We absolutely love instance manager and what you can do with it. So nice to build dynamic blocks in GH. One question we couldn’t figure out:
If you build instances you can give them Attributes including Material and Layer. In Rhino I can set the material of stuff to “By Layer” or “By Parent”. Is there a way to do this in Instance Manager?
Basically right now there is no way to set a material in Rhino for the instances. If you have the geometry inside the block set to “by parent” you can set a material on the block and the containing geometry will use it.
This is what we need to set on the geometry INSIDE the block: