Rhino Scripting Job - Please Provide Quote

Scripting
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Hi Everyone.

I have tried to get some scripting done a few months back, but had no luck.
Thought I’d give it another go.

I require three scripts written, outlined below.

Please provide a quotation for these if you are interested.
If you know of anyone that can provide this service, please let me know.

Thanks,
Kristen

Block Leader:

We need a ‘leader’ dimension (see SCRIPTING EXAMPLE-BLOCK LEADER.jpg) that will display the block name (see SCRIPTING EXAMPLE-BLOCK LEADER2.jpg) of a block is shown in a detail of a layout

  • Must work for linked and embedded blocks
  • Will be a button on the toolbar, and typed command
  • Ideally, will get it’s properties from the current dimension style (not so important)

SCRIPTING EXAMPLE-BLOCK LEADER.JPG868×571 34.8 KB

Block Count:

A standard block will exist within our standard titleblock, that will give the name and quantity of all blocks in the drawing (see SCRIPTING EXAMPLE-BLOCK LIST.jpg).

  • Linked blocks to show ‘top level’ only - not ‘total’ or ‘nested’
  • Non linked blocks to show ‘total’ only - not ‘top level’ or ‘nested’
  • Hide all blocks that start with the text “Title” and “HIDE”
    (see SCRIPTING EXAMPLE-BLOCK LIST2.jpg)

SCRIPTING EXAMPLE-BLOCK LIST.JPG518×530 30.4 KB

Make Linked Block:

A button or typed command will take selected geometries, an create linked blocks from them:

Process:

  • Block (user select geometries)
  • Specify origin (manual entry)
  • Specify name (manual entry)
  • Specify description (manual entry)

Note: the ‘name’ and ‘description’ text will be on the user’s clipboard from an automatic part number generator separated by a tab space.
It would be good if these could be pasted from the buffer automatically into the ‘name’ and ‘description’ boxes and ‘ok to confirm’. No big deal if it’s too messy.

  • Export file as .3dm using the block name as the file name.
  • The block description will become the ‘notes’ of the file, which
    displays on our titleblock
  • Link block to exported file name through block manager.
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Drag & drop the attached file on top of a running Rhino. Then run “BlockLeader.”

BlockLeader.rvb (1.8 KB)

Does this help?

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If you look at this script sample:

http://wiki.mcneel.com/developer/scriptsamples/blockutilities

The “Externalize” subroutine does just about what you want. You might test it and see if it’s close (or not).

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This should not be difficult to script with either RhinoScript or Rhino.Python.

For RhinoScript, the methods you will want to consider using are:

Rhino.AllObjects
Rhino.BlockCount
Rhino.IsBlockEmbedded
Rhino.AddText

Probably a few others too…

5

Thanks heaps Dale.

I’ll give these a try today.

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Thanks Dale.

RE: Block Leader

This is very close to what I need.
The only thing lacking is that we do all of our documentation in the layout.
We place no annotations in the model space so that they aren’t seen in parent assemblies.
Is there any way to get this working in the layout?

Cheers,
Kristen

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RhinoScript does not have the ability to select object in a detail when a layout is active.

But with Rhino.Python and RhinoCommon (Rhino 5 only), you can.

See if this gets you any further:

import scriptcontext
import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
import Rhino

def BlockLeader():
    go = Rhino.Input.Custom.GetObject()
    go.SetCommandPrompt("Select block instance to annotate")
    go.GeometryFilter = Rhino.DocObjects.ObjectType.InstanceReference
    go.EnablePreSelect(False, True)
    go.InactiveDetailPickEnabled = True
    rc = go.Get()
    if rc == Rhino.Input.GetResult.Object:
        prompt0 = "First point of leader"
        prompt1 = "Next point of leader. Press Enter when done"
        points = rs.GetPoints(True, True, prompt0, prompt1)
        if points is not None:
            objref = go.Object(0)
            obj = objref.Object()
            name = rs.BlockInstanceName(obj.Id)
            rs.AddLeader(points, None, name)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    BlockLeader() # Call the function defined above
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Thanks Dale.
I’ll give it a try.

Kristen.