Batch process files possible on Mac?

Serengeti (Rhino WIP) Mac
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I tried batch processing files on the Mac, but since opening a file opens another window, it didn’t work. Does anyone have had succes doing this on the Mac?

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I would be interested too, I tried this a long time ago and gave up for the same reason…

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if you gave up that doesn’t sound hopeful… :smirk:

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Rhino 6 for Mac allows launching with command-line parameters like -nosplash or modelname.3dm …even -runscript …see: Launching Rhino for Mac with a runscript argument.

I can imagine you could either write a bash script to do this or perhaps even use some combination of Rhino’s macros _Open,_Close, etc. to do this.

I’d be curious to hear where you hit snags.

Note: this was not possible in Rhino 5 for Mac.

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On Windows, I can just open Rhino, Open the PythonScript editor and run a script that opens several files in a for loop. Do you mean with the last method in that link (that mentions: for longer loops…) this is the one that does this?

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The problem is (in my understanding anyway) that scripts run inside one Rhino “window” on Mac, so when you “Close” that, the script is terminated. Is that not the case?

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I guess I don’t know what you want to do.

Something like this? Here’s a bash script that will launch Rhino and do something (in this case something arbitrary) for each 3dm file it finds in a folder…

#!/usr/bin/env bash

FILES_TO_BATCH_PROCESS=/Users/dan/Desktop/FolderWithFilesToProcess/*.3dm
for f in $FILES_TO_BATCH_PROCESS
do
  echo "Launching Rhino and opening the $f file..."
  /Applications/RhinoBETA.app/Contents/MacOS/Rhinoceros $f -runscript "_Line 0 10,10,10 _Save _Quit"
done

Sure, these are not running in the same session of Rhino, but neither are they on Windows really.

Think of this like writing a batch (.bat) file on Windows. Bash just runs on nearly all posix systems - now even Windows 10 I believe.

To test the above:

  1. Save the text above as a file somewhere. For example: ~/Desktop/testBatchProcess.sh
  2. Create a folder somewhere with test 3dm files to process. Edit testBatchProcess.sh and point the FILES_TO_BATH_PROCESS to that path.
  3. Launch /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app.
  4. cd to your ~/Desktop (or wherever you put the script)
  5. Run the script with ./testBatchProcess.sh
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OK, so there is not a pure Python/rhinoscriptsyntax way to do this from inside Mac Rhino - i.e. just running it from an alias, button or similar…

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No, I do not believe so. Now that I see you want to do this from an alias, button, etc, I understand why this is a limitation.