Featurescript - query/delete all sketches

leon_poot

I want to clean up my Part Studio, so that when I derive it in another (using opMergeContexts in FeatureScript) I don't get all the sketches and points and all, but I do want to import all parts and surfaces at once.

Either I can query these one by one, calling opDeleteBodies on all the queries, but I'd really like a smoother version where I don't select these by hand, but automatically query them.

Can anybody point me in the right direction for querying all sketches at once?

lana

@NeilCooke It would still leave behind sheet bodies created by sketch. One can use

evOwnerSketchPlane() to filter for sketch objects, but in next release there'll be qSketchFilter() making it easier.

ilya_baran

In the next release, we expect to have a convenient query filter for sketches.  Currently, I'm not aware of a way to avoid querying for the sketches one by one by id.

NeilCooke

Would qBodyType work using WIRE?

lana

@NeilCooke It would still leave behind sheet bodies created by sketch. One can use

evOwnerSketchPlane() to filter for sketch objects, but in next release there'll be qSketchFilter() making it easier.

leon_poot

Filtering a query (all WIRE and SHEET bodies, and VERTEX entities) using evOwnerSketchPlane() works excellent. Thanks.

var qAllSketchEntities = qUnion(filter(evaluateQuery(context, qUnion([qBodyType(qEverything(), BodyType.WIRE), qBodyType(qEverything(), BodyType.SHEET), qEverything(EntityType.VERTEX)])), function(entity)
    {
        if (try silent(evOwnerSketchPlane(context, { "entity" : entity })) != undefined)
            return true;
        else
            return false;
    }));

NeilCooke

I simplified your code to this:

var qAllSketchEntities = qUnion(filter(evaluateQuery(context, qEverything()), function(entity)
    {
        return (try silent(evOwnerSketchPlane(context, { "entity" : entity })) != undefined);
    }));

It gives a different number of bodies in the result, don't know why, but it works.

Edit: although using the profiler I see yours is faster due to not testing solid bodies.

ilya_baran

@NeilCooke, looks like your code goes through all entities, not just bodies.

NeilCooke

Setting it to qEverything(EntityType.BODY) picks up all sketch bodies and makes the code 3x faster too!

leon_poot

Thanks @NeilCooke That makes perfect sense.
I tend to think of only solids when I see "BODY", so I took some unnecessary detours in my code without thinking.