[image] The red arrow point to the componentInstance’s name. But when I get the compoentDefinition. It’s return nil. How to get the definition of the component? By the way, is there any solution to solve the encoding problem? Thank you.

[image] jason190: And, would you tell me how to get the components from the selection? I get the components via ‘each’ function. It’s so cumbersome to get the components from loop. But I didn’t find the sample way thought the API. The API only extends Ruby. Most API and Ruby Core collection c…

Thank you for your reply. the problem has solved. And, would you tell me how to get the components from the selection? I get the components via ‘each’ function. It’s so cumbersome to get the components from loop. But I didn’t find the sample way thought the API.

mod = Sketchup.active_model # Open model sel = mod.selection # Current selection sel.each do |selected_comp| puts selected_comp.definition.name end

ehhh… I just use this method to get the components. Is there any better way here? For in my using way, there are should be only one component in selection. However, It can be used anyway.

wooow, that’s greet! Actually, I’m only be familiar with C#. Thank you all, guys! Many many thanks!

Also see this old topic … Selecting Specific Entity, Group or Component (By Name) - #12 by DanRathbun

[image] jason190: By the way, is there any solution to solve the encoding problem? Per Release notes for SketchUp API v 2020.2 … Fixed Unicode characters not displaying correctly in the Ruby Console. So make sure that you have installed the latest update of v2020 or upgrade to v2021.

How to get the definition of the component?

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