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Color Picked

Colors the picked items from light to strong blue along the pick order. One undo step.

Status

The public ask

No public source is on record for this tool.

Events it listens to

None. It runs only when you click it.

Files

Paths are relative to the Playground.extension folder.

• Model.tab/Select.panel/Pick_Order_Actions.pulldown/Color_Picked.pushbutton/bundle.yaml
• Model.tab/Select.panel/Pick_Order_Actions.pulldown/Color_Picked.pushbutton/icon.dark.png
• Model.tab/Select.panel/Pick_Order_Actions.pulldown/Color_Picked.pushbutton/icon.png
• Model.tab/Select.panel/Pick_Order_Actions.pulldown/Color_Picked.pushbutton/icon.small.dark.png
• Model.tab/Select.panel/Pick_Order_Actions.pulldown/Color_Picked.pushbutton/icon.small.png
• Model.tab/Select.panel/Pick_Order_Actions.pulldown/Color_Picked.pushbutton/script.py

Install

1. Only this tool. In Navisworks, click pyNavis > Playground, search for Color Picked, tick it and click Install.
2. The whole extension. Download Playground.extension.zip, unzip it, put the Playground.extension folder in %APPDATA%\pyNavis\extensions\, and click pyNavis > Reload. Color Picked is on the Model tab, Select panel.

You need pyNavis 1.3.0 or later.

Source

The tool's own files, word for word as published in pynavis/Playground. Paths are relative to the Playground.extension folder.

script.py

The script that runs on a click.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""Colors the picked items from light to strong blue along the pick order."""
from pynavis import toast

from namo import sel_pickorder

picks = sel_pickorder.load()
if not picks:
    toast.info('No picked items', 'Turn on Pick Order and click items in order first.')
else:
    found, missing = sel_pickorder.resolve()
    if not found:
        toast.warning('None of the picked items are in the model',
                      'They may have been removed or re-exported. Clear Picked starts a new list.')
    else:
        sel_pickorder.color(found)
        detail = 'Light blue is the first pick, strong blue the last. Ctrl+Z undoes it.'
        if missing:
            detail += ' %d picked items are no longer in the model.' % missing
        toast.success('Colored %d %s in pick order' % (len(found), 'item' if len(found) == 1 else 'items'),
                      detail)

Library modules this tool uses

From the shared namo library, which installs with every tool. Each name opens the module on GitHub.

• namo.sel_pickorderPick Order: an ordered list of items the user clicks, and what to do with it.

bundle.yaml

The bundle contract: the keys pyNavis reads for this tool.

title: Color Picked
tooltip: Colors the picked items from light to strong blue along the pick order. One undo step.
context: doc