Joining disjointed meshes?

Serengeti (Rhino WIP)
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I can’t seem to join disjointed meshes in the WIP, and if I have an existing mesh which is made up of some disjointed meshes and attempt to join that to something else, the disjointed parts are split. I’m hoping this is a bug and not intentional. Example attached.

Thanks,
Sam

MeshJoin.3dm (194.4 KB)

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Odd, both Joins work here in the latest daily build. I used version 129976 of the WIP so maybe this was busted in the one you have.
Here’s the joined file…
MeshJoin_BrianJ.3dm (194.2 KB)

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Sam, @BrianJ, in V6, Join has a setting for this (no preselection).

-Pascal

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Interesting… I suppose the default is Yes, was yours set to No @SamPage?

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Thank you for giving us a choice in this !

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That was the case, thanks guys!

Sam

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It is a bug though, I think, that setting No splits existing disjoint meshes in the selection - I don’t think that is expected, right?

http://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-30778

-Pascal

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Right for me.

BTW: Why is window-selection during post-selection not allowed in _Join?

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Hi Jess- I don’t recall the details, but I did see an explanation once, I think - @chuck, do you know?

-Pascal

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I also have something in the back of my head, but it just feels buggy with these meshes. So I thought I’ll mention it while you file a bug for Join. Now I’ll try to keep your left hand free alt-j :wink:

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Hey, at least the worst is over- my right side got all realigned, reattached, reoriented yesterday - I still can’t use it quite yet, but at least it’s not flopping around like a wet noodle.

-Pascal

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For polysurfaces…
If post-select Join were to allow creating more than one object, then each time more things are added to the selection set we would have to call a group join operation on all the newly added plus all the previously added objects. This can take a huge amount of time. The test to see if a single new object can join to a single existing one is fast. Group joining speed in v5 is greatly improved over v4 so maybe this isn’t necessary any more.

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ouch ouch!.. don’t make such pictures in my head! However - when it sticks to the wall, it is ready (al dente). Hope you can bang on the table again pretty soon!

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Well, sometimes I’m group-joining hundreds of surfaces and I cannot complain about the speed. In any case it is faster than picking the surfaces one by one.

The only thing I took advantage occasionally is the looser tolerance while post picking. Usually I’m pre-picking - so I don’t mind if you leave it like it is.