MEL: Select Similar Objects

So here 's small script which will select similar Polygon objects in a maya Scene: Just select the base object and execute the script, and viola, all similar objects are selected for you. This is specially useful for large scenes.

int $c = 1;

global proc SelSimObj(string $every)

{

int $c = 1;

string $every = $every;

int $sel[3] = `polyEvaluate -v -e -f $every`;

string $b[] = `ls -typ mesh`;

for ($each in $b)

{

int $counter[3] = `polyEvaluate -v -e -f $each`;

if ($counter[0] == $sel[0] && $counter[1] == $sel[1] && $counter[2] == $sel[2]){

select -add $each;

clear $counter;

};




};

clear $sel;

clear $b;




}




string $SelList[] = `ls -dag -typ "mesh" -sl`;

for($every in $SelList)

SelSimObj ($every);

clear $SelList;