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Select Similar

Selects every item that shares the property values you tick with the first selected item, in the whole model, its own model or the selection.

Tab and panelModel > Select

KindButton

Live whenSomething is selected

Status

Untested Never executed inside Navisworks. Passed the headless checks only.

Related asks to confirm

No quote is on record yet. These threads look related, but a person still has to open and read them.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/navisworks-api-forum/select-same-properties/m-p/3761914

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/Select_Similar.pushbutton/bundle.yaml
Model.tab/Select.panel/Select_Similar.pushbutton/icon.dark.png
Model.tab/Select.panel/Select_Similar.pushbutton/icon.png
Model.tab/Select.panel/Select_Similar.pushbutton/icon.small.dark.png
Model.tab/Select.panel/Select_Similar.pushbutton/icon.small.png
Model.tab/Select.panel/Select_Similar.pushbutton/script.py

Install

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

You need pyNavis 1.3.0 or later.

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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.

Model.tab/Select.panel/Select_Similar.pushbutton/script.py View on GitHub

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""Selects every item that shares the ticked property values with the first selected item."""
from pynavis import script, toast

from namo import items, selecttools, variants

cfg = script.get_config(selecttools.SIMILAR_DEFAULTS)
selected = items.selected()

if not selected:
    toast.info('Nothing selected', 'Select one item, then run Select Similar again.')
else:
    element = items.object_of(selected[0])
    name = element.DisplayName or element.ClassDisplayName or 'the first selected item'
    rows = selecttools.similar_rows(variants.all_of(element))
    if not rows:
        toast.info('Nothing to match', '%s has no property a search can compare.' % name)
    else:
        checked = selecttools.default_checked(rows, cfg.get('checked'))
        choice = selecttools.similar_dialog(rows, checked, cfg.get('scope'),
                                            cfg.get('show_identity'), name)
        if choice is not None:
            script.save_config({'checked': choice['keys'], 'scope': choice['scope'],
                                'show_identity': choice['show_identity']})
            chosen = [r for r in rows if r['key'] in choice['keys']]
            found, dropped = selecttools.run_similar(element, chosen, choice['scope'])
            if found.Count:
                items.select(found)
            kept = [r for r in chosen if r not in dropped]
            level, message, detail = selecttools.similar_summary(found.Count, kept, choice['scope'],
                                                                 dropped)
            toast.show(level, message, detail)

Library modules this tool uses

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

namo.itemsModel items: walking, collecting, identifying, measuring and showing them.
namo.selecttoolsSelect panel logic: Select Similar, Filter Selection, Invert, Select by File, Save as Set.
namo.variantsProperty values as Python values, the way pynavis.props reads them, minus one trap.

bundle.yaml

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

Model.tab/Select.panel/Select_Similar.pushbutton/bundle.yaml View on GitHub

title: Select\nSimilar
tooltip: Selects every item that shares the property values you tick with the first selected item, in the whole model, its own model or the selection.
context: selection

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