[Plugin] Unhide ALL (Edges) - Inside Groups / Components ???

[Howard Leslie]

Does anybody know of a ruby that will mine down into all groups / components and then Unhide ALL - (especially edges) ???
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See attached file - a VERY small sample from a huge file.
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As you can see, all the edges are hidden.
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All geometry is inside groups / components - some groups / components are nested.
(although not in this small sample).
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What I would like to do is Unhide ALL edges - without having to edit each group / component manually one by one.
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Any help much appreciated
Regards
Howard L'

[tomasz]

Hello Howard,
I am glad I am the first who has come with rescue (there are plenty of experienced Ruby masters over here ).
Here is my small script. I have tested it and it works fine. It un-hides all drawing elements (not only edges but also faces, groups and components).

Cheers
Tomasz

[Howard Leslie]

Tomasz,
Thank you so much for producing this script.
For the task I am currently working on, it works really well.
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May I suggest a refinement to make this script much more useful (V 1.1) ?

If a user has some geometry selected eg just a few groups and components - then the script will only "unhide all" from the users selection. (ie "unhides all" from the groups / components selected).
Otherwise, if no selection is made (default mode) - then the script "unhides all" from the whole model (as now).
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Thanks once again for producing this wonderful script
Regards
Howard Leslie

[Gaieus]

I'm sure Tomasz could do that - the kerky exporter works the same way if geometry is selected...

[tbd]

here ya go unhide from groups/components on selection or all if no selection

[tomasz]

Thanks TBD,
'Case' looks much nicer

Tomasz

[JClements]

Try using the last posted script on this file.

[Howard Leslie]

Tomasz / TBD,
I've noticed some strange results with the last script that was posted (TBD)
Or maybe its just my misunderstanding of how GROUPS work ???
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See attached file

All Geometry are Groups - NO Components.
See what happens when 1 group is copied several times eg the blue cube.
When selected and the script is run - ALL instances of that group are edited. (edges are unhidden)
I might expect this to happen with Components but not Groups.

Is it possible to get the script to run on selected geometry only ???
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Regards
Howard L'

[azuby]

I've written an extension, unfortunately my web provider had a problem and my website has old content (I'll fix this).

azuby

[tbd]

azuby: unfortunately it suffers from the same problem - somehow duplicated groups have the same entities as in a component

[TIG]

I wrote this 'group_miner' script some time ago. It mines down through into any groups and makes sure that all groups are unique... Put it into your Plugins folder and it auto-runs at start up to ensure that the model is initially 'fixed'. You can invoke it in any script (remember to 'require' it if needed BUT it's a short bit of code to copy/paste inside any script anyway)... OR just type 'group_miner(Sketchup.active_model.entities)' to repeat the process 'live'...

[tbd]

and here is the fix (thanks TIG) - works with both .skp from JClements & Howard L' (for the cube in JClements .skp you need to triple click to select all connected as it is not a group)

[JClements]

Thank you TBD and TIG.

This will be useful.

[Howard Leslie]

Tomasz / TBD / TIG,
Thanks to all of you for working on this script.
Now works really well.
Regards
Howard L'

[Jim]

Is the fix posted in this thread still needed for the latest SketchUp versions?

[TIG]

Is the fix posted in this thread still needed for the latest SketchUp versions?

Currently the failure to ensure that copies of a group become single instances of a definition is not fixed - group.make_unique still reports as being deprecated, but it is needed - it is possible to have several copies made of a group definition where they act like component instances, and so changing one instance changes the lot - it's what Components are supposed to do BUT that's NOT what groups are supposed to do... When you copy a group it should automatically become a single instance of its definition - there should never be the equivalent of group.definition.instances[1]. It doesn't currently work properly - either manually or scripted...

[Pout]

Is the fix posted in this thread still needed for the latest SketchUp versions?

i just did the test, and yes it is still needed