I am creating multiple objects within a script
while i < N:
flake=Application.ActiveSceneRoot.addGeometry(’cube’,’MeshSurface’)
flake.SclX = 4 + random()
flake.PosY = random() * 30.

How can I select all N cubes?  Using the SelectAll command is too inclusive.

After selection of the N objects, they are turned into Rigid Bodies using

Application.CreateActiveRigidBody(” list of selected geometries “)

I want to be able to write this succiently as for large N typing “cube, cube1, cube2, ...” is not viable. It seems I should be able to reference flake in some fashion, but haven’t figured it out yet.

Thanks for any solutions or suggestions.

One way would be to put the flakes in an XSICollection as you create them.

as Stephen says, collect them inside the loop.
Create a list before the loop like aFlakes = []
and inside the loop use aFlakes.append(flake) and you’ll be good.
Or use a collection instead of the list if you want.

Better again for speed though would be adding all those things to a model rather than under the root, and then after the loop collet all model’s siblings and pass them to the RBD create.

Thanks Jaco! The .append works great. I’ll look at speed issues soon enough..

Below is a snippet of the Python code for anyone interested..

aflakes=[]
i=0
NUMFLAKES = 20
while i < NUMFLAKES:
oflake = Application.CreatePrim("Cube”,"MeshSurface")
oflake.SclX = 4 + random()
.
.
.
oflake.RotX = random()*12
aflakes.append(oflake)
i += 1
Application.CreateActiveRigidBody(aflakes)

btw in python you don’t need to increment manually like that.
Instead of while < and managing the iterator yourself (which is also slightly dangerous if at some point something happens to the iterator while you prototype), you can do:
for i in range(20):

Also, forum wise, if you post code remember code tags, they are pretty useful.
Same as quote, but you use {code}, {/code} with square brackets instead, and it will preserve formatting and all that stuff and come up in a monospaced font.