Hi, I want to traverse a number of RhinoObjects and for each object: Move it to origo. Rotate it. Export it to STEP. [Move it back to it’s initial position.] It feels like the wrong way to do it: what if an error happens? From the user’s perspective the geometry randomly moved to origo and was r…

I replied in the other thread. The answer is no we are not discouraging the use of a separate headless doc in V7 if that solves what you are trying to do.

Hi @aske , It might be easier to: 1.) Duplicated the Rhino object 2.) Transform it 3.) Export it 4.) Delete the duplicate Thoughts? – Dale

I guess I can wrap everything in a try-finally to make sure I clean up properly. I take it that Documents are not meant for what I imagined then? :slight_smile:

I think docs are supposed to be what you think they are somewhat in the future, but if you want single .3dm files you could also use File3dm and just add the transformed object to that file. After that you could just open and export every rhino file in a folder.

Hey @roger thanks for the reply! After that you could just open and export every rhino file in a folder. You mean from within the runnning application? So I would have multiple Docs open in one session?

You can open files with the File3dm class and read from them, however it is not as straightforward to use as the activedoc you might be thinking of. I’m not exactly sure of all the pitfalls but you can certainly read and write from File3dm objects while having a different active document. Edit: may…

[image] One viewport, one document, one love Developer We are heading in this direction as a capability, but we are definitely not close to having this as a reality yet.

I guess I can wrap everything in a try-finally to make sure I clean up properly. Sometimes, when Rhino crashes this type of cleanup doesn’t work and the scene is littered with temporary geometry when opening it up again. This is not a good approach I feel. @dale should I understand your suggesti…

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