Detail Layers Visibility RhinoScript

Scripting
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Hello all

I was having tons of issues with layer visibility in detail view too.

I made a script that lets you turn off selected layers in the details views on the current layout… this has helped me save alot of time, especially after I have added model in new layer and those new elements show up in my old details.

In the code, you have the abilities to:

  • select layer from a rs.MultiListBox
  • set visibility of the selected layer ON or OFF
  • Apply to all details views on the current layout, or, apply to details you’ve selected

This is saving me time, so I thought I’ll share the code. It may not solve problems for everyone but maybe the code can be adapted and/or improved.

I’m also new to Rhinocommon. The script is using rs.command so it’s not optimised, I’d like to know how to optimise it with Rhinocommon

I think this can also be done with a for loop to apply to multiple layouts, not just the current one.

import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
import Rhino
import scriptcontext as sc


def layerOffInDetails():
    
    curView = sc.doc.Views.ActiveView

    if type(curView) != Rhino.Display.RhinoPageView:
        print 'The active view is not a layout view!'
        return
    
    #Get all layers in the current Rhino document
    allLayers = rs.LayerNames()
    
    
    ###     SINGLE LAYER INPUT - User is allowed to select one layer only      ###
    """
    #Get user selected layer
    pickedLayer = rs.ListBox(allLayers, title = 'List of all layer')
    
    #Get layer index from Rhino DocObjects Table
    #sc.doc.layers => Rhino.DocObjects.Tables.LayerTable
    layerTableIndex = sc.doc.Layers.FindByFullPath(pickedLayer, -1)
    
    #Find document layer by index
    layer = sc.doc.Layers.FindIndex(layerTableIndex)
    """
    
    
    ###     MULTIPLE LAYER INPUT    ###
    pickedLayers = rs.MultiListBox(allLayers, title = 'List of all layer')
    if not pickedLayers: return
    
    
    ###     LAYER BY LAYER TABLE INDEX  ###
    layerTableIndexs = []
    for pickedLayer in pickedLayers:
        layerTableIndex = sc.doc.Layers.FindByFullPath(pickedLayer, -1)
        layerTableIndexs.append(layerTableIndex)
    
    ###     LAYER NAME BY LAYER TABLE INDEX
    layers = []
    for layerTableIndex in layerTableIndexs:
        layer = sc.doc.Layers.FindIndex(layerTableIndex)
        layers.append(layer)
        
        
        
    ###     Visibility Setting ON/OFF   ###
    vis = rs.GetInteger('Set selected layer ON = 1 or OFF = 0', 0, 0, 1)
    #if not vis: return
    
    
    result = rs.GetString('Apply to all details or selected details', 'All', ['All', 'Selected'])
    
    if result == 'All':
        
        #Select all details from the current view, current should be a layout
        rs.Command('_-SelDetail', echo = 0)
        dvs = rs.SelectedObjects()
        rs.UnselectAllObjects()
        
        
        
    if result == 'Selected':
        
        dvs = rs.GetObjects('Select details', rs.filter.detail)
        
        
    rs.EnableRedraw(0)
    
    #activate details one by one
    for dv in dvs:
        rs.SelectObject(dv)
        rs.Command('_-Detail Enable', echo = 0)
        
        #when detail is activated, set layer visibility 
        #layer.SetPerViewportVisible(sc.doc.Views.ActiveView.ActiveViewportID, vis)
        
        
        ###     MULTIPLE LAYER INPUT    ###
        for layer in layers:
            layer.SetPerViewportVisible(sc.doc.Views.ActiveView.ActiveViewportID, vis)
        
        rs.Command('_-Detail EnablePage', echo = 0)
        rs.UnselectAllObjects()
    
    rs.EnableRedraw(1)
    
layerOffInDetails()
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