Rhino 8 - baking and overwrite

Grasshopper
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With the new content cache in Rhino 8 what is the correct way to perform the following:

  1. pull in geometry into grasshopper from a layer in Rhino, say a set of surfaces on layer named “Windows_1”
  2. Perform an operation on this geometry in grasshopper eg - scale all these windows by a factor
  3. (this is the bit I would like clarification on) - bake this newly modified geometry to “Windows_1” layer OVERWRITING, the original geometry

I know its possible to simply internalise the input brep in grasshopper, then delete in Rhino, and then bake back modified geometry, but this doesnt feel like the intended method.

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The least destructive or safe way would be to reference the geometry, manipulate in Grasshopper and then cache / bake to a new layer. I only overwrite the input of a definition if I know that I never need the input again

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Thanks Martin, yes this is what I usually do too, but in my case I have many layers each with their own sublayers, so to bake to new layers and then reassign/delete original is not feasible here.

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Hi Milo,

Can you post a small example of your workflow? Thanks

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You could bake your layer structure with a new parent.