Is there an extension that would allow me to select the face of a deeply nested object, then select the face of another object which is deeply nested in another group─ basically selecting a bunch of faces ignoring the nesting? Context: Select specific faces on these objects to measure the total ar…

It is really a simple concept. Here is an example for you … [Example] A simple FaceSniffer tool extension

[image] LinearGraphs: … select the face of a deeply nested object, then select the face of another object which is deeply nested in another group─ basically selecting a bunch of faces ignoring the nesting? The example only selects 1 face at a time, but you can use it as a starting point and m…

What a boss… This is the coolest software community ever! Thanks! [image] DanRathbun: For fun homework, … I can barely make ruby do math for me, but I will attempt to look at what you are saying before looking at the cheat codes! Actually… Yea I need them cheat codes… I can barely tell ru…

D: I have no idea what I am doing, but whatever it is clearly doesn’t work. I tried to copy and paste things from here, and edit the info as suggested in the comments. It loaded but it doesn’t do anything: FaceSniffer_main.rbz (1.9 KB) FaceSniffer_main.zip (1.9 KB) Failure.

If you look for an area calculaton, you might be interested in FredoTools::ReporLabelArea , which is part of FredoTool s. You can pick faces at any level and get the sum of areas [image] ReportLabelArea - Labelling with Areas This Sketchup Plugin, part of FredoTools, allows browsing the …

[image] LinearGraphs: I can barely make ruby do math for me, … I can barely tell ruby to put “Chocolate Rain” in the console. Oh. Sorry I thought you were further along given some of the questions you had asked me privately. I’ll add another post to the Example thread with the changes, but y…

[image] DanRathbun: Sorry I thought you were further along given some of the questions you had asked me privately. Yea, no… I’m a Ruby super noob. I just wanted to know where to start learning and practicing and you answered my questions beautifully! Along with this one. [image] Fredo6: I…

Hello Braden, I had (have?) these things muddled up as well so I made a couple of clips that may be helpful. When you download an .rbz and install using the installation manager a file will be placed in your Plugins folder and a new subfolder with another file will also be created. So, in the case…

[image] LinearGraphs: Select specific faces on these objects to measure the total area of those selected faces using entity info. Oh … I forgot about this, but Entity Info lies to you about face areas if you are not within the same context and the context that the face is in has been scaled.…

@DanRathbun - Thank you for posting the examples. They are very helpful and appreciated. Braden, Here I selected onLButtonUp code (which I have open in Notepad++), deleted it, and then pasted Dan’s code in its place. I highlighted and did show/hide “-/+” just to show a handy way to check what has …

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It is really a simple concept. Here is an example for you …

[Example] A simple FaceSniffer tool extension

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