Grasshopper automating render, file save, viewport manipulation?

Hi all,

I’ve been working on a grasshopper project and all is going well - I have the basic geometry routine working well, but I now want to automate the output.

The project creates one or more variations of a model - I would like to create renders or possibly view port saves - which will require view port manipulation like zoom extents- for each variation of the model, then export STL files of each model.

I’ve tried using the elefront bake file add-in, but it failed when I tried to export an STL file - It seems to work with 3dm files only.

Googling hasn’t given me any helpful suggestions yet, so I thought I’d ask.

I suspect Python might be the only way, but hoping for something native grasshopper.

Any suggestions?