Hi Rolf, as far as i understand, only a few plugins support access (using COM and IDispatch) through the plugin object, eg RhinoScript or Grasshopper. The “OBJ Export” plugin does not support it i guess. But even if it would support access, i don’t think you could export unbaked GH geometry as OBJ with it, as it was made to export geometry placed in the document. For this, in V5, you could just script the Export command. The new FileObj class in the Wip does appear to be the thing to use but Finally, writing a simple version of an STL file is not terribly complicated.
I wrote Turtle a while ago, and it contains an example: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.IO; namespace Turtle.Serialization /// /// Allows to read and write an ngonal mesh from and to any file or stream. /// public static class Persistance public static void Write(ITurtleMesh mesh, TextWriter sw) sw.WriteLine('# OBJ file written by TurtleMesh'); var ci = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture; sw.WriteLine('# ' + mesh.VertexCount.ToString(ci) + ' vertices'); for (int i = 0; i. Thanks and for your replies. I’m quite new to C# so please bear with me here when I have some follow up questions. I tried to implement the code snippet you send and first of all the AddRuntimeMessage didn’t work, so I replaced it with a Print line instead. What do I need to modify to make that line work and also If I make this work would this give me an error message directly on the GH component instead of printing the error in the out as my line does?
Have I understod it correctly when I say that this is a function/method that I should write under //costum additional code? And to execute the function I obviously have to call it in my main code as ExportSat(x, y);, but this alone does not export the file though does it? Best free editing app for mac.
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Lastly, if I want to export the brep in an other format can I then simply replace.sat with.stl,.dwg,.dxf, etc.? I managed to figure this out on my own. By replacing the suffix I export the brep’s in a different format and I had written the path incorrectly so I didn’t see the export, i.e. It is enough to call ExportSat(x,y); to export the files. However, the first question remains. Regards, David. Version 1.10 for mac. The method is taken from a compiled component developed in Visual Studio.
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If you want to use it in a C#-script component, you need to adjust the lines you mentioned, for example by either printing the Error message as you proposed, or by replacing “this” with “Component”, so: Component.AddRuntimeMessage(GHRuntimeMessageLevel.Error, 'No object to bake, or brep not valid, aborted.' ); If this the apropiate way to handle errors depends on your case. In the code snippet, if you try to export/bake invalid or null objects it will create a red Error balloon on the component and stop working (because in my case I assume that generally something is not working properly, and I want to see this immediately). But obviously you could also just skip invalid/null items and handle only items you know how to deal with, e.g. By removing the error message or replace it with a warning, and replace the return; with continue. Yeah I understood that when I moved the code to Visual Studio because then the Print line didn’t work instead.
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And I see what you are saying there with handeling the errors, there are many ways obviously and I will adapt it to what suits me the best. One last qustion though - I realized that it doesn’t work when I try to export to a path that has a ' ' in the string e.g. C: Users admin Desktop Test folder. Is there some way of resolving this since I will not ALWAYS have control of the incoming path.
STL (stereolithography) file types are commonly used in CAM and 3D printing, but are unfortunately difficult to work with in SOLIDWORKS. When opening an STL file, the software crash completely. Other times, the model is brought in as a body with no selectable faces or edges.
This is not a glitch, but actually an STL graphics body. STL files describe a model’s surface geometry using a mesh of plain or triangular faces, which define the curves and surfaces within a native SOLIDWORKS file. The more complex the STL model’s geometry gets, the harder it will be on the software’s memory to import and convert the shape into a solid part file. Within the import options, users can control what type of body SOLIDWORKS attempts to form when opening a file.
To do this, click on “File” and select “Open.” To access the STL import options, users need to change the file type in the dropdown menu to STL. Next, select “Options.” Here, users can choose to import the file as a graphics body, solid body or surface body. Users can also set units and import texture information if the STL file contains any. Surface Body In the video above, we see a demonstration of importing a surface body without running import diagnostics. By deciding not to run import diagnostics, users will be greeted by their imported file with each of its faces displayed in a mesh. This can be edited, but the robustness of the model is poor. Running a Geometry Analysis at this point will be difficult and could crash SOLIDWORKS depending on the size and complexity of the file.
The best use of this imported file would be to use it as a reference to rebuild the part with clean surfaces. Solid Body It is only recommended to open STL files as solid bodies for small or simple operations, as SOLIDWORKS imports the file as a surface body at first and automatically attempts to repair gaps and overlaps in surfaces to form a solid body.
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Users should run import diagnostics to repair the file. Be aware that this process is memory intensive.
If the file cannot be repaired, the diagnostics tool will crash. In this scenario, users should instead import the model as a surface body and repair the file manually. However, when importing large STL files even just converting faces to surfaces will be too memory intensive for SOLIDWORKS, and only a graphics body can be created.
Graphics Body Graphics bodies contain only graphic data, including edges, faces or points to manipulate. This leaves the file only functional as a visual reference. Unfortunately, particularly large graphics bodies can still cause SOLIDWORKS to crash. For cases like this, it is recommended to use third party software to reduce the face count of the STL model to a more manageable size. You can continue to develop your CAD, CAM & BIM skills by signing up for a free membership at.
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