Could anyone help me with my highlight detect tool, please. The issue lies with the nested components, which are being drawn in the wrong position. I believe it has something to do with the transformations. Notice that my code contains two ‘draw’ methods where I attempted to fix this. Comment and u…

Thanks for your time @DanRathbun … This was the version that got the closest, but it still has position errors. You can see there is a method called collect_occurences, where I retrieve the instance path to use with Sketchup::InstancePath.new(instance_paths). However, as I mentioned, the positions …

[image] tenquin: I tried looking through @thomthom ’s repositories, but not in depth. If you recall the name of the repo or tool and could share it, it would help me a lot. A web search finds it easily: [image] GitHub - thomthom/draw-boundingbox Contribute to thomthom/draw-…

One problem with your tool class is that it does not set the cursor properly. def onSetCursor UI.set_cursor(633) # SketchUp's Select tool cursor end

[image] tenquin: You can see there is a method called collect_occurences, where I retrieve the instance path to use with Sketchup::InstancePath.new(instance_paths). Again, your code has no comments explaining what your methods do (or try to do.) Comments, comments, comments. Every method shou…

What @DanRathbun wrote about bottom-up building of instance paths is because a nested instance is in the entities collection of a component definition. Except if there is only one instance of that parent definition, it is impossible to know which instance of the parent you are interested in based o…

[image] DanRathbun: Why are you using View#pickray instead of Sketchup::PickHelper I think I remembered why I used View#pickray. I need to detect hidden components as well, and SketchUp’s PickHelper method does not select hidden entities. That’s why I iterated through all entities in the mo…

[image] DanRathbun: In order to build instance paths, you must collect the path nodes as you drill downward. You cannot find an instance path from the leaf back upwards. I tried to do what it said in this post. https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-to-get-components-global-coordination/46983/2

Well, keep at it until you understand what to do then. I myself do not have the time to debug your code, much less code from an old topic post.

If anyone knows how to solve this problem, I’m willing to pay as long as it’s not too expensive. This issue with transformations just doesn’t click for me. Even using Sketchup::InstancePath, nothing worked. And even AI has reached a point where it doesn’t know anymore.

[image] tenquin: If anyone knows how to solve this problem, I’m willing to pay as long as it’s not too expensive Try my code def find_transformation(object) # 'Path must include object to find the right transformation' path = [object] # 'Find all objects in act…

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I tried to do what it said in this post.
https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-to-get-components-global-coordination/46983/2

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