"grouped" geometry does not act as one

hi everyone, trying to model a tower with "cut-out" in its facade i am stuck with a stupid problem. the brought in geometrie (the spheres, managed in one geometrie param) are not accepted as one "grouped/merged/joined" object... only the first selected sphere ist trimmed from my curves...? can anyone please help - what i like to do is cutting all of those spheres out of the extruded line segments at once...

thx in advance

greetings w

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Permalink Reply by Brian Harms on October 18, 2011 at 10:50am

Hey David,

From what I've read it sounds like grouping geometry is a complicated issue, like the example you mentioned above. What I'm wondering is if it is possible to group objects just to bake. Not like the grouping option already available in the bake menu, which groups all baked objects in the same group, but instead you could group 3 sets of curves with a "group object" (for example), bake them, and have them show up in rhino as 3 distinct groups. Maybe this would be less complicated since you aren't trying to continue manipulating the groups? (other than baking I guess).

Do you think this is possible? It would really help when baking hundreds of objects that need to get grouped for 2d optimization (rhinonest for example).

The other thing I'm wondering is if it might be possible to bake with separate colors, in distinct groups. I know its possible to bake colors and other attributes, but the objects still remain ungrouped. And what the current group component (not intended for this I guess) does is bake all objects to one color (user or layer defined). Also the grouping that results in rhino is a bit funky.

Anyways, I know that's a lot to ask for, but thanks for your time

Brian Harms

Permalink Reply by Brian Harms on October 18, 2011 at 11:16am

Would it be possible to call Rhino.AddObjectsToGroup from a custom VB component, and be able to then

bake to those respective layers or something?

thanks,

Brian