Save a Mesh into OBJ file

Rhino Developer
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Hello,

I am trying to save a Mesh into an OBJ file, but I guess I am doing something wrong here… here is my code:

Rhino.RhinoDoc rc = Rhino.RhinoDoc.Create(“”);
rc.Objects.AddMesh(meshToSave);
Rhino.FileIO.FileObjWriteOptions options = new Rhino.FileIO.FileObjWriteOptions(new Rhino.FileIO.FileWriteOptions());
options.MapZtoY = true;
Rhino.PlugIns.WriteFileResult res = Rhino.FileIO.FileObj.Write(“PATH_TO_FILE/fromRhino.obj”, rc, options);
if (res == Rhino.PlugIns.WriteFileResult.Success)
{ MessageBox.Show(“File saved successfully”); }
else
{ MessageBox.Show(“Something went wrong :(”); }

When I create the new RhinoDoc, it is overriding the current ActiveDoc and Rhino is kind of reset. This same code works perfectly if I run it inside a C# node in Grasshopper.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

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Hi @Ayoub,

Are you using Rhino 6 or the WIP? Are you running this code from a Rhino command or from a Rhino.Inside host?

– Dale

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hi @dale,
Thanks for your reply. I am using Rhino 6 on Windows. I run the command from a WPF User Control that is loaded as Panel in Rhino.

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@stevebaer - I don’t see anyway of doing this in Rhino 6. Am I confused?

5

I’m sorry but I’m not following. What are you asking about?

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In Rhino 6 - newing up a new document, adding a mesh, writing it using FileObj.Write.

From what I can tell, RhinoDoc.Create always closes the open document and replaces it with what is newed up.

– D

7

Gotcha; that is all new functionality in the Rhino 7 WIP and can’t be added to Rhino 6. It was a pretty big project that required a good number of changes to Rhino.

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Can RhinoDoc.CreateHeadless from WIP do the job? Haven’t tried that.

9

CreateHeadless is exactly what I was referring to.

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@stevebaer @dale
Thanks for the replies. I am a bit confused here as well, there is no way of exporting a mesh to obj from Rhino 6? What is the use case of FileObj.Write then?

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Just passing by here and thinking out loud… Do you need a new doc? Why not just use the active doc and set the FileWriteOptions to use the selected objects only option to export your mesh. Just delete the mesh after?

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Writing an obj file by hand is like 10 lines of code, check the file format specification & you’ll see it is literally a set of XYZ coordinates, one on each line. Followed by a set of indices, one line per face (including ngons).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront_.obj_file

using(TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter("path/to/file.obj"))
{
  foreach(var v in mesh.Vertices) 
  {
    tw.WriteLine($"v {v.X} {v.Y} {v.Z}");
  }
  foreach(var f in mesh.Faces)
  {
    tw.Write($"f {f.A} {f.B} {f.C}");
    if (f.IsQuad) tw.Write($" {f.D}"};
    tw.WriteLine();
  }
}
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This can absolutely be done in Rhino 6, but only with the activedoc.

I was referring to the fact that you couldn’t create a temporary document that doesn’t replace the activedoc in Rhino 6 (which is something you can do in Rhino 7).

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:slight_smile: ok there’s a little more than that in our obj file writer, but this may suffice for what is needed.