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http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=49662
SketchUp VisTools provides a few useful tools to help you in working with layers and entities within your models. The tools are as follows:
- Hide Selected Layers -- Hide all layers that are within your selection.
- Isolate Selected Layers -- Show only layers that are within your selection.
- Hide Selected Entities -- Hide all entities (lines/faces/groups/components) that that are within your selection.
- Isolate Selected Entities -- Show all entities (lines/faces/groups/components) that are within your selection.
- Freeze Selected Groups and Components -- Lock and hide all selected groups and components. In effect, this "freezes" the group/component so you can work on other things without affecting it.
- Unfreeze All -- Unlock and show all groups and components that are frozen (e.g. if they are both hidden and locked).
- Show All -- Show all layers and entities within your model. This will NOT unfreeze groups or components.
The plugin will create a Toolbar with buttons for each tool. It will also create a right-click context menu called "VisTools" which will let you right click on a selection to perform the above actions. Finally, the plugin will add a menu item to the "Plugins" menu.
You can map these tools to short cut keys to make it even faster to use. Just go to "File -> Preferences" and go to Shortcuts. I mapped mine in the follow ways:
- "Isolate Selected Layers" mapped to
Shift I. - "Hide Selected Layers" mapped to
Shift H. - "Isolate Selected Entities" mapped to
I. - "Hide Selected Entities" mapped to
H. - "Freeze Selected Groups and Components" mapped to
Shift F. - "Unfreeze All" mapped to
Alt/Option A. - "Show All Layers and Entities" mapped to
Shift A.
You can of course map them to any keys you want!
Copy the file load_VisTools.rb and the directory IntrepidBear/VisTools/ into your SketchUp plugin directory:
On a Mac it is usually here:
Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp X/SketchUp/plugins/
On Windows it should be here:
C:\Program Files\Google\Google Sketchup X\Plugins\
.. where X is the version of SketchUp you are running.
Released under the MIT License. See the LICENCE file for more information.
This plug-in is written and maintained by Dana Woodman