Duplicating referenced Geometry

Hi,

Just a general Question regarding referenced geometry,

If for example I am trying to loft multiple curves together, and I want to make a copy of the original referenced geometry so that now I have two grasshopper scripts and two input geometries without re-referencing all the curves again is that possible? (within the same file)

Have around 495 input curves that I would really like not to re-input. so was looking for a plugin, definition or tool that could allow me to simply create a copy or duplicate inputs in both Rhino and GH environments?

Thanks

Tom

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Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on April 13, 2015 at 6:01am

Hello Tom,

i am not sure i have understood what you are after.

lets say that you have a curve container component where you have referenced your curves. you can copy paste it and choose internalize to the new one. now the components has all the initial values and you dont need to re reference them.

cheers

alex

Permalink Reply by Tom on April 13, 2015 at 6:25am

Hi Alex,

Would I then be able to edit the position and geometry of the second copied GH geometry?

I'm basically trying to create multiple lofted geometry's that I could edit, but as there are lot of inputs I just want to save some time rather than copy paste and re-input.

so if I was to copy paste the components within GH then bake them can they be automatically re-referenced as the new input for that component?

Thanks

Tom

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on April 13, 2015 at 6:30am

No once you internalize the curves you can no longer edit them in rhino viewport, unless you bake them and re reference manually.

i am not aware of a way to auto reference recently baked curves. i believe this needs a custom component in vb or c#.

cheers

alex

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