Orphanize layers

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Orphanize layers

Post by dfriasb » Sun May 10, 2020 9:26 pm

Hello all,

I was looking for the way to move away all child layers from its parent layer. I didn't find it, so I made a small script than can do that. You only have to type on the script the name of the parent layer.

I hope you can find it useful.
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Re: Orphanize layers

Post by ryancousins » Fri Feb 19, 2021 1:04 am

I'd like to take the plunge into scripting for QCAD, mostly just to learn how it all works. I'm not much of a programmer but I'm hoping I can figure out a few basics. I thought I'd start with running this script to make sure I'm at least able to execute a script in the first place. It tried running this from within the QCAD GUI using the run script tool, and I also put it inside of the scripts folder, but I can't seem to get it to work. What am I missing?

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Re: Orphanize layers

Post by dfriasb » Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:26 am

Did you set the parentLayerName variable in the script?

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var parentLayerName = "a"; // name of parent layer
If parent layer name is not "a", you should change it to correct one.
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Re: Orphanize layers

Post by andrew » Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:09 am

Alternatively, you can click (select) the top child layer, then shift-click the bottom child layer and choose Layer > Delete Layer(s).

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Re: Orphanize layers

Post by ryancousins » Fri Feb 19, 2021 1:44 pm

dfriasb, that makes sense. I was thinking there would be a pop up while inside QCAD where I had to enter or choose the layer.

andrew, I think the script moves the child layers out of child status, rather than just deleting them. Either way I don't have a direct need for the functionality, but I thought it looked like a reasonable script to try to figure out so I can learn some scripting.

Thanks both of you.

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Re: Orphanize layers

Post by dfriasb » Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:50 pm

I was thinking there would be a pop up while inside QCAD where I had to enter or choose the layer.
That's how it should be. But I'm sorry I'm not so good scripting; I just left this script for the mother layer name "a", and I change it directly in the script when needed...
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Re: Orphanize layers

Post by ryancousins » Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:23 pm

Well it's a lot better than I could do! It gives me a good script to look at and try to reverse engineer and try to figure out what each line of code is doing. My programming knowledge is very basic so I kind of understand objects and methods but I haven't spent a lot of time with creating and working with them.

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