Select by Smoothing Group???

[Wahooney]

This should do the trick:

fn SelectBySmoothGroup theObject theSG =
(
-- Get the object's mesh
obj = theObject.mesh

-- Get the face count of the mesh
numFaces = getNumFaces obj

-- Cycle through all the faces, when a face has the same bit flag set in it's smoothing group
-- collect it and put it in faces
faces = for i = 1 to numFaces where (bit.get (getFaceSmoothGroup obj i) theSG) collect i

-- Select the faces
setFaceSelection obj faces

-- Update the mesh
update theObject
)

-- This will select all faces with smoothing group 1 set in the selected object.
SelectBySmoothGroup $ 1

I don't know if the code could be made more optimal, it wouldn't surprise me if it could.

Hope this helps.

[hamster139]

Thanks for the code.

I tried the code, and it doesn't work for me. There aren't any errors, it just doesn't select anything. I don't know if it makes a difference, but I first select the object, then select the 'mesh edit' modifier, then I run the code.

Hamster139

[Wahooney]

This script will only work on an object that's been collapsed to an editable mesh. There is unfortunately no script access to edit mesh other than creating it.

[hamster139]

Thanks for the input, I found something that works well for my situation, by converting it to a polymesh (which can use the selectBySmoothGroup). I needed something quick and dirty, cuz my meshes were really complex, and I needed to select more than 1 SG at a time.


convertTo $ PolyMeshObject
max modify mode
subobjectLevel = 4
$.EditablePoly.selectBySmoothGroup Num

Where Num is 2^(smoothgroup-1)

hamster139

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