Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
Get started with the Help page
Ask Your Question
5

How do you access the current model in the Sketchup ruby console?

asked 2016-01-13 09:12:22 -0500

Julien Marrec's avatar

updated 2016-01-13 09:25:40 -0500

__AmirRoth__'s avatar

I'm trying to do a custom filter for surface and would like to see the resulting ones (to go above and beyond the "filter tool"), and would like to write some lines of code directly in the sketchup ruby console, but I'm unclear on how to select the current model, so I can do stuff like model.getSurfaces.

How can I access the current model in the Sketchup ruby console?

edit retag flag offensive close merge delete
add a comment

1 Answer

Sort by ยป oldest newest most voted
5

answered 2016-01-13 09:30:07 -0500

Julien Marrec's avatar

I think I got it from searching the source code:

In [1]: sketchup_model = Sketchup.active_model
In [2]:model = sketchup_model.model_interface.openstudio_model
In [3]:model.class
Out[3]: OpenStudio::Model::Model
edit flag offensive delete link more

Comments

That's the secret code, be careful you can break things using the Ruby console. Another line that might be useful to you is

Sketchup.active_model.selection[0].drawing_interface.model_object

which gets the OpenStudio ModelObject for the currently selected SketchUp object.

macumber's avatar macumber  ( 2016-01-13 11:21:55 -0500 )edit
add a comment

Your Answer

Please start posting anonymously - your entry will be published after you log in or create a new account.

Add Answer

Careers

Question Tools

1 follower

subscribe to rss feed

Stats

Asked: 2016-01-13 09:12:22 -0500

Seen: 468 times

Last updated: Jan 13 '16

About | Help | Privacy | Legal | Contact
Site design and logo: Copyright © 2015 Big Ladder Software LLC. All rights reserved.
The Unmet Hours and Big Ladder names and logos are trademarks of Big Ladder Software LLC.
User contributions licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 License.
Powered by