It's a command because only the application can run the full extent of operations required to duplicate an object within the scene entirely.
People have grown a dysfunctional notion of object model VS command as if they are just mutually exclusive alternatives. The real difference is between using the Application to do things for you, with all its all-comprehensive commands offered, vs dealing with the individual abstractions of objects. You COULD do it all without running a single command, but you will need to implement by the various objects every facet of that command that you are interested in. So if it's just the geo you want, what Matt listed is plenty fine, but if you also want clusters, properties, constraints and so on to be duplicated then, as no single object wraps the lot, you will need to take care of those yourself. Many commands are actually just scripts that do exactly that, deal with multiple objects synchronously or sequentially to give completeness to those operations. When things span complex connections across the scene graph, it usually becomes increasingly laborious to use pure OOP through the API's objects with no commands to do it. You are largely duplicating work the devs already did when implementing those commands. On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Byungchul Kang <[email protected]> wrote: > hm.... only Native Command? > Okay, Thanks for you all. > > > 2013/2/21 Eric Thivierge <[email protected]> > >> There is only the xsi.Duplicate() command I believe. Unless you want to >> create an empty polymesh and set the topo via ICE. >> >> -------------------------------------------- >> Eric Thivierge >> http://www.ethivierge.com >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Byungchul Kang <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, List >>> >>> I want to copy a object(Polymsh, pointcloud .. ) through ObjectModel >>> Script with Python. not CopyPaste command. >>> any idea? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Kang >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *Byungchul Kang* | MBC CG TEAM [http://imbc.com] >>> http://cgndev.com >>> >> >> > > > -- > *Byungchul Kang* | MBC CG TEAM [http://imbc.com] > http://cgndev.com > -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
