Hi, SU Team! There is one old, painful, and unsolved issue in the SU. When I rename (one or more times) my components during the construction process and then run “Save as local collection” command, sometimes (but not every time!!!) some components are saved with their old names. In case I have a n…

Here’s a simple script that does what you want. Put the RB file into your Plugins folder and restart SketchUp… It is not an extension and it’s not signed… Usage: There are 2 tools… a. Select one instance of a definition in your model to see the entry, then get… Context-menu > Save_As… Definitio…

In the Ruby API we can write entries to menus, context-menus and tool’s toolbars - unfortunately there’s no access to the Components dialog itself…

It works great. Thanks a lot for the help! [Prove]

perhaps a few adjustments needed for saving unused components? :slight_smile:

[image] MikeWayzovski: perhaps a few adjustments needed for saving unused components? For this guy, please https://forums.sketchup.com/t/identifying-unused-components/136182

Perhaps you could purge unused definitions first, then save-to-collection, then do an undo to undo purge if you want to keep the unused ones ? The saving-out does nothing to the model itself…

No, I don’t have that problem. I’m happy with the algorithm I’m using because it fully meets my needs.

Thanks, Mike, for linking me to this thread. As I’m just now learning how to save collections, I’m having all sorts of problems including over half the components not saving, and seeing name changes. Following…

Interesting conversation and thanks for the plugin TIG. This is exactly what I thought was a bug and reported in the early engagement site.

@LEGOsketcher I read your correspondence with @MikeTadros from the SketchUp Team. I still consider this to be a bug, especially created by the developers. As an ordinary user, I do not need to know the nuances of programming or database architecture, that is not my business, but be able to get a lo…

Component name mismatching during component save

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kamambers September 14, 2020, 1:31pm 28

For this guy, please https://forums.sketchup.com/t/identifying-unused-components/136182

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