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I know it&#8217;s possible to do this bulk editing within Thermal Desktop, and I&#8217;m looking at how to do this efficiently in C#.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;From the Getting Started manual, I&#8217;ve seen this done with a foreach loop:&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;p1&#8243;&gt;foreach (LinearQuad q in quads)&lt;br&gt;{&lt;br&gt;q.CondSubmodel = submodel;&lt;br&gt;q.TopThickness = 0.01;&lt;br&gt;q.Update();&lt;br&gt;}&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Additionally, in the code I&#8217;m writing, what I&#8217;m interested in is similarly implemented.&lt;br&gt;myElementList.ForEach(e =&gt;&nbsp;&lt;br&gt;{&lt;br&gt;e.ThermoMaterial = ThermoMaterialName;&lt;br&gt;e.Layer = Layer.Name;&lt;br&gt;e.Update();&lt;br&gt;}&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;However, this method takes too long for my application and I&#8217;m hoping there&#8217;s a way to shorten the element editing time using some type of group editing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thank you!&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-427021","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Using OpenTD, is there a way to edit multiple elements without using a for or foreach loop (which essentially edits them one at at time) when these elements are somehow grouped (either in a submodel, layer, domain, etc.)? 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