Object color macro on preselected faces V7 vs V8

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A friend of mine remarked that in V7, with one or more pre-selected faces of a polysurface, one could apply a per-face color (red for example) with the following macro:

! _-Properties _Pause
_Object _Color _Object
255,0,0 _EnterEnd

It only worked with preselected faces, as _-Properties does not allow subobject selection (even with the subobject selection filter active). Post selection would apply the color to the whole object.

In V8, preselection of faces no longer works with this macro, the color is applied to the entire object no matter what.

These macros are pretty handy for quickly setting per face colors without having to go through the Properties panel and the color picker.

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Checking it, thanks…

RH-82204 Sub-object properties

-Pascal

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Really?

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Well, yeah, I do have one or two, here and there. True, they have to put up with a lot… :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I was just thinking of an old sitcom where some guy is in talking with his psychiatrist and asking “on behalf of a friend”. lol

– D

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In this case it actually was a friend who also happens to be a fellow modelmaker and Rhino user. I personally hadn’t actually noticed that this was different in V8, he actually called me to ask if there was some setting that had changed, so that’s when I tested.

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Hi
Why is this macro not working in V8
I don’t remember where I got it from :grimacing:. But it works fine in V7

_-Properties pause o m l=yes d=yes i=yes p=yes r=yes s=yes h=yes pause enter enter enter _SelNone

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Hello- it looks to me like -MatchProperties is a better tool here.

-MatchProperties pause
l=yes d=yes i=yes p=yes
r=yes s=yes h=yes pause
enter enter enter

But both should work if we are to have both…
RH-82322 Properties matching options limited

-Pascal

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