sketchUcation

Set of commands to manipulate selections. Filter out particular geometry based on edge, faces, groups, components etc...

An extensive suite of tools that allows you to customize your toobar as you wish using the UI Settings using Tools > Selection Toys > UI Settings

This is to avoid the possibility of the dreaded toolbar mayhem that might occur when you add a new toolbar. So if you never want to use this plugin's toolbar you don't have to worry about it causing problems.

Compatible

• Sketchup 6+ (Older versions untested)
• Windows* and Mac

Requires

• Windows requires Internet Explorer 7 or newer for the UI Manager window to function.

Known Issues:
Ghost selections appear when selecting all groups/instances and some of them are nested inside other groups or components.(Fixed in Sketchup 7.1.)
Convert Groups to Components doesn't transfer glued_to and attributes.

Tools

Select Edge Loops

Components:

Select Instances - Selects all the instances of the selected component.

Select Active Components - Selects all the instances in the current work space. Excludes everything that's nested inside other components etc.

Select Active from same Layer - Selects all the instances in the current work space of the selected component which is on the same layer.

Select All from same Layer - Selects all the instances of the selected component which is on the same layer.

Dynamic Components:

Same methods as for Components, except that it allows you to select by DC family type. Commands located under 'DC Instances' submenu.

Groups

When you make a copy of a group without modifying it SketchUp keeps a track of each these group items that's similar. You can see the Entity Info give you a number of how many copies there are. (Commands are located under the submenu 'Copies')

Same selection methods as for Components.

Convert into Components - Converts all the group copies into components. Transformation and materials will be transferred. Useful for when you have a model where groups where used instead of components.

Edges

Select Quad-face Loop - Select one edge and the connected faces and lines going in either direction from that edge will be selected as long as the faces have four edges. More or less than four edges and the selecting stops at that point.

Faces

• Select Connected Perpendicular Faces
• Select Connected Parallel Faces
• Select Connected Coplanar Faces
• Connected Faces by Angle
• Connected Faces by Area
• Select Perpendicular Faces
• Select Faces in Same Direction
• Select Parallel Faces
• Select Opposite Face
• Select Faces by Area

Edges/Faces

• Select Connected By Material
• Select Connected By Back Material
• Select Connected By Layer

Entities

All on Selected Layers - Select all the entities in the model that are on the same layer as the selected entities.

Active on Selected Layers - Select all the entities in the active context that are on the same layer as the selected entities.

Selection Modifier

Selection Submenu - Currently there's two kinds of modifiers. One filters out the type of entity you want. The other deselects the entity you specify.

You can filter/deselect these kind of entities:

• Edges
• Faces
• Groups
• Components
• Guides
• Construction Points
• Text
• Images
• Section Planes
• Curves
• Arcs
• Circles
• Polygons
• nGons
• 3D Polylines
• Linear Dimension
• Radial Dimension
• Front Default Material
• Back Default Material
• Hidden, Soft & Smooth Edges

Other filtering options are filtering entities with default materials, by their layers.

Tip: Assign keyboard shortcuts for these commands for quick selection modification.
For instance; Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+9 for the filters and Shift+1 to Shift+9 for the deselectors. Very handy.

Version 2.3.5 - Future Proofing