Baking groups with attributes

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Permalink Reply by FRiou on June 18, 2015 at 6:09am

Hello Mac,

I know that the bake component from the FabTools plug-in allows you to bake objects with names, colors and layers and also to group objects by tree branch.

I hope it can help you!

Permalink Reply by Stephen Maher on June 18, 2015 at 6:37am

Hi Mac,

You may also be interested in Andrew Heumann's Human plugin. I've found it incredibly useful for this application as well as others (3D Text, Layer management, etc.).

Best,

/SPM

Permalink Reply by Mac Gros on June 18, 2015 at 7:20am

Thanks for your anwsers, I tried with both but still no good result.

With the fabTool, i have the same as bake attributes

And with Human, I just dont understand the inputs. I even tried W/ block instances but still an input problem ^^

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• 9. GroupColorBake.gh, 21 KB

Permalink Reply by Stephen Maher on June 23, 2015 at 2:10pm

Mac,

I apologize for the delayed reply; it looks like I forgot to hit the "Follow" option.

Attached is a quick fix. I simplified your last script using different geometry (points) to help explain how Human works. I noticed one kink, which is why you'll find two similar definitions on the canvas. More about this below.

The first definition bakes geometry from a two-branched tree. I found that because each branch uses the same indices (0-9) for its items the [CreateAttributes] component would group them together when baked to Rhino even though they were assigned different layers a colors.

To troubleshoot this I tried baking geometry from one split branch where each list used different indices. This seemed to work.

I hope the explanation is clear. If not I'm happy to explain further with images, etc.

Best,

/SPM

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• 9.GroupColorBake_SPM.gh, 18 KB