…i read a bunch of threads but still got no anser, would be glad if you could give me some assistance… My aim is to select a couple of Components and Groups per Mous then process a ruby code that manipulates only the component_attributes only of the Components. Not selected entities / Components / …

[image] SPB: First i wrote this but the attributes of all components in the model are beeing manipulated I don’t see that happening - you are iterating over sel which is the model selection - which sounds like what is what you want? You only want to modify the selected components, right? […

[image] SPB: entity is_a? should be entity.is_a?

!Thank you 4 your ansers! Sorry, I should have explained my developement intension more precise: My aim is to select an area of my model that contains a bunch of entities in extremely case all possible entities: components, of course, and the other stuff, groups, labels, lines, faces etc. BUT in do…

[image] pcmoor: should be entity.is_a? Uuh thats right. Thank you pcmoor. Now it works for my enclosed working file with this code modell = Sketchup.active_model sel = modell.selection entities = modell.active_entities # entitylist = aentities sel.each {|entity| …

Oh - so what you are trying to do is figuring out which components in the selection is a Dynamic Component? [image] I though you only had selected the objects of interests and I couldn’t figure out why your snippet didn’t work as you expected. The image made it clearer what you intended. model =…

Wow didn’ know the .grep Method, is not containet in the sketchup ruby api http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/selection [image] thomthom: model.selection.grep(Sketchup::ComponentInstance) { |entity| Whith your code you brougtht me to my secend step where I wanted to alter…

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[image] SPB: Wow didn’ know the .grep Method, is not containet in the sketchup ruby apihttp://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/selection That’s because it’s part of Ruby itself. You need to supplement the Ruby documentation: Ruby 2.0 Core: Index of Files, Classes & Methods in R…

Do not insert space character between method names and their parameters lists when surrounded by parenthesis: WRONG: object.method_call (param1,param2,param3) CORRECT: object.method_call(param1,param2,param3) Otherwise these spaces can cause excessive warnings to be output to $stdout. Only gl…

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SPB February 8, 2016, 8:25am 6

Thank you ThomThom,
enclosed my workingfile with the better explained intension1602wf1.skp (1.4 MB)
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