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jesterKing / import_3dm

Blender importer script for Rhinoceros 3D files
MIT License
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Add support for loading linked blocks from external files #87

Open s3ththompson opened 3 years ago

s3ththompson commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. import_3dm does not handle Rhino files with blocks linked to separate files. Linked block instances are imported as empty collections.

Describe the solution you'd like import_3dm should at least import linked block instances by reading external files and populating Blender collections correctly. in the future, it may be desirable to mirror the file structure of the Rhino files with multiple linked Blender files, but this would be out of scope for initial implementation.

Additional context rhino3dm recently gained support for reading source files from linked blocks. Version 0.16.0 adds support for InstanceDefinition.SourceArchive and InstanceDefinition.UpdateType properties.

jesterKing commented 3 years ago

That means I'll have to take a look at updating the latest rhino3dm and have it tested!