Group Transfer surface node

Transfers groups between two pieces of geometry, based on proximity.

See also: Group Copy, Group, Attrib Transfer

GroupTransfer is used to transfer primitive and point groups between two selections. Closest proximity is used to map primitives/points in the destination to primitives/points in the source. Those that map to primitives/points in the selected source groups are included in their respective destination group. If the source group is ordered then the destination group will also be ordered. The order is determined by the order of the mapped primitive/point. Those that map to the same primitive/point are further ordered by their proximity.

New destination groups are created with the same names as their source group counterparts. The names can have an optional prefix. If a group in the destination selection shares the same name as the proposed name then a number of methods are available to resolve the conflict. The transfer process can be skipped for that particular group in conflict, the existing group can be overwritten, or a numerical suffix can be appended to the name of the new destination group. The suffix starts at 2 and increments by 1 until a unique name is found.