 | | | Changing an instances master | Changing an instances master 2004-04-30 - By kim aldis
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I'm running it as a jscript function, just the one. I'll let you know if it
breaks at all.
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> From: owner-xsi@(protected)
> [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of Graham D Clark
> Sent: 30 April 2004 11:47
> To: XSI@(protected)
> Subject: RE: Changing an instances master
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> Cheers Kim, glad its works for you :)
>
> Switching groups works better I found than the method of
> match transforms and move hierarcy over to new instantiate,
> as nothing to copy over if branch propegation etc is used on
> child objects of the orginal instance model.
>
> the 2 functions,
> One to make an instance group if it doen't exist in new
> master. The instance group is not the basic group.
> -one cheap and dirty way is to make an instance of the new
> masster model then delete the instance.
> -oddly if I include this in the same function as the switch
> group below it sometimes fails, I guess perhaps due to the
> instance group ports not being reset, maybe? Or maybe it's a
> vbs thing ;) And one to remove the intance model from the old
> master group and put it into the newmassters instance group.
> -just this function is required if the new master model
> already has an instance group
>
> Sorry yes the collection is uneccessary, I just left the
> collection as I stripped the code out of a larger tool I made
> for prepping reference models and was avoiding Selection.
> There's likely a much better way to do that...?
>
> I'm sure something more efficient can be done with ports, I
> need this too so I'll look at it next week.
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> > -- --Original Message-- --
> > From: owner-xsi@(protected)
> > [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of kim aldis
> > Sent: April 29, 2004 9:00 PM
> > To: XSI@(protected)
> > Subject: RE: Changing an instances master
> >
> >
> > Works like a dream. I ported to Jscript and crammed the 2 functions
> > into one.
> >
> > Just curious, Grahame; why the 2 functions and why bother with the
> > collection? It seemed unnecessary.
> >
> > > -- --Original Message-- --
> > > From: owner-xsi@(protected)
> > > [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of Sam Cuttriss
> > > Sent: 29 April 2004 17:59
> > > To: XSI@(protected)
> > > Subject: Re: Changing an instances master
> > >
> > > wow, thats nice graham.
> > > thanks
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