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I want to write an addon that can combine two selections with a logical AND.

For example, the user use via normal gui

bpy.ops.mesh.select_similar(type='LENGTH')

and

bpy.ops.mesh.select_similar(type='DIR').

Then he calls the addon, the addon gets the current selection, the selection made before, combine them and write the selection back.

My problem is I don't know how I can access these history data via python nor if it's possible. This would be my favorite way of workflow for the addon.

I can extend the addon with a call to store the actual selection, so the user make a similar select, call the addon to store the current selection, make another similar select and call the addon to combine the both selections and write it back.

For this way I need to store a customized boolean at the bmesh faces/edges/vertices data, but I can't figure it out how. If I try to store custom data I run in these error:

bm.faces[0]['and_select'] = False
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
AttributeError: BMElem[key]: invalid key, must be a BMLayerItem

An example how this must be done would help.

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  • $\begingroup$ I don't see a purpose for your intended addon. If you use select similar in the UI, the current selection will be extended. There's really no need to "combine" selections by script. $\endgroup$ – CodeManX Nov 9 '14 at 15:51
  • $\begingroup$ I don´t want to extend the selection, i want the intersection of two different selections. Such as do a binary AND operation. $\endgroup$ – rigoletto Nov 10 '14 at 18:11
  • $\begingroup$ I see, check out my addon border deselect outer then. I recommend pink vertex's solution however for your particular problem. $\endgroup$ – CodeManX Nov 10 '14 at 19:50
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Don't use the string key. Instead use a direct reference for the layer:

layer = bm.faces.layers.int.new('layer_name')
bm.faces[0][layer] = 0

There is no boolean layer available.

The selection history works only for single verts/edges/faces.

You can use the bmesh operators similar_faces, similar_edges, similar_verts which will return the selection.

Links to the source: bmo_similar.c, bmesh_operators.h

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