One structure owns the controls at a time

Click the building or one addition — from the model, a chip or its panel card — and only that structure's handles draw.

What it is

A selection model over structures (main building, or one lean-to/porch) plus a chip switcher above the viewport. With nothing selected there are no shell tabs at all; clicking the grass puts them down again.

Also called: structure switcher · select the lean-to · declutter controls

See it
One structure owns the controls at a time
Prepared for
Marlin Hoover
1140 Ridge Line Rd · Fair Play
Shell package$31,577
Concrete & site$9,167
Doors & windows$6,112
Trim & finish$4,074
Total
$50,930
Signature
Building with a porch and a lean-to: chip switcher (Building | Lean-to 1 | Porch 1) at top centre, only the porch's six tabs drawn. Sample data — no customer information appears here.
How it works
  1. 1sceneHandleRegistry() applies the declutter rule in one auditable place.
  2. 2An opening selection outranks everything: that opening's edge tabs (and the distribute joints for a 3+ row) are the only handles drawn.
  3. 3Selecting a structure draws only its shell tabs — the building's four, or one addition's six.
  4. 4Walk mode drops the shell tabs entirely (you are standing inside them) while opening tabs stay.
  5. 5The chip switcher only appears when there are additions to switch between.
Why we built it

With a lean-to and a porch attached, the idle screen showed fourteen sets of controls at once, all competing with the building the builder was trying to look at. Selecting a structure scopes the handles and panels to that structure alone, so the main building, each addition and each opening get the screen in turn. Nothing was taken away to achieve it.

The problem
  • Every structure showing every handle simultaneously makes all of them unusable.
Sound familiar?
What you get
Handle count stays small no matter how many additions.
The controls you can see are the controls for the thing you picked.

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