Hi Scott, thanks for describing your use case!

That may be a bit unusual approach though to have grouping done only at file import time, most common it's done by a specific "Group" command that makes a group out of selected objects.

Off the top of my head I can't really think of any examples in other programs that make groups in the way you're describing rather than with a "Group" command. Do you have any examples you can cite?


> NB: I suppose as a small improvement to my process, one could have a script that
> asks for a name of the object upon import and assigns it in one step?

If you'd like you could set up a keyboard shortcut that will pop up the "Assign name" dialog for you so you can trigger it with a keystroke rather than a click.

Some info on that here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=5738.2

- Michael