Select Face's Inner Loop Extension/Plugin Search

Looking for SketchUp native function/extension that would allow me to do below:

I have been looking for a tool that allows me to do this for a while now.

I want to select the highlighted rectangle or sometimes more complicated shapes just the ones on same Z axes that are connected. This example is selecting the outline of the void to create a cove with either Followme Tool or Profile Builder 2

So I can produce this eventually:

There are some that does similar, such as:

Select Curve - I live on this to select and clean up edges, but it doesnā€™t work for this purpose
Extrapolate Selected Edge - I just canā€™t get this to work, and seeing a dialogue every single time isnā€™t ideal
s4u-Select Tools - There are bunch of functions to select, but none does this selection ONLY

But I have not come across one that just does the job.
Shed me some light if you know any.
*Yes, it is only 3 more clicks in this example, but often it is much more complicated than that, and tricky-er when the model is more complex

Possibly Iā€™m misunderstanding, but I would just use de-select for these types of selectionā€¦

john

Thanks John,

I donā€™t know why i didnā€™t think of de-select with double click.

But I think it was just a bad example as well, here is a better one.
Itā€™s usually a bit more complicated.

there is TTā€™s Selection Toys, have you tried it?
john

Yes, I have it installed and use it all the time. But no option that I can find that does what I intend to do.

you know the drill, add a simplified skpā€¦

john

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Darn, you got me. I should have known better.

01.skp (97.9 KB)

The easiest way I can think of, is to fill the void by drawing one edge, double-click selection of the filled faced and undo to revert to where face was not created. This is such an odd way of selectingā€¦

I may have just answered my own question there. But can you think of any other tools or tricks?

well done, that looks pretty straight forwardā€¦

I often find that making a gif of any issue, helps finding a solutionā€¦

It makes you evaluate the problem in isolationā€¦

I have a ā€˜make gifā€™ button in SU, so I can quickly record some ideas on a copy in a new modelā€¦

john

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I want that button too! an extension?

Or is it a hotkey configuration?

itā€™s a small part of a developers extension, but the code is fairly simple for a macā€¦

it just launches ā€˜licecapā€™ so you could use a hotkeyā€¦

iā€™ve tried LICEcap, but it doesnā€™t work so well with the full screen mode on MAC. :confused:

you use SU in fullscreen mode?

I have been. And I do not like it. Im planning on the jump to Windows.

Only my laptop is MAC, work and home in Windows.

I didnā€™t realise fullscreen was ā€˜nativeā€™ in SU, the way that it functions make it impractical for modelingā€¦
besides, I like seeing the menubarā€¦

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I guess im minimalistic at all times. Im even using ā€œauto-hideā€ menu bar setting on El Capitan.

Also, I donā€™t have much of toolbar icons shown. I am big on shortkeys anyways. I rarely click on buttons.

I find it weird that the right-click Select sub-menu has no Edge Loop choice for a single edge.

A face has a Bounding Edges choice, ā€¦ but would be beneficial to have Inner Loops and Outer Loops choices.

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Dales (now free) [SketchUV][1] plugin has a very handy path select toolā€¦


[1]: Extension | SketchUp Extension Warehouse

Thanks! i will give that a try