index in sop to chop

soptoDAT has an index column with point ‘id’ that can sometimes be very useful. I’m wondering why every other colunms of the soptoDAT are also available in channel form to soptoChop except the ‘index’ channel. soptoChop is very sad about the situation.

You can add the index to your geometry with a Point SOP, then you’ll be able to access the index from a SOP to CHOP.

See the example here:
base_point_index.tox (790 Bytes)

Yes, or merge a ramp patternchop after.

The request is more about consistency between the two methods.
For a newbie its useful to see what attributes are available in the soptodat and call them in the soptochop. But the index breaks that logic, so while teaching TD I have no reason to give as to why it’s not there. It “should” be.