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Human: Getting data

Human: Getting data

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Human: Getting data

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- [Instructor] Welcome. I have my exercise file open already. In the last video, we looked at how we can use the Human plugin to create user object data and attach it to geometry when we bake into Rhino. If I look in the model, click on one of these mesh objects, and I go to its properties, then go to Attribute User Text and see that there's a key value pair for each of these objects. And this key value pair tells me whether or not that particular panel is a panel that's over a support, so it's simulating a column if this were supported from the ground, or a hanging support if it was suspended from a ceiling. The key thing is, when this was generated, it was not clear exactly how the supporting panels would be detailed. They need to be stronger than the other panels, but that detail hadn't been resolved yet. This is the power of using user object data. You can separate scripts out so you don't have to do…

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