Assign a name to items.

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on September 5, 2013 at 7:28am

Grasshopper data items do not support custom properties such as layer, name, colour, dash-pattern, group and so on. 

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by Sylvain Usai on September 5, 2013 at 8:44am

Elefront plugin have an advance bake component and an "attribute" component that allows you to bake objects with a specific name on a specific layer (it respects rhino's "layer::sublayer" syntax).

Here is a python script that groups all the objects with the same name :

edit : Grasshopper do handle user object? (with geometry cache, yesterday discovery in the "big file" thread); is there a way to expand that to the name of the object?

Attachments:

• GroupObjectsByName_sus.py, 1 KB

Permalink Reply by Yann Guinchan on September 6, 2013 at 1:45am

thank Sylvain and Frontinc.

Yann

Permalink Reply by Sylvain Usai on September 6, 2013 at 2:32am

edit : Grasshopper do handle user object? (with geometry cache, yesterday discovery in the "big file" thread); is there a way to expand that to the name of the object?

I meant "userText" ... As for the grouping, it can be done in python afterward but it takes time to process (maybe my code is not well optimised too)