There is a way to group object by layer? (easy)

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Hello,

I need to gruop every object on his layer in a single gruop. (be carful: not in parents layers)

selcect object layer–>gruop

Do someone have a script?

Thanks,

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This is not hard to do - but I don’t understand this:

Does that mean not to group anything that is on a top-level layer?

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Every part in a layer must be gruop. That gruop will not gruoped with his parent layer.

It shouldn’t be a issue. Pretend you didn’t read it if you didn’t understand it. :slight_smile:

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So nobody should ask questions if they didn’t understand exactly what you want? Probably won’t get a lot of help with that attitude.

Here’s what I have, pretend you didn’t read it if you didn’t understand it.

"""Gets all objects on each layer and groups them (one group per layer)"""
import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs

layers=rs.LayerNames()
for layer_name in layers:
    obj_ids=rs.ObjectsByLayer(layer_name)
    if obj_ids:
        #name the group same as the layer name
        group=rs.AddGroup(layer_name)
        rs.AddObjectsToGroup(obj_ids,group)
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Yeah, sorry! :sweat_smile:

Thanks. It works! :star_struck:

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What’s the best way to add “Group name from layer name” to this script?

And :grimacing: where is the “GroupName” shown in the UI? (Edit)

Thx

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Not sure what the question is? The script does that, it creates a group that has the name of the layer and adds all the objects on the layer to the group.

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Ah, so where (and I’m embarrassed to ask this) is the Group Name shown?

I can get a list with “SelGroup” but do I need to make/find an Eto Box of some sort (I’ve never used Eto) to have a UI Window for Group Names? Maybe this should be a diff thread…?

EDIT: Poking the @pascal bear

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Hi Alan - re you looking for a modeless list of groups that is always avaialbe, or a one-time modal look at the group names, or?

-Pascal

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I was originally wondering if I were being daft not being able to find the Group Names in one of my panels :sweat_smile:

My first need was to be able to see the Group Name somewhere in a panel when I select a group.

But something Like a callable and/or dockable “Group Panel” could be helpful.

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SelGroup?

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Hi @pascal

Quick ping to see if u had any time to think about a solution for this group names list?

I was looking at your wiki scripts page (I go back to it now and again, especially since I started scripting) and thought maybe using the Popup cPlane menu idea wld be a good way to show Group Names. Thoughts?

Thx
Alan