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iwafb · Guest

Hi all

This might sound strange, but is there a way to add a selection set to an entity name?

I am working with groups, and the condition is that I have a selection set of one entity per group. I then cycle through the selection set to get each individual entity at a time. This is where it gets tricky. I want to then create a new selection set of all entities that are grouped to that name (entity not group), but can't see how. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

John

Jeff Mishler · Guest

OK, I won't even pretend that I understand what you are trying to do ;-)
But, would the (ssadd) function be what you are looking for? Or, based on
the first line of your post, "add a ss to an ename"......isn't that what
Groups are?

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iwafb · Guest

Thanks Jeff,

If you imagine several rectangles, all independent. Each one of these rectangles has one or more circles somewhere within its boundary which is grouped to the rectangle. I want to create a selection set which will cycle through each group (say one rectangle and all the circles grouped to it). If I create a selection set by windowing all rectangles and circles, then (ssname ss 1) could return the next entity in the group or in another group.

What I thought, was to create a selection set of all the rectangles (pickstyle set to 0) then add all the circles (remainder of group) to a new selection set starting with the current rectangle. Problem is that, (ssadd) works the other way. ie. start with a selection set then add an ename. I start with an ename (ssname ss index) from which I then want to create a selection set that includes all the additional entities in that group.

I hope this makes it clearer. If not, thanks for trying.

BTW, what do you mean by isn't that what groups are?

John

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