Specifies how connections between nearby pieces will be created.

When connection Adjacent Points, any pscale attibute found will be assumed to be the same for all points. This allows a much faster query to be performed.

Specifies the string primitive attribute used to determine which primitives in the input geometry belong to each piece. This attribute will be transferred to the points of the output geometry. The default value is name, which is the standard attribute used for rigid bodies.

Only create connections between adjacent pieces that have different values of the Cluster Attribute. This can be useful for creating constraints between pieces at the boundary between different material types.

Specifies the primitive attribute used to determine which pieces belong to each cluster when Find Boundary Connections is enabled. This attribute can be either an integer or a string.

When connecting Adjacent Pieces from Surfaces, points are first seeded on the surface of all the objects. There must be enough points for close points to occur to detect close surfaces. This should be scaled down by the square of the geometry size. For example, if your geometry is 10× bigger, you should have 1/100 the points per area.

When connecting Adjacent Pieces from Surfaces, the scattered points will be pushed away from each other to avoid clumping. This is done gradually, to avoid chaotic behavior and to allow control over how much relaxation takes place. More relaxation iterations will result in points that are more separated from each other.

Specifies the maximum allowed distance when searching for nearby points.

If in Adjacent Points mode, this will be multiplied by any pscale attribute. If pscale isn’t present, it is treated as 1 so this refers to an absolute distance.

Specifies an upper limit on the number of nearby points that can be inspected. Lower numbers will improve performance, but run the risk that only points from the same piece will be detected rather than points on nearby pieces, causing connections to be missed.

Restricts the search for nearby points to only consider points within the cone defined by this angle from the query point’s normal. This can be used to avoid creating connections to points that are “behind” the query point.

Specifies an upper limit on the number of pieces that each seed point can be connected to. This is primarily useful when connecting Adjacent Pieces from Points, but may also improve the detection of Adjacent Pieces from Surface Points. However, increasing this value will reduce performance.

Specifies how the centroid is computed.

When connecting Adjacent Pieces from Surface Points, each point is moved away from the centroid in the direction of the other point that it is connected to. A value of 0 will leave the point at the centroid, and a value of 1 will move the point to the surface of its piece.

Create a primitive attribute that contains the length of each connection.

Specifies the name of the primitive attribute used to record the length of each connection.