Script - Explode Elements back into individual meshes

Ever find yourself having attached a bunch of stuff together and wanted to go back and re-explode the mesh?
Do you hate having to find each individual Element and clicking "Detach" a thousand times?  This script fixes that.

• MAXScript > New Script.
• Copy / Paste the text below into the blank page.
• Press Control +A to select all of the text.
• Left-Mouse click and drag this into your custom Toolbar.
• To rename your button / change the icon, Right Click the button > Edit Button Appearance...
• To use - Select your mesh, and press the tool button and then press Detach! which will break all of your elements back into individual objects.
• Rejoice and be glad.

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rollout rolTest "Detach Elems"

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   button btRun "Detach!" width:90 align:#center offset:[0, -2]

   function detachToNodes oPoly =

   (

       if (classOf oPoly != Editable_Poly) then

           throw "Wrong input in function: detachToNodes()"

       

       local iNumFacesLastElem = 0

       local baElemFaces = #{}

       local sName = ""

   

       while (true) do

       (

           baElemFaces = polyOp.getElementsUsingFace oPoly 1

           sName = uniqueName oPoly.name

           polyOp.detachFaces oPoly baElemFaces delete:true asNode:true name:sName

           

           if ((polyOp.getNumFaces oPoly) == 0) then

           (

               delete oPoly

               exit

           )

   

           if (keyboard.escPressed == true) do

               throw "** escape key pressed **"

       )

   )

   on btRun pressed do

   (

       local currSel = selection as Array

       

       for obj in currSel do

           if ((classOf obj) == Editable_Poly) then

               detachToNodes obj

   )

) -- End Rollout

createDialog rolTest 96 27 style:#(#style_toolwindow, #style_border, #style_sysmenu)

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