I have around 100 items which I all need to export seperately to step files.
every item is in a group with the filename as text in it.
is there a way to select all items, push a button so that all items are exported to seperate files with the name as specified in the text? the text itself don’t need to come in the file, I think STEP won’t do that.
I think this might be possible using grasshopper, unfortunately I’m very unexperienced with it.
if you have both Elefront and Human plugins installed in GH, this would just take a few clicks
(as far as I know Human -or some sort of custom script code- is necessary to get Group IDs?)
after installing both plugins (you can find both by typing PackageManager command in Rhino) you just need to open the Rhino file of interest, set the saving directory and click Export
I guess the new R8 component might handle this directly without the use of any external plugins, but I didn’t study those enough to put together good solution using just those
here text at branch 58 was grouped with both group_ID 53 and 54, and very same thing happening with the respective pipe, which might be something as easy as the double press of the “Group” command in Rhino while the items were still selected
anyway, this should not cause a problem -even if I’m not really sure of how the export component works, to be fair- because it should create two different files that have the same identical name and the same identical geometries inside… so one should overwrite the other? I don’t really know
so I ungrouped those items that were double grouped together, clicked the “Export” button, and it produced 114 different Step files as it should
at that point I imported all of those files back in GH, retrieved the theoretical item name and the actual file name, and checked if they were matching by proximity: they all match!
please give a try to this GH definition (or even the old one) together with this Rhino (R8) file where there is no double grouped geometry (otherwise take the Rhino file you posted, go to geometry code OD-B-SB-02-A and ungroup it one time yourself), it should just work (be sure to change the save directory to samething that exists in your HD)
I try to run it now with meshes, so I changed the input button to mesh but it won’t work. I tried to find the error, but I can’t find it as I am still a rookie in GH.
the count check checks how many mesh are there, and how many different text entities it wants to use for naming those meshes, if the numbers are equal then you should be good (be sure to not have double meshes copypasted in location in the 3dm file)
this yelds me these result, 186 different files as expected:
