Hi Robert, yes it's possible through script to directly specify meshing settings and prevent the mesh dialog from appearing.

You can do that by this script on a shortcut key:


script: /* SaveAs no dialog */ moi.geometryDatabase.saveAs( 'c:\\mydir\\myfile.obj', 'NoUI=true' );


Some notes on that - the saveAs method takes 2 string parameters, the first is the file name, and the second is a set of options.

Strings in JavaScript use the backslash \ character as an escape for making special characters like \r means carriage return.
To make a single backslash inside of a JavaScript string use \\ - that's why those are doubled in the above script.


Then for the second parameter you can put different values seprated by semi-colons, if you put 'NoUI=true' it will not show the mesh dialog and use default values. If you put 'NoUI=true;Angle=6' for example that has 2 parameters - NoUI=true for not showing the dialog and it will use an Angle value of 6 for the export.

The different available parameters are described below:

// Save out to the output file, passing the option to suppress the UI. You
// add other options separated by semi-colons with no spaces. These
// options are available for controlling the meshing:
// (note: | denotes mutually exclusive options, for example for Output choose one
// of the given options, like Output=quads)
//
// NoUI=true
// Angle=12.0
// Output=ngons | quads | triangles
// MaxLength=0.0
// MaxLengthApplyTo=curved | planes | all
// MinLength=0.0
// AspectRatio=0.0
// Weld=true
// Display=shadedwithedges | shadednoedges | wireframe
// ExpandedDialog=false


- Michael