Learning to make a plugin/extension

[DanRathbun]

@Sparda

the specific target is “Chris”, it’s a dynamic model/entity. I wanted to remove it every time I started a new project using the program.

It is actually a dynamic component instance, meaning that it is a Ruby object of the Sketchup::ComponentInstance class.

We have already posted a topic thread with code examples of finding an instance or group by name. It is in the Ruby API sub-category.

Selecting Specific Entity, Group or Component (By Name)

See: Sketchup::DefinitionList.[] Because you are asking about filtering and searching, (and the API docs do not actually say so,…) I’ll assume you do not know that most SketchUp API collection classes mix in the Ruby Enumerable library. So say that wasn’t exactly the definition name that you wanted to find, but one of a certain definition’s instances. Using the definition list subscript method, you get the definition reference, then use one of the Enumerable search methods to find the exact …