Assign UserText to mesh face

Rhino
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Hi,
We are trying to develop an internal tool to import into Rhino our FEA mesh. The objective is to be able to assign to each face a set of properties (for example height and width of the wall they are a part of) and then export a csv table with all the information.

Right now we can import in Rhino the mesh, set all the values needed, and then export the table.
The problem is that I didn’t find a way to assign UserText to a face, but only to a whole mesh, so I am importing each face as a Mesh object, which slows down the module quite a lot since we need to import thousands of elements.

Is there a way to assign UserText to a single face in a mesh that I am missing? Or is there another approach I could take?

Thanks

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Hi Giovanni - there is no way that I know of to do this directly. I suppose you could assign a user text to the object and include the mesh face index in the information. You’d need to also write your own tools to retrieve it - just shooting from the hip here…

-Pascal

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@pascal is correct. MeshFace is just a struct and does not inherit from CommonObject. Best to attached whatever data you need to the base Mesh object.

– Dale