Components colors/materials retrieval
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Hi all,
I can't figure out to do this:-
Suppose you have component instances in your model, each of them made of several various sub-components. These sub-components have also been painted by the user with various colors.
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I can easily iterate through the top-level instances list, but once there I cannot retrieve the individual color or material of each sub_component, because there is no method "ComponentInstance.entities", these entities can only be accessed through the parent definition.
Pleeeaaase help !
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@didier bur said:
Hi all,
I can't figure out to do this:-
Suppose you have component instances in your model, each of them made of several various sub-components. These sub-components have also been painted by the user with various colors.
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I can easily iterate through the top-level instances list, but once there I cannot retrieve the individual color or material of each sub_component, because there is no method "ComponentInstance.entities", these entities can only be accessed through the parent definition.
Pleeeaaase help !
If you can get the component_instance [of a nested component_definition] that is itself inside another component_definition (get that parent's component_instance.definition.entities and mine down into it for any component_instances... to use) - then you can then get any nested component_instance.material... = nil if it's <default> or 'a_material' if it's been painted. Within any component_definition.entities you can check any face/edge for e.g. face.material (again nil=<default>)...
Hope this helps...
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@unknownuser said:
Hope this helps...
Sure, sort of. Thanks TIG.
Guess what ? I must dig into 3 levels deep components to get their colors (for a client). This is more tricky than it first sounded.
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My ComponentReporter+.rb has some component/group mining techniques in it that might help...
Good luck (bon chance!).
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Yes, I've studied it extensively... But what I didn't noticed before is that when you have a component within another component and when you paint this sub-component globally (by default) you thus modify its definition. That's to say you can't have this sub-component colored with 2 different colors in to separate "parents". I hope that I'm clear, anyway this makes my job a lot easier
I must extract an Excel sheet with a global list of top-level furniture components (kitchen cabinets, shelves...), and a detailed list of the components of level 1 whith their colors/materials, themselves made of various pieces of level 2 of various colors/materials.
Pfff, furniture manufacturers are complicated people sometimes...P.S. Typo: Bonne chance (thanks)
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