Standard Attributes for SpaceDesign

In Space Design how do you export out (csv) or produce a report (pdf) showing ALL the built-in attributes that are displayed in the SketchUp Entity Info dialog box ?

(see example screen dump attached).

That is, how do you show ALL the following Attributes at the same time:

Layer

Name

Definition Name

Volume

Colour (Color)

……………………

I’m having particular trouble showing (Component) Name & Definition Name at the same time.

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on May 9, 2011 at 10:31am

Volume

%v% should already be working for volume. It is a substitution code so that you can use if in other calculations. (There are also metric versions, like %v-m%)

See: Substitutions

Layer

$layer should already work

Instance name

$name returns the Instance name if set, if not the definition name.

I just added:

$iname to always return the instance name, and

$dname to always return the definition name.

There is a setting on the options dialog, "Combine components made unique (# in name)" which determines whether "make unique" components, with a # in the name have the unique part removed.

Material name

I also, added a $material which reports the Material Name

We will add these to a new version on Wednesday.

Let me know if there is anything else that you can think of which we need.

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on May 9, 2011 at 11:03am

Special $ Attributes

These can be used as desired, but cannot be modified

$count - a count of identical components - grouped into a single line.
$comp_desc - the description stored on the component definition.
$layer - the layer of the component.
$name - returns the Instance name if set, if not the definition name. (Up to any # sign.)
$iname - returns the instance name, or blank if not set.
$dname - returns the definition name.
$material - returns the Material Name on the Component Instance or Group