opPattern IDs

jacob_kingery

Are there individual IDs for each copy made with an opPattern?  I tried qCreatedBy(id + "opPattern_ID" + "instanceName"), but that didn't seem to work. The documentation says, "TODO: make it easy to query for them," regarding the instanceNames parameter, so is this not possible yet?

ilya_baran

Yes, that doesn't work because a pattern is one operation so one id.  You can try to reverse engineer the automatically generated ones, but like the TODO says, we need to make this easier.

jacob_kingery

I was able to work around the issue by doing each transform separately myself instead of patterning them all at once.  Once it's easier to make use of the instance names, it might be better to switch back to using opPattern().

ilya_baran

Yes, that doesn't work because a pattern is one operation so one id.  You can try to reverse engineer the automatically generated ones, but like the TODO says, we need to make this easier.

jacob_kingery

That would be useful when patterning a sketch because qSketchRegion() takes in an ID.  I was able to get something that almost does what I want by querying for the face entities created by the operation, but this doesn't handle inner loops like qSketchRegion() can.  Do you have any hints on reverse engineering the generated IDs?  I poked around a bit, but didn't see anything obvious.

jacob_kingery

I was able to work around the issue by doing each transform separately myself instead of patterning them all at once.  Once it's easier to make use of the instance names, it might be better to switch back to using opPattern().