Attribute Inspector ? The newest sketchup extension in the extension warehouse

Aerilius has developed the exclusive sketchup extension called Attribute Inspector. It belongs to a viewer and editor for entity and model attributes.

Attributes in SketchUp means supplementary pieces of information that is preserved with any entity, like groups, components, scenes.

As for instance one can preserve a part number, unit price, weight or notes with an entity and read or adjust that information later. All attributes are contained in SketchUp's report feature.

The purpose of this inspector is to maintain the user interface nominal and fully organized similar to SketchUp's inspector dialogs, it allows you to choose one or more entities and demonstrates their attributes. By editing the text fields, The changes are instantly reflected to the entities.

Application: (Menu) Window ? Attribute Inspector

The dialog presents the attribute dictionaries of the currently selected drawing element. Apply the selection tool of SketchUp to choose another elements.

Press the +, ? buttons on the left side for addition or elimination of an attribute dictionary, and press +, ? on the right side for addition or elimination an attribute.

To choose other types of entities, select the type from the dropdown and perform:

? drawing elements: With SketchUp's selection tool it is possible to choose one or more drawing elements in the model (edges, faces, groups)
? definitions: With SketchUp's selection tool, it is possible to choose components/groups/images
? materials: By applying the materials browser and it is possible to choose a material. Attribute Editor will demonstrate the current material (could be not functional on OS X due to API bug).

? layers: With the layer manager and verify the radio button of the layer.
? scenes: With the scenes manager, it is possible to double-click the scene (to make it the current scene).

This sketchup extension is available in extension warehouse extensions.sketchup.com