How to avoid duplicate faces names when using the PO_ResetIdentifier command?

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Hi @keigonomura, another good question.

In theory you should be able to use the PO_ResetDisplayName command, similar to what I suggested here but I just tested it and it looks like we don’t support nested attributes in the command. @mingbo, is this something that we can support? I used {Parent.DisplayName}_{DisplayName} and it didn’t work as expected.

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That said, this is very easy to do using a Python script. If you save the model as an HBJSON, you can use the code below to name the faces based on the parent name.

from honeybee.model import Model

fp = r'sample_model.hbjson'
model: Model = Model.from_hbjson(fp)

for room in model.rooms:
    for face in room.faces:
        face.display_name = f'{face.parent.display_name}_{face.display_name}'

model.to_hbjson(r'sample_model_renamed.hbjson')

sample_model.hbjson (78.6 KB)
sample_model_renamed.hbjson (53.9 KB)

We can also include this in an app to make it easier to do but I feel this is something that we should support directly inside Rhino. Let’s see what @mingbo thinks about this.

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