EleFront

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Description

EleFront is an add-on that allows the user to bake geometry, annotations and blocks with user defined attributes and or Rhino attributes. Rhino objects can be referenced and filtered dynamically, to be used in Grasshopper.

Full description and download from:

http://www.food4rhino.com/app/elefront

The discussion group below is the best place for asking questions and discussing the usage of the add-on.

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Material not baked with Elefront 3.0

by Armin Seltz

Mar 27, 2017

Hi,

I really love Elefront and have been using it a lot. Up until now I am using Elefront Lite 1.1.0.

One thing I do ALL the time is use the bake component to enable a preview layer with the baked geometry that automatically updates by attaching a toggle to the Bake input. Even with the custom preview in GH you cant use all the view modes like Ghosted and Rendered, so I use this.

What I noticed after switching to Elefront 3.0 is that it doesn't bake the material any longer, or maybe its expecting a different format now (it has those square brackets in front of the Material port that I have never seen).

Before (Elefront 1.1.0):

After (Elefront 3.0):

It actually appears that it is creating the material, but just not applying it to the geometry in Rhino.

Am I missing something?

Thanks, Armin.

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    Ramon van der Heijden

    Hi Armin.

    Thanks for bringing this to my attention. It seems like a bug.
    We actually never use materials when baking, so that's why we haven't noticed this bug yet.

    I will try to find a moment to fix it.
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    Mar 28, 2017