I can’t remove the IFC tag placeholders from VA.
I have tried Fennec and some custom solution, nothing works in this case (others were successfully removed).
Hi @Piotr the Placeholders is something that Grasshopper uses when it doesn’t find the plugin that provides that component. It works this way with any other component of a third-party plugin that is not installed or loaded. We can’t help it.
You can just ensure to load VisualARQ in your Rhino session, before you open that Grasshopper file, and then you will see the IFC tag component. Then you can delete it if you don’t want to see the placeholder when you open that file in a Rhino session where VisualARQ is not installed or loaded.
I know what placeholders are for. I am asking how to remove it without installing VA?
You can’t, as you can’t remove the placeholders of other plugins without installing them.
@Piotr @fsalla
There is a method.
- Ctrl+a to select all components, this should select the placeholders as well.
- Then Ctrl-drag to unselect everything, this does not un-select the placeholders.
- Then DEL the stll selected placeholders.
Edit:
Or this is some special-special case, where this does not work.
I’ve heard about this method but these guys aren’t being selected with ctrl+A.
I can copy-paste everything to the new file knowing they won’t follow, but I want to dig the case first, to learn something (should this happen again) and, possibly, offer solution to other users.
Seriously? I have removed other stuff (also from VA) using fennec component. Only this particular item will stick stubbornly.
@Toni_Osterlund @Piotr I wasn’t aware that there are methods or third-party tools to remove the placeholders, but the behavior of VisualARQ’s placeholders should not be different than those from other plug-ins.
Can you come up with some force-method to remove them? At the end of the day it is your creation 
This is a very niché of a niché issue, and with a simple solution like this - maybe just accept the loss of certain knowledge. 
We can’t help it. It’s Grasshopper who puts those placeholders.
FYI I’ve found this: Delete PlaceHolder Component - #5 by anon39580149
Tried this before. Works on others except this one. There is something about it that it will not respond to any placeholder eraser. I thought you should know what makes it special.
OK, I removed it.
At first, i managed to get them somehow out of group, then, using Toni’s method, I erased them for good.