Use Ruby To Apply Materials to Spacific Layers

honoluludesktop

Amos, Thanks, this is a big help for me. Any reason why (sometimes) I have to click on the display after the plugin has run in order for the textures to change? Hmm... Sometimes I change the component name from different menus, or change the texture name from diferent menus. Does it matter?

bagatelo

Inside the Vray Plugin have tool to apply materials to specific layers.

Didier Bur

Hi,
This one may help you too: layers_materials.rb to be found at the Ruby Library Depot, "layers Selection"page.

austinryan

Man I thought python and Dynamo were hard. I even had a go at lisp but for some reason I cant get my head a round ruby. I like the code above but want to use the clean code but also just add in the layer names and leave the other ones alone. It seams that when I run this it converts all the layers in the model to Default and then the layer color had to be the same as the material name. I like the hash option but cant seem to get it to run on transparent materials and it only paints 1 side. any suggestions

P.S. I am bringing in a dwg (exported from Revit) with 20 or so layers and want to put all the layers to 1 color but windows I want them to be on Translucent Glass Gray

F.E. all layers to color 123_White except 0_EX_Glazing it needs to be on Translucent Glass Gray

Some of the issues

the import comes in as 1 group (with layers in the group)
some of the groups come in the main group with groups within groups (doors and Door windows)
Objects come in with a material not defined (<auto1>)so a generic material must be placed on all the objects for the script to have a chance.

Thanks in advance