surfaces by color, with macro. Speed up

[rob_carri]

Hi everyone
Does anyone think of it because it takes so long to make a color change of the selected surfaces, using this macro? How can I speed it up?
thanks

FOREACH $Mod IN FOLDER('model') {
    IF number_selected($entity('model',$Mod.name).components) > 0 {
                                EDIT MODEL $Mod.name COLOUR RGB 1.00000 0.50196 0.00000
                }
}

[Anonymous]

I'm unable to do any tests right now but, off the top of my head, what might speed this up is to disable the graphics updating at the beginning of the macro and enable it again at the end. It does exactly as it sounds, it won't show any changes to the screen while the macro is running and only shows the final results once it's turned back on.

To turn off and on the graphics use:

// Stop the screen from updating while we do a lengthy process
GRAPHICS UNLOCK

// We're all done so tell PowerMILL it can update itself
GRAPHICS LOCK

Hopefully that will speed it up since it won't have to redraw the viewport for each surface selected.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I'm an idiot. I got the above reversed. "GRAPHICS LOCK" stops the viewport from updating and "GRAPHICS UNLOCK" allows the viewport to update.

Sorry about that! 

[rob_carri]

oh yeah....

its a perfect, thnaks

GRAPHICS LOCK
FOREACH $Mod IN FOLDER('model') {
    IF number_selected($entity('model',$Mod.name).components) > 0 {
                                EDIT MODEL $Mod.name COLOUR RGB 0.00000 0.50196 0.75294
                }
}

GRAPHICS UNLOCK

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