Multiple layouts from named curves #sharingiscaring

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Hi all
Sharing is caring, so I thought I would share a few things. Firstly, a script that made my life a lot simpler. Imagine you have to produce a lot of details, all in 2D, but you would like to put them all on a separate layout.

Now you can make a rectangle curve, give it a name and the script will generate all layouts for you, keeping the name, making the size 1:1 and applying a detail view focusing on that specific frame. Have a look at the video:

Code is here:

# Author: Pawel Jakub Tujakowski / kumulus.agency
# Version: 1.0
# Date: 2024.02.14
# layouts_from_named_curves.py 2024 by Pawel Jakub Tujakowski is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

import Rhino
import scriptcontext as sc
import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs


def layouts_from_named_curves():
    
    ### VARIABLES RESET###
    frameNames = []
    frameNamesCheck = []
    frameBoxLL = []
    frameBoxUR = []
    v=0
    i=0
    layouts = []
    layoutNames = []
    
    ### SCRIPT WORKS IN MM ###
    sc.doc.PageUnitSystem = Rhino.UnitSystem.Millimeters
    
    ### PICK CURVES FOR FRAMES ###
    frameIds = rs.GetObjects("Pick frames", rs.filter.curve)
    if frameIds == None:
        return()

    ### GET ATTRIBUTES FOR EACH FRAME ###
    for id in frameIds:
        frameName = rs.ObjectName(id)
        frameNames.append(frameName)
        frameNamesCheck.append(frameName)
        frameBox = rs.BoundingBox(id)
        frameBoxLL.append(frameBox[0])
        frameBoxUR.append(frameBox[2])
        
    ### CHECK IF FRAMES HAVE A NAME  ###
        if frameName == None:   
            rs.MessageBox("ERROR: All frames must have names", 0|48)
            return()
    
    ### CHECK IF FRAMES NAMES ARE QNIQUE AND ARE NOT ALREADY IN USE###
    for v in sc.doc.Views:
        Rhino.Display.RhinoPageView
        if type(v) is Rhino.Display.RhinoPageView:
            layouts.append(v)
            frameNamesCheck.append(v.PageName) 
    if len(frameNamesCheck) != len(set(frameNamesCheck)):
        rs.MessageBox("ERROR: Duplicate names found. Provide unique layout and/or frame names.", 0|48)
        return()
        
    ### IF EVERYTHING IS OK, CREATE LAYOUTS ###
    for frameName in frameNames:
        sizeX=frameBoxUR[i].X-frameBoxLL[i].X
        sizeY=frameBoxUR[i].Y-frameBoxLL[i].Y
        midX=(frameBoxUR[i].X-frameBoxLL[i].X)/2+frameBoxLL[i].X
        midY=(frameBoxUR[i].Y-frameBoxLL[i].Y)/2+frameBoxLL[i].Y
        page_views = sc.doc.Views.GetPageViews()
        pageview = sc.doc.Views.AddPageView(frameName,sizeX, sizeY)
        pageview.SetPageAsActive()
        sc.doc.Views.ActiveView = pageview
        sc.doc.Views.Redraw()
        if pageview:
            detail = pageview.AddDetailView("Top_view", Rhino.Geometry.Point2d(0,sizeY), Rhino.Geometry.Point2d(sizeX,0), Rhino.Display.DefinedViewportProjection.Top)
            if detail:
                pageview.SetActiveDetail(detail.Id)
                detail.Viewport.SetCameraTarget(Rhino.Geometry.Point3d(midX,midY,0), True)
                detail.CommitViewportChanges()
                detail.DetailGeometry.IsProjectionLocked = True
                detail.DetailGeometry.SetScale(1, sc.doc.ModelUnitSystem, 1, sc.doc.PageUnitSystem)
                detail.CommitChanges()
                i=i+1

if __name__ == "__main__":
    pageview = sc.doc.Views.ActiveView
    if type(pageview) == Rhino.Display.RhinoPageView:
        print "This tool only works in the model space."
    else:
        layouts_from_named_curves()

Link to the file:
https://www.dropbox.com/t/28Ez30Mgelb18tcn

Enjoy

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Thank you for sharing this! :pray: Always on the hunt to speed up documentation workflows!