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Naming Convention for Propagated Hex Groups

A special naming convention can be used for the propagated groups, best described by an example.

The following command will create a hierarchy of logically named groups, as follows.

group 'W1P1T1' add propagate surf 1 end surf 2 multiple 1

The hierarchy looks like this:

W1

W1P1

W1P1T1

W1P1T2

W1P1T3

...

W1P1T10

Where W1P1 is contained within W1, and W1P1T1, W1P1T2, etc.. are contained within W1P1.

The software simply looks for numerical numbers in the group name and parses out the correct grandparent, parent and child names from the substrings. There must be exactly 3 substrings in the group name, each ending with an integer for the command to work properly.

A subsequent command:

group 'W1P2T1' add propagate surf 3 end surf 5 multiple 1

will add a parent group to W1, called W1P2, and the subsequent child groups:

W1

W1P1

W1P1T1

W1P1T2

W1P1T3

...

W1P1T10

W1P2

W1P2T1

W1P2T2

W1P2T3

...

W1P2T10