Isolate Toggle Command

Serengeti (Rhino WIP)
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I’ve noticed that there are “Isolate” and “UnIsolate” commands added to Rhino 6 and they are very useful.
However, is it possible to add a “Isolate Toggle” command?

In this way, I can set a macro to assign it to certain hotkeys since they are sooooooooo often used in modelling.

OR, is there a way to combine two commands in one macro? I assume this need a state detection to see if it is in “isolation” mode at current state?

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Hi xliotx - There is not a command built in for this but you can make a macro with a script in it, like this, on a button:

! _-RunPythonScript (
import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
import scriptcontext as sc

isoToggle = False
if sc.sticky.has_key("ISO_TOGGLE"):
    isoToggle = sc.sticky["ISO_TOGGLE"]

if isoToggle:
    rs.Command ("_Unisolate")
    if rs.LastCommandResult() == 0:
        sc.sticky["ISO_TOGGLE"] = False
else:
    rs.Command ("_Isolate")
    if rs.LastCommandResult() == 0:
        sc.sticky["ISO_TOGGLE"] = True

)

-Pascal

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Hi Pascal,

Thank you for the script.
Actually, I can assign the two command to left and right click separately.

The reason I ask this question is I’d like to assign to a shortcut, like
the one in 3D Max.
Any ideas?

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Besides, it is not very efficient to run a script like this for a single
action.
There is lagging compared to the Isolate command.

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I also would try to offer the toggle as the default solution for these things… like hideswap an isolateswap and an isolatelocked swap…

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Have you been using the script that @pascal posted?

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yep. works fine for every toggle i ever wanted!
was just suggesting to include it in the defaults, because its so frequently used when modelling.

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Why not make this a seperate command so anyone can try it and if they found useful they can assign hotkeys. it removes all the hustle of turning of layers, making selection filter and hide other objects. we just isolate objects (object that we want to edit & adjacent/related for snapping), edit the objects from all sides and then get back to our scene. it is very useful, In max and blender we use it very often.

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