Create new class with attributes of selected object

[michaelk]

I'd like a new contextual click  / menu command to create a new class with the graphic attributes of the selected object.

 

mk

[Pat Stanford]

Please explain more what you are seeing. I am not seeing a change in the class to None when I run the script.

 

And is this the exact script posted above or modified? I don't see a script where the name ends with "...script II" in the thread. If it is a modified version of something please post it so we can see what is going on.

[Peter Vandewalle]

This seems to be linked to this thread: 

There's a plugin that does exactly what you want, I think.

[Andy Broomell]

@trashcan - FYI in 2022 a new command called "Create Class using Object Attributes" was added by default in the right click contextual menu. No extra scripts needed.

 

 

Edited April 29, 2022 by Andy Broomell
Mixed up years...

[michaelk]

@Pat Stanford and I got Sherlocked 🙂 !!!

[Pat Stanford]

About time some of our script got Sherlocked.  They are good ideas!! 😉

[Christiaan]

43 minutes ago, Andy Broomell said:

@trashcan - Not sure if your signature is current, so I'm assuming you're still on VW2022. But just FYI in 2023 a new command called "Create Class using Object Attributes" was added by default in the right click contextual menu. No extra scripts needed.

2023?

[Andy Broomell]

5 minutes ago, Christiaan said:

2023?

 

Nope it's in 2022, sorry. It's been a long week.....

 

 

 

[Pat Stanford]

I think @Andy Broomellis trying to join me in living 15 minutes in the future. 😉🤣 

[trashcan]

@Pat Stanford to clarify: my goal here is the ability to use the quick search function in order to quickly class new objects or groups. Anything that goes into a menu via workspace editor can show up in quick search. So using this script is a work around to achieve some thing else 🤪

 

If I use the script as built (not the VWX packaged version) on a single item, it somehow makes the fill style None for that new class. 

 

If I use the script as built (not the one now packaged with Vectorworks) and I have attribute overrides on objects within a group (i.e., an object in the none class but it's yellow instead of white), then they revert to the attributes of the none class. 

 

If the objects within a group are already classed before the script is run, then it works as I would hope ✅

 

If I use the script as included with Vectorworks, the script doesn't work at all. Nothing happens 😢

 

 

@Peter Vandewalle I couldn't get this to work in VWX 2022. Added it to the plug-in directory and it failed to launch. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Either way though, not sure if this is what I need - but it looks super useful nonetheless ! 

[Lunar Waneshaft]

On 4/29/2022 at 1:40 PM, Pat Stanford said:

About time some of our script got Sherlocked.

 

That's how you know you've made it 😜

[Pat Stanford]

@trashcanI think there are too many scripts floating around. The one you are using is different than the one that @michaelk and I worked on.