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  Re: selecting several thousand lines in pov file  
From: ABX
Date: 16 Sep 2003 09:41:49
Message: <144emv44qg57n5inl0fjpkc6f52le1acl5@4ax.com>
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:20:24 -0500, "Steve Shelby" <ssh### [at] rexnetnet> wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there an easier way to do this? I have about 9,000 lines, one of several
> mesh2 objects, in a pov file, that I want to select in order to copy and
> paste to another pov file, which also contains several mesh2 objects. The
> only would I know to do this is to start selecting and scroll, and scroll,
> and scroll.......and scroll until an eternity later I finally have the whole
> thing selected. It seems like one ought to be able to tell Povray to "select
> from line 8605 to line 17361" and it would be done, but I can't find any way
> to do that, nor can I find anything in the documentation about it. Am I
> stuck doing it the hard way?

You can do this in general way applying method like in... CSG object.
Applying intersection can be replaced with applying difference if you
understand what I mean :-)

BTW: what about asking gui specific question in gui specific group ?

ABX


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