3d fracture mapping, exporting coordinates to excel

Rhino Rhino for Mac
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Hi everyone,

for a research project I would really like to export the coordinates (xyz) of a field of points (>100) to excel to do statistical analysis on them. I am looking for 3d fracture patterns and I want to put the coordinates for several fragments in a 3d scatter plot to see visualize patterns.

I’ve found several scripts that do this for windows. I was wondering if anyone knows whether this is possible on a mac?

I have a presentation that shows the entire workflow in 10 images, if that helps solving the problem.

kind regards, Dirk

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Rhino for Mac can run Python scripts. See http://wiki.mcneel.com/rhino/mac/python

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Ha thanks, I just found a pc with rhino and was able to run the scripts without any problems. Too bad I have to abandon my beloved mac but by far the easiest solution!

kind regards, Dirk

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Hey Marlin,

Is there any info anywhere on how to access Excel via Python on Mac? The code I’ve seen looks pretty Windows-centric…

Cheers,
–Mitch

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I don’t understand the problem, or why it is Windows-centric. Use a Python script to write a CSV text file, then import it into Excel.

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What I was thinking of is actually opening Excel in the background and writing/saving out an Excel file.

import clr  
clr.AddReference("Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel")  
from Microsoft.Office.Interop import Excel
xl = Excel.ApplicationClass()   
wb = xl.Workbooks.Open(r'path\to\myfile.xlsx',False,True) 
etc.

Looked like that might be Windows-only stuff (Microsoft?) but maybe it works on a Mac too?
–Mitch

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I doubt that this would work on the Mac unless Microsoft has done their part in Mac Excel.

I still don’t understand what is so onerous about a CSV text file.