Pulling apart mesh objects

[Ben Miura]

Hi all, 

 

I have downloaded some plants which have come in as 3D symbols. the 3D symbols has multiple plants within it. When this is opened 2-3 plants are grouped as a Mesh object. Is there a way to separate these plants while maintaining the textures and form? 

 

 

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Possibly convert them to NURBS, ungroup, select the NURBS that make up each plant and add solids.  This is just off the top of my head.  If not, upload file, someone will help.

 

[Jeff Prince]

1 hour ago, Ben Miura said:

Hi all, 

 

I have downloaded some plants which have come in as 3D symbols. the 3D symbols has multiple plants within it. When this is opened 2-3 plants are grouped as a Mesh object. Is there a way to separate these plants while maintaining the textures and form? 

You can edit the meshes in Blender and export them back to Vectorworks with the texture preserved.  You’ll want to do that via .obj most likely unless you are pretty familiar with the various ways to shuttle things with Blender.

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9 hours ago, Ben Miura said:

Is there a way to separate these plants while maintaining the textures and form? 

 

Unfortunately editing a mesh always gives a waring that you lose texture mapping.

Otherwise you could copy the mesh a few times and in edit mode just delete all

faces of other plants, until you have an own mesh for each plant.

 

So a 3D Mesh editor (e.g. Blender) is required.

 

 

9 hours ago, Ben Miura said:

When this is opened 2-3 plants are grouped as a Mesh object.

 

I wonder why this happened.

What was the original plant file format you got ?

[Ben Miura]

5 hours ago, zoomer said:

 

Unfortunately editing a mesh always gives a waring that you lose texture mapping.

Otherwise you could copy the mesh a few times and in edit mode just delete all

faces of other plants, until you have an own mesh for each plant.

 

So a 3D Mesh editor (e.g. Blender) is required.

 

 

 

I wonder why this happened.

What was the original plant file format you got ?

I think it was either an skp or obj

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So I would second @Rhino is better to try Blender to check the geometry

and in case separate the geometry there.