Material based mesh renaming

[Zafar Iqbal]

I'd like to name my meshes based on their applied material names. Is there any script available to do such a thing or could some scripting wizard be kind enough to create such a script?

Thanks,

[Hirazi Blue]

Something simple like this Python snippet? Appends the material name to the existing object name.

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howmany = Application.Selection.Count
for i in range(0, howmany):
	thisobj = Application.Selection(i)
	thismat = thisobj.Material.Name
	thisobj.Name = str(thisobj.Name) + "_" + str(thismat)

One or more geometries need to be selected, it obviously doesn't do error checking (costs extra! )
Throw it into a custom command, if needed
Use at own risk, obviously, I spent about 30 seconds testing this code...

[Zafar Iqbal]

Awesome. Thanks a bunch for this, it worked like a charm and super fast on the 139 objects I just tried it on, all from different models/hierarchy levels.

Thanks