[Plugin] Selection Toys (2.2.2) —19 March 2013

[Dan Rathbun]

Invalid character errors like this, that happen for line 1, occur because Ruby cannot understand the encoding of the source file.

[TIG]

All of this suggests that it is not a valid Ruby file ?
Oddly encoded?
Opened in a word-processor??
Incorrectly unzipped???
Who knows...

[thomthom]

Looks like corrupted download, or corrupted unzipping. What's the content ofvthe .rb file when you open it in a text editor - a plain text editor like Notepad?

I've never ever seen such error.

[irwanwr]

i've downloaded both again twice. TTLib and Selection Toys.
either 7zip or winrar seems to work just fine.
i'll try to unzip them with 7zip then.

[Edit]
Problem solved. Old corrupted files sometimes need to be erased first
and not just overwrite it. Both works fine now. Checked with Notepad++.
Thank you all.

[Pilou]

Does exist a selection of segments of an explosed curve 1/x ? (Maybe I have missed that in the list)
So
for 1/2 ( 1,3,5,7...
for 1/3 (1,4,7,10...
for 1/4 (1,5,9,13...
etc...

[thomthom]

what..?

[Pilou]

Like this for select all segments of a curve by 1 / x
Here x = 2 or x = 3

[thomthom]

I was thinking of something like that for V3 - and QuadFace Tools.

[Pilou]

Cool!

[ivreich]

Select edges by length(?)

Hi thomthom,

Any chance we could have a feature to select edges by length? For examples, select edges <X, =X, >X, where X is the length of a pre-selected edge?

I'm doing some work involving mapping of components to edges, and this could be a pretty handy tool to have.

Cheers

Joel

[thomthom]

Right now I'm very busy with Vertex Tools - getting it ready to ship.

[cotty]

Select edges by length(?)

Hi thomthom,

Any chance we could have a feature to select edges by length? For examples, select edges <X, =X, >X, where X is the length of a pre-selected edge?

I'm doing some work involving mapping of components to edges, and this could be a pretty handy tool to have.

Cheers

Joel

Maybe this can help you: viewtopic.php?t=16915#p134106 ?

[Ecuadorian]

Just wanted to thank Thomthom again. I'm currently working on a project that has a lot of junk in a certain layer, and found no other way to do the job but to use his plugin.

Thanks!

[Dollmaker]

Select loop does not work for me on sketchup 8.. it only select edges but there is no loop selected on faces..

[thomthom]

Select loop does not work for me on sketchup 8.. it only select edges but there is no loop selected on faces..

Screenshots? Sample model?

[fullyfledgeded]

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

[thomthom]

I have the latest Trimble version, used every one f them. Always worked.

Can you be more specific to "when you context click nothing happens"?
What are you clicking on?
Surely there is a menu appearing? Missing menu items?
Any errors? (If you keep the Ruby Console open?)

[fullyfledgeded]

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

[thomthom]

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.

Works fine on my computer. Might be some other plugin interfering. Try with just Selection Toys installed.

[TIG]

If you click on just her 'gray' shirt then only one face will be selected, there are no edges in the selection to be considered for coplanar-ness...
BUT if you double-click the shirt-face so that its edges also select... then some of those edges can be considered 'coplanar', because they border two same-plane-faces which also have the same 'gray' material...

[MadPax]

Do the conditions of dependency mean that one cannot have both Quad Tools and the Selection Toys installed simultaneously? (Because of the different TT-Lib versions involved?)

Cheers,
Peter

[thomthom]

If you click on just her 'gray' shirt then only one face will be selected, there are no edges in the selection to be considered for coplanar-ness...
BUT if you double-click the shirt-face so that its edges also select... then some of those edges can be considered 'coplanar', because they border two same-plane-faces which also have the same 'gray' material...

Select Coplanar in Selection Toys doesn't consider edges at all. Selecting one face is enough. See my previous reply - it's working on my machine and every other I've tried. This appear to be a local issue - which is why I suggested trying with just Selection Toys installed.

[thomthom]

Do the conditions of dependency mean that one cannot have both Quad Tools and the Selection Toys installed simultaneously? (Because of the different TT-Lib versions involved?)

Cheers,
Peter

No - none of my plugins conflict with each other. TT_Lib is different from TT_Lib2 and they do not overlap.

I was thinking there could be some other plugins you have installed - not one of mine - that might be conflicting.

[fullyfledgeded]

thanks, is there any way to find out what the interfering plugins are?

[thomthom]

No easy way. Remove some, see if it works.

What I would do:
1. Make a backup of the Plugins folder. I'd rename it to something like "PluginsOrg"
2. Copy just Selection Toys and TT_Lib over - see if it works then. If it does then we have confirmed there is a conflict.
3. Copy half the plugin into the new plugins folder. Does it still work? Then copy the half of your remaining plugins. Continue until the issue appear.
4. When the issue appear, start working backwards. Take the batch of plugins you added last and remove half of them until it works. Like that you can quickly narrow down to the offending plugin.

Did any of that make sense?

[cotty]

Kind of bubble sort

[caronte01]

ThomThom.

Great plugin, thanks a lot!

[caronte01]

Hi ThomThom.

Thanks for your plugins!

I´m having issues with additional plugin folders and your plugin. I get the following message:

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I tried putting ttlib2 in plugins, and in my additional plugin folder. Same error.

Santiago

Edit:

TTcleanup and TTsolidinspector work ok.

[thomthom]

Selection Toys require TT_Lib version 1. It makes no use of version 2. Follow the link of requirements.

[caronte01]

My bad... didn't read the list of requirements at first. But, now it is asking for win32api. In installed it in the main plugin folder, and no go.... Does this plugin work on macos?

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Thanks

Santiago