[Bf-python] Another Mesh question

[Chris Want]

Thanks Ken, I'll give this a try on Monday.
(This strikes me as requiring a lot of
memory, so I'll probably do it so that
it does, say, a thousand at a time.)

Chris

Ken Hughes wrote:
> Chris Want wrote:
> 
>> Willian Padovani Germano wrote:
>>
>>> Guess we can favor both speed and consistency, at least regarding 
>>> parts I know better in the API. There is a good reason to have 
>>> pverts, pfaces, etc. but much probably not for things they contain 
>>> (aka properties), like mcols.
>>
>>
>> Speaking of speed, I'm actually getting really terrible
>> speed using me.faces.extend([v1,v2,v3]) to create a mesh
>> with about 17,000 faces. It takes around 8 minutes. When
>> the script was using NMesh it only took a few seconds.
> 
> 
> Don't add the faces one at a time; add them all at once.
> 
> newFaces=[]
> for i in whateverYouIterateOn:
>     newFaces.extend([v1,v2,v3])
> me.faces.extend(newFaces)
> 
> Ken
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