Hey All, I’ve been on here rather allot recently. We have multiple assemblies (lets call them groups). Each item in the group has its own individual property such as material type or part number and so on, when renaming the group in the propertied panel is changes the properties name for all of the…

Hi Dan - the basic CSV export has some stuff but I think what you’re after is more detailed or specific info , so I suggest trying SetUserText to set keys and text values that can go out in CSV as well. [image] It may be that some Python script would be useful in assigning the specific items you…

pascal, Is there away to view while working in model space, the groups being generated when setGroupName is being used? I’m looking to see if a list that is updated when I add groups to it. Cheers

Hi Dan - you can use SelGroup to get the group selected. -Pascal

Yeah, I found that. It would be a list, that updates as I add new groups. There are a tone of groups / sub assemblies in what I am working on so I’m trying to see how my main assembly is coming along while I name group by their identifier. Oh well. Cheers

Hi Dan - what would you like to see? What would make clear what you need to see? -Pascal

pascal is going to hate me for this :wink: may i resurrect my old wish of getting that old/abandoned “Object Viewer” plugin working again? :wink:

Have you had a read of this and Jordy’s SelNamePanel?: [image] SelName (and a wish for V6?) Rhino for Windows Is it possible to have the list brought up by SelName permanently displayed? It would make a simple way of picking parts in complex assemblies if it was dockable …

pascal, For all intents and purposes, it would be nice to see a dockable list of all of the groups made that can function a multitude of ways. 1. acts as a selection tool for groups 2. acts as a dockable visible list of the group made 3. as a function, when selecting a group once could right click …

Hi Dan - thanks, got that- https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-37266 -Pascal

Have you looked at Blocks instead of groups?

Assembly / group naming retaining object info

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Have you had a read of this and Jordy’s SelNamePanel?:

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