get the Name of an imported Object

# 1 08-12-2012 , 10:14 PM

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Hey,
I'm trying to write a script that builds me a house randomly in Python.
For that I am importing a window model, and i have to get the name of that Object and save it in a variable!
I found no way how to do that.
There's no problem getting the name of polyCube for example created in the script editor, so there have to be also a command for imported Objects as well or am I wrong?
I hope someone can tell how I have to do it

thanks in advance user added image

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# 2 08-12-2012 , 10:56 PM

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Simple. When you import a file, it (by default) puts the objects into a namespace. You can then look at the new namespace, and you have all the objects that were imported.

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# 3 09-12-2012 , 12:43 AM

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Thank you :-)
I had a lot of trouble with namespaces, when i executed my script twice for example, the given names didn't start over at 0, but did coninue where it left off.
So I had no idea how to select an object in an algorithm, not knowing where the namespace had counted
But I fixed it now with a global variable, not the most beautiful solution i believe, but it works ;-)
Thank you very much for your help :-)

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# 4 09-12-2012 , 03:46 AM

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Yes, namespaces can be a pain. Glad you figured it out.

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# 5 11-12-2012 , 07:14 PM

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there is another problem for which I can find no solution.
I want to select a face, than extrude and scale!
I want it to scale to the center, but I think Maya scales it to the center of the hole object, so i have to give it the pivot information of the face, but how do i get it?
Or is there any other solution scaling a face to its center? Any flag or something I miss?
Im using Maya 2011, if this is important.

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