Being able to copy object ID's

Hello! I would like the ability to copy face identifiers in the face properties panel, currently the text cant be selected.


not something of any importance or time constraint, just a QOL thing
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-trevor

Hi @tfedyna, yes. This will be handy. What is your specific use case here?

Also, in case you are using Windows 11 the Snipping Tool has a handy feature for extracting text from images.

Oh! @mostapha I’ll have to update to 11, I have some random insiders version of windows currently, and I use snipping tool all the time, it would be great to have the OCR feature too!

My use case would be for doing E+ EMS. Since the idf is written out with identifiers rather than display names for objects, it would be convenient to be able to copy and paste the identifiers for objects into some ems script rather than transcribing a long identifier into some ems script, it would also help prevent human error. I know its lazy, but being able to copy and not edit, do not want to interact past copy the identifier would be nice.

Hi @tfedyna,

I see. For this case, are you aware of the Set geometry id by display name option? That should make it possible to use the display names to set up your EMS scripts.

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Just make sure the names are unique. There will still be a room name clean up but you already know how to implement that.

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@mostapha Thank you! I was not aware of the Set geometry id by display name option, that will work for me :smiley: I appreciate it!