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Selections

Select by similiar material	This will select objects by user-specified materials.
Select by Surface Style Name	Displays a menu allowing user to select a surface style by name. The script then selects objectsng user to with the selected surface style.
Select Similar Normal	Selects faces by a given (selected) faces normal.
Convert Selection	Four commands that will take a point, segment or object or face and select the chosen entities that are attached. For example, if an object selection is converted points, the object is deselected and all its points are selected. These commands will appear as four separate options under one heading in the menu.
Select Similar	Command that will select other similar, visible objects based upon optional criteria. For example, one could select an object, then run this script to select all other objects within the same layer as the original object.
Reverse Selection	Command that will deselect all currently selected entities and select anything that was unselected and visible.
Count Selected Entities	This palette will display a count of all currently selected entities (points, segments, faces, and objects).

Modeling

Separate faces by color	Separates an object into one or more objects based on the face-level colors. Deletes the original object.
3pt align tool 1	Tool that allows user to align an object by picking 3 points at the current location and 3 points at the target location.
Batch sweep	Utility script to allow multiple sweep paths with single source shape.
Clean Line	Reduces the point density of selected lines. User specifies a tolerance. Groups of points that are within that tolerance are consolidated into one point.
Division	This will divide objects along arbitry direction by scale command.
Door Builder	Builds a door to match the width of a selected line.
Gravity	Moves objects vertically so the bottom meets the top of a terrain model.
Gravity 2.5	Moves objects vertically so the bottom meets the top of a terrain model.
Gable roof Builder	Builds a gable roof to match a selected rectangle.
Handrail Builder	Builds a handrail to match the path of a selected line.
Hipped roof Builder	Builds a hipped roof to match a selected rectangle.
Sash Builder	Builds a window to match the width of a selected line.
Sliding Sash Builder	Builds sliding glass windows to match the width of a selected line.
Slope Path	This will make the line slope according to a user specified option. This is an easy way to slope a complex line at a constant angle.
Sweep Rectangle	Forms a rectangle on segments of a selected object.
Control Object 1	A simple palette to control movement of one or more selected objects, version 1.
Control Object 2	A simple palette to control movement of one or more selected objects.
Random Transform tool	Tool allows user to randomly scale, translate, and rotate picked objects within a set range.
Curves to Arcs	Tool that converts splines, nurbz curves, and composite curves into a set of sequential arcs.
Terrain Doctor	A method of automatically analyzing and fixing terrain modeling.
Random Nurbs	Script sample file to show how to create a nurbz object with control points whose location changes randomly along the u direction of the surface.
Parametric Resolution	This tool-like palette allows you to change the display resolution or parametric objects instantly.

Object Attributes

Distribute based on materials	This will create a new layer for every surface style. It then moves objects to those layers based upon the object's assigned surface style.
Fix inverted Objects	Detects all solid objects in a project that have negative volume. If there are any, a dialog is posted, that gives the user the choice to : do nothing, pick the objects, and reverse the objects.
Name object by material	This will rename all selected objects so that the name matches the surface style assigned to the object.
Remove copy from Name	Command that will allow user to automatically remove "Copy" from the name of new copied objects as they are created.
Clear face color and Texture	Gives user the option to clear face-level surface styles of selected objects, which will return the object to its object-level surface style.
Auto Name	Command will automatically rename controlled objects.
Center Pivot	Command will center the objects pivot and reset the rotation of the pivot to align with the world axis.
Set Order	Allows the user to reset the order of objects in a project.
Toggle Object visiblity	Command that turns off any objects that are visible but not selected.
Object toggle Palette	This palette has buttons that will turn off objects that are visible, but not selected.
Rename Object	Latest version has been changed to save user preferences. This utility will allow user to rename objects that are preselected or objects that have a common string in the name. Also allows numbers to be appended to the names.

Palettes

Toggle Layer	Palette that turns off any layers that dont contain selected objects.
Toggle Symbols Palette	Palette that turns off any symbols that are visible but not selected.
Toggle Snap Palette	Palette that turns off the snap of any objects that are visible but not selected.

Window Control

Change View	A simple palette that allows a user to control positioning of a camera and where it points.
Control Overlay	A simple palette to control underlays.
Attention	Center COI on selected objects.
Numerical Input Command	Switches the type of numeric display to "architectural" ,"decimal", "english", or "fractions".

Surface Style and Rendering

MIMI- Multi Image Map Processor	A utility script that allows one to simultaneously build multiple surface styles with texture maps.
Animated Surface Styles	An animated surface style script.
Angle Transparency Shader	Makes a shader that will control the transparency based on the angle of the surface relative to the camera.
Turbulance Shader	Makes a turbulance shader that contains 4 colors.

Batch Processing

Batch Renderer	Project utility script. Renders all project files in a directory and its sub-directories with available renderers of form·Z.
Batch Import/Export	Batch Import: Allows user to select multiple files to convert to form·Z files. Batch Export: Allows user to select multiple form·Z files and export to a desired format (DXF, OBJ, etc).

Miscelleanous

Count Symbols	Counts how many symbol instance occurences of each symbol definition in the first library of a project there are.
Measure All Selected Segments	Allows users to get the total length of all selected segments.
Calculate Dihedral Angles	Palette that calculates dihedral angle between two selected faces.
Get Bounding Box	Palette that calculates bounding box of selected objects.
Object Name Counter	Writes out a list of object names.
Increment File Name	Command will automatically increment the filename and save file.
Image Divider	Breaks up an image into smaller tiles that can be rendered separately.