Get description of types of a group of objects ("1 point, 2 curves...")

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If I have a list of objects, is there an easy way to get the text description of their types as in the title? This is the same output as the added to/removed from selection objects feedback.

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make sure to set the typehint to “no type hint” :upside_down_face:

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Sorry if I wasn’t clear. This is for a python script. I want to mimic the default Rhino behavior of displaying, e.g. 1 point, 2 curves, 1 polysurface added to selection when you select objects. I have a list (in python) of the objects that were selected, and I want to get the text string to print out. I could code my own method for this, but I was wondering if there was API access to the native method.

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I’m not aware of an easy API thing (but that doesn’t mean there isn’t one). Here’s my attempt at doing this.

object_type_text.py (2.2 KB)

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Thanks! Very similar to what I had come up with.

def count_types(objects):
	if len(objects) == 0: return "No objects"
	type_dict = {
		0:			"unknown object",
		1:			"point",
		2:			"point cloud",
		4:			"curve",
		8:			"surface",
		16:			"polysurface",
		32:			"mesh",
		256:		"light",
		512:		"annotation",
		4096:		"block instance",
		8192:		"text dot",
		16384:		"grip object",
		32768:		"detail",
		65536:		"hatch",
		131072:		"morph control",
		262144:		"subD object",
		134217728:	"cage",
		268435456:	"phantom object",
		536870912:	"clipping plane",
		1073741824:	"extrusion"
	}
	count_dict = {}
	for obj in objects:
		type = rs.ObjectType(obj)
		if type not in count_dict:
			count_dict[type] = 0
		count_dict[type] += 1
	s = ""
	for type in sorted(count_dict):
		count = count_dict[type]
		type_str = type_dict[type]
		s += str(count)
		s += ' '
		s += type_str
		if count > 1: s += 'es' if type_str in ("mesh") else 's'
		s += ', '
	return s[:-2]
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