Q: to exporting Rhino8 geometries into separate files each

Grasshopper
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I have a problem exporting partgeometry from a tree.
I intend to export each partgeometry into separate pdf or dxf files.
There is a tree for the part geometies. Ecah oartgeometrise stored in different brances
(imported from theyr layers by elefront node).

Problems:
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For each “export instance” appears the file export options windows, and I have to confirm the exports manualy.

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Each “export instance” contains every part geometry, instead of only one.

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What is the solution of this problem?

Thank in advance for your support!

Frank

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The quick solution is to export *.dxf with EleFront.

If you need *.pdf, I guess you’d need to create layouts and then print those. Rhino 8 lets you print into separate files.

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Assigned to Grasshopper category

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I used ExportAs of Plugin Pancake. Everything fine. I imported multiple files with “import3DM” component in Grasshopper. After that I managed some stuf and exported each file with ExportAs of Plugin Pancake.

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I apologise for my carelessness!
Do you have an idea how to solve my problem?

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Thank you for your proposal!
In case there will be no solution with GH Rhino8 and Elefront 5.15 I will follow your proposal. (In the company we try to minimise the number of applied plugins.)

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Apparently Rhino is also working on a more complete export component which should export more formats than just *.3dm

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I used EleFront in the past but since I’m also trying to minimize the use of plugins I’m now using a slightly modified script which @Helvetosaur posted. It exports the content in the Rhino file based on the object name.

BatchExportFileByObj-name.py (1.5 KB)
BatchExportFileByObjs-name.py (1.7 KB)

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Hi Martin,

I tested the ‘elefront’ export node, and the export of DXF files works as I envisioned. Unfortunately, I cannot use it for exporting PDF files. It may be necessary for our documentation office to find a solution for the automatic batch printing of DXF files.

Thank you for your support!

Frank