Question Replacing name

Hi,

About your error, it's because you need to call core.setProperty(occurrence, "BOX", occurrence_name)

To find all the occurences by name, i recommand using scene.findByProperty("Name", "YouRegex")

So the behavior you described could be:

Code (Python):

1. occurrencesFilteredByRegex = scene.findByProperty("Name", "^.*BOX 3.*$")
2.  
3. occurrencesMerged = scene.mergeParts(occurrencesFilteredByRegex)
4.  
5. myCustomName = "My Custom Name"
6. core.setProperty(occurrencesMerged[0], "Name", myCustomName)

I hope it will help.
--Selim

 

Probably what is happening here is that your "findByProperty" is returning an empty array (nothing is found). And because of that, when this empty array is passed to "mergeParts" it will be interpreted as if you want to merge the root node.

So maybe a solution could be to check the size of your array and check that findProperty found at least one occurrence with that name before merging.

It could look like:

Code (Python):

1.  
2. occurrencesFilteredByRegex = scene.findByProperty("Name", "^.*BOX 3.*$")
3.  
4. if len(occurrencesFilteredByRegex) > 0:
5.     occurrencesMerged = scene.mergeParts(occurrencesFilteredByRegex)
6.  
7.     myCustomName = "MyCustomName"
8.     core.setProperty(occurrencesMerged[0], "Name", myCustomName)
9.  

 

Thanks. Good catch! I edited the sample code.

Have a good day.