Referencing objects by strings

Probably a very simple question:

I use the string module as input for the Brep module to reference objects. I called 5 objects "1" and put in "1" in the string module. Only one object gets referenced, and when I copy this object, another one becomes referenced. I want all 5 objects with the name "1" to be referenced. How do I do it?

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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on September 28, 2010 at 10:36am

I think it will only return the first one that it finds with that name and because you copy and paste, the new one is the first one.

You could concatenate the Name with a series of numbers if you take the time to name each one.

Permalink Reply by Simon Kallioinen on September 29, 2010 at 2:14am

Hi and thanks for your reply.
What I want to do, is to be able to reference multiple objects in an easy and fast way. If I can reference multiple objects by using one string and one name, then the handling of referenced objects would be SO much easier and faster. To name them all different and put in different strings is too complicated to be a good solution for my problem.

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on September 29, 2010 at 2:40am

If you are using GH v0.6 the you could use Giulio's BakeAttributes Component to name all of you objects First and then Select them in your definition. See example below

It will not work in v0.7

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Permalink Reply by Simon Kallioinen on September 29, 2010 at 5:20am

To name them with BakeAttributes I need to reference them first...

The thing is, this is a general question about workflow. I thought the whole point of being able to reference objects by their name was that you no longer would need to right click on the module and choose "reference multiple objects" and then select all the objects you want to reference. This method needs to be redone everytime you create a new object that you want to include in GH. What I want is a way to automatically reference a bunch of rhino objects, by placing them in a particular layer or by naming them in a particular way. There must be a way... Please help.

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on September 29, 2010 at 5:27am

I meant for this as a tool to make naming them easier pre-workflow. Presumably you will have to manually select the objects to name them in the first place.

Permalink Reply by Simon Kallioinen on September 29, 2010 at 5:43am

Yes, that's true. It's a clever way of naming them, and it's probably very useful.

Permalink Reply by Jes Tonsgaard on December 11, 2010 at 6:33am