Save Surface as STL with Python

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Permalink Reply by Marios Tsiliakos on November 1, 2016 at 10:48am

Wait

is this surface a GH object or a rhino object?

Permalink Reply by Nik Frueh on November 1, 2016 at 10:49am

Its a rhino object

Permalink Reply by Marios Tsiliakos on November 1, 2016 at 11:41am

Hmm,

I have't used this command before. 

I have a standar routine for exporting things automatically from GH.

I've tweaked this to export .stl. 

Have a look this might be helpfull.

Ta,

M

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• 161101_export_to_STL.gh, 11 KB

Permalink Reply by Nik Frueh on November 1, 2016 at 2:31pm

Thanks a lot Marios!

This was the syntax I was looking for:

"-_Export\n\"" + savename + "\"\n _Enter\n _Enter"

I attached the python version, the only other nice thing would now be to include the Rhino file name directly into the script - didn't find out yet how to do that using Python.

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• Save Geometry as STL.gh, 4 KB

Permalink Reply by Nik Frueh on November 1, 2016 at 2:49pm

And the geometry selection is also missing, right now it just does "-SelAll"

Permalink Reply by Marios Tsiliakos on November 1, 2016 at 4:35pm

Glad it helped

Best,

M

Permalink Reply by Nik Frueh on November 1, 2016 at 2:32pm

Thanks Tom, I need a mesh from a surface - therefor STL is what I need.

Permalink Reply by Marios Tsiliakos on November 1, 2016 at 4:36pm

Not Nothing, It does export a triangulated mesh.