Export list to file?

Grasshopper
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Long story short: I am trying to export the list to a file or something equivalent so that I can have the data for post-processing. This is the mesh normal as a list.

Exporting it as a Python object would also be an option, but could someone please let me know how it can be achieved?

Thanks in advance!

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The csv file doesn’t suffice?

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Thank you for your response.

The problem is that I do not know how to use and I cold not find comprehensive tutorial on that tool.

What I should put in the header input? If I have 1000+ headers, then how should I type in 1000+ header manually?

I am new to Grasshopper…

Thank you.

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I was mistaken, i typically use TT Toolbox excel export.

the data needs matching values to the column list. 2 items in Columns, Two Items into the branched data.
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Do you know if I can export the data as a python object that to be used later?

Thanks

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Python is included in RH6. This is about the extent of my knowledge.

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I’d recommend using the standard Python pickle module for writing/reading arbitrary data objects/structures to/from disk. Spreadsheets will typically only support primitive data types (integers, floats, strings, bools etc).

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Hi AndersDeleuran,

Thank you very much for your reply! So I tried to use pickle module but failed because Rhino.Geometry object is not supported outside of grasshopper. Do you have any suggestions on the problem?

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Thanks a lot

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Yes you won’t be able to (meaningfully) deserialise RhinoCommon objects outside of Rhino (or maybe all these latest Rhino Compute/Inside developments enables this). Either way, you’ll probably need to more explicitly describe the data pipeline you’re looking to develop, for us to provide appropriate solutions.

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Hello AndersDeleuran,

Understood.

My primary objective is to export the mesh data out of the Rhinoceros so that I can use it for postprocessing in Python. I tried to export as CSV but the file does not preserve the format that displays on the Panel (i.e. it just merges into a giant list and I cannot distinguish which vector corresponds to which face). So what I really like to do is to, for example, call the face by its number and the program just spit out the corresponding normal vectors.

Thank you and I hope I articulate in a clear way.

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In that case, perhaps going with the agnostic JSON format might be a good solution (that way you could also read/write the data in C#, JavaScript etc). Here’s a quick implementation (note there are substantially more efficient ways of going about this in terms of performance, but this is probably more beginner-friendly):

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181117_WriteReadMeshComponents_GHPython_00.gh (16.0 KB)

If you need normals, you can access these and add them to the dictionary as well.

Edit: Forgot the indent parameter when dumping the file, which formats the output in the “pretty” JSON style, making it more legible when viewing in a text editor:

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how would i output keys and values into this json format? Thanks in advance.

{
“items”: [
{ “id”: “UNIQUE ID 1”,
“label01”: “Value01”,
“label02”: “Value01”,
“Label03”: “Label03”,
“Label04”: “Label04”,
},
{ “id”: “UNIQUE ID 2”,
“label01”: “Value01”,
“label02”: “Value01”,
“Label03”: “Label03”,
“Label04”: “Label04”,
}
]
}

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My attempt so far.

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import json

#data inputs

key = []
x = key

values = []
y = values

#pack into dict

data = {"key": key, "values": values}

#write data to file
if WriteJSON:
    with open(JSONFilePath,"w") as writeFile:
        json.dump(data,writeFile,indent=4)
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a little closer. Now its a matter of creating one output with the 3 vs a branched output.

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you’ll need to give your python script “tree access” rather than list access so that you can iterate over the branches explicitly rather than implicitly - otherwise the script will simply run multiple times, once per branch.

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Thanks, I’m running through tutorials (ni-fty guide etc) trying to understand it all.

A general knowledge of Python/C+ Coding for GH being a 2019 objective.

My immediate goal being this structure out of GH key/value trees.

   {
   types: {
       "Person": {
           pluralLabel:  "People"
       }
   },
   properties: {
       "age": {
           valueType:    "number"
       },
       "parentOf": {
           label:        "parent of",
           reverseLabel: "child of",
           valueType:    "item"
       }
   },
   items: [
       {   label:        "John Doe",
           type:         "Person",
           parentOf:     "Jane Smith"
       },
       {   label:        "Jane Smith",
           type:         "Person"
       }
   ]

}