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Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on November 25, 2011 at 2:02am

Hi Arie-Willem,

it seems there is a space missing (such a small mistake :) )

I'd suggest to use the format functions in Python to avoid it:

rs.Command('_-export "%s"' % (pathh))

I hope this helps,

- Giulio
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Permalink Reply by Arie-Willem de Jongh on November 25, 2011 at 10:59am

• Hey guilio thanks for the fast response!

It works, but the thing is that afterwards the rs.Command('_-export "%s"'%(pathh)) command it asks how to save it -> Default Scheme etc, I just want it 'enter' trough but no matter what i try i cant get it right. 

i tried

rs.Command('_-export "%s"'%(pathh)+'_enter')

rs.Command('_-export "%s"'%(pathh)%'_enter')

rs.Command('_-export "%s"'%(pathh)&'_enter')

rs.Command('_-export "%s"'%(pathh)%'%s')

etc..

Even starting with a new line rs.Command('_enter') but that doenst work it needs to be in the same line as the export command i think.

Thanks in advance!

Arie-Willem

 

ps here is my code (nevermind the sloppyness :))

 

import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
layers = rs.LayerNames()

path = "C:\Users\Rojkind09\Desktop\\testACAD\\"

for i in range(0,len(layers)):   

__if rs.IsLayerCurrent(layers[i]) == False:       

____rs.LayerLocked(layers[i],True)

 

for i in layers:   

__rs.CurrentLayer(i)   

__ch = rs.LayerChildCount(i)   

__if ch == 0:       

____if rs.IsLayerLocked(i):           

______rs.LayerLocked(i,False)

____if rs.IsLayerEmpty(i) == False:       

______obj = rs.ObjectsByLayer(i, True)           

______rs.SelectObjects(obj)           

______pathh = path+i+".dwg"           

______print pathh           

______rs.Command('_-export "%s"'%(pathh))             

______rs.Command('-_enter _enter')           

______rs.UnselectAllObjects()

rs.CurrentLayer("Default")

 

 

 

Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on November 25, 2011 at 2:39pm

Hi again,

it seems there is a little confusion here about the Python way to format strings.
Here is the topic on python.org: http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#format-string-syntax

If you need to add more things in one line, I'd suggest to add it within the first string:

rs.Command('_-export "%s" _Enter' % (pathh))

for example, or, here, a bit more complete (geometry needs to be selected in advance):

import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs

pathh = "C:\\temp.dwg"
formatted_text = '_-export "{0}" _Enter'.format(pathh)
rs.Command(formatted_text)

Please upload a sample file if you need more help with the script, or visit the Rhino.Python discussion forum at http://python.rhino3d.com/ .

I hope this helps,

- Giulio
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Permalink Reply by Arie-Willem de Jongh on November 25, 2011 at 3:14pm

Hey Giulio, your the man! :)

Flipping the _enter around.. *sigh.. sometimes the solution can be so simple. I attached my script, maybe usefull for other people.

P.S. Im used to script in processing, they have a really clear website with script syntax, libraries, examples, books etc. Do you happen to know if there is something like this for rhino python. I searched docs.python.org and http://python.rhino3d.com/ but I got kind of lost :) 

Thanks again!

Cheers!

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• export_layers.py, 1 KB