Using it to the max! 
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Is there any suggestions you want me to add or fix for the next verison? 
It runs rather smoothly for me, I am happy. There are two things that come to mind, though.
- Search across folders. I remember you saying that this would slow everything down, but maybe I have a compromise for you. I have some folders that are in the left menu that have subfolders in them. (see screenshot). Maybe it would be possible to search across the subfolders.
- Maybe you could include an option to show materials as flat thumbs instead of these useless cubes. For a while I was like āwhat is everybody talking about, itās not that badā. I was wrong. Itās bad. It would be easier to have no icon and just look for the description than the cubes. I cannot make out materials any more to a point that I just want to get rid of everything PBR-ish just to get the flat preview back. So an option for that would be cool. Which brings me to point three:
- Option to get bulk rid of PBR Properties. Some of the Sketchup-Teams choices are - well - weird. Why would HATCH-PATTERNS have metallic properties? It doesnāt make sense at all. The whole āSketchup-can-render-thingā is a nice solution for a problem I do not have and PBRs bloat file size which always is a big concern for me. Hence an option to just get rid of all PBR properties for selected materials would be cool.
As you can see - except for 1) these are āwould be niceā type features. The extension works like a charm as it is! I think that adoption of 5D+ Library would increase a lot if you include 2) though, as the current iteration of the material browser is very flawed at best.
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Oh - and this one: An option āoverwrite allā. Otherwise you need to click this as over and over again.
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Thatās new for me. I noted not only this but other suggestions and see what I can do for the next version.
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Since you are awake anyway - another question 
- I have a large materials Library (not materials as in ācolorsā but as in ābasic construction partsā. Itās basically a neatly named and defined āsampleā of everything I need to built something with. I have now also begun tagging the material samples to make more sense to 5D+Plus.
If I open this library and take copy something from it to another file the tagging information are being transferred to the new file.
If I use the 5D+ Library save out all the parts as individual Sketchup-Files the tagging information is lost.
Is there anything you can do about this? I donāt want to tag the lines and surfaces and I donāt want to create a sub-group inside the component because it would create other type of problems.
Itās not a big issue, but something I ran into.
5D+ Library is using the save out feature to save the object to a file. The save out is a native feature. It will not save the tag as well as the material assign for that object. Because once you try to open that files are saved you only see the child groups, not the parent. The parent itself is automatically created when you insert the file into another file.
I understand - and found a solution. I can use your Name to Tag feature! Itās a bit of work to set up that list but it should work like a charmā¦
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Letās try 5D+ Snippet for this 
Tell Chat GPT: āI want to tag the selected Group/componentā by a tag has name from definition name of group/component".
My example wasnāt quite correct - the conversion is a bit different as your tag names for materials include the m_ at the beginning.
For example:
Component āSW_DBLG_WPC_GR #1ā will be tagged ām_Decksbelag WPC Grauā (the component name has something to do with our physical warehouse).
I will create that list - thatās what 5D+ AutoTag is for anyway. And this way my team has the same list and it works for everybody.
Ok - I thought I had this figured out but I am running into a problem.
I set up a bunch of rules for different component names and then used āAuto assign tag by nameā.
I think the problem is, that the Tags themselves donāt exist yet so the rules canāt be applied. Am I correct im my assumption? Would it be possible to just create a missing tag if a component name triggers a rule but the tag doesnāt exist yet?
Itās designed to auto create a new tag if it doesnāt exist. Please check again.
I figured it out. I ānamedā all my components using the Definition name (the first field in the dialog that pops open when you press āGā on a group to create a component). The AutoTag Feature doesnāt check that field but looks at āInstance-Nameā instead. Since all my components have an empty āinstance nameā field āAuto assign tag by nameā didnāt do anything for me.
Now I have to think about what to with this. Put the same information in yet another field?
- Definition-Name: SW_PRFL_ALUM_KSTN_090_090_4 #1 (because a component needs a unique nameā¦)
- Instance-Name: SW_PRFL_ALUM_KSTN_090_090_4 (can be all the same)
- Tag name: m_Alu KSTN 090x090x4
Slight setbackā¦
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Yeah - it might actually make sense. This way the definition name would be like āPart #1,2,3ā for a given Assembly and the Instance-Name would describe the material - which would auto-assign to the tag. Is this the way you set it up as well?
- Definition-Name: Assembly_03 Part#1 (because a component needs a unique nameā¦)
- Instance-Name: SW_PRFL_ALUM_KSTN_090_090_4 (can be all the same for the same type of component)
- Tag name: m_Alu KSTN 090x090x4
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Yeah, it based on Instance name.
You can use this snippet to automatically set name for Instance name from Definition name. 
model = Sketchup.active_model
selection = model.selection
# Filter only component instances
components = selection.grep(Sketchup::ComponentInstance)
if components.empty?
UI.messagebox("Please select at least one component.")
return
end
prompts = ["Overwrite existing names?"]
defaults = ["Yes"]
list = ["Yes|No"]
title = "Rename Instances"
choice = UI.inputbox(prompts, defaults, list, title)
return unless choice
overwrite = (choice[0] == "Yes")
model.start_operation("Rename Instances", true)
updated = 0
components.each do |inst|
def_name = inst.definition.name
next if !overwrite && !inst.name.to_s.strip.empty?
inst.name = def_name
updated += 1
end
model.commit_operation
UI.messagebox("Renamed #{updated} instance#{updated == 1 ? '' : 's'}.")
You can setup in AutoTag Mapping: ām_Alu KSTN 090x090x4ā <= āALUM_KSTN_090_090_4ā
Worked!
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Thatās what I was trying - and itās working now as wellā¦ 
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Hi @Cyentruk - I had two ideas for 5D+ Library that would enhance our workflow and might be useful to others as well.
- Give us a setting to toggle āstampā and āno-stampā behavior. For us 5D+ Librarys insertion action is really sluggish. I mean like āwait 10 seconds to see thingsā type sluggish. Thatās not a big issue but what makes it worse is that the inserting item action keeps on going, even though I am already done. This is like Sketchups ācopy-stampā behavior which they tried to make a standard a few versions back and had to reverse on that because it was disliked so much. I understand the point of it but it should be a preference. I want to insert something and be done with it. A simple toggle in the settings would make everybody happy.
- I love the āReplace Selectedā action. Could you add another action āReplace Selected (All Instances)ā? It would make it super convenient if you have a model and need to replace all red chairs against blue chairs or something like that. I am sure there are methods for first selecting all blue chairs - but why not make it easy.
Fingers crossed that you like these suggestionsā¦ 
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@Cyentruk ā¦ Thx for pointing me to your plugin pageā¦ great stuff! Iām exploring the Library tool and notice that currently (7/6/25) the link to 3dsupro is broken. Canāt even navigate to it directly in a browserā¦ looks like you hard coded this url into the extensionā¦ you may already be aware of thisā¦ but might want to take a look. 
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