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@Gorgious , relative to this commit, why not just turn the type on, and select it?
On import I think we should have the 'Types' collection turned on, and all the child types turned off. And when bim.select_type is selected it turns on the type and makes it active.
thoughts?
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Hey thanks for following on that ;) I've thought about this today as a matter of fact ! After using it a bit it would make more sense that if the user presses the button, the addon does all the legwork to select it. Unfortunately a hidden object can't be selected in Blender, so we have to make a compromise here. There is also the problem that there are a number of ways an object cannot be selected. Any and all of these :
In a perfect world I think it would be nice to be able to use the BlenderBIM addon without an Outliner editor open, at least for simple inspection tasks.
Although I would use the monitor icon which is the "permanent" hide setting. I think we don't want users to unintenionally un-hide types with ALT+H if they don't want to. I would also deactivate the "Types" collection render flag so they don't appear in renders.
One question though, does the object type stay un-hidden when the user selects another element ? If they select another type, when the other type gets shown, does it hide the other one ? It would make sense to me, however it should only happen in the case where there is only 1 type object un-hidden, otherwise it may hide things that the user doesn't want to.
I would leave it up to the user to 'hide' it manually.
There might be times someone might want to view multiple types at one time.
defer to you. :)