Remove/explode/flatten all blocks button please

Rhino
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This thing is always a headache.

Our engineers or factories will send something and it becomes aaarrrrggghhh a nested block.

It will have 59037 layers each with one block nested within another block etc, please let us delete all nesting and blocking with one klick.

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Hi Erik -

Doesn’t ExplodeBlock do that?
-wim

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No its still there and i cant delete layers because something is always a block nested in a something else but thanks for the suggestion

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A ‘recursive’ option similar to the Grasshopper Explode Object component would be useful.

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Hi Erik -

If there are no objects on those layers, you can’t delete them because the block definitions still refer to them. You could use ExplodeBlock, then Purge with the BlockDefinitions and Layers options and put that in a macro that you assign to a button.

In Rhino, Explode will remove the top level block. ExplodeBlock will remove all levels.
-wim

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Indeed. Thanks, I see this now…

Wasn’t aware and my first test before posting didn’t work as expected.