Batch adding/deleting/converting attributes

Hi there, again me.

I have a library of about 600 models (skp) which I already use with RpReports for some years now.

After the update to Google Sketchup 8 and Spacedesign I have to get rid of all the old entered attributes and add new ones with the same values to the components or I can convert them from RpReports-attributes to Space Design-attributes?

If I have to add them again, how can I clean out the old ones and add the new ones distributed by an csv-file?

If I can convert them, how would this be done?

Yours,

operatorone

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on August 3, 2012 at 12:56pm

Operatorone,

Could you possibly send me one of those models, and any corresponding attribute files, so that I could write something to automatically import those attributes into SpaceDesign Attributes?

That would really help.

Thanks,

Rich

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Permalink Reply by Tilman Behrend on August 4, 2012 at 1:03am

Sure, I will send you two models. One with the old attributes and one with the new ones.

Thanks,

Til

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on August 7, 2012 at 2:48pm

We posted a new version with a fix for this. We now look for any RpReports attributes on a component or group, if there are no SpaceDesign attributes yet, and convert them to SpaceDesign attributes before we make a report, or edit attributes, etc.

This works for me after I save the settings from your new model as my default settings from your new model.

Then when I start a new model or load an old one that has a component with RpReports attributes in it, I get those attribute values reported in SpaceDesign.

Please see if this works for you.

I did notice tat the attribute names "mat_nr" in the new model from SpaceDesign, was called "mat-nr" (with a hyphen) in the old RpReports component, so I had to change the default attribute to "mat-nr" to get it to work.

Let us know if that would be a problem for you, in case we need to add a workaround for this.

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Permalink Reply by Tilman Behrend on August 18, 2012 at 1:05am

Hi Rich,

thanks for the update. I will download the new version, test it and give you a report of how it worked out.

Cheers,
Tilman

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Permalink Reply by Tilman Behrend on August 18, 2012 at 1:50am

Hi Rich,

very cool. With this method I can use all my old models and don't have to apply all the attributes again.

There might be a new customer who wants to use Space Design with an amount of several hundred components witch attributes are provided from a database. When I used RpReports Al gave me a tool to add the attributes by comparing the components name from the filename and from a CSV file. Is there still something like this available?

Yours,

Til

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on August 18, 2012 at 9:33am

If not, we will write it. Let me take a look.

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on August 18, 2012 at 10:18am

It looks like "Auto Generate Attributes" still works.

See: http://www.renderplus.com/wp2/wk/Auto_Generate_Attributes.php

You place each of the new components in a model, then extract a CSV file of your attributes from the components, edit it in excel, reload it, and then resave the components, with the attributes, into a "local collection". It looks like SketchUp will save each .SKP file with the proper attributes.

When you are ready try it with a few (3 or 4) and see if it works for you.

"Auto Generate Attributes" is available as a drop-down on the SketchUp Plugins menu