Automatically using file name to Export Selected?

[pszopa]

Hello, just switching to Rhino Windows from Mac. On the Mac, when I select objects and choose Export Selected and the dialog window opens, the file name is automatically entered into the File name field. Is there a way in the Windows version to have the current file name default to fill the File name field?

[pascal (Pascal Golay)]

Hello- as far as I can see that is not the case here in V8 - which is as it should be - if the name is filled in and you are not careful, you can over write the current file with a selection from it.

-Pascal

[pszopa]

Thanks for the reply, Pascal. At least I know not to keep looking for that option.

[martinsiegrist]

Export selected by automatically using the object name as a file name? Rhino 7 wish

Sure, should be possible - one question: Say that some of the objects that are not preselected have a name that is the same as at least one of the objects that is preselected - I imagine you also want to ignore these and not export them? Anyway, assuming that’s what you want, here is a modified script. If nothing is preselected, will work like before on the whole file; if anything is preselected, it will only include objects in the preselection. BatchExportDXFByObjName.py (1.9 KB)

This is a topic about exporting to *.dxf with a script which possibly could be tweaked to export in another format…

[pszopa]

Thanks, Martin. I’ll take a look at that.

-P