesn't really matter which as long as they are close.

If the component count at that point is 200, I'd need to increase the 'index' number for all components 053-200 by one.

Is this any clearer?

Hi,

I'm fairly new to ruby so I could be missing something trivial..

Say I have 200 or so components named as follows:

"001 - short description"
"002 - ..."
"003 - ..."
..and so on.

Now when I need to make a new component and place it as number "052" for example - I'd need to rename all the components that follow.

I get the component definitions by:

definitions = Sketchup.active_model.definitions
component_list = []
for d in definitions
next if d.image?
next if d.group?
component_list << d
end
(thanks ThomThom: http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2012/02/definitions-and-instances-in-sketchup/)

I then have a component_list ordered as "last modified", right?

I can get a list with the names of the components and make the necessary changes but then I have a names_list array with no way to put the names "back" to the components in the model without changing the order in which they appear.

I hope you understand what I'm trying to do

Maybe there is a better way, perhaps using hashes to store the component definition with the name?

Anyway, thanks for any advice.

/s