Hi everyone,
I need to clean up a scene imported from Inventor. Is there a way to find all non 3ds Max objects using MaxScript?
Thanks in advance.
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Something that is imported but has no equivalent in 3ds Max. Sometimes helper objects are imported from cad applications, I need to find and delete those, preferably in MaxScript.
[left]if it was imported it was converted to one of max classes. you can find all class instances and do what you want with them. or find classes by some criteria that makes the class ‘non max’.
what does make objects imported by a cad application different? name? class? color? some specific property?
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I had similar helper objects created with npower imports. In this case, they were not visible nor selectable but I could select all the imported geometry, move it to a new layer, then select objects in the old layer (through the select layer members button in the layer floater) and delete. With huge data there were thousands of those invisible objects.
They’re shown as helper objects in the command panel, but were not shown in the selection floater. Other exporters/importers may create objects with 0 vertices for example that would serve as hierarchy placeholders.
Scene summary might give you an idea of how many objects there are in the scene vs. the visible/selectable geometry objects.