Sweet that's great.

Browser
When I name a selection of curves
then "Scale copy" it
result has the same name and not "unnamed" wished
Is that normal?

Hi Pilou, yes currently that is intentional that the object name is also copied. It's treated the same as any other property of the object such as the object's style.

This seems to be common behavior, for example I tried some other apps like Rhino and Cinema4D which behave the same way.

If the object name was not copied when an object was duplicated, there could be some bad consequences, like for example if you use Ctrl+C to copy the object to the clipboard, and then use Ctrl+V to paste the object into a different modeling session, it would not be good for the name property to be lost during that transfer of the object data.

Other duplication functions (such as copy option on scale) are intended to be generally similar in behavior as Copy/Paste - I think it could be confusing if one kind of duplication preserved the name property but other kinds of duplication did not.

Do you see any advantage to having the copied object's name be empty / "unnamed" ?

- Michael

When you copy a big selection of numerous objects maybe you want give a different name
Say a table + chairs so set1, when copying copy maybe become set2?
But I have no idea how the browser uses nesting names : so here set1 = table1 + chairs6 (chair)

Hi Pilou,

> When you copy a big selection of numerous objects
> maybe you want give a different name

But how does having the copied objects set as "unnamed" help you to do that?


If you want to give a copied set of objects a new name, try the following sequence:

Select your objects.

Use Ctrl+C to copy to the clipboard.

Use Ctrl+V to paste which will create a duplicate set of objects. Part of the paste command is that the newly pasted in objects will become the only selection.

Now since your duplicated objects are selected, assign whatever new name you wish to them, and you can also drag or use a Transform command to move them to a different location.


Also for other situations you may find the keyboard shortcut script here to be of use:
http://kyticka.webzdarma.cz/3d/moi/#SelectLastCommandCreated

If you set that on a keyboard shortcut, that will select whatever was created by the last command. So for example if you want to change the result from the Scale command with copy option, after you create the scaled copy deselect objects and use that keyboard shortcut to select all the newly created ones and then you can assign a new name to them.

- Michael

With this last plug yes that can be easy!