I am inserting multiple lights into a file. All are being inserted as block instances and each light has a block inside it that references to a single file for the actual lightbulb. When I insert all of them, I am faced with an option to create multiple versions of the lightbulb file, vs choose a model block or a file block to use. This dialog comes up for each light I have inserted and I can’t get it to default to one of the options for the rest of the lights.
Hi Dan - I cannot reproduce this in a simple test here:
I have a block inserted into three files - I start a new file and insert each of these three files into it - no bother with names. Does that duplicate what your setup is?
File: Box
File1: Insert Box as linked, add some geometry
File2: Insert Box, add some different geometry
File3 Insert Box, and some different geometry
New file, insert File1, File2, and File3 one after the other…
-Pascal
Hey Pascal, that should trigger it. Did you try dragging all 3 files in at once? I selected them all and dragged the group in so that I could hit enter a bunch of times and batch insert them.
Aha. No, I did not - hold on a bit… hm. Still fine in 6.17 here.
-Pascal
Interesting, I just tried to reproduce here in the same way you did and it’s working fine. I can’t exactly reproduce this with our lights as I went ahead and baked all the lightbulbs into each light file to avoid the issues. I’ll let you know if I have any further issues that come up though.