Bake objects to mutliple individual Groups?

Is there a method for baking objects into multiple individual Rhino Groups?

Background:

In my specific case, I am using grasshopper to diagrammatically model a forest.

The trees are comprised of a cone primitive for a trunk and a lofted surface emulating the canopy.
(See "trees.jpg" for example).
In the final, there are thousands of trees so it is management heavy.

When I bake the whole forest, it would ideal if it could be setup such that each "tree" came out as an individual rhino Group containing the canopy and the trunk. This was I could easily manipulate them as single "tree" objects (with all the clutter it will be unwieldy to select the trunk and canopy separately).

With the large volume of objects, Grouping them post-bake would be monotonous.

I haven't found this functionality anywhere in the grasshopper, so if it's not something out of the box, any leads on how to accomplish through VB?

Thx!

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 7, 2010 at 2:57am

If you bake individual components (or parameters) via the Component menu, you get a Bake dialog, which has a Grouping option. It may not exactly do what you need, but at least you'll be able to group some of the objects while baking.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by john johanson on April 11, 2010 at 10:43am

I see the option you are talking about, which bakes the entire modules "contents" into one group.

What I'm essentially looking for is something that would let you customize how the bake command groups, so you could group dynamically.
For example, if you had a tree structure with 5 major branches, you could run a bake which would bake to five groups, each with the contents of its respective branch.

I could see this improving the work flow between grasshopper and rhino when dealing with large fields of complex shapes, like the forest in my case.
Consider this a feature request :)

Thanks for the response and your work building the software and this community!

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 11, 2010 at 1:01pm

I see. There's a rather large pile of Bake wishes and I'm not quite sure yet how to go about it.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Chuck on December 13, 2010 at 11:55am

Heyho, Replying in an old thread because i kind of miss that option. It would be tremendously helpful to a lot of people i guess. I oftentimes deal with a single output of a few hundred shapes which reside in different tree nodes. Having an option to group the nodes individually would be awesome.

Thanx for reading :P

Cheers

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