Hello, I have a question.
In Rhino 5. I have some triangular surface objects that I want handle as one object.
I can join this objects or I can use group but behaves differently.
My question is when I join them why do I lost the individual materials and get one single materials on all object ?
Another thing, when I join the surfaces the object type turns from surface to polysurface type.
Join is designed to create a single object from multiple objects, such as creating a single polysurface from multiple separate surfaces and/or polysurfaces. A single object can only have a single material associated with the object.
Group tells Rhino to treat a set of objects as a single entity without creating a new object.
Yes, This is what I wrote. The question is, why join modify the object type from surface to polysurface.
That is because you end up with a surface built of multiple surfaces, a polysurface. You can explode a polysurface to get the constituents.
Thank you. It makes sense now. Poly = many (as polymorphism ).
All info on anything Rhino can be found on their website: http://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/5/help/en-us/seealso/sak_polysurfaces.htm