Hi Frederick,

I've been following your recent threads on scripting with interest. Noting your desire to reciprocate, a comment I would make is that the community that Michael has created along with MoI tends to share many of the scripts that get written either as examples or as functioning tools for others to make use of. In my view, MoI is something of a labor of love, unlike any other software I'm familiar with; I share your view that Michael's generosity of spirit is remarkable. The scripts we write provide something of an opportunity for us to give a little back. I for one would be interested in seeing and potentially using your "assembly" oriented scripts. The community convention for publishing scripts is via a thread on the forum & then as the script gets revised, the script thread's initial post (thread.1) gets updated so that there is a single spot to find the most recent version of a given script.

Since your scripts are using version-specific features, you might consider including something akin to:

if ( moi.majorVersionNumber < 5)
    moi.ui.alert( 'Requires MoI version 5 or later');
else
    doScript();

Thanks also for sharing the image of the printer assembly, looks quite intriguing. I use MoI mainly to design things that I make using manual (non-CNC) machine tools.

--Larry

Hi Larry,

I would be glad to share them, just need to get the UI part working.

I've found an example script that I believe can be adapted to my needs.

The part about checking the version is good advice - I will re-visit my code and include it.

Thanks.

Frederick

Hi Larry,

Here are the results of my conversations with Michael.

There 3 deal with sets of objects:

VisibleSets - which allows creating sets of objects based on their being visible at the time of set creation and later restoring the visibility of the objects in any given set while hiding those not in the set.

SelectionSets - which allows creating sets of objects based on their being selected at the time of set creation and later restoring the selection of the objects in any given set while de-selecting those not in the set.

ExportSets - works the same as SelectionSets with the added feature of being able to Export only those objects that are part of any given set. My version only exports STL because that is what I do most. But it could easily be modified to export a selected file type. The path for exporting is stored in the user data of the document.

This one is deals with Styles:

StyleOps - 1. allows deleting unused styles 2. allows merging styles of similar color and updating the objects that use the color that is being eliminated to use the color that remains. 3. Allows re-sequencing of styles that begin with "Level " so they are numbered from 1 to whatever with no gaps or repetition.

If of interest and you have questions feel free to ask.

Frederick