Bake, Export all in region, Delete baked

Hello all,

Based on examples from several previous posts, I have written a VB.net script to: bake grasshopper geometry, export all geometry within a region defined by a box, then delete only the geometry that was baked from grasshopper.

Everything works, except in the export phase a pop-up window comes up asking for options and I have to press 'OK'. I would like to eliminate this step so it runs automatically. Can anyone tell me how to talk to to the pop-up window via the VB script.

A minimum working example is attached.

Thank you for your help.

Attachments:

Bake_Export_Delete_example.gh, 4 KB

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Permalink Reply by Florian Frank on December 18, 2012 at 6:38am

The script is alright...the "-" option before the export command should suppress the dialog. But as you have submitted surfaces/polysurfaces to the script it has to ask you for converting to mesh.

Just convert everything before you put it on the objs input ;-)

Good luck

Permalink Reply by Philip Robinson on December 18, 2012 at 6:50am

Thanks, this solves my immediate problem.

If you or anyone else have experience dealing with the dialog boxes in Rhino via scripts I would still appreciate further tips.

Thanks again.

Permalink Reply by Florian Frank on December 18, 2012 at 7:00am

http://4.rhino3d.com/4/help/information/rhino_scripting.htm

read this info...it explains everything about commands and how to supress dialog boxes...you then can supply the attributes / command options via script...if the command itself allows not every command allows :-(

Permalink Reply by David Stasiuk on December 18, 2012 at 7:29am

I have never found good documentation about the unique settings for each command in rhino, but Florian has you on the right track: by using the "-" in a script and testing it first, you can easily figure out which settings are necessary for you to include in your rhino command script line.

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